On numerous occasions, I have shot more than one animal with one shot.

Non was intentional, but they happened.

Here is one.

We were in Chete, Zimbabwe.

We walked to a waterhole that we knew is frequented by sable.

When we got there, there was no sable, but some impala, and we wanted one anyway.

A good buck was standing perfectly broadside, so Roy put the shooting sticks up, and I shot it.

Using a 270 Ackley.

He took off, as they normally do with a heart shot, straight into a tree a few yards away and dropped dead.

We went over to see him.

The trackers behind us came along, and started laughing and talking loudly.

As we turned to look, we saw another impala lying dead very close to where the one we shot was!!

We went to have a look and see what had happened, as neither of us could see more than one impala when I shot.

It turned out the one I shot was standing broadside to us, and on the other side of him, lower than him in a depression, was another buck.

The bullet went out, and took the horns off at the base of the other one, dropping him dead in his tracks!

Hasn’t happened yet but I totally see how this happens. Can’t figure for every situation but as they say s*it happens. I would not be that surprised necessarily....

l spoke to a gentleman some years ago, who said that while on a hind cull a shot was taken at a hind with a 30-30 and following the shot two hinds lay dead and a calf was crippled and immobile.
The three animals were not lined up, but at angles of up to 45' from target animal
Just one of those examples of... lf you shoot enough for long enough, then you'll get to see strange things happen.

Never. But I did once kill a cottontail, and another time, a Cape buffalo, each with a full magazine!

Once I killed two blesbok with one shot. .30-06 and Nosler Partition 165 gr. The first animal got the bullet behind the shoulder, the other in the head. Neither me nor my hunting buddy had seen the blesbok in the background.

Hunting partner shot two warthogs with a 338 .. they were standing abreast and could have been twins. From where we were, you could not see the second one at all.

Did it once intentionally.
We were hunting leopard and needed bait.
While on the sticks I waited for a second female impala to line up behind the first and took them both through the neck.
Scotch double!

have done it several time on purpose gathering impala for leopard bait

We were hunting in South Africa.

We saw a warthog standing in the middle of the track.

My PH asked me to shoot it for the pot.

I did, using my 375/404.

As it dropped, we could see several little ones rolling on the ground behind.

Ended up with 3 piggies!

Shot a dik dik as a kid. Went to pick him up and on the other side of the bush was a second one dead. That's my only double on mammals.

Multiple times I have thought about setting up a penetration test on hogs or baboons at a feed trough and see how many can be killed with a 375 solid. Evidently it's not high on my to do list since I haven't gotten around to trying it yet. Perhaps one day.

This story was told by Mzee Bauer, an old ivory hunter from the Deutsch Ostafrika days. He was a friend of my father's and I was fortunate to hear some of his stories. Time has dulled my memory, but I believe the animal in question was a hartebeest so I will call it that in the story.



Mzee Bauer along with a couple of his men were elephant hunting and came up to a large drying up pan. The elephant grass had been burned off or trampled down in most places on the pan and only small mud holes remained. As they cleared some of the remaining elephant grass, they came upon a hartebeest drinking in a mud hole.

Needing meat he aimed and fired. After the recoil, he saw feathers flying a little in front of where the hartebeest stood and the wounded hartebeest running off. With the recoil, the Mzee didn't know what had happened. His men commenced uncontrollable laughter which they couldn't stop. Laughing, they walked up to a stork with it's head blown apart. Hanging out of the storks mouth was a barbel that also had its head blown apart. Evidently the stork had just caught the fish and raised it's head to swallow as the bullet hit. The wounded hartebeest was followed up and had either died or was dispatched.

The Mzee had taken a bird, fish and animal with one shot. Out of a life in the bush, that was the story that seemed to give him the most enjoyment in telling. He also told it much better than me. Wish you could have heard his version. Prost Mzee.

Once in South Texas I killed 2 hogs with one shot with my 375H&H.

I’ve killed two pheasants with one shot, twice. In both cases, I didn’t see the second bird till it fell.

I was collecting leopard bait in SAVE and got 2 impala with one shot using my 500.
Shot a buck whitetail at night with kill permits on our nursery. It fell over dead and when i got there i heard noise jn the bushes and there was a doe as well. 270

It’s happened to me twice.

Both were oh s..t instances.

One was I got cocky and knew where I was placing the bullet. It hit where I wanted, but changed course in the animal and killed a baby zebra behind and in front of the stallion I wanted. That was a mess.

The other was waterbuck...neither I or the PH saw the second. Both were decent, but we only had one on quota...

I once shot an elk and wound up killing two. One shot with a .270 Win
using 130 gr bullits.

BH63

This obviously a potentially problematic and expensive event if it occurs. One must wonder how often this happens without hunters being aware of it at all.

I've seen something most would not have expected. I was hunting with a friend who was shooting a 300 RUM (220gr SMK). He shot a springbok and immediately I saw a lamb probably 15m to the left of and only slightly behind the target animal react and start limping. Bullet shrapnel from the SMK had visrtually severed the foot entirely from the ankle and there were other smaller wounds as as well.

Despite the bullet used I was surprised by the change in trajectory of the pieces of projectile and the energy maintained despite the breaking up and change in direction.

This obviously talks to the benefits of bonded or monometal bullets.

My son did it on his first and second deer That I
had to tag.

I shot a kudu in Zimbabwe, with the 375/404 and a 300 grain Barnes X bullet.

The kudu was around 230 yards away, broadside.

Completely clear of him, to the right, with at least one animal length, was a zebra. The zebras was also 35 yards behind the kudu.

As I fired, the zebra dropped to the ground with a broken spine.

The kudu ran off a few yards and dropped dead.


But, the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me was killing two elephants with one bullet, the second one died a year later.

Both were brained

Any guesses??

Reloaded the bullet!

I shot two Mule deer once. I had a Buck in the cross hair's as he was walking up a hill, he stopped broadside in front of a 5 foot tall sage brush and I dropped him with a 264 Win Mag.It was about 150 yards uphill.When I got up to him I saw blood behind the sagebrush? I followed the blood and 50 yards farther laid a smaller Buck.
The craziest thing I ever saw happen was in Montana.I had the cross hairs on a Mule Deer Buck broadside walking uphill at about 100 yards.I was going to wait for him to stop before shooting him with a 264 Win Mag. I see Pine trees coming up in the scope so I quickly shot just before he walked into them. He had a weird entry hole just behind his front shoulder. When I gutted him he had a 10" long branch inside of him. The bullet hit a branch and drove it into his body cavity!

Two wild hogs with one shot of Hevi Shot turkey load from a 12 gauge.

I’ve had it happen twice, both times while shooting leopard bait. The first time was 2 warthogs, we didn’t see the one standing behind the other. 2nd time was 2 impala and we figured we’d get 2 for 1. Made baiting easier!

Someone mentioned doubles on birds. I don’t think that’s what Saeed was asking about, but I’ve done that quite a few times on ducks, usually intentionally. Fifty years of duck hunting has given many opportunities for ‘scotch doubles’. I once shot 3 wigeon with a single shot. Knew a guy who accidentally killed a 7 duck limit with one shot as a flock of green winged teal turned as he shot and 7 fell to his only shot.

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Originally posted by bwana cecil:
Reloaded the bullet!

2 different calibers.

416 and 375!

It happened to my son on an Elk hunt in Colorado. A snowy day and a nice 6x6 Bull appears 125 yards up the mountain and stands broadside presenting a good shot, although it was snowing heavily. He was using one of my .358 STA’s loaded with a 270 grain North Fork bullet. The Bull calapsed with a shot through the shoulders. When he got up to the Bull to start dressing he noticed a cow laying underneath a cedar tree with her head on a foot and eyes open. On closer inspection she was dead with a bullet in her head and still imbedded in her skull. The bullet was dug out and was a 270 grain North Fork. He was tagged for both cow and Bull for maximum meat harvest. That is the only time it’s happened to us with many years hunting under our belts. I still have the bullet after sending it to North Fork for measuring and weighing by Mike Brady who started North Fork. It still weighed 91 percent of its original weight. Good Shooting.

Stranger things have happened. I have posted this before long ago so if you have read it disregard.

When I was only nine years old I lived in a little central Texas town of Bangs Texas. My mother had planted all kinds of flowering plants in a garden on the south side of our house, that was about 30 feet from the back of our house to the front of the house. Humming birds visited these flowers, and I had always wanted to catch one to examine up close.
One day I looked out of the window and saw a humming bird on the flowers near the back corner of the house, I got my Daisey BB gun and went out our back door, and eased up to the back corner of the house about six feet from where I had last seen the hummer. I simply went around the corner and fired from the hip! To my surprise, the hummer had gone to the front of the house about 30 feet away, and that BB hit the hummer dead center dropping it instantly.

Call me a liar if you want but 72 years later I am still sorry I killed that humming bird that I thought was five feet away and hit it 30 feet away from the hip with a Daise BB gun,


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I shot an elephant with a 416 Rigby Improved, using a Barnes Super Solid brass bullet.

We recovered that bullet, it was very slightly bent.

The next year, I was going to use my 375/404, and decided to turn the bullet down on the lathe, and see if I can shoot another elephant with it.

I did, and went straight through on a side brain shot.

What happened to "know your backstop"?
I guess it doesn't matter in Africa if you can afford to pay for another animal. That would get you jail time or at least a hefty fine in Montana.
Can't be lazy just because you are in a target rich environment. IMO.


Ski+3
Whitefish, MT

I friend of mine claimed to have shop a cape buff bull with his 375 using barnes bullets, went through the bull and dropped a cow standing behind the bull.

My Rifles, Inc 416 Rem Mag likes the Barnes 400 gr bullets. First safari in 2015 my PH was adamant that I have the TSX bullets in the 416 except for a follow up shot, then a solid was OK. Reason that he gave was that he had personally seen the Barnes Solids go through one buff and kill the one standing behind on more than one occasion.

When hunting does for meat in South Texas in 1995 I was shooting my Ruger 77 in 7mm Rem Mag with 175 gr Nosler Partitions. End of the day-still needed two does-bullet went through the front doe and heart shot the one standing behind her. Two deer, one shot. Intentional.

I, too, would love to load up my 416 with Barnes Solids and see how many hogs I could line up and kill with one shot. Hope to do it someday.

In Burkina after a long stalk I shot a beautiful Roan that fell on the spot. As we arrived there he was... and an oxpecker with the head nearly severed of by the bullet! I am doing the mount with both of them.
Several time qhile culling does in my fathers finca as a youngster. (On purpose)

Happened to my son on his first deer hunt. Never saw the one standing behind. I agree on being aware of what's behind your target, but sometimes you just can't see it.
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Only when trying too. On two different occasions lining up on two feral hogs side by side with my 7x57 and 160 grain partitions. Two dead hogs both times.

Years back I shot a wild boar and I did not see another boar behind him. Hit him just behind the shoulder with my 257 Weatherby and the bullet passed thru and hit the other right behind the ear. One rolled down the hill and a few seconds later here came the other

I forgot about another situation I had when I first posted here.

While riding in my late fathers JEEP, several years ago, driving along a dirt track within the bottom of a valley between a pair of mountain ridges, we stopped to get a drink of water.

Suddenly a big muley came flying over the ridge, about 1000 feet above us, on our left, in the Hueco (pronounced WECO) mountains of far west Texas.
That big buck was coming down slope like his tail was on fire. I took my rifle and got out of the Jeep. The buck was headed to some heavy brush about 100 feet on the left side of the track we were parked on. He hit the brush and a deer came out the other side to cross the track I dropped it dead tumbleing in the track. To my surprise the deer I shot was a doe that the buck had startled when he either stopped in the brush, or turned scaring the doe into the open where I snapped a shot killing her immediately.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I shot an elephant with a 416 Rigby Improved, using a Barnes Super Solid brass bullet.

We recovered that bullet, it was very slightly bent.

The next year, I was going to use my 375/404, and decided to turn the bullet down on the lathe, and see if I can shoot another elephant with it.

I did, and went straight through on a side brain shot.

When you are poor you have to conserve every penny.

I got two pronghorns with one shot, I guess. Some other guys said it was on top of the hill and there was a dead pronghorn there.

I once killed two whitetails with one arrow. I was testing heavy broadheads prior to an Africa trip. I was in an urban area where they wanted me to take 5 does.

A doe comes up with twin 8 month old fawns behind her. I shot the doe and she jumped off heart-shot. Behind her (formerly unseen) was a two year old doe. She actually reached down and picked up another hickory nut, crunched it and fell over dead lung shot.

That arrow went through two does, then buried itself head-deep into the floor of a collapsed shed after penetrating the thin steel wall of the shed.

A modern compound bow with a heavy arrow is nothing to sneeze at.

My brother killed 4 wild piglets with one shot from a heavy single-barrel rifled 12 gauge with a 1 oz copper solid slug. He intentionally waited for them to all line up.

4 dropped on the spot and another ran off. He thinks he killed it, too, but does not claim it in the count.

Guav Johnson had a client shoot two lions in one shot. I'm guessing that got expensive.