Recent content by woodsrunner

I helped a neighbor gut and drag an elk bull from the adjacent wetland early one morning. For who knows what reason he was out hunting elk with his .243, he has far more suitable calibres. Took five shots to bring the thing down as it ran across the open and down into the thick stuff, the...

Good info. I've not shot game yet with my .375 despite owning it for 15 years and carrying it many miles in the big woods. I purchased it on account of the abundant grizzlies on our farm and out on the land in general here and incidentally i've shot multiple big free-ranging livestock when...

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Yeah, i was disgusted with the .204 Ruger, which was too bad cos my rifle in that calibre was a beaut of a Ruger #1. Oh well. The only fur i got to save was in the case of larger coyotes shot chest-on, with the length of the body to spend the bullet. I intend to hunt varmints where i need to...

I carry my .375 H&H earlier in the season on whitetail hunts on account of grizzlies. I have made the decision based on literature and personal experience to use 300 grain bullets, i think it is flawed reasoning to load-down, more on that below. Not just better in the advent of a bear...

Fantastic stuff. I am happy i posted this, for this rich ore of leads coming back here. Such lives, eh?! Few of them end all that well (some do though) in these cases, but then, i am sure these people would tell you "that is hardly the point" and i for one would agree with them. Thanks for...

Very good, thanks! I will look for this material. Isn't it interesting you mention Peter Beard, my wife and I were just yesterday morning going trough Eyelids of Morning from the bookshelf, and i was describing to her just what singular men both Beard and Graham were in their time.

Thanks, i'm going to look for that.

Alan Black, the well-known white hunter of Kenya, is one of the very few white men who is in the true meaning of the term a "lone hunter". He goes off "on his own" without even a single Native guide... I am wondering if anyone has come across any literature/lore pertaining to the life of Black...

I don't doubt it. I'm both saying and demonstrating - and have for many years, the majority of my kills have been heart-shots, one-shot kills, with this as described as my litmus of acceptable accuracy - that this represents an acceptable level of accuracy if you are experienced. The rest of...

I don't know why you'd want anything larger than a .30-06 in North America unless you are mountain hunting or other long-range or hunting in grizzly country. In which latter case a .375 H&H is enough gun in my books, though some in brown bear country i am told carry a .416. (I live and hunt...

If i can hit somewhere on a 9" pieplate at 50 yards shooting offhand with iron sights more times than not and every time off sticks with a big game hunting rifle, that's acceptable accuracy to me and i will have total confidence for the type of hunting i do and i won't be thinking about it any...