BTW poor CptCurl lowered himself to carrying that plastic abomination in .404 Jeffery during his time here.

Originally he professed a strong desire to use his own rifle or rifles in Australia for the hunt. And also for the BGRC visit in Victoria. But alas bureacracy proved a major hurdle. While it was possible for Victoria and SA, the NT proved an impossible hurdle. It appears a foreign visitor can ONLY get legal permission to bring in and hunt with a rifle if they are hunting with a "registered" outfitter. At least that is the Police interpretation. One of our NT members disagrees with the interpretation. So Curl decided on prudence and did not bring his own rifles as he was flying out via Darwin.

Now one of our conscientious members decided to email Curl and tell him he was going to break the law if he hunted privately in the NT with a firearm, instead of with an outfitter. As in the end, we did not even fire a shot in the NT, and Curl only acted as my "gunbearer" this member can put his legal attitude to rest.

Curl I think weighed my .450 Jeffery in his hands and decided the much lighter plastic fantastic .404 was better to carry.

But sad when a fine old vintage double rifle man can't carry and use of his own excellent rifles.

Bureaucrats whether professional bureaucrats or amteur ones are the rejects and fun police of the world.

Back to the M03's.