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  1. Oldsarge

    Any Tips on safari outfit?

    Yup. He traded length for intensity.
  2. Oldsarge

    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    Och, ye canny cadgie!
  3. Oldsarge

    Any Tips on safari outfit?

    Yup. If you manage to stay alive to 65 you're pretty much a lock to 85 but that first step is a doozy. In fact, the biggest die-off among men is from 48-54 the way I understand it. Enjoy your booze but do it moderately. I guess that means be only moderately sober . . . :D
  4. Oldsarge

    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    Oh. Dear. Lord! Now just how many figures are on that price tag, four or five? Damn but I could see myself carrying that across the moors all tweeded out. Why wasn't I born landed rich instead of so intelligent :rolleyes: ?
  5. Oldsarge

    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    It would, it would! After I get my two . . . uh three project guns done I'm thinking about one of those Nepalese martini actions rebarreled with a SMLE .303. It's just a simple screw in and restock . . . once you get the action clean, that is!
  7. Oldsarge

    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    Unfortunately I won't be hunting this year except for acting as porter and meat cutter on my partner's cow elk tag hunt. All my play money is going into my shop until it's complete. No ifs, ands or buts! I am aiming for Prince William Island black bear come April or May, I hope. Next fall I...
  8. Oldsarge

    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    I did the same thing once with another Husky. Mine had the rounded pistol grip and was the slickest handling rifle I've ever owned. Regrettably I sold it to a friend who wanted an elk rifle. Poor chap came down with both prostate cancer and Hepatitis C and died a few years back. Somehow I...
  9. Oldsarge

    Any Tips on safari outfit?

    I think you have to have twenty-five posts before you can do stuff like that but once you have them, just click on the name of the person you want to pm and scroll down to private message.
  10. Oldsarge

    Any Tips on safari outfit?

    Unless, of course, you shot the leopard yourself. Capstick's admonition applies to first timers. Just ask Boddington! He still blushes over how he tried to come across as an "old Africa hand" after his first safari. Hell, I've been on five and still consider myself a relative greenie. Maybe...
  11. Oldsarge

    Any Tips on safari outfit?

    Yes, and by all means post here when you've got them ready for sale. I'm always good for a new safari hatband.
  13. Oldsarge

    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    An Alex Henry? I won't even ask. I'm sure I can't, either. "If you have to ask how much it costs . . . ":(
  14. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    That peep sight is very interesting. Could it be fitted to the cocking piece of a Krag, do you think?
  15. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    It should shoot like bitz. Good hold, good barrel, good sights . . . what else do you need given it's got double triggers. My 6.5 Swede is a genuine Oberndorf. It even has the swastika inside the wings over the bridge. However, only the action is Mauser. I gathered the bits and had my...
  16. Oldsarge

    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    So where is the stag? Or will that take another trip? A chap I sang with in high school developed quite the passion for BPE rifles in his maturity. He posted on one of the hunting websites for a while but then we lost contact again. My personal passion is black powder single shot cartridge...
  17. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    And remember that if you do some serious hunting and shooting, the '97 will loosen up and need re-tightening every few years. Also, '97's will fire if you hold the trigger back and work the slide! This was considered a good thing for riot work or in trench warfare but for safety's sake this...
  19. Oldsarge

    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    Whitworths are superb. My own, shown earlier in this thread was the basis for a Paul Jaeger custom built up to be a 'world rifle' in black composite stock and black chrome finish. It's far from as pretty as Renault's, I admit, but if pretty is as pretty does, it will group 300 gr. Nosler...
  20. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    Well, the finish is lovely and the wood is good but there nothing you can do about the lines. An AR format is an AR format. Efficient, surprisingly good handling for a combat piece, cheap to feed but under-powered for game and graceless. Still, given what it is, not bad looking. As to the...
  21. Oldsarge

    Bush Jackets

    Will Boelke was the one who first approached MyTailor (Joe Hemrajani) with the idea of making a bush jacket. Will called them shirt jacs or safariana and he has had at least three made. You can run scroll down and see pictures of them here. MyTailor.com does schedule fitting/ordering sessions...
  22. Oldsarge

    Bush Jackets

    Speaking as another of the gibbon-proportioned, OTR clothing of almost any sort is hopeless. I am able to purchase shirts but everything else has to be taken from the store to the alterations tailor before it goes in the closet. Fortunately, I guess, I have reached the time of life when my...
  23. Oldsarge

    Backyard chickens

    I used to watch the feral banty roosters go at it at the San Diego Zoo when I was a kid. I loved it! AFIC, cock fighting is fun so long as you don't put on those murderous steel spur extensions. Just let them have it out with their natural weaponry and after a few minutes one will skedaddle...

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