Only the best monometallic solids for ivory poachers.Wow NGK or Champion? Look like they are non expanding.
Homemade muzzle-loader. Usually just a piece of gas-pipe or similar with a rudimentary stock; however, some of them really go to town on the decoration. We have quite a display of them in camp.but they arent made of lead!!! they cant kill. i guess being desperate helps you think outside of the box, what was the gun like?
Can we see a pic of the gun collection you have seized?Homemade muzzle-loader. Usually just a piece of gas-pipe or similar with a rudimentary stock; however, some of them really go to town on the decoration. We have quite a display of them in camp.
The matches and tinfoil are used to make the percussion caps.
Yes. Will dig out pics when I can.Can we see a pic of the gun collection you have seized?
And I thought my BRNO 602 was a bit basic!!Amazing to think how some discussions on here about a 1/2” off here or there or energy/speed and then you have these guys out there one step up from a bow and arrow (and sometimes using a bow/spears killing larger game that we will get here in the U.K.!
regards,
Gixer
The really bad guys use AKs; however, the 'baddish' guys use muzzle-loaders or traps. I don't like to admit it, but I do have some degree of respect for the fellas poaching with black powder...but then you remember how much game they wound and the respect dissipates a little.Wow. What velocity do they need to expand?
I was under the impression they were using ex-conflict AK47s...so the trade profits don't filter down to guys at the sharp end (or in this case blunt end).
Apart from confiscation of their weapons what happens to the poachers, not much point in imposing fines by the look of it....and are there any successes further up the chain, or are they untouchable/protected by corruption?
Alan
The really bad guys use AKs; however, the 'baddish' guys use muzzle-loaders or traps. I don't like to admit it, but I do have some degree of respect for the fellas poaching with black powder...but then you remember how much game they wound and the respect dissipates a little.
Pretty much every elephant (legally) hunted in our area will have historic AK bullets and bits of rebar healed over in their flesh. It is interesting (and upsetting) to dig them out.
The maximum sentence for ivory poaching is 12 years. A good number of them either don't get to trial or they seem to get out in under a year...
They make it (like we used to as kids) with ingredients from Ag suppliers in town. And the percussion caps.Black powder presumbly
I wonder how they get it or do they make that as well
S
No, they don't. We try to follow the law to the letter. Breaking the law in Africa (although very easy in the short-term) gives people a power over you that one day you can guarantee they will exercise...Do the poachers get shot and left in the field like their prey