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Carried a .20 gauge for many years to Maine for Grouse, then switched to .28 and that is now the go to piece. It is an LL Bean .28 New Englander, built by Battista Rizzini in Italy.

So, I know this post has perhaps run dry, but to add another report... Went to a Cabelas in VA to "consider" selling a Browning Safari rifle in .338 Win Mag. Greeted and went in small office adjacent to gun library, employee picks up the rifle, cycles the bolt and dry fires it, then repeats. I...

but when you turn the corner and interrupt the bachelor party.

I couldn't get the warthog photo to load and took a while to add the Kudu photo. Also, took a Blesbok, Impala and Duiker. Awesome trip and looking forward to returning. Now, I need to reset my brain for whitetails in Virginia.

Dr Mike, Hopefully these photos load. kudu and warthog.

Just returned earlier this month from plains game safari in South Africa. Awesome trip. Perhaps the best part is that my wife went and had a super time. Having her "invested" in the trip helps with overall success and now planning for a return trip. I had five animals on permit, successfully...

At the urging of DrMike, I will add my background or small pieces of it. Born in the blue ridge mountains of VA, hunted for many years with my dad and granddad, kept guns in the car in the high school parking lot so I could go straight to the woods. Served 21 years in the USAF or so they told...

Sorry, off the net for a couple of days as every time I tried to get back, the site appeared to be down for maintenance. To circle back to my intial post and to add to the metric commentary, at the same estate sale, I picked up some Barnes and RWS 9.3 bullets, 3 boxes that nobody else wanted...

Thanks for the all comments and welcoming remarks. At some point, I will load them for 300 H&H, Wthby, and Win Mag and of course '06 and see how things go. I have a few other "projects" ahead of them including some .222 work and a bunch of rimmed European cartridges that I enjoy shooting and...

They are exactly like the bottom bullet depicted in the photo. Thanks for sending the picture. Also, thanks for the welcome remarks. Todd in VA.

I recently picked up a cardboard box of smaller boxes of bullets at an estate sale. There were six ALL yellow boxes of Nosler bullets in .30 cal. Two were 150 grain, and four were 180 grain. The boxes were still "sealed." When I got them home and opened them, they all have the wide cannelure...