Excellent read! I too have a CZ 550 carbine (full stock). But all I've ever killed with it are paper targets and water filled milk jugs! Bought it in the hope (9 years ago) of going to Africa to hunt plains game. Life interfered and now at my age wonder if I'll ever blood my rifle. So I very much enjoyed your accounts of game you've taken. I'm curious as to what scope you use?

I find my rifle accurate and relatively easy to shoot. Glad to hear about the PRVI brass and bullets as that is what I started with and I still have some around.


"It is wise, though, to remember above all else: rifle, caliber, scope, and even bullets notwithstanding, the most important feature of successful big game hunting is to put that bullet in the correct place, the first time!" John Jobson