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Has anyone hunted a cape buffalo and one of these.

Do you agree with the statement they are like cape buffalo?

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Posts: 291 | Location: Sourh Africa | Registered: 07 August 2006Reply With Quote
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"It took six bullets to put it down"

True.

But 5 of them were in the wrong place.


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I have shot both Scrub Bulls & Cape Buffalo and can assure you Scrub Bulls are much easier to put down than Cape Buffalo.
 
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I think cape buff are harder.

It depends on how many times the cattle have been disturbed.

They have a bad habit of charging some times even when you have done nothing to them.

308 with FMJ are all that is normally required.

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I think cape buff are harder.

It depends on how many times the cattle have been disturbed.

They have a bad habit of charging some times even when you have done nothing to them.

308 with FMJ are all that is normally required.

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SSHHHH! What blasphemy!

Don't you know that the 375 is marginal for buffalo?


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I killed a wild Bramahan Bull yesterday with my .243Win after tracking it for 2 hours. Then it smelled us and ran. Took another hour to get stuck into him. He did not have a chance to argue ballistics or shot placement with me as the 100gr. soft nailed him on the spot with a frontal brain shot.... He weighed a ton!

There is about 60 Wild cattle on a block of 15,000 acre government land close to me. They are hunted and wild as you can get. Good fun to kill, not so to load!


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Posts: 2018 | Location: South Africa,Tanzania & Uganda | Registered: 15 August 2006Reply With Quote
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I think I would have thought about avenues of escape before I started shooting...not a good idea to start a fight with your back to a "cliff"


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What I have learned on AR, since 2001:
1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken.
2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps.
3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges.
4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down.
5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine.
6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle.
7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions.
8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA.
9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not.
10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact.
11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores.
12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence.
13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances.
 
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Originally posted by Mike_Dettorre:
I think I would have thought about avenues of escape before I started shooting...not a good idea to start a fight with your back to a "cliff"


I dunno, it could be a fast trip out the way.
 
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"It took six bullets to put it down"

True.

But 5 of them were in the wrong place.


Now that's funny, and most obviously true.
 
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Wasn't that a banteng? I would not of turned my back on him. But Andrew Jackson said, " Don't shoot till you see the whites of the eyes!" Wait for the killing shot.

Mike


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