Mbogo, Nyati, Black Death…whatever you want to call him, the Cape buffalo is one bad customer and should never be taken lightly. That is why it is imperative that you trust your rifle and ammunition completely, as in with your life!
I’m standing on the island of Atka, halfway between Alaska and Siberia, off the Aleutian Island chain. North of me is the Bering Sea and south is the Pacific Ocean. We left Anchorage this morning on a charter plane and landed in Dutch Harbor, where all of the “Deadliest Catch” boats dump all their catch...
“Can you hit him from here?” questioned Tri-State Outfitter’s Bridger Petrini.
“I’ve been shooting that distance on the range a lot lately. Got a good rock solid rest. Think I’m going to try it.” I said looking down at my .30-06 Encore® pistol, then positioning it on top of my western hat which I had placed on the boulder in front of me...
It was hot, way too hot, the wind was blowing like crazy, and there were rattlesnakes everywhere. In other words, it was your typical West Texas deer hunt. Actually, it was typical in that you couldn’t predict the West Texas weather.
On the other side of the world is a place called Quinghai. Never heard of it? Neither had I until I talked to Bob Kern, famed hunting consultant and owner of The Hunting Consortium, a company that specializes in organizing top quality international hunts...
Reliability, accuracy, simplicity, quality and value have made Thompson Center the undisputed industry leader in the muzzleloader market today. In fact, muzzleloading has undergone more technological improvements in the last two decades than in the previous several hundred years.
My introduction to the Encore started before any one knew what the new gun was going to be named. I took the first animal ever taken with the new gun, a pistol chambered in .308 Win., a Maine moose, then a Colorado Shiras moose, then a sizeable 6 x 6 elk.