Ganyana, congratulations on an excellent article in the newest Rifle Magazine. Very nicely done. Maybe you should write more articles about africa/rifles/hunting. Maybe an in depth article on hunting the Big Five?

Mad Dog

Yep I saw that to.

I bought the magazine just be cause Ganyana had an article in it!

Allen

Hello.

I cant buy Rifle Magazine here in Norway.

Is it possible for any of you to scan that article of Ganyana and mail it to me?

Best wishes and happy holydays

Rino

You can subscribe to the magazine electronically - download your copy or read online. You can obtain all three of their magazines for a very reasonalbe price.

http://www.riflemagazine.com/h...463&CFTOKEN=70335365

The Ganyana article happens to be the article in the sample section. You can read the full article in the link above.

All those years of personal hunting experience and PH experience and he ends up saying that the average hunter can't do better than the 375H&H, 450/400 (DR), and 404 Jeffery....

it seems that he favors the minimum cartridge to get the job done, and leave it to the PH to pack the "stopper". I took my 450 Dakota CZ and my PH (Myles McCallum) carried his 416 Rigby RSM. Very interesting article. I shot my 450 over 400 rounds the last six months, so it was natural for me to take it with a Leupold 1.5-5X scope. I would think his theory favors the PH needing to finish a lot of the game shot by the client.

Rich
Buffalo Killer

I believe his article related to the current power craze of the more rifle I use the deader the animal, no matter how bad a shot I am. Shot placement is everything. I enjoyed his article, and look forward to many more.

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Originally posted by AzGuy:
All those years of personal hunting experience and PH experience and he ends up saying that the average hunter can't do better than the 375H&H, 450/400 (DR), and 404 Jeffery....

My remarks were intended to express agreement with Ganyana Add he states that he really doesn't enjoy putting his bullets into client's animals........ BIGGER is only better if you can place the shot!

Good article.

Maybe the posters on this forum represent the 15% of hunters that go to Africa, but I guarantee you based on every PH I've spoken to, the PHs are seeing the other 85% that have to have a PH finish their animal off.

I'm not sure whether the problem is "too much gun", "too little practice", or too little ability, but there is definitely a problem. I think that penalizes those of us that can shoot. The PH assumes we can't and fires that "simultaneous" follow-up. It hasn't happened yet to me, and I hope it never does.

It did happen to a friend on elephant this year. The excuse was the elephant was too close to the concession boundary. Maybe it was. Maybe it wasn't. But, the hunter felt like a great deal of the satisfaction he hoped to feel after his hunt was taken away from him.

I like the PH that watches you shoot, the way you handle your gun, your attention to safety, and then knows he can trust you to do your part. That's a satisfying hunt to me. We're a team. We both do our part, and neither of us steps on the other's toes.

Very good article Ganyana

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Originally posted by 375 fanatic:
Very good article Ganyana

+ 1

Advice given and motivated without dogmatic attitude. I like!

+2

Esp glad to see another fan of the 404 Jeffery.

+3

Very good read ...

Great article! I may have to reconsider the wisdom of letting my Rifle subscription lapse ...

+4

9,3x62 and .404 Jeffery are two good calibers!

Will be interesting to hear Ganyanas comments on Normas new 325 grain 9,3 Oryx bullet.

+5 10-4 on the TEAM part. Good point. This has happened to me before. The situation was a questionable one. Without over-stepping my place as a client. It is always understood that I am the client, it IS MY hunt. I'm paying for the PH's expert advise and skills. I really am tired of guides and PH's assuming that I am just a tag-a-long to allow them to hunt. I usually go with the same guides and PH's because of mutual respect and trust. I respect their abilities and they respect my abilities to shoot and be prepared. I would not trust anyone would did not expect me to show my abilities with the rifles I bring. Be they bolt action rifles or doubles. He has the right to trust my ability, and I his ability. To work as a team. Their are many PH's and guides with which it is a pleasure to be in their company.

I do not envy the professional hunter. He cannot assume competence or fitness on the part of any given client, and sometimes must clean up the mess that inevitably results from incompetence and poor fitness.

So, Ganyana gives good advice in this article. To wit:

" . . . at the end of the day, if you are buying a rifle for an African hunt, what would I recommend? The answer is simple. The biggest caliber you can shoot well. For most people this is a .375 H&H. . . . By all means, bring bigger if you wish, but only if you can shoot it well – offhand and from shooting sticks. What you can achieve from the bench is irrelevant in the field."

Anyone going on safari owes it to himself and his PH, and the trackers, to practice - with whatever rifle he chooses - until he is damned good with it, not just occasionally good, but regularly and reliably good.

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. . . at the end of the day, if you are buying a rifle for an African hunt, what would I recommend? The answer is simple. The biggest caliber you can shoot well. For most people this is a .375 H&H. . . . By all means, bring bigger if you wish, but only if you can shoot it well – offhand and from shooting sticks. What you can achieve from the bench is irrelevant in the field."

Anyone going on safari owes it to himself and his PH, and the trackers, to practice - with whatever rifle he chooses - until he is damned good with it, not just occasionally good, but regularly and reliably good.

Sage advice for a man that obviously exercises a good amount of common sense!

Good piece!

JW out

as always the article of GANYANA is the best of the best.Iguide regularly and im a bit tired of some clients that only want to colect trophies and DONT PRACTICE REGULARLY with any weapon ,YOU MUST BE A GOOD SHOT if you will take a life.And if you are a good shot you must be if you are reasonably healthy in good shape ,this reflects respect for yourself the guide and the game.Hopefully ill be training with ganyana soon and he will train hunters and soldiers here.Juan

That is an excellent article.

I agree, I would much rather read what somebody like Ganyana has to say then a gun writer or client hunter w/limited practical experiences to draw from.

http://www.riflemagazine.com/m...PDF/ri242partial.pdf

Good article. I enjoyed it, and it seemed to be a very straight-forward, common sense article. Obviously, Ganyana isn't just trying to sell someone's product, like so many other writers.
Good Job.

Bill

I'm guessing that Saeed or Ray Atkinson would agree with his comments due to his vast amount of experience. Sounds like good advice to me.

Take care,

jfm

Great article from someone who "speaks from experience".