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Any guesses? | ||
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Recycle the one that was used and retrieved (in perfect shape) on last year's elephant  | |||
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I forgot to add, each elephant was killed with a different caliber  | |||
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Any number of caliber possibilities for using the same bullet, Saeed: -- 450 Nitro/450 No.2/500-450 H&H -- 450-400 and 404 Jeffery (for the bolt users) -- 375 H&H flanged magnum and 375 H&H rimless magnum (again for the bolt folks) Regards, Tim | |||
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I shot an elephant using a Barnes Super Solid with a 416 Rigby Improved. We recovered the bullet from the elephant, and I took it home. A few weeks before my next safari, I thought it will be neat if I could shoot another elephant with it. But this time I was taking my 375/404. So I turned that bullet down on the lathe, and went back to Zimbabwe, and shot another elephant with it. Sadly, it was a side brain shot, and the bullet went completely through. | |||
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That is very, very cool. "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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That must be one heck of a chuck you used on that lathe  | |||
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Aaargghh .... foul! Have you forgotten that the only proper way to shoot an elephant is a "full frontal"? Man if Robin Hood could do it with a bow and arrow .......   Saeed: Still the same recycled (turned) bullet. | |||
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That's pretty neat. | |||
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That's you...always pinching pennies!  | |||
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Congratulations! Sounds like a fun project. Tom ...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men. -Edward, duke of York ". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand Cogito ergo venor- KPete “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” ― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations” | |||
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If one has to continue to pay for Walter to go on safari, one has to find other ways of savings  Funny enough, it wasn't a very easy job doing that bullet on a normal lathe. It took me quite a while to get it right, as my previous experience of turning bullets on that lathe have been an opening experience. That is why we got a CNC lathe for our bullets. | |||
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Saeed, as you may know, John "Pondoro" Taylor reported that he once killed a half dozen, or was it seven, kudu with a single bullet, with one shot, and all at once. Admittedly, elephant are somewhat larger than kudu. But still, only two? And on separate occasions? And with the assistance of a lathe? Hardly comparable, old boy. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Saeed When double rifle and big bore ammo was scarce, a friend of mine did reuse FMJ bullets again if they were recovered from Buffalo. He is good friends with Woodleigh and tested a lot of bullets as well (FMJ's). Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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Tim, those are different cartridges not different calibers!
Saeed’s post above is the only way the same bullet could be used in DIFFERENT CALIBERS! .....................................................................   ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Yes, I have an idea. You have to lead the second one a veeerrrry loooooonnnnng way. | |||
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Walter keeps telling me to do it the other way. Kill an elephant with a 375, recover the bullet, and then use it in a 404 and shoot another elephant. In fact, he said he would settle for two buffalo instead! I am glad my brain does not function the same way as his! | |||
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I'm sure a whole lot of other people feel this way as well. Tom Z NRA Life Member | |||
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Easy enough to do. Just make a sabot to use for the second shot. Yes it's cocked, and it has bullets too!!! | |||
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I remember reading a story years ago in a "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" paperback titled something like..."The bullet that founds it mark after 25 years!" it seems that a guy had shot and missed another guy in a dispute over a girl. 25 years later, that same "other guy" was logging the forest where the fight occurred. One tree stump (where the bullet lodged those many years ago) was too big to pull out w/ tractor. So the guy dynamited it and that old bullet struck & killed him... Gotta love Robert Ripley! | |||
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