Another Buffalo Hunting Movie http://vimeo.com/119133818

Well made !


I am NOT a BLASER GUN Fan...

Likewise I am not a Blaser fan

But what a fantastic video!

Thanks for sharing

My buddy shoots a Blazer and likes it. He has 257WBY and 375 HH barrels.
Great video.

Great film, very well done,thank you. I had to watch that shoulder shot again. Just Wow!!jc

Most excellent video!

Makes me want to go ...

Superb photography! Thanks for sharing.

I thought I could feel the vibration from the ele rumbling.
Very well done.
Superb trophy.
Nice editing.

That's a nice Video
Thanks for sharing

I have no experience or opinion about the Blaser, but what a great video.

Very well done. Great photography, editing, and good music.

That is a very well done film, and is valuable in more than just entertainment.

I am not a Blaser double rifle fan, but I have no problem with R8 bolt rifle other than it being a push feed rifle. The R8 is about the fastest bolt action to operate on the market today. The straight pull bolt makes this bolt rifle need far less moves than the traditional bolt rifle for speed of getting off the follow-up shots when speed is needed. The Blaser R8 is the only bolt rifle that can come very close to a traditional double rifle for speed of the second shot, and closer than a traditional turn bolt to get off the third shot, after the double rifle must be re-loaded.
The Blaser double rifle, however, must be re-cocked after a re-load, not a feature I'd like on a dangerous game rifle.

As I said my only objection to the R8 Blaser is it being a push feed. That said, I would still rather have a good traditional double rifle in the same circumstances.

One thing I noticed in the film is it is a good demonstration of the proper so-called "PH carry" of a rifle of any type. You will se that the barrel is always pointed at about a 45 degree angle to the carrier's right or left depending on which shoulder it is carried on, and never pointed at the tracker in front of the rifle. Another thing that this film demonstrates is, the rifle is fire and re-loaded from the shoulder with both eyes open shooting almost instinctively for the follow-up shot on the buffalo.

This film could be used as training for teaching these things to people who are about to go on their first safari for dangerous game.

The film is very well done, by people who know how filming a hunting sequence is properly done.

Good show, thanks for sharing!
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Great footage and great composition for a gun promo!

An astounding video. I used Frik Muller Jr's R8 professional 416 on a tuskless hunt. They are a wonderful rifle to say the least. In 2004 many Spanish clients used 500 win and 375 H&H combos. Ergonomically I haven't handled a nicer rifle.Only the weak Can dollar against the Euro holds me back from having one of my own.

Great artistic film work. Congratulations to the artist and producer.

Nice commercial.

Of course, SA is the perfect place to stage it.

I think this video is a great example if someone wants to know what Ruark meant about the 'you owe him money' look.

Mac, on a Blaser magazine rifle, the cartridge is held by the magazine lips until the bolt slides clear of the magazine. By that time, the shell is halfway into the chamber. For strength, the cartridge is held in battery by 14 separate lugs that lock into a circular recess in the barrel, and also center the cartridge perfectly in the chamber. I don't know that a CRF rifle is a better design than the R8.

14 lugs ? why that many ? Isn't the strength proportional to the lug area? Easier to make ?

They form a 360 degree ring around the cartridge, locked in place with a cam action within the bolt. They've been tested to 200,000 PSI.

I thought some of the cinematography was great but overall a bit twee. I would have liked to see some sweat, blisters and bleeding shins.

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Originally posted by Biebs:
They form a 360 degree ring around the cartridge, locked in place with a cam action within the bolt. They've been tested to 200,000 PSI.

Wow !!!!

And you still miss everything you shoot with it.

Maybe its the fear of it exploding and blowing your face half off.

Don't worry I will back you up again in Zambia this year

Mike

Did you get your 50-round banana clip for your Ruger yet :-)

Nice production. I think this is the first hunting video I have ever seen where The shooter cycled the bolt while on the shoulder in shooting position. Well done

Very well done

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The shooter cycled the bolt while on the shoulder in shooting position. Well done

Easy to do with the straight-back pull of a Blaser.

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Originally posted by Biebs:
They form a 360 degree ring around the cartridge, locked in place with a cam action within the bolt. They've been tested to 200,000 PSI.

Wow

Given that this is a commercial, a few nits:

Am I the only one that noticed the round ejected straight up, and bounced off the barrel of the rifle? Just what would have happened if that rifle had been scoped? Makes me think twice about that system, especially if they show that in a commercial for it.

If this was a real hunting situation, why didn't they use the sticks? An unspooked buffalo and your first shot isn't as steady as you can get?

I thought this was way too artsy and all the footage of the buffalo while it was still alive made me think this was way too controlled a setting. Seeing all the white of the buff's eye made me think that it was cornered. Admittedly that was undoubtedly filmed well before the hunt from a vehicle, but it was obviously the same buffalo.

As far as artistic, yes, but the bullet in flight stuff is too hollywood for me. The hunter and tracker were way to clean and collected for what I have seen Buffalo hunting.

The bullet strike as far as the animals reaction was good and realistically shown, as was the respect paid by the hunter for the animal afterwards, but all the other animals pausing as if in homage....yechh.

True I'm sure. That is a major benefit of a straight pull. That's how I practice and shoot bolts, and with lots of practice it can go pretty fast too. I see way to many people on videos lower the rifle and cycle the action slowly on dangerous game. Or better yet the amount of footage where there is no reload at all, until told too, or as an afterthought. I just watched a famous elephant video and the hunter actually slowly pulled each case out of the double and put them in his breast pocket (expensive brass) all while in a herd of cows after wounding one.

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The shooter cycled the bolt while on the shoulder in shooting position. Well done

Easy to do with the straight-back pull of a Blaser.

It appeared to be a .416 RM (may be mistaken) and it sure took off after that hit. Wonder how long it took to die, with editing you never know but it definitely went a ways. And you are right everyone much to clean. A little too artsy

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Originally posted by crbutler:
Given that this is a commercial, a few nits:

Am I the only one that noticed the round ejected straight up, and bounced off the barrel of the rifle? Just what would have happened if that rifle had been scoped? Makes me think twice about that system, especially if they show that in a commercial for it.

If this was a real hunting situation, why didn't they use the sticks? An unspooked buffalo and your first shot isn't as steady as you can get?

I thought this was way too artsy and all the footage of the buffalo while it was still alive made me think this was way too controlled a setting. Seeing all the white of the buff's eye made me think that it was cornered. Admittedly that was undoubtedly filmed well before the hunt from a vehicle, but it was obviously the same buffalo.

As far as artistic, yes, but the bullet in flight stuff is too hollywood for me. The hunter and tracker were way to clean and collected for what I have seen Buffalo hunting.

The bullet strike as far as the animals reaction was good and realistically shown, as was the respect paid by the hunter for the animal afterwards, but all the other animals pausing as if in homage....yechh.

Some nice wildlife footage, but overall too artsy and melodramatic.

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Originally posted by Skyline:
Some nice wildlife footage, but overall too artsy and melodramatic.

Nice footage, but too melodramatic - an advertisement.

All of you criticizing this video as to 'artsy' are spot on!

For example, the lighting is almost painful to watch; it's far too ... realistic. If I wanted realistic I wouldn't be watching a damn movie, I'd be out there hunting instead! And that slow-motion bullet strike is preposterous. Let me tell you, I've shot a few buffalo and I've never seen the bullet leave the barrel, watched it magically soar through the air, and then – POW – visibly make impact! So fake!

Then there's the totally bogus depiction of the so-called PH and hunter. These two guys – obviously Hollywood central casting-types and not real hunters – are just too fit, too professional, too collected, and too clean. Come on and be real! An authentic hunting video needs hunters who are suitably flabby, bush-league, terror-stricken, and feculent.

Of course, another problem I have is why they felt it necessary to make it so dramatic. If I want drama I'd be watching 'Downton Abbey'! After all, these guys are just hunting Cape buffalo, it's not like they're doing something ... uh, dangerous. And where's the chortling, whispering to the camera, and the celebratory high-fiving, backslapping, and victory-dancing? Obviously these aren't real hunters like the ones shooting whitetail on TV.

And how about that obviously contrived footage of the buffalo – do they think we're stupid? I couldn't stop laughing while I watched those squinty, shifty, too-much-white-of-the-eyes glower. Seriously? I don't need to an annual pass to Disneyland to recognize an animatronic buffalo. Turn up the volume and, if you listen closely, you can actually hear the servo gears whirring ...

But what can we expect from what amounts to a commercial from yet another avaricious company trying to sell us something. Why can't these money-grubbing capitalists simply spend their money producing free movies for all of us to enjoy without requiring us to endure seeing their product in use? It's un-American!

Yep, pretty lame video if you ask me, that and absolutely brilliant.

Biebs, yes I had looked at the computer animation but the operation wasn't obvious to me.
Looks perhaps a bit overengineered to me .Wonder how well it does in the rough ?

The hunter looked kinda mechanical too...Like he escaped from westworld. Although he did show great emotion when he downed the Buff

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Originally posted by Bwanamich:
Great footage and great composition for a gun promo!

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Originally posted by Biebs:
Mac, on a Blaser magazine rifle, the cartridge is held by the magazine lips until the bolt slides clear of the magazine. By that time, the shell is halfway into the chamber. For strength, the cartridge is held in battery by 14 separate lugs that lock into a circular recess in the barrel, and also center the cartridge perfectly in the chamber. I don't know that a CRF rifle is a better design than the R8.

Biebs I fully understand how the Blaser R-8 works but the bolt still doesn't take control of the cartridge till the bolt is fully closed. If the bolt is retracted before the bolt has control of the cartridge ("DOUBLE SHIFT")under pressure of nerves the bolt will strip another round off the magazine. That is a condition that exists with all push feed actions.
The R-8 is smooth, and fast and the cartridge is grasped about as solidly as it can be for extraction, but it is still a push feed with all the drawbacks of the breed.

Still if I was forced to use a push feed rifle the R-8 would be one I would choose!

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