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Originally posted by Charles_Helm:

Back to African hunting:

Right! As soon as the Zim Navy is crushed, we will go here:


hunt this (I have some unsettled bussines with this one)

with this


and the eat THIS (pap, liver, kidneys, onion and whole cream!!)



And as a sidearm, in case the Mugabe Special Forces try to sneak up on us


In case they do get me, my friend in the Joint AR Expeditionary Force, special agent Cewe aka the Civet, will avenge me. He is most intimidating - just look at Tom the tracker. he is terrified. Just imagine the power of this Muti-f-cker!


Ok, I admit. My day at the office sucks..

Boha! I must say I had a good laugh so your day was well spent.

You seem to remember everything, and if you were to forget something it´s on a disc somwhere.

God those pics bring back memories -we had a good time.

Hmmmmmm.. Possible Interim Brass Source.

Both Z-Hat Custom:

30-06 Cylinder Brass

And Huntingtons:

Howell 30-06 Basic Brass

list unformed 30-06 basic brass for a little over $1.05 USD per case. This would be a good way to get a 9,3 x 66 Sako project going until the factory brass is available.

LD

PS I had herd of cewe the Civet, but thought it was just a legend.

We really need some photos of women, boats, cars etc otherwise this thread might peter out -and that would be sad

As it is we´re even on topic now and again!

I hope I can find time to try my new 9.3x62 loads through the chrony this weekend, really need to get the speed up past 700m/s with the 250gr Rhino.

Sorry cewe,
Back off topic again. Here is a picture of Saint Marilyn, the patron saint of our expedition:

No plastic in that prow.

Lawndart: The pic gave my receptionist a startle! Should have seen her face!

Now she has a goal -to become the look alike of saint Marilyn!

Here is my muse:

She would make the cold Scandinavian winters bearable.

She is adaptable to the African climate as well:

quote:

Now she has a goal -to become the look alike of saint Marilyn!

Please tell her that is a worthy goal, and one that I approve of.

lawndart

Other than steeling mooses sign from the lugage of the German tourist I am begining to see other good reasons to visit Scandinavia. The girls can be beautiful; it is hard to find one that doesn't drink much, and doesn't smoke at all. The lake country is gorgeous from th photos I've see. The ice cream in Viborg and Hierning in Denmark's Jutland penninsula put five pound on me in two weeks back in 1991. Illinois ice cream toook the wait off faster than it went on (it tasted too bad to eat).

LD

Lawndart: Leno O is a jewel! First I thought it was a pic of your wife and I started having thoughts of my brothers...you remember this from Sunday school.

WE need to plan your trip in good time so that I´m on vacation when you come, at least six months in advance.

Do you know of any good blackbear outfitters? I have a yearning for Canada -don´t ask me why.

Yeah,

Lena is my dream girl.

I don't know, but am given to understand that fat black bears are pretty thick along the pacific coast areas of Canada. Thickly forested! I will ask around. I believe Canuck and Alf would have some insider's views.

lawndart

Lawndart: It´s just you and me bro´, everyone ealse has left...

I was kind of thinking the BC area for bear and I have relatives I could visit in Vancouver so that might be the way to go. I have a post on Canadian hunting that gave some good links but Alberta also looks good as does New Brunswick.

Where did this bear fever come from?

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Where did this bear fever come from?

Paleolithic memories, no doubt.

Alberta is beautiful, and drier than British Columbia. Eastern Canada is kind of swampy.

I really like the people up there, especially in Western Canada. Quebec is not in Cannada.

lawndart.

Quebec is French but aren´t they a different bunch than people fromFrance? Or is this wishful thinking? A frog is a frog is a frog?



I hate this time of year -dark as hell and cold.

Boha,
what is that mauser?

Lawndart,
is that picture of Marilyn one from JFKs' trophy room wall? From what I recall he stuffed and mounted her on numerous occasions.

When a Quebecer starts spouting frog talk, he makes Parisians sound friendly. They get pretty militant and in your face about speaking frog up there. When we used to fly over Quebec in the middle of the night in our fighters enroute to Europe, the air traffic controllers would yak with the Quebecer airplane pilots in frog, despite the official ICAO language being English for saftey reasons. Of course one of my buddies would always call to me on the radio, "what is that horrible noise I'm hearing?", and I would answer, "don't worry, it is just some frogs croaking from the last French colony in the new world." Then no one would talk to us until we got to Labrador. That was fine by me, although the squadron commander always read me the riot act when we landed in Denmark, Germany, Italy or wherever.

It looks like Quebec is finally going to leave the Canadian Federation in the next few years. Good riddance. They like to build stuff out of this Gothic shade of gray stone. Really appetizing on an overcast winter's day. They constantly bitch about everything associated with english speaking Canadians, but have never missed a handout from Ottowa. Other than that, I love 'em to bits. There is some great food and art in Montreal, and some awesome fishing up on the Gaspe penninsula. Just like in France, when you get out of the cities you meet some salt of the earth people who are pretty hospitable. There are some Quebecers on AR who are high quality folks. Just like our Californian correspondents, they get painted with a broad brush, which is unfortunate.

Does Finland hire embassy doctors for the tropics? Maybe you could transfer?

This time of year I keep thinking that I would like to live in Alaska in the summer, and New Zealand in our winter.

Well, off to dream about Lena on a sailboat off of the Seychelles.

lawndart

Lawndart: I sort of remember terrorist acts by some Quebecans in the 70´s -might be wrong though. I actually hate stereotyping people but I haven´t met many people from France that I´ve liked and I think it works both ways.

Still too much of the Yank in me!

Finland doesn´t to my knowledge hire embassy doctors, the miltary does need physicians for UN duty. I actually applied to go to Kosovo last spring but man was my wife pissed off! She´s usually very reasonable, never bitches (hardly ever) about hunting and new guns but Kosovo made her crazy big time.

She mentioned somthing about it being a war zone and me not being a crazed teenager anymore.

I replied that I was a crazed male in his prime!

To make a long story short: I didn´t go on UN duty and she isn´t going to art school in London for three years!

She was quite convincing, didn´t think she had it in her.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Woodjack:
Boha,
what is that mauser?

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I take it you mean my 9,3x63 (yes 63), an old thing from before 1919, probably a guild gun. They stopped loading the cartridge in the 1920s.

I am waiting for my dies to arrive from CH4 any day now. (320 grs woodleigh at maybe 2350 fps- "OEE BUNDUKI!")

Not the perfect conpromise, but a perfect old rifle.

Boha

From Woodjack:

quote:

Lawndart,
is that picture of Marilyn one from JFKs' trophy room wall? From what I recall he stuffed and mounted her on numerous occasions.

Yep,
Thank God the liberal lothario politicians and the Hollywood ding-dongs have each other.

Boha,
That is a very nice rifle.

LD

Boha,

I have held the best from numerous makers, H&H, Purdey,Hartmann Weiss,Hagn, FIsher etc with their modern shape bottom metal and 3pos. shrouds and they are all lovely rifles, but some how nothing produced today has the depth of character of rigs like yours and the original full rib 7x57 Sauer98s'..And yes the wood is not as figured, stockwork not as precise,but thats what attracts me to them, that functional understatedness.
Our newly produced high class rigs seem a litte sterile in comparison.
I have seen photos of Germans going to the front line in WW1 issued with mausers sporting rifles like yours.

By the way,if you dont mind
what is barrel length?
what does it weigh without the scope?
How is the front base attached?

Gentlemen, let's keep up this good work!

Just got my hands on two 9.3x66 cases. Comparing it to the 9.3x62 I just got this nice idea: What wildcat should be made out of the 66 mm case?

No, I think I would prefer the 9.3x63, more in my style. Boha, do you load it to about the same velocity as a 9.3x62?

And it is time I really try to get at new stock for my 9.3.x62.

Regards,
Martin

Marterius: If you´re looking for a new stock then contact Jonny Boberg, he made the rough stocks for my 9.3 an for my 6.5. Boha did the rest of the work as you know.

Wildcat from the 9.3x66? Lets see -9.5x66 or 8x66? Or is this like reinventing the wheel...

Do you load your own 9.3:s? I´m trying to get some velocity out of mine but so far I can only get 715 m/s using 3.6 grams of VV N135 using a Rhino 16.2 gram . Tryed 3.65 and 3.70 grams but lost velocity! It might be time to start looking at VV N550...

Yes, a 8x66 is a nice thought, or a 338 Sako?

I have just started to develop loads for 9.3x66, have not put any through the cronograph yet.

Regards,
Martin

I have not loaded anything as yet, I´m waiting for the dies!! Husky gave me two shells that I sized in the 10,75x68 die to get the sides ok, and got the neck to hold a bullet with Lees factory crimp die for a 375 H&H! I fired two cases and sent them off to CH4. I believe I will use 320 grs at 2300 and 286 grs bullets at 2400. The case holds 110 grs of water while the 9,3x64 Brenneke holdes 114 grs, so there is a lot of potential..

Woodjack!
The rifle has a 21,5" barrel, and wheighs 6:15½ or 3,1 kg without the scope.
Front base:

Gentlemen,
There are another bloke that should join us aboard the 9,3x66 African Expidition!

His gun is some kind of "pre-production" 9,3x66...

http://buckstix.com/howitzer.htm

Husky

I forgot..
boha your 9,3x63 is very nice. Tell them who was the first owner!

You can read about mine 9,3x63 in the December issue of Man Magnum Magazine. I wrote some words about it...

Has anyone loaded the 9.3x62 and run them through a chrony?

quote:

Originally posted by husky:
Gentlemen,
There are another bloke that should join us aboard the 9,3x66 African Expidition!

His gun is some kind of "pre-production" 9,3x66...

http://buckstix.com/howitzer.htm

Husky

Husky,
I would suggest that the real pre-production 9.3x66 is the screw-gun of Kipling fame: http://riv.co.nz/rnza/hist/gun/rifled10.htm
And it is a take-down as well!

Marterius,
That gun looks very interesting, but if you scroll down the Howitzer page, you will see that this bloke actually has shot a Whitetailed deer with the bloody gun...
Experience like that could be useful in Africa!

Husky, you have a point, but I still think that comparing a New World Howitzer with an Old World screw-gun is like comparing a Weatherby with a Mauser 98, and I know which one of them I want to take hunting!

Regards,
Martin

Marterius,
I agree with you about that!
But as Kipling seems to be very dead now and this bloke is still alive and seems to know how to handle a howitzer, maybe he just like Ms Lampelius should have a hammock of their own aboard the ship?

Ohh, sorry: Ms Lampelius can sleep in my cabin - i think that there are enough room on the floor

I found a good deal on a used ship that should be well suited to our purposes:

Howdy boys!

Just finished of the rest of my birthday whiskey and I´m having some trouble finding the keys.

Maybe we could raise an old teutanic pocket battleship from the grave and refit her -a little bit of paint and some BIG guns would qualify her for any invasion.

Anyone managed to locate Zims naval base?

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Anyone managed to locate Zims naval base?

I guess this is it, with the first sea-lord and a couple of admirals in the background...

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Originally posted by Marterius:
I guess this is it, with the first sea-lord and a couple of admirals in the background...

I did not even know they had a submarine!

Guys, this is getting seriuos. We might need a couple of planes and some really big bombs.

I´d build the bombs myself but as I can´t even get a 250gr bullet moving faster than 715m/s I don´t know...

Boha can build up pressure in his new baby, maybe he´s the man for the job?

That makes him Captain and Bomb Builder 1:st class.

If Husky has Linda and Lawndart has Lena I guess I´ll have to brig HRH Madelaine.

I'll go if scientists can bring Marilyn back to life to keep me company.

Jarrod: Trust me I can get you so drunk you´ll think my dog is Marilyn and it´s the thought that counts right?

Your on as Boy Scientist and Bomb Builder.

Failure to arrive at point of dispatch will be seen as a serious offence! Keelhauling is the remedy for that and that´s Lawndarts department.

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Originally posted by cewe:
Jarrod: Trust me I can get you so drunk you´ll think my dog is Marilyn and it´s the thought that counts right?

Your on as Boy Scientist and Bomb Builder.

Failure to arrive at point of dispatch will be seen as a serious offence! Keelhauling is the remedy for that and that´s Lawndarts department.

No Marilyn