What follows is an account with a hunt with Elephant Trails Safaris and their PH Shingi. I learned about this hunt from the BookYourHunt website. There had been a positive article from someone who hunted with them during October 2024. But things changed sometime from year to year, which I was about to find out the hard way. Let me emphasize I don’t blame BookYourHunt for any of what transpired; they responded quickly and professionally when I told them about my experience, and pulled this...

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A few days ago, @MontanaGrant started a thread about the Ruger African in 450 Bushmaster that was made exclusively for Randy's Hunting Center in Michigan. This thread eventually devolved into a discussion about what it would take to have a special limited run of rifles made for a group of people (like us!). So I sent RHC an email to ask that question and here is the response I got:

Darryl,

We work very closely with Ruger on exclusive rifles for our company...

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Disclaimer: I recognize that Texans are all accused of stretching the truth on hunting stories and general BS--we even used to have a Texas liars contest in Amarillo. The kind of lying I'm referencing is the kind that could give hunting a black eye, the kind where a fellow would lie when the truth sounded better. I've known two.

First up, a law enforcement officer. It wasn't completely obvious at first, he just always had a bigger story than whatever was being discussed. But soon he would...

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I learned very good lessons in Alaska with rifles and watched others really mess up and almost lose their lives .My top Alaska DGR was a Weatherby Accumark in 338-378 .I put that rifle through so many test i wonder why Weatherby is not considered more often .I found a custom 416 rem mag weatherby that looks totally promising also .I love how smooth their bolts work and compared to todays worse ever bolting guns they are the perfect DGRs to me .I hardly ever see Weatherby rifles talked about...

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