sound like quite a time.......

Judge, excellent read!!! I know you would get it done sooner then later...

Mike

The Judge can still spin a good yarn. Another deposit you say? Good on you.

But nary a word about "the mad Englishman".

Excellent!!

great read!

An exceptional story - especially the part about "the slap of shit hitting the hard ground". Now, try to think, why didn't you have your Searcy 450/.400 ? Was it even with you on this excursion (not that it's important, I'm just curious) ?

The Searcy was in the tent. I killed the wart hog with it. More to follow.

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Originally posted by Frank Beller:
An exceptional story - especially the part about "the slap of shit hitting the hard ground".

It take a true wordsmith to get you to hear the patty, plop.

Thanks Judge, for chapter 1.

Looking out for chapter 2.

Keith

Well done Judge, nice animals.

I told you the "little" 9,3 is plenty good for buff.

Congratulations! A great story, thanks for sharing!

Ernest,

Glad you had a good trip. I wish I could have been there. We are cruising the med right now in route to Naples, Italy. I will call you when we get back and we can share trip stories.

1115

1115:

We missed you but I know you and spouse are having a great time. Call me when you get back. Pierre sends his best reguards and looks forward to eventually hosting Chrissy.

JudgeG...

Buffalo...

The Selous...

Scotch Whiskey...

NUFF SAID!

Thanks JudgeG

Bull1

A good way to begin my day. It was a good read thanks.

Thanks for a great read Judge.

I can't think of any better way to spend a lunch break than to read a great hunt report - Thank you

Great story
Lance

Marvelously written Judge! Congratulations on a great hunt!

Great story! Dig your warty get his hair burned off, or did you give him a hair cut for his picture taking?

Congrats Judge! Very nice trophies.

Judge,

That was a fun read! I am happy for you. And these tales

simply motivate me all the more to make sure that I get MYSELF

to AFRICA some day to undertake my dream of hunting big bodied
elephant with my 450/400 DR!

JudgeG,

Congrats on a great hunt. I alwasy love reading your stories. Hope you don't mind, I printed a couple of your older ones and when someone asks me why I want to hunt buff, I hand one to them to read. That usually is all the explanation needed.

David Walker

Great story! The 9.3x74R performs again. Perhaps on elephant next?

Great story Judge! There is nothing quite as fun as hunting buffalo.

Judge, You are blessed to have the passion and the fury! May the Buffalo of the future be deeper and wider than ever.

A couple more whiskeys, doubles and buffalo and you will get a very fine book put together Judge.

Hope you go way beyond 2009 to cure your itch for buff hunting in Tanz.

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Originally posted by JudgeG:
The Searcy was in the tent. I killed the wart hog with it. More to follow.

and?

Keith

Judge,

Weidmannsheil on a successful hunt and thanks for spinning us a great yarn.

Any chance you might share information on how the 250 grs .366 cal TSXs performed?? Did they exit, could they be expected to given the angles you shot at?? How was the penetration of the 250 grs, was it sufficient for buff, was it straight line?? If recovered, how did the bullets look?? Did any of the bullets hit major bones, and if yes, how did that affect penetration??

You mentioned in the original post, that the buff "never knew it was not a .375 H&H". Was that just an off-the-cuff remark, or something you'd stand by even in hindsight??

Sorry to bother you about this, but there is very little information available on the actual use of .366 cal 250 grs TSX on buff. Thanks for your time in advance.

- mike

Why the Merkel and not the Searcy? I had planned to take two buffalo (before the price increases) and wanted to get one with each rifle, so I brought two doubles with me. At the time that I left camp, it didn't really matter which I shot with first, 'cause I'd just grab the other the next day. Wildebeest and Zebra were particular "wants" for this trip and the Merkel shot better than 5" at 200 yards and substantially flatter than the .450/.400.... and all that in mind, plus the fact that I was tired from staying up all night, I picked up the lighter and a little more long range rifle.

The Barnes TSX bullets took a kongoni (a shoot through, clipping the bottom of the spine, instant death).... a Zebra at 200 yards, same bullet result and, of course, the buffalo. The first shot was a shoot-through, breaking the near shoulder, penetrating the top/forward area of the heart and exited with a nickle-sized hole just behind the far shoulder... Second shot stayed in the animal and expanded perfectly. Its path was impact at the left-rear rib cage, through both lungs and was an evident knot on the far side neck. I shot a spine shot to finish the animal and it was found in the lungs after breaking the spine, again, and as advertised it made a petal shape with probably 100 weight retention.

Velocity was just under 2400 fps with the 250 grain bullets, Sectional density is .274 and with a 2" high zero at 100 yards, point blank was over 200 yards. They worked!

Thanks Judge, much appreciated.
- mike

Great Buff, Great Pig and Good shootin.

It can't be done any better. Congratulations.

Great yarn, it even made me smell the buffalo, and that snake brought back some memories of my own!

I can just hear Pierre, asying "YOU SHOT HIM IN THE FOOT!" For anyone who knows Pierre, that is an expected responce to a good well placed shot on a buffalo.

Nice Buff G, any pics of your recovered bullets or Kongoni? Congrats on a good hunt, David