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| <holtz> |
I beileve it was a 30-06, with solids, of course. | ||
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GWHunter, Jack used several calibers larger than .270 Win, if you can believe it. His wife Eleanor did most of her hunting with a 7X57, but did hunt with a .30-'06 which she called her "heavy rifle" (according to Jack). jim dodd ------------------ | |||
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Jack mostly used a 375 for dangerous and large game, also a 416. | |||
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I wonder if he used Matchkings   George ------------------ | |||
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quote: Wait a minute. WHY ON EARTH would you try and talk him out of a new rifle? I think he does need another rifle to hunt elk with! Like I keep telling my wife: This is a deer rifle, that one in the back is an elk rifle. The one on the back on the other side is for wild boar, the the new one I just bought is for plains game. The one I put a deposit on is for cape buffalo, and...... | |||
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JOC recorded the list of his buffalo rifles in his "Indestructable Buffalo" story. He started off with a 450 Watts in the mid 1950's, then a 416 Rigby was next, then a 375 H&H (with 300 grain solids) in the mid 1960's. He said that Eleanor used 220 grain solids in the 30-06. As he got older, JOC used smaller calibers on buffalo. Do we see any rationale here, or was it a mistake? After all, that "indestructable buffalo" took seven good body hits and was finally (1/2 hour later) stopped by a brain shot from JOC's 375 followed closely by 2 head shots from John Kingsley-Heath's 470. The buff was charging the bakkie when it died. Maybe some buff's are simply "possessed" by the devil, and an exorcist would be a better choice of weapon? ------------------ | |||
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| <T/Jazz> |
It sounds to me that he was suffering from a lapse of memory perhaps, not using his prior good judgement or assessing things correctly. Not being disrespectful gentlemen, but a 270 on real man killing type animals is a bit risky twice over in my eyes. Somewhat like using a tack hammer to drive a 16 penny nail if you get my drift. | ||
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| <leo> |
Eleanor took a tigress in India with one shot from her '06. | ||
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Elanor did shoot the Buffalo with a 220 solid and the PH shot it twice with a 458 or something immediately after Elenors bullet hit the bull...just for the record. ------------------ | |||
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| <GAHUNTER> |
The more I think about it, the clearer the words are coming back to me. Bare with me. After all, it was 40 years ago. I think the article said something like "the 270 is capable of taking big game up to and including cape buffalo. In fact so-and-so shot one with a 270 on my last safari. The bullet performed well, but I wouldn't recommend using it on a regular basis." Of course, that is a total paraphrase out of the deep recesses of my clouded memory. In fact, it might not have even been JOC who I remember writing it. But I suspect it was since Outdoor Life was the bible that made my city life worth living. | ||
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Just for interests sake, I had the chance to buy Eleanor's fwt 30-06 a few years back. It was priced beyond me, and for the record Eleanor had shot the hell out of that rifle. | |||
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I looked at Jack's Brevex 416 Rigby at the Tulsa Show a year or two ago. I think it was priced at $7K then. | |||
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Of course you can kill a buff with a 270, I know of a kid that killed one with a 22 Hornet, another farmer who killed a male Lion with a 22 L.R. You will not stop a charge with any of the above unless you are really lucky..I suggest that you would kill quite a few buff with a 270 before one killed you, which would surly be the case. ------------------ | |||
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