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...the 458 Winchester Magnum post was inadvertently deleted. How many members would suffer symptoms of withdrawals? 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. | ||
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Not half as bad as the bloody idiot who went to Dar Essalam airport with his rifle with a round in the chamber. And when was asked to check if his rifle was empty, he pulls the trigger! He single hadidly changed the procedure of gun inspection at DAR. Now one has to go to the police station at the airport who physically check that the rifle is empty! I have said it so many times, some excuses for a human being should never be allowed near a gun! | |||
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Sir, I resemble that remark! Saeed, My first deer hunt was at Fort Knox, KY amongst the training grounds where one might encounter dud tank and artillery shells, over 40 years ago. The one-day deer hunt was shotgun only, closely supervised by safety/conservation personnel who walked us out at sunup and met us at dusk. I was a young one then. I found a huge oak tree that was toppled over, near an impact crater, to about a 30-degree angle that I could just walk up. so I walked up the tree and sat there about 10 feet off the ground in a tree crotch, with my 12-gauge Pump, Marlin Model 120 with smoothbore 20" barrel with rifle sights. I was safe from finding unexploded ordnance for sure. Presently I shot a little buck. I was giddy when we gathered at dusk. The safety officer said: "Everybody unload your gun." I pointed the gun skyward like the idiot in Dar. Yep, I sent a 12-gauge slug off into the bomb range after the end of shooting hours, and finally have confessed to someone who wasn't there. No collateral damage is known to have occurred except to my ego.  Rip ... | |||
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Idiot yes: As a student sitting on my bed with a WR ZAR marked Boer War Martini Henry and a genuine 100 year old rolled brass with iron head 450- 755 cartridge in hand; Absent mindedly loading and ejecting the cartridge with the butt of the rifle on the carpet....... then is happened, I pulled the trigger gun loaded ! 100 year old black powder smoke filled the room, my ears rang for weeks after, the gun practically went off in my face. The stock broke at the grip. The paper patch lead bullet went through the ceiling and the tile roof above . I could not tell my father so I patched the hole in the ceiling with Polyfilla and replaced the tile on the roof. | |||
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Nice my nephew ran over my nieces foot when he first got his drivers license. They told their uncle but their parents still don't know. They are both fine lol Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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