This is THE classic, must have. Taylor needs no introduction here, and I believe this is his best work. He was a professional ivory hunter for more than 30 years. He lived almost continuously in the African bush during that time and tested every rifle he could get his hands on, from 22 Hi Power to 600 Nitro on wildgame. Nearly every single one of these are analyzed in this book.

This book describes how he came up with the famous (or infamous) Taylor Knockout Factor and how he believed it should be applied. Personally, I feel this is the most misused (along with kinetic energy) of all of our ballistic descriptives. I believe if Taylor were alive today, he would agree.

Taylor was nearly as good with a pen as he was with a rifle. This is a must have for hunter or shooter.

The copy I have is published and available from Safari Press (1994).

Alyeska, I agree with your assessment completely. Even for those who will never own a big bore African rifle, or aren't all that interested in them, it is such an interesting read that it's worth having ('though he discusses smaller bores also).

We have this book at our library here in town and I check it out once a year or so. But I really should buy it!

I shoot a 45/100 Sharps and it's interesting to look at the ballistics of some of the older blackpowder African cartridges in 40 caliber and up, and see how they compare to the American blackpowder rounds of the buffalo era. Using blackpowder with just a small kicker of smokeless, I can load my Sharps so that it it equal to or even exceeds some of the older BP african rounds which were said to be adequte for elephant!

We have this book at our library here in town and I check it out once a year or so. But I really should buy it!




Go to Ebay or one of the book search sites. Although some are expensive, the NRA issued books are always available somewhere on these sources. I got mine on Ebay in almost new condition. Best read I have had in some time.
John

alyeska338,

How did you attach that photo? Can you just do it from your My Documents folder or does it have to be from a website? Nice touch!

I'd love to get that book... it's on my list of things to acquire eventually.

Arizona,
There are a couple of ways to post photos. In the post above, what I did was after typing the text, I went to "Manage Attachments" just below this dialouge box. It's highlighted in blue. After getting into the attachments menu, select "Browse", it will allow you to upload an image directly from your computer to the Beartooth server. After the image icon is displayed in the Attachments menu, click "All Done". The Attachment Menu will disappear and bring you back to this dialouge box. Then hit "Submit Reply". Easy as that.

The other way (Check the SCI threads I started in General Discussion and Rifles Forums) is upload the image to another website, usually an image hosting site. I use Hunt101.com (because its free). After uploading to the host, you can link the image to a post you make by typing then the url address of the image on the host website

There are advantages and disadvantages of doing it each way. When you upload to the Beartooth server, it gives you the image icon or a thumbnail image and the reader must select that to get the full picture. It also takes up a little space. Using an image hosting website and posting a link, as in the second way, it shows the full size image in the post. The downside is if the host server is slower than the Beartooth server, or if the host site is down, then the image won't display or displays extremely slow.

Thanks! Here's a test then...

My .458 Win Mag handload with the 560gr hardcast by JBYoung. A truly massive bullet!

Let's see if this works.

Lets' try again. Find the file, then click on "Add this file". The filename should show in the lower box. Click "All Done", the attchment screen goes away, ckick "Submit Reply". Little fellows like this one appear full size, instead of as a thumbnail.

Bye
Jack

OK, here goes...

Hmmmm,
Can you tell us how you are trying to post a pic? If you can give us the steps you are using, we might be able to figure out why the image isn't showing up.

I'm not explaining things on how do this very well, sorry.

Again... hehe

OK, got it! Thanks for the help...

I just didn't wait long enough for it to load the first couple tries, plus the file size was kinda big at first, so I down-sized it to a more manageable file.

Great job! Yeah, you are right, that is one heck of a bullet setting in the 458!

Bet you feel like you did when you got your first deer :D
Some members do post grossly oversized pics.
You can't beat IrfanView for resizing pictures and doing a little tuning on color and brightness.
http://www.irfanview.com/

Bye
Jack