Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is easy to look at pictures on the internet when someone else has placed a target on the vitals.

Here is something completely different.

Run around until you are out of breath, sweat dripping down in your eyes then throw your rifle up on a set of shooting sticks and make the shot on these (ignore the fact that some are not true trophies - just quickly decide on your shot placement).

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Regards,

Terry

Thanks Terry.....I got every one with a single shot of my .404 mouse. Even the one offering the Texas neck shot.

Right or wrong I broke a lot of shoulders.

Those are wonderful pics you have there...I will take numbers 3, 6 and 8 in that order. One more reason I have GOT to make my way to SA.
At the last Dallas SCI I heard Craig Boddington say that if Cape Buff are quatering away or to you then you draw an immaginary line between his front legs moving up to just below center of the chest. Or at least thats what I got out of it. Does that sound right ?? Again, thanks for posting the marvelous pictures.

Good luck and good shooting,
Eterry

May not all be one shot kills, but I put some lead in them. Hope I dropped #6.

Yeah, I opted for "mechanical breakdown" too.
Worried about what was behind them.

I've never hunted buffalo, but, in most cases, I opted for taking out the far shoulder. How does that method compare with the shots you experienced buff hunters would take?

Thanks Terry, I'm about 43 days away from leaving for the Caprivi and my first buff hunt so all the buff pictures are handy to have right now.

It dont even have to be running around...Sit in the landcruiser for 8 hours being jossled over boulders all day,hanging on to a twelve pound gun. Then in a hurry try to get out and place a 220 meter shot without sticks..When you've been hanging on for dear life that long,your arms are limp noodles

Terry, I shot everyone without hesitation..Was out today for the first time shooting...Released from doc for hernia..Patterned 450# 2 today...


Mike

I just wish I could see more than a big, black blur in the bush... I've seen and tried to glass several thousand buffalo, I reckon, but I can count the times on one hand that I had "full-body" views like the pictures...

We've all been there. You can see a great set of horns, but which way is the rest of his body pointed... and while you're trying to figure it out... off they go in a "heated rush"...

For most of these shots a simple formula works. I've read it, practiced it, but sometimes have forgotten it in the heat of things (on deer not buffs - this will obviously have to wait until I actually make it to Africa). Align the vertical crosshair with the most rearward placed front leg and hold the horizontal crosshair one-quarter to one-third of the body depth up from the bottom of the chest cavity. Bang.

How about just shooting them in the shoulder and go take pictures...

Too much is made of this IMO...I have seen people screw around until an animal leaves because the are trying to decide the exact spot to shoot a buffalo, well thats an awfully big target to worry about within reason...If you miss the heart, you can get both lungs (they are pretty darn big), spine or the short ribs in the neck, that gives one about 3 feet of bullseye...On a rare ocassion one might stick a bullet between the spine and the top of the lungs and that can be a bad shot, but follow up shots will take care of that most of the time...

Thats my take.

In the end, I got to understand WHY to shoot them IN the shoulder (rather than behind the shoulder), at least in broadside shots!

Dan