Welcome New Members!

Welcome Erich - and Vic in Wisconsin who is still experiencing an issue with signing up.

Great to have your energies and experiences added to our pool.

We believe you will see no grandstanding, no speculative opinions, no snowflaky insulation into a safe space of putting on a cloak of assumed authority; we (all of us) simply are a collective of ethical and knowledgeable and therefor fearless gun owning hunters. Each in his own area or community - and for those who have the resources to travel to take that with them wherever they go.

We stand on our rights to utilise the resources of the planet in such a way that will ensure the natural growth of this resource. This means forever creating a better habitat for free ranging wild animals.

Because MAN just so happens to be on the planet MAN also has the right to mark off HIS own territory and therefor there will of necessity be need for the macro management of the resources by man.

This has been a scientifically sound and proud process in South Africa for the past 60 years and game populations are back to where they were two hundred years ago. The basic reason for this success was the new laws in 1962 that took ownership of wild game away from the government and allowed it to belong to the owner of the land where it finds itself at any one moment. Managing big resources has always been done far better by strategically thinking individuals and entrepreneurs than by the bureaucratic swamp.

Thank you for joining the club of free thinking, big thinking, thinking-ahead clear thinkers - hunters and executives who also enjoy the basic knowledge of final bullet behaviour there where it meets is objective namely the heart's top chamber of the animal - or in some special situations its brain.

Warm regards,

Andries

Thank you. Sorry it's taken me so long to post here. The holidays have been busier than usual. I am just returning to hunting after 25 years. It's amazing how life can get in the way. I had forgotten how consuming it can be. Currently I'm hunting whitetail in the Southeastern US. My desire to someday hunt Africa has come back full force. My uncle used to hunt there every few years or so. I hope to someday do the same.

My wife has apparently decided to humor me. For Christmas and my birthday (they are close) she got me half a dozen or more of the books from the Peter Capstick Library collection. I've started African Adventures, Letters from Famous Big Game Hunters by Denis Lyell. I'm curious if anyone has read it and what they think.

Erich

Welcome Erich,

Please share your ideas and experiences. Every original post here was meant as food for thought.

Peter Capstick lived walking distance from me in his final years in the city of Centurion, near Pretoria in South Africa. He was a neighbour of and friends with Lt. General Dennis Earp - a former Chief of the South African Air Force. Guns not only keeps us young but I have a sneaking feeling these things may even transform older men back into boyhood. I saw Earp and Capstick with their BB guns..

I have all his books - most in hardcover. They all are worthwhile reading and you can not have Roosevelt or Ruark on your bookshelf and not "Death In The Long Grass".

Death in the Long Grass is very much on my short list. In fact, I didn't buy it myself only because I had a suspicion that my wife might do so. I've got quite a bit of reading to do now.

Welcome to TonySotto and Maukman into the family.

Please say hello and tell us where you are from - and please do not wait to post your new inputs or comment on present posts.

What do you hunt with or shoot with - and what would you like to read about here?

The website is technical / hunting oriented and at the same time a window on Africa hunting for US hunters.

As a true African ("not because I live in Africa but because Africa lives in me") - and a part time American I worry about the US and the good folks in the US. May 2018 in fact hold better promises for US gun owners and clear minded thinkers than what we presently see in the media.

Welcome to Bob59/Jan56.

It appears we have a husband/wife hunting team here? Please say hello and tell us.

A warm welcome to you.

Welcome NavyMan95 and Ron! Please post here and say hello.

A hearty welcome to Robert in Australia and Guy in Washington State! Guy has already posted about shotgunning, thank you. Robert tell us where you are in Australia? My younger son and his wife are emigrating to Australia by the end of this year. He will have a hard time divorcing himself from his rifles and handguns.

Welcome Terry!

Members can look under Calibre Confidence and read all about Terry's love affair with the 30-06.

Impeccable taste, Terry!