This concludes our off hand shooting contest.

Sadly, no one had a perfect score, including me.

I have posted all my targets, and the best of each of the competitors.

Next shoot is going to be with a 308 Winchester.

No date has been set yet.

Other pictures are from our Saturday morning entertaining the camels.

We have made ammo belts for the carrots.

Real big bores!

I started by making one from a normal belt.

My size.

Didn’t fit anyone else!

So my wife suggested we use suitcase belts!

Worked like a charm!

Fits like a bandolier.

You’ve surely spoiled those camels! Looks like a clear winner on the shooting contest, but you must’ve gotten a bit tired when shooting the last target…there are two shots outside the black circle

Targets were not in order.

I just posted them this way.

Those camels get better treatment than Arabian horses!

The competitors were not as bad as I thought they’d be! Just staying on the target (or paper) is pretty decent hunting accuracy.

Still, there’s a reason we always prefer a rest - and so should these fellows.

Nice shooting by you, too, Saeed.

I prefer a rest anytime.

Here is a story of a rest that went wrong!

We got rained out in the Selous!

Mud everywhere.

Couldn’t get out of camp by truck.

Tony _ Bakes on here - had to use a tracker bring a wildebeest he shot.

Anyway, we went out walking.

Came across some impala feeding.

Decided to shoot one for the camp.

I rested my rifle on a branch of a bush.

Just I was pulling the trigger the branch broke!

Bullet landed half way to the impala on the ground.

Dead center towards him.

We all had a laughs.

As we were walking to check, I was saying to Alan wouldn’t it be neat if we find the impala dead!

Both him and Roy laughed.

One of trackers followed the impala tracks, and sure enough, he was lying there dead!!??

I told them this is attributed to my NO MISS bullets!

Imagine what bad luck that impala had!

Good one! Brian

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I rested my rifle on a branch of a bush.

Just I was pulling the trigger the branch broke!

The best rest is a boulder!

Or at least a stone wall.

If all else fails, you use your professional hunters shoulders!

Here is a story that makes one think about killing power.

Rested my rifle on Roy's shoulders to be able to get a shot through some brush.

Shot an impala feeding towards us, with my 375/404 using a 300 grain Barnes X bullet.

Hit him at the neck shoulder junction.

Bullet went through his whole body, and was recovered under the skin by his tail.

The impala flinched slightly.

walked as if nothing was happening a few yards.

Laid down as they normally do on the ground.

Took him quite a while before he died!!??

Over 5,000 foot pounds of energy.

Impala weighs just over 100 pounds.

Why he was not flung 20 yards as Hollywood shows I have no idea!

Great story on the impala. Last year, i had a buffalo totally head on at around 100 yards. Figured this was easy, put the crosshairs under his chin and expected him to drop at the shot. But I cut a 1" branch about 20 feet off the muzzle and broke it clean. Figured that was a complete miss, but we went to check. Found a minute amount of watery blood. how a bullet could have traveled 100 yards and still come anywhere near that buffalo is a complete mystery. Long story short while I would have bet you $10K it was a complete miss, it wasn't.
We followed that buffalo a whole day, only bumped him once and never found another drop of blood. The game scout declared it a miss. And maybe it was. Was the bull bleeding from something else? We were tracking a single bull in the Selous once and found blood on the trail.
We hadn't shot.

Oh, and Saeed, I want camels.

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Originally posted by lavaca:
Great story on the impala. Last year, i had a buffalo totally head on at around 100 yards. Figured this was easy, put the crosshairs under his chin and expected him to drop at the shot. But I cut a 1" branch about 20 feet off the muzzle and broke it clean. Figured that was a complete miss, but we went to check. Found a minute amount of watery blood. how a bullet could have traveled 100 yards and still come anywhere near that buffalo is a complete mystery. Long story short while I would have bet you $10K it was a complete miss, it wasn't.
We followed that buffalo a whole day, only bumped him once and never found another drop of blood. The game scout declared it a miss. And maybe it was. Was the bull bleeding from something else? We were tracking a single bull in the Selous once and found blood on the trail.
We hadn't shot.

Oh, and Saeed, I want camels.

Join the que for camels!

Everyone wants camels!

A friends daughter, from California, was here with her parents.

She was crying going home, she wanted to take a baby camel with her.

We always had camels, but don't any more.

There are many camps in the desert that have camels.

And many people make a point of taking carrots and cucumber when they go out to the desert to feed the camels they see.

The ones you see here are from 3 separate camps close to the area we go for our breakfast in the desert.

When I firs started going there they did not like me flying a drone close to them.

Carrots changed their minds.

I can almost land a drone on top of one and they do not bother.

Then they started getting scared of paramotors when the boys started flying there.

Not any more.

The kids love them, and make a point of asking their parents to take them to see them.

Sometimes they like a person so much they don't want him to leave!

Tony and Michael know this very well!

They are very friendly as you can see.

But, they can hurt you unintentionally byjumping and kicking.

I've only seen a couple of camels in person when I was hunting in Masailand. Not sure why they were there, but they were and were attended. But didn't get up close and personal.