Hello friends,

Many of you have asked me for advice on gun searches as it's a bit of a hobby for me to "see what is out there" each week. I discussed this with @AfricaHunting.com and he permitted me to create a running post on the Classifieds section.

The purpose of the posts will be to show what interesting guns of good quality and value may be popping up on the Internet each week. My personal guidelines of a "good gun" are as follows:

"That is a quality weapon with soul...

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any sentiments/ experience using dacron vs foam fillers for nitro express cartridges?
specifically, 450 3 1/4

thankx

Now that all of you have turned me into an African addict lol! Here is my three year plan...what is yours?
1. July 2021 first Buffalo hunt with Tsala 40+ opportunity
2. July 2022 just booked for second hunt with Game 4 Africa for second buffalo, kudu and first water buck
3. I will hunt with Tsala again for lion and elephant not booked yet but this is my plan

I have no idea what comes after the above...how about you?

Prologue

West Africa — somehow an unfamiliar territory for me, yet one that exerts a pull I can’t quite explain. After having hunted twice in Southern Africa, I was looking for a new adventure.

In the southeast of Senegal, along the border with Mali and Guinea and east of Senegal’s national park, lies the ZIC Falémé hunting reserve. ZIC stands for Zone d’Intérêt Cynégétique, and Falémé is the main river in the area. In the past, the reserve covered nearly 2 million hectares — roughly...

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Currently sitting in airport loung at OR Tambo, but I thought I could start a thread on the hunt we just wrapped up in Zambia. I booked with Steven Rufus of Shamwari Safaris, and we hunted the Kasonoso area on the Noryhern border of Kafue National Park. It was a very successful hunt. We took 7 animals: Sitatunga, buffalo, Reedbuck, Red Lechwe, Puku, Oribi, and Angolan Bush Duiker. There was significant lion activity in very close proximity to where we hunted the Sitatunga. I will...

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