![]() ![]() Born in Kimba, a tiny bush town located on the Eyre Peninsula, Warne was a hunter, shooter and natural entrepreneur who started one of the biggest Australian construction companies at that time. Īdelaide, the capital of South Australia, is home to the majority of the giant land mass’ 1.5 million residents, and was also home to a citizen named John Llewellyn “Jack” Warne. You might be surprised that Kimber’s story started not in Oregon, but in a seaside “City of Churches” in the Australian Outback. took a rather convoluted route to marketing the rifles for which it is now famous. The now-wholly American brand called Kimber Mfg. Notwithstanding a jaunt over the Atlantic rife with pitfalls, firearm permits and near jail time in Germany-it was a winding road indeed. I reflected on how I’d gotten here, so far away from the deer and ducks of my home, and more specifically, how the 5-lb., budget-priced rifle-a sharp departure from Kimber’s norm-had come to be. Pending luck and a well-placed bullet, the bull’s backstraps would soon be our camp’s main course.Īs I waited in ambush my mind wandered. With the rifle’s plastic fore-end wedged smartly between the rubber eyecups of my binocular, my hasty shooting position felt as stable as a sandbag. I lay prone on the red-hot Kalahari dune and waited on the blue wildebeest to clear the herd. ![]()
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