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I meant more if he had any conclusions about it: A shot 'in the area' stuns, and the animal recovers and bolts, but a shot which hits the processes is enough to sever the spinal cord and anchor the animal. I don't know enough about spinal injuries, or neck shots I suppose.

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...

The earlier listing omitted the best ones from the list: Finally, a US administration has the courage to take on those fat cats with their unfair trading practices in... *checks notes* ...various remote and uninhabited island territories. Clearly a ton of research, reasoning, and well...

There has been no evidence presented, formally or informally, of any sort of fraud whatsoever by DOGE. Nothing in Congress. Nothing to law enforcement. Lots of wild and sensational tweets from Elon. That's about it. There is zero evidence that any actual fraud exists. So far the only...

Using your CPA example, the CPA Code of Conduct states: Chartered Professional Accountants conduct themselves at all times in a manner which willmaintain the good reputation of the profession and serve the public interest. In doing so, members and firms are expected to avoid any action that...

In this case, it's a professional regulatory body. But in other cases: Of course it is. It just is subject to limits, like any other right. You have freedom of movement, but there are limits, regulations, and consequences. You can't go anywhere you please, you need to travel at the speed...

. Whether or not it's in therapy is irrelevant. Certain licensed professionals are obligated by their professional ethics to moderate their behaviour, and their speech, in a public forum. Even those outside of licensed professionals (who agree to adhere to the professional standards when...

Pretty much this. The entire thing was a media stunt from the start, and an effort to extend his fifteen minutes of fame and gather in more donations from his flock. It's the idea that he was in any way unjustly persecuted that is nonsense. He milked it for all it was worth.

The revocation of his license is a result of his failure to abide by the recommendations of the disciplinary committee of his professional licensing body - that he complete social media and professional ethics related training. And the "persuasive argument" is that a clinical psychologist...

The "country" didn't mandate his needing to complete training, his provincial professional licensing body did: As it turns out, the Ontario College of Psychologists frowns upon one of its members emailing patients politically charged content and links to fundraising drives on Patreon, and...

I'm aiming to build a 45-120 in the next year or two just to crest this particular mountain.

Echoing @Tundra Tiger , it may not be 458 WM, but so what? My contribution to yet another 45-70 round table will be to posit that it doesn't have to be 458 WM, because 45-70 is plenty for two or three of the five: Seems like it might be the ideal cat gun (moving slow enough with a big 458...

Is it still a Manhattan if you skip the bitters!?

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Peterson is a hypocrite of the highest order. The "Freedom Convoy" was and is a bunch of yahoos that didn't even understand that the mandates they were so up in arms against were either on the US side of the border, or provincial in nature. Coupled with the fact...

This is a simple market issue. Demand has increased. Supply will increase to meet it. Rheinmetall already going to be taking over a VW plant to build. It will sort itself out, rapidly, just like the last two times. Not to mention that US production is also at capacity when it comes to things...

Have to disagree with this one. I honestly can't think of an American car I would go out of my way to purchase. That includes Cadillac. Haven't owned one myself, but my old man couldn't wait to get out of his CTS and I wasn't impressed with it at all. Edit: Thought of one. I would take a peek...

I don't go to the office without a pocket knife, much less out into the bush. Why would you not have one? Always comes in handy.

I'm just now reading through the thread, and the experience is night and day different from the pair I handled. Bass Pro maybe not cleaning packing grease from the rifles or something? I would not describe them as "smooth handling" at all

The only Brownings I have handled were across the counter at Bass Pro, and both handled like there was sand in the action. Maybe ten years ago? I'm not sure if that would be the A bolt or the X bolt in BP at that time. Wasn't a strong endorsement. The Savage there was markedly better. Both...

I can't think of a plausible scenario where China is a credible threat to Canada. It took the US, with the military spending of the next twenty-something odd countries and the most powerful navy several times over more than six months to stage two hundred thousand personnel in the middle east in...

In in decades gone by, Canada did exactly that - field enough military to defend her sovereignty. We haven't had a credible threat since the last time the US decided for a venture up north (if you're going to count that as "Canada"). Don't disagree that there is a definite purpose for it in the...

Buffalo I could see, but that's still ticky tacky. But not letting you use it on sable? Nonsense.

We haven't required a substantial military, and to have built and maintained one, especially post-1991, would have been a colossal waste of resources. Now that Russia is actively on its adventure in Ukraine, times changing. We don't and haven't required US protection from anyone - presumably...

Perhaps, and it's not bad advice, but it's an area of particular concern when the same mercurial force is questioning Canadian sovereignty. North of the border, there is both a government and a concerted media campaign underway to push for Canada to have a nuclear deterrent. There is also a...

I'll keep you posted on DM, but might take you up on it. The tentative plan is for a drive out east for late June. Wife's connections in Halifax but want to get down to Lunenburg and maybe see the old homestead. Cheers!

Mark Carney is already Prime Minister. He was born in the mining town of Fort Smith, North West Territories (which has a population of 2100 as of 2021), before being raised in Edmonton. He went to Harvard on scholarship and government loan for a degree in economics, with a Masters and PhD from...

One would think it would be concern over whether or not the act ordered by the President, who has demonstrated a limited understanding of the Constitution, the role of the judiciary, and the authority of the Office of the President, was actually legal and enforceable; irrespective of the...

Ha, fair. Reality catches up. And I knew you were trouble when I saw chemical engineering. I legitimately knew a math major that couldn't handle first year chemistry adequately I knew enough in highschool that chemistry makes Calc look easy :LOL:

I feel like you don't know much about the US energy industry. The US is the world's top oil producer, and has been for quite a few years now. But "oil" is in vastly different densities. Used for different products, abs requiring different technologies to refine and utilise. The oil the US...

I feel like we're on different sides of the same take: Is that not feature, not a bug? The handful of non-Ontario students in residence got worked over pretty well by some first year courses. It was some nice reassuring A's on my side

The problem is customers and demand. While I'd certainly like to see more export partners, we're not fully utilising the existing pipeline capacity we have now, much less the volume from a major expansion. And at the end of the day oil is a fungible commodity. There is zero incentive for huge...

Hate to have to pull two of your posts in quick succession to take issue with, but I am on the other side of this one: It really doesn't sit well with me that 15 year olds have to plan courses to prepare for a future university path, and they're euchred if they have a change of mind or an...

I was just about to Pen up a reply about the Barenaked Ladies getting called out, but Trailer Park Boys slipping under the radar :LOL: Fair comments, for sure. But it was the most approachable example at hand

There are checks, but they don't seem to be working as designed at the moment when the President is quite content to govern via EO, and threaten any of the judiciary who deign to object. The image below is from the US Holocaust Museum. How many of those can you spot in the new administration...