Pet peeves

Magazine vs a clip please see below. Another proper use for the term clip is a stripper clip as is used in military Mausers and SKS rifles and are loaded from the top of the action. Your Glock and your AR-15 do not use clips.




This a cape buffalo. They are from Africa. Notice the heavy boss and the curl of the horn.



This an Asian water buffalo. Notice that they have no boss between the horns and that the horns are flat across the head do not curl and they sweep back. Asian water buffalo are from Asia. They do not naturally occur ANYWHERE on the African content.




Nobody ever went to Africa to hunt water buffalo. They do not live in Africa if you are hunting buffalo in Africa it is a cape buffalo. If you want to hunt water buffalo you have to go to Australia, Florida, Texas or Argentina or other places where they have been imported and are available for hunting.

Tigers.......NOBODY ever went to Africa to hunt tigers. Tigers are from Asia they do not naturally occur in Africa. Lions live in Africa and surprisingly they ALSO live in parts of Asia namely they occur naturally in parts of India. So while the old timers did hunt lions in India nobody has ever hunted a wild tiger in Africa.

Elephants are NOT almost extinct in fact they are over populated in every single solitary country that allows legal sport hunting of elephant. they are ONLY endangered or threatened in countries that have banned it. Hmmmmmm......Maybe there is something to that?


There I've pet my peeve for the day hopefully it won't bite anybody now.

I guess there were 4, I got bored after the first two and did not finish.

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And a very good morning to you too sir.

As for Buffalo, same goes for the American Bison, eh?

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Not sure anybody has ever confused an American bison with a cape buffalo but I guess it could happen. I have had people try to tell to me that the American Antelope (Pronghorn) was brought over from Africa and is not a native species. SO I guess anything is possible.

I've also had people tell me that the American Indians have used the ring-neck pheasant as a food source for thousands of years.

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That's a good one! I also enjoy when people tell me that the Native American was using horses for thousands of years. Here's anther good one. I had a guy just last week try and tell me that the jack rabbit is not a native species but was brought over from England as a sporting hare.......Alrighty then!

Did you guys know that a North American Mountain Goat is not a goat at all;

The mountain goat is an even-toed ungulate of the order Artiodactyla and the family Bovidae that includes antelopes, gazelles, and cattle. It belongs to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes), along with 32 other species including true goats, sheep, the chamois, and the muskox. The mountain goat is the only species in the genus Oreamnos. The name Oreamnos is derived from the Greek term oros (stem ore-) "mountain" (or, alternatively, oreas "mountain nymph") and the word amnos "lamb".


I would have never thought that a mt goat and a muskox were related......

Just like chamois.

Actually mt goat is very mild and is also heavily marbled like a good prime beef but much tougher.

I referring to folks erroneously calling them buffalo.......

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Well there you go. Now you have a pet peeve for the day too.........

jmr,

That's a good point and I have to admit I've been guilty of it in the past. Thanks for showing us the correct way to list a scope.

It took two shots out of the clip in my model 70 to kill a Cape Buffalo in India with my 40-9/3 scope with course rectacles.

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That ain't nothin. I killed a tiger in Africa it was a female with testicles.

The .45-70 is one of the most effective and widely used African dangerous game guns used on the internet. No two ways about it.