Recent content by Paul Raley

In my opinion not a lot of interesting things to do for just an afternoon in Johannesburg , but that also depends on what one finds interesting. Whether it is a week day or a weekend will also have an impact , such as what is open and how much traffic there is , also depends on the weather ...

Of course we are all happy when Lions or other animals kill poachers , but for Lions there is a dual problem , if they kill people they will more than likely be destroyed as man eaters , the other issue is that Lions are also being poached. According to staff in the Kruger Park nearly all the...

In SA one is not permitted to use a semi-auto firearm for hunting purposes so I doubt a semi - auto pistol will be allowed into the country for the purposes of hunting . If one was attending a legitimate and recognised sport shoot such and one was invited then a semi-auto pistol will most...

Congratulations on your retirement , may you have many happy years of hunting and shooting in your retirement , and may the buffalo hunt become a reality . All the best !

Spike.t - if I am correct it looks like you are in Zambia , are you not able to get ammo or at least reloading components from SA ?

Thanks for the advice , I need to experiment some more , but until now most of the ammunition which I have shot with the rifle has been 170 grn factory ammo of various makes and all of them print all over the place . The only ammo that has grouped well is the reload I mentioned above . From...

Hunter Habib I agree with you , the 30-30 is good for a lot of African plains game animals , but for sure too light and too weak under most circumstances for anything bigger or tougher than Blue Wildebeest , and definitely too little gun for dangerous game , and then some might say it might be...

Obviously it has been a "couple" of years now since the original discussion above , but for those of you that might be interested , I managed to find a fairly accurate load for my Marlin micro groove barrelled 30-30 . I used 150 gr Sierra FN bullets with 33 gr of South African S335 powder and...

Not if the current ruling party forms coalitions with parties similar to themselves , then it could get worse .

I dont remember Charles Bronson having a 458 Webley , he did have the 475 Wildey though .

Great news ! We will wait for the photos .

Hi Killerangel. Use the search function by using "brenneke" and you will find some old posts about the 9,3 x 64 , as well as some advice about obtaining brass . I see in the one thread "Rookhawk" gave some information as to where one might obtain some brass . Good luck with your search . What...

Here is some more information I found , I cannot confirm how accurate it is , but seems some more research of your rifle would be warranted . Apparently there is a guy called Daan Els who is a Musgrave fundi that could possibly help if you were able to find him - see the "copy paste " info below...

Does your rifle have a "V" in the serial nr ? I see on another forum there is a person that also has an old original Musgrave thats serial nr starts with OB but the serial nr has a "V" in it too . If so it is described as a "Vrystaat" model , which according to the post is apparently quite a...

7x57Joe is correct . The original Musgraves were built by Musgrave in Bloemfontein . They used M98 actions of various makes to build their rifles , and made their own barrels . The old Musgraves were well made and accurate . The association of your rifle to Brno is that they used a Brno made...