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Originally posted by Beretta682E:

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Mike,

I hope you are half as good at hunting as you are at fishing!

I wish I was half as good at fishing as I am at hunting!

You are going to laugh at this!

I am on a flight on the way home.

35,000 feet and -38 degrees!

Had a great dinner, and they just brought me a chocolate ice cream!

Served by a lovely young lady from The Gambia!

I hope I do not have any more flights before heading on Safari - in a camp that is blessfully free from any Blasers!

I am glad Emirates stopped banning ar on their inflight WiFi. Makes long flights less painful when you can jump on ar

Mike

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Originally posted by 30.06king:
This year I took my Blaser to Zimbabwe with my .375 H&H and 30.06 barrels, as I did when I hunted there in 2016.
Everything I shot was with the .375 H&H. No problem with all from DG to Plains Game ( mainly with Barnes TSX 300 gn ). The reality is it's just convenient to hunt with the one calibre and, as correctly said, the .375 H&H handles it all without fanfare. Yes, changing Blaser boltheads is very quick and simple but truthfully I sometimes cannot be bothered deciding each day which barrel is best to take, switching boltheads, swapping cartridges etc, etc. On any day you can't really predict what game will be encountered. You want the have in hand the rifle that will handle whatever. If you take the bigger / DG species and want to hunt smaller stuff thereafter, well OK, swap to the smaller calibre. But for me I just love shooting my .375 anyway and was completely content with that in my hands throughout the hunt.

Since a .375 H&H barrel is to be taken other possibilities in the alternative calibre vein, ( if you handload and I assume one load will be 300 gn bullets ) might be to work up a load with 235 gn bullets for the same barrel if you can get them shooting to the same POI. Or, rather than a second barrel / calibre maybe a backup scope in Blaser mounts could be a higher priority. Personally I regard good scopes as so reliable I don't bother with this but some guys are reassured by having a backup handy. If an alternative barrel becomes essential I think, as suggested because it uses the same bolt head, .300 WM is a great cartridge and choice. It might give dual capability as your default calibre for the USA hunting season. With two .300 WM rifles on the hunt it would be great if both shot the same ammo / load with similar accuracyt.

Good luck making the decisions.

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
...All that switching between different weapons depending on the range made my head spin! I say Guns Only! The bigger the better!!! Preferably without any wiz-bang sighting systems. Just draw a dot on the windshield with a grease pen, put the dot on the bogey, pull the trigger and walk the tracers onto the enemy's cockpit!!!

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Originally posted by GBE:

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
...All that switching between different weapons depending on the range made my head spin! I say Guns Only! The bigger the better!!! Preferably without any wiz-bang sighting systems. Just draw a dot on the windshield with a grease pen, put the dot on the bogey, pull the trigger and walk the tracers onto the enemy's cockpit!!!

Ah, so here we get to the crunch of the matter, Todd cant use more than one gun and gets confused remembering how to operate multiple weapons

So the prospect of pulling a takedown rifle apart to put into its travel case to go from one hunting concession to the other, and then putting it back together in a new concession with a different scope and filling the mag with ammo from a different box brings him out in a cold sweat.

Hey Mike, do we send money to your account or Larry's to see Saaed get up close and personal to Buff with Mark Sullivan whilst holding a Blaser R8 in .500J?