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Curious if you have any opinions on the impact of a shot that hits over the spine, but clips the spinous processes. Incapacitating for an animal? Is enough energy transfered down to the vertebrae to pinch or sever the spinal cord?

I'm a younger vintage than most here... ... but my introduction to Africa was Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness. 10 year old me was all about this, and I couldn't wait for it to get released on VHS. For reasons passing understanding, I still haven't picked up a Lee Speed.

Niche market for a stopping rifle where it's a coin toss on whether you'd rather risk it with the horns and the boss, or take the risk on the recoil! ;)

The 375 Flanged is to 375 Flanged Magnum (and 375 HH), as the 9.3x57 is to 9.3x62. Soft shooting, low pressure cartridge that is flinging 375 bullets at modest velocities, on a necked out 303. Still a great hunting cartridge I would think, but it's a long way away from the 375 HH. The 375/303...

I'm sure I could Google and go down a rabbit hole or two, but what is a rimmed 9.3x65 doing that the much neglected, but widely available 9.3x74R is not?

I have a WR underlever action to build on, and I have been leaning this way.

Surely these are fighting words, if fighting words have ever been uttered ;)

9.3x57.

30 day safari. No phones. By which I mean, four weeks in the bush. Road travel I'll allow, but no planes to other countries or areas. Closest I can get to 1930s. Including the bag limit. More pedestrian: A good bull moose on a plain old fashioned Ontario resident tag, which these days is...

Canada's largest trading partner is threatening annexation, tariffing goods, and is actively hostile. Why would Canada not want a closer relationship with our second largest trading partner, which is poised to over take the US in the coming decades as the largest and most influential economy...

Interesting and brief perspective from the 44th President...

I know more than a fair bit actually, having written software and custom reporting for gun stores in a previous life and profession, so I'm happy to learn: Please point out where I'm in error in thinking that US citizens can show a driver's license and purchase a firearm that isn't in anyway...

Your outfitter might have charged you with a pricing model of add-on services/packages, instead of an all-inclusive price. Guided hunts are GST exempt provided that there is actually a service provided (ie, guiding; not just providing transportation, meals, bait, and game dressing). Basically...

Impossible to control given the nature of the border, and the nature of US gun control. Dual citizens buy basically in bulk via 'private sale' at gun shows, cart them up north covered by legitimate business, usually longhaul truckers. If all US states had what all other first world nations...

... and in more tariff related revelations, the list of "reciprocal tariffs" has nothing to do with tariff rates at all: https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93gq72n7y1o "But if you unpick the formula above it boils down to simple...