Heaven is...?

Talk about a leading question!

……"seeing the front gold bead on your DR just behind the shoulder of a Cape as you press the right trigger."

Dave Manson

I had it in my hands...


Tony Seth-Smith's Rigby 450 Nitro...

"to have you enemies driven before you......."

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
"to have you enemies driven before you......."

https://youtu.be/NzvFNLAnYNw

lol

1.A truly accurate .458 cal rifle and above.
2.Hunting DG in wild Africa.

Stopping a charge from a 100 pounder 5 yards away, with a perfect brain shot from your .470 NE DR.

BH63

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Originally posted by boom stick:
Heaven is...?

......getting to be strapped in to an afterburning (reheat for the Brits) jet fighter.
With 20mm M61 gun even better.
- Mike

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Originally posted by Redstone:

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Originally posted by boom stick:
Heaven is...?

......getting to be strapped in to an afterburning (reheat for the Brits) jet fighter.
With 20mm M61 gun even better.
- Mike

Even better with a 6 barreled 20mm Vulcan Cannon!!

Going shooting with my Dad.
Going handgun shooting with Elmer Keith and Skeeter Skelton.
Hunting in Africa with Taylor and Selby.
Those are a few...

Reliving stopping a rhino charge with a rifle I had built around a cartridge I designed and developed myself.

That’s awesome Bill. Mt.Kenya? Aberdares?

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
That’s awesome Bill.

It sure is!!!

There's the satisfaction of hunting with your own guns (why I can't get into the idea of using camp rifles).

Step up a notch and there's the satisfaction one gets of hunting with ammo you hand loaded yourself. (I don't know how to put it into words but I remember my very first trip to the range with the very first batch of hand loads I ever crafted. Got a strange sense of accomplishment for putting together the components and seeing them perform as designed. I've haven't purchased any factory ammo since with a very few exceptions being the only way to get new brass at the time.)

This takes it up another notch indeed. Not only hand loaded yourself but DESIGNED from the ground up!

I can understand how that would be very gratifying.

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
That’s awesome Bill. Mt.Kenya? Aberdares?

Exactly! This guy had been escaping from the Aberdares National Forest and chasing a landowners cattle and cattle herders. (The gentleman on the far right of the photo is one such. He guided us to the spot where the rhino was crossing the game ditch separating the park from private land.)

The rhino had already been selected for culling by the game department. I simply saved them the trouble (and paid the trophy fee into the land owner's US bank account).

The rhino is one of my entries in Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game. Measurements: 28 1/4, 11 1/2, 24 1/8, 19 1/2.

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Originally posted by xausa:

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
That’s awesome Bill. Mt.Kenya? Aberdares?

Exactly! This guy had been escaping from the Aberdares National Forest and chasing a landowners cattle and cattle herders. (The gentleman on the far right of the photo is one such. He guided us to the spot where the rhino was crossing the game ditch separating the park from private land.)

The rhino had already been selected for culling by the game department. I simply saved them the trouble (and paid the trophy fee into the land owner's US bank account).

The rhino is one of my entries in Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game. Measurements: 28 1/4, 11 1/2, 24 1/8, 19 1/2.

Fantastic. Was near there earlier this year. Iconic place!

Yep that was The Happy Hunting Ground, right here on earth:


I can't come anywhere near that, but I did take the the first-ever .500 Mbogo and .395 Tatanka rifles to Tanzania,
and I slew game with them.
Only problem was I had to share a tent with Walter.
That was hell on earth.

I did visit with xausa in Tennessee. That was what you might call heavenly.

Rip ...

If I hadn't got spectacles in the 8th grade, I would've been riding a 7-barreled, 30mm Gatling Gun with wings across the heavens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOug7gBwiXQ

Now I gotta go watch more videos about hunting with a Warthog, the A-10 kind of warthog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2KbwPMU18

Rip ...

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Originally posted by RIP:
If I hadn't got spectacles in the 8th grade, I would've been riding a 7-barreled, 30mm Gatling Gun with wings across the heavens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOug7gBwiXQ

Now I gotta go watch more videos about hunting with a Warthog, the A-10 kind of warthog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2KbwPMU18

Rip ...

GAU-8, the worlds biggest varmint rifle...