I've got a handloader issue where he wrote about it. I think he called it something like "the work horse of africa". I'll get back to you later with that as i'm being push off the pc right now.
Posts: 1723 | Location: wyo | Registered: 03 March 2001
From his article on the 9.3x62 in "Hunting Rifles and Cartridges" (NRA, 1990 -- previously published in American Rifleman or American Hunter):
"As for the 9.3x62mm cartridge, reliability is its midle name, and that is a virtue I value above most others, in cartridges and rifles as in dogs and people. It is very likely the best non-magnum medium bore cartridge of them all."
Posts: 1246 | Location: Northern Virginia, USA | Registered: 02 June 2001
that is a good article..I have the book with all his caliber articles in it..I have read it no less than a dozen times from cover to cover, and another dozen on the articles as I acquired such calibers over the years.
Posts: 42190 | Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | Registered: 04 June 2000
that is a good article..I have the book with all his caliber articles in it..I have read it no less than a dozen times from cover to cover, and another dozen on the articles as I acquired such calibers over the years.
I have just done a search without success (although I did find his book "Aagaard's Africa : a hunter remembers"). Could somebody please post more details about the book with the calibre articles in it?
I really like Finn Aagard's writings, and I'd like to find and buy this book (even if used and out of print).
jpb
Posts: 1006 | Location: northern Sweden | Registered: 22 May 2002
"Hunting Rifles and Cartridges" was the title -- however, all the articles were originally published in the American Rifleman or American Hunter, ca. late '80s to '91 or thereabouts, so you may be able to look them up in the magazines.
Posts: 1246 | Location: Northern Virginia, USA | Registered: 02 June 2001
quote:Originally posted by John Frazer: [QUOTE]Now that I see what "Aagaard's Africa" is selling for, I really wish I'd bought 100 copies when NRA remaindered them out around '95 or so ...
John, I was reading "Aagaard's Africa" at my wife's side when my son was born in1992... On page 101 I wrote down his size, weight and the time and date when he arrived on the scene!
quote:Originally posted by Brad: [QUOTE]John, I was reading "Aagaard's Africa" at my wife's side when my son was born in1992... On page 101 I wrote down his size, weight and the time and date when he arrived on the scene!
Brad
Now that is an heirloom -- not only a personal memory but at the current rate of appreciation it will be worth $1000 by the time he goes to college and $10,000 when he retires! By then that will be enough to fill his gas tank.
John
Posts: 1246 | Location: Northern Virginia, USA | Registered: 02 June 2001
