quite often I have guys tell me they only want to bring

Gary Reeder
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Monday, April 22, 2019, 11:52 (2689 days ago)

one or maybe 2 guns with them to Africa because they feel they won't need more than that. I always tell them to bring 3, as that is what you are allowed. Murphy's Law always prevails in Africa. Anthony Ransom's 405 Ruger #1 has been shooting great groups, half inch at 100. Today it misfires. So he is going to try a few things to see if it can be fixed. Colleen sighted in her 458 this morning (Africa time) and the new Leupold scope blew up, Jim Frost had an extra one so she is changing scopes. I put an extra scope in there for her but it was a pistol scope. Thank goodness Jim had an extra rifle scope.
In Africa like nowhere else, SHIT HAPPENS. Lee Jurras used to tell me about all the things that went wrong on his safaris. He said it got to where it happened so frequently that he even had a name for them. He called the Silly Safaris. So any of you that are planning on going on the 2020 African hunt, remember that and bring extra scopes, tools to change them and anything else that you can think of that might go wrong. The weather can be a bitch too. The weather forecast that they went by called for sunny skies all week and the first day they get there it rained. They were watching the weather for Kimberley but Kimberley is 4 hours from where they are so they can't go by that. So a good rain jacket really comes in handy. Again Murphy's Law prevails.

FIRST MORNING SHOT A WARTHOG.LEANED

JT
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Monday, April 22, 2019, 11:59 (2689 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

OVER IT WITH MY SCOPED FA IN THE SHOULDER HOLSTER. .454 FELL OUT AND THE SCOPE HIT THE ONLY ROCK AROUND. THANK YOU MURPH!

John's wart hog and dinged FA

Gary Reeder
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Monday, April 22, 2019, 12:53 (2689 days ago) @ JT

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And by the way, that is a great wart hog

I don't see the trophy rock.

Sid R
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Monday, April 22, 2019, 13:21 (2689 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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Ouch.

ChrisG
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Monday, April 22, 2019, 13:49 (2689 days ago) @ Sid R

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I THREW IT AWAY; FAR AWAY.

JT
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Monday, April 22, 2019, 15:07 (2689 days ago) @ Sid R

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Been there. I was at Joe Meeks place

GregG
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Monday, April 22, 2019, 13:49 (2689 days ago) @ JT

in TN with a scoped 44 Redhawk in a shoulder holster. I bent over to tie my boot and the gun fell out and landed muzzle first in the mud. Sticking straight up. I had to use a twig to clear the barrel. What a PITA.

I had a screw fall out of my scope

GregG
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Monday, April 22, 2019, 13:46 (2689 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

on the first day of a 10-day safari - the power ring screw. I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked down and saw a hole where the screw was supposed to be. I'm in the bush and a long way from a hardware store. I had a jewelers screwdriver in my kit that I stuck in the hole and used it to grab the gear inside to adjust the power ring for the remainder of my safari. SHIT HAPPENS IS RIGHT! BTW - when I came back to the USA I spoke with a Simmons service rep about my experience and they shipped me a brand new replacement scope; even an updated model for FREE. No hassle at all. He was apologetic to boot. Incredible service.

on one of my first African hunts I was checking my 450 GNR

Gary Reeder
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Monday, April 22, 2019, 14:08 (2689 days ago) @ GregG

Contender to make sure the airlines hadn't screwed it up. On the first shot the front lens rolled out and fell on the ground. Luckily I had a spare scope with me. Back then the heavy kicking Contenders damaged a lot of scopes. My 450 GNR was a 12" barrel, no porting and no muzzle brake, so one didn't shoot 20 rounds every Sunday with it. Plus back then, 1992, I believed all the gun writers that I had to have 500 grain solids in my 450 GNR so I loaded them balls to the wall with the 500 grain Hornady solids. It is sort of a coincidence that 26 years later I was back in Africa with a single shot pistol in 450 GNR and using the new Hornady 500 grain solids and a few 500 grain soft points. Most of my bullets I have used thru the years in my handguns have been either Hornady or Sierra. They have never let me down.

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