Back from the bush...

Looks and sounds like another nice trip. I enjoy you pictures. I can't wait until "we" get back from Africa. 😃
 
Nice pics. I need to get out and remove a few hogs. The house and work have me buried.
 
Thanks very much all, it was a good week away no doubt at all, all being well back there at the end of next month ... ;)


Will York said:
The fox photos are beautiful--super stop-action and for the most part strikingly well lit. Thank you!

So no action for the H&H?
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..... the lighting was tough when I was opposite side of the creek to them, it was only lucky that I had the ISO cranked right up, trying to suck some light in the shadows, when they started to fight or it would have just been a complete blur !!! The H&H got carried a good deal but didn't get a shot away !!! You just could not predict it, when i had the Sako with me, lots of critters about (mobs of 30-40 deer at a time) but when I had the boomer, nada...!!! and Damn, the difference between walking with that light right and the H&H is VERY noticable !!!

358 said:
Is that an old Sako in the pics?
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.... yes, well the action is. Early 80s AII that started life as a 22/250 (I bought it shot smooth with badly damaged stock). It is now in a McMillian stock with a Tobler barrel.

MattinLA said:
How did the R6 perform?
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... thanks to the weather and time constraints associated to all the extra walking I did, it never got out of the hut. I will give it a good sharpen up before next month and make sure I get it out with me.

RobStanley said:
Great pics man! Good to see a little slab of SR101 getting in and doing its thing ;)
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....and it worked REALLY well. The HRLM probably gets more time with me these days than about any other blade...!!
 
".... yes, well the action is. Early 80s AII that started life as a 22/250 (I bought it shot smooth with badly damaged stock). It is now in a McMillian stock with a Tobler barrel."

Ah, I thought I recognized the Rem ADL-pattern checkering. That speckled pig had a bad day; you shot his eye out!
 
358 said:
That speckled pig had a bad day; you shot his eye out!
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... that is the exit, she was running at full speed about 40yds and was about to make the creek (and out of sight). When hit she was airborne and landed in the bottom of the creek DRT. I saw her and the black boar from about 100 yds out and decided to walk in on them till they spooked (and practice close/moving shooting). I got to about 15yds in the tussocks when they went. Boar got about 5yds and she all the way to the clear grass.
 
Nice. In my high school days a friend had a nuisance wildlife control permit for them. We rolled up on about a dozen in a wad about 30-40 yards out and I shot the one standing the most still, which weighed about 320. I then killed one with each of the next 4 shots including having to fish the last round from my pocket. That was a truckload of pork, and great fun. I wish I could still do that, but it's rare to see such a group in the open anymore.
 
d.weglarz13 said:
just gorgeous pictures
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.... thanks mate..!!!

358 said:
Nice. In my high school days a friend had a nuisance wildlife control permit for them. We rolled up on about a dozen in a wad about 30-40 yards out and I shot the one standing the most still, which weighed about 320. I then killed one with each of the next 4 shots including having to fish the last round from my pocket. That was a truckload of pork, and great fun. I wish I could still do that, but it's rare to see such a group in the open anymore.
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..... back in the day (pre-1996 and teh change in laws here) my records was around 22 or 23 with 30 rounds (20 round magazine and a reload obviously). After the first shot it was mayhem !!!!
 
Thanks, Man! I really enjoy seeing your trip "documentaries". Looking forward to the next one!
 
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