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It is a combination of calibre, ease of use, reliability, availability and cost Different for hunters compared with guides/PH ‘ s

A highly perceptive illustration of modern African governance More frighteningly It is beginning to resemble the current US administration Your fearless leader and our fearless leader … For entirely different reasons Are going to leave West hugely damaged Putin and the Xi are in a totally...

I use paper for DG calibres Paper doesn’t lie Steel takes an awful bashing from heavy calibres I also fear the ricochet ‘Charging lion’ is a paper target on wooden sled Each to their own of course

This is not new Outside the make believe world of tourist hunting, this is, and always has been, the reality of Africa, its peoples and politics I’d love to drop half of the UK,s societal drips into Southern Africa for a week Most wouldn’t emerge J

It’s a fair question at the end

Unless and until Trump finds, waves, and is prepared to use, a seriously big stick Putin will continue to take the piss out of him

It appears that ivW’s daughter has chosen the 404 as a guide’s rifle As such it will be used only if the “wheels fall off “ In the protection of either 4x4 based, or walking, tourists And only at distances not exceeding 15m (20m for ele?) It is not necessarily being used as a hunting tool...

Trump is certainly hiding his talents as a 4 D chess master well He is cunningly pretending that Putin is playing him like a fiddle No doubt he will suddenly pull out a master stroke Or perhaps not …

I’m in Italy skiing and supping a rather good Italian red with 7 other long standing friends One of them sent a group photo to a colleague The response? “Some where there is an old people’s home wondering what happened to their residents” Bit rude

This is not really about Ukraine She plays a bit part in a single act of a bigger play Of far greater significance is the direction Trump is taking the world Why? What is the motivation? Who will it benefit (and harm) in the short and medium term? What will the US’s enemies do to exploit...

Now we will learn what Trump is giving to Putin …. … and just exactly what is the nature of the monkey on trump’s back … To quote an old ‘art of the deal’ phrase

They will indeed require a stiff drink They have neglected their duties for far too long Some situations are so serious, and so absurd, that humour is all that you have left

I’m having a good scratch around But I’m struggling to find a nation that your Strategic Genius has not yet insulted, devalued and turned his back on Other than his new best mate Still One good thing His Christmas card list should be a bit shorter this year … and he won’t be short of...

Zelensky showed an honesty, integrity and courage the like of which most of us, under such pressure, could not muster They are the qualities that build nations Perhaps we might all try not to confuse strength with inherited power and abuse of privilege Trump did the American people no favours

I’m many things Cool is definitely not one of them Seriously though, we in the UK have to careful what we write in Starmer’s Britain