Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have always heard the saying that we should aim to break bones when shooting dangerous animals.

I pressume the reasons are to disable the animal as much as possible, and may be cause secondary wounds with the bone fragments.

Here are a couple of photos that demonstate this fact very well.





For those watching the video, this is the bull I shot while it was walking away in the long grass at about 200 yards in a herd of buffalo. The bullet dropped him in his tracks, but he stood up again, and I shot him a second time. As we approached him, he looked back at us and I shot him in the head.

The first shot broke some of his ribs as it entered his chest. Broken bones from the ribs punctured his lungs as you can see in these photos.

We pulled the bones out of the wound for the second photo to show you the bones.

What caliber and type of bullet?

crowrifle,

My apologies, I should have put that information in my post.

I just thought everyone knows by now that for the past 9 years I have been using my own 375/404 for all the larger, dangerous game of Africa.

The bullet used was also our own 300 grain Walterhog bullets, which we turn ourselves here on a lathe.

A photo of these bullets recovered from animals we shot in Tanzania can be seen here.

Recovered Walterhog Bullets

Jeeze thanks Saeed, just what I need to start my shift with....a picture of a bloody carcass

Bakes

Bakes you ain't seen nothing yet, wait until he shows you pictures of the ripe Lion baits!!

Saeed: regrettably I�ve never shot a buff and in all probability never will. Anyway, I�m interested in knowing if some pieces of bone actually exited the skin. I ask this due to shooting hogs with a 375 H & H and softpoint bullets and seeing such phenomenon several times.
Thanks for your most informative pictures

Damn, I love this forum........my kind of folks....my kind of posts

Thanks all.

I can smell it already Ray....no wait that was the dead roo I just walked passed tonight. ARGGGH its in my cloths

A question for you Ray.... is there a prefered bait for lion/leopard? or arn't they that fussy?

Bakes

Hey Saeed, I think it is the disabling of the animal so that it can't retaliate. Colateral damage is just a bonus.

That bone section didn't go far but they can. I butchered a deer shot by a friend in the shoulder with a 130 gr .270. I found a small piece of bone ( less than 1/8" ) had gone from the shoulder backward penetrating half way through the thickest part of the ham.

nainital,

I have never seen any piece of bone excit out of a buffalo.

In one of the buffalos I shot, we found a piece of bonein his heart.

Ray,

I waited until you were back before posting these pictures for moral support

Would you like me to post some your photos while you are looking for your bullets?

OK Saeed and maybe the maggots on the bait

I guess Hippo and Buffalo are the best baits as they tend to last longer and a Hippo is good for 3 or 4 baits...A Lion or Leopard can make quick work of an Impala or something if they can get to it at all. But about everything is used, Zebra are a popular bait as most intelligent folks don't eat them IMO...

On a sort of related note, I hit my first deer so low, the slug plowed thru the breastbone. (it was broadside) When I dressed it out, I found a piece of bone that was propelled upward thru the heart, almost tearing it from the arteries. The slug never actually entered the body cavity of the deer.

I have seen instances where the bone could have possibly made an exit on deer, Imapala or the like, but it could have been part of the bullet, one never really knows in such cases...