How Did You Find AR?

25 February 2005, 02:40

T.Carr

Ladies and Gentlemen,

How did you first come across the Accuratereloading site?

After a couple of safaris, I remember searching the web for "African hunting" and came across HuntAmerica. After a few months on HuntAmerica, I remember several people mentioning "Saeed's website". Someone finally posted a link to AR and I have been here ever since.

Regards,

Terry

P.S.
John S was the Moderator on the African Hunting Forum at that time. I want to say a special "Thank You" to John S for all the good advice and direction he provided to me in the early days.

Msasi haogopi mwiba [A hunter is not afraid of thorns]

25 February 2005, 02:56

Widowmaker416

Terry,

I first heard about AR last July, I was talking with one of my clients about a gun problem. He asked if I had a PC, (which I had gotten about 2 months before, and didn't know a dam thing about it!), anyhow, he said to check out this web site called www.accuratereloading.com, I made a remark about not being intrested in reloading, but I took a look at it anyway.

If I remember correctly, I signed up as a member that day!!

I feel lost if I can't get on and check in everyday!!!!!

"America's Meat - - - SPAM"

As always, Good Hunting!!!

Widowmaker416

Happiness is a warm gun

Msasi haogopi mwiba [A hunter is not afraid of thorns]

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Billy,

High in the shoulder

(we band of bubbas)

What counts is what you learn after you know it all!!!

You can borrow money but you can not borrow time. Go hunting with your family.

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John H.

NitroExpress.com - the net's double rifle forum

25 February 2005, 05:23

RIP

In mid 2000 I was looking for cape buffalo info and stumbled into the picture of Saeed with his huge-bodied 49" buffalo (despite having one of its horn tips broken off), a Royal Order of the Outer Circle qualifier, surely the No.1 in that book, if only there was such a book.

So, Saeed's smiling face was my introduction to the site. That infectiously smiling face was the beacon shining the way to accuratereloading .com ... and his eagle-like beak pointed the way to this madness.

Frank

"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953

NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite

JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous.

Mike

Legistine actu quod scripsi?

Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.

What I have learned on AR, since 2001:
1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken.
2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps.
3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges.
4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down.
5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine.
6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle.
7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions.
8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA.
9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not.
10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact.
11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores.
12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence.
13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances.