Texas Heart Shot On cape Buffalo

30 June 2001, 22:18

Texas Heart Shot On Cape Buffalo

We were hunting in the Chete safari area in Zimbabwe. We came across the tracks of a large buffalo bull, and decided to follow him.

We followed this bull for about 3 hours, taking us all over the place, sometimes actually re-crossing his own tracks. Eventually, he got mixed up with a large herd, so we had to give up on him.

A couple of days later, we saw his tracks again, in the same area we tracked him previously.

We decided to give him another go, and started on his tracks. Eventually, we caught up with him, and I managed to get a shot into his chest, for a lung shot. The bush in this area was very thick, and a lung shot buffalo can go a long way before giving up the ghost.

We ran after him, but he stayed a few yards ahead of us. All we could see of him was just black glimpses while he was disappearing into the bush.

This went on for about 15 minutes or so, and next time we saw him taking off into the bush again, with only his backside showing, Roy shouted: ï¿½Shoot him up the bum!ï¿½

The bull was about 100 yards away from us, and I just shouldered my rifled and fired. The bull staggered and fell down.

We walked up to him, and put a finisher into him. He was the biggest bodied buffalo I have ever shot.

This is where my second shot hit him.

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saeed@ emirates.net.ae

www.accuratereloading.com

30 June 2001, 23:13

<Pumba>

Saeed,

Great shot.

I had a buffalo running away from me in some thorn brush in the Moyowosi North concession of Tanzania. I ran up to a little tree, and using it as a rest I aimed for and broke his right hip socket. That stopped the bull and a shot to the chest put him down.

Good Hunting !

30 June 2001, 23:23

Will

2 points:

1. I'm not sue what that is a photo of..
2. I don't think I want to know.

01 July 2001, 03:01

smallfry

You "ripped him a new one"... literally.

01 July 2001, 03:13

Nickudu

On the "Hole", I'd say that was a pretty good shot.

01 July 2001, 03:39

Atkinson

Just goes to show you how effective the Texas heart shot can be...I have heard a lot of negative remarks on this and other boards on that shot, but when you think about it, it destroys a lot of stuff between the skin and the heart-lungs before it get there...I shot a lot of game with that shot and it toodles them on their bloody nose..if you use enough gun...

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Ray Atkinson

ray@atkinsonhunting.com
atkinsonhunting.com

01 July 2001, 04:15

T.Carr

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I was hunting zebra in RSA, we found a nice stallion and got to within about 80 yards of him. He was grazing in an open field that had 3ft. tall grass. I was using a 30.06 with 180gr. TBBC. My first shot was right on the shoulder, a perfect shot (hey, even a blind hog can find an acorn now and then). To my surprise the zebra took off running at full speed directly away from us. My second shot sent the zebra flying into the air with all four legs off the ground. When he came down he disappeared into the long grass. I'm pretty sure he was dead before he hit the ground.

My second shot hit him less than an inch to left of his anus. We recovered the bullet, it was a perfect mushroom shape.

That is the best initial shot and follow-up shot I have ever made. I wish I could shoot like that all the time.

Regards,

Terry

01 July 2001, 04:26

<Don G>

I want to know how this got named the Texas Heart Shot. I never heard that term in Texas.

Don

01 July 2001, 04:51

<Mike Brown>

Because they meant for it to be pronounced "Tex-ass". hahahah! Good Gawd I love the fact that we get to screw with Texans. Like a good cup of coffee, it just makes my day.
Seriously (how serious can a subject like this be?), I heard that the term had to do with the extreme distance across Texas being liken to the distance from the asshole to the heart; it`s the long way around, but it will eventually get you there. I`m not sure it was actually a slam against Texans or the area of a cow that they prefer.......
Hahahah.
Nice shot Saeed! You pinned the tail on him.
There are SOOO many directions this one could go..... but I`ll pass.......

01 July 2001, 04:54

mbundy

I, too, have never understood why it is called 'The Texas Heart Shot'. Lived
here my whole life, never done it. Never
even heard of it til recently on these boards.

01 July 2001, 05:44

DB Bill

Saeed....you lived in Texas long enough to use the correct terminology...that's not a
"Texas Heart Shot", it's a"Texas Brain Shot".

01 July 2001, 07:31

JudgeG

Puts a "hole" new meaning on the location of "Deep in the heart of Texas"!

Saaed:

Barnes X bullets in my .404 Jeffery at 2300 fps just keep on going and going.... I've yet to recover one. I did recover a Barnes solid from a roan, though. I was hunting buffalo and had an X in the chamber and solids in the magazine. I shot the roan with the X through one shoulder and the lungs and dumped him right on the ground, but he was kicking his hind legs trying to come at us, as hard as he could go. I tried to get to his side so I could put a solid in the neck-shoulder, but he kept turning toward me (All this took only a few seconds, and roan horns coming at you are pretty darn intimidating.) With him facing me, with his head up, I shot him in the front of the neck. I guess that I hit the bottom of the spine, because he died immediately. When we rolled the roan over, a tracker started laughing and pointing to a few dung pellets that had fallen out of the anus. Right in the middle of them, shining in the sun, was a perfect (except for rifling) .423 bullet. It had traveled the entire length of the roan, from its throat to its poop shoot. I have the bullet, albeit boiled clean, on my desk at work. When folks ask me where I got it, I can give some interesting answers. Now I can say that it came from "deep in the heart of Texas"!

No offense to you folks who come from that great state. One of the best times of my live was living there when I was flying for the Marine Corps. Every weekend during hunting season, I'd go to the Y.O. and hunt. That was so long ago, that it was free to hunt and camp until you killed something. I think a buck was $100.00. I think the limit was two, so I did a lot of looking and little shooting. After a while, they just gave me a pasture and told me to have a good time. I doubt that there were ever more than half a dozen hunters there on any weekend. I'd always take a friend who was from New York City or somewhere full of concrete and asphalt. I saw some eyes opened and lifetime hunters born. One fellow came back to the base after our weekend a zealot if I ever saw one. The next week he sold his car, bought a used LandRover, a Belgium made Browning Safari in 7mm magnum, a pull behind pop-up camper and he hasn't stopped since. In fact, I hunted with him last year (we live 500 miles apart) and he now has grandchildren who are learning about the outdoors from this fellow Marine who got converted (at the real) "deep in the heart of Texas" on the Y.O. He still hunts with his Browning, too.

I haven't been back to the ranch in more than 30 years. I hope its as great as it used to be. Anyone been there lately?

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01 July 2001, 10:38

Pete E

Saeed,

Where abouts did you recover the bullet???

Pete

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01 July 2001, 11:12

<PWN>

Saeed,

That is a very nice "hole in one" very big buffalo.

The first time I ever heard that term was during a hunt in Colorado. It came from a camp full of Texans who were describing the obvious destruction to the south end or a north bound fork horn mulie that rendered by one of there members with a 300 Weatherby.

Perry

01 July 2001, 17:36

Saeed

DB Bill,

Yep, I did live in Texas for a while, and found out the Texans had great big hearts, but not much brains

Thus the name "Texas Heart Shot!"

Pete,

The bullet was in the lungs.

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01 July 2001, 23:40

<Don G>

Saeed,

What kind of bullet did you use? Fired at what velocity?

Don

02 July 2001, 02:41

<10point>

I never went to bed with a woman that looked like that picture.

But I woke up with a few......10

02 July 2001, 03:56

Saeed

Don,

As usual, I used my 375/404, and the Barnes X 300 grain bullet at around 2700 fps.

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02 July 2001, 14:25

Atkinson

For all you yankee inbred meadow muffins the Texas Heart shot came about from the fact that if you hunt whitetail on foot, the only shot yur gonna get is a going away shot, from that came the "Texas Heart shot"...

The newbie Texans have not heard of this because they sit in a stand these days, drank Lone Star Beer, and bushwack the bucks.

EVERYTHING IN TEXAS IS BETTER, IT'S A WHOLE NUTHER PLANET. your either Texan or vermin. Curse all you nay sayers of the Soverign State.

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Ray Atkinson

ray@atkinsonhunting.com
atkinsonhunting.com

02 July 2001, 18:49

DB Bill

What's a Texan doing living in Idaho? The truth and nothing but the truth....or at least as much as a Texan can recognize it.

02 July 2001, 19:53

<Mike Brown>

DB Bill:
Truth... Texan.... OXYMORON.
Ray: Texas: Where men are men, and sheep are afraid.

03 July 2001, 03:26

Atkinson

Whats a matter with sheep, Did you get an ugly one??

and Bill remember your from the land of hotrods and homosexuals, and I don't see no wheels on you!!!

Just joshin guys...

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Ray Atkinson

ray@atkinsonhunting.com
atkinsonhunting.com

03 July 2001, 09:24

Crosshairs

I lived and hunted in Texas for several years. I look on as "overseas duty." Sorta like "doin' time!"

Anyway, my observation is that Texan's tend to shoot at "hair" without much regard for where the vitals are. Just sorta hoping that their new "Super mag of the day" will get the job done (I'll bet there are more Lazeroni's sold in Texas than anyplace else) . I saw more deer shot in the butt while I was in Texas than all other places I've hunted put together.

I figured that's where Texan's thought the heart was! And hence, the phrase originated...

03 July 2001, 10:04

<Mats>

quote:
Originally posted by Atkinson:
...Bill remember your from the land of hotrods and homosexuals, and I don't see no wheels on you!!!

I laughed so hard I broke the chair!

-- Mats

03 July 2001, 10:34

DB Bill

Hey...I've got to take exception to those two comments.

#1..I shoot a Lazzeroni and I think of myself as a cool, calm and collected marksman that dares to be different.

#2 Ray I'm not "that" different...I even hate to use the public restrooms. We know that no real Texan would leave Texas voluntarily so we are still waiting to hear why you hd to leave. Come on, 'fess up.

03 July 2001, 13:32

Atkinson

DB,
I had a client wound a deer and I took up the trail and ended up in Idaho before I killed it....

Didn't have enough money to get home, then my daughter married one of these damn yankees and had grandkids, and I can't leave them, nobody else will hunt with me, cuz I'm senile and my arterys are hardening and I'm cranky ( its not my fault )....so I am stuck here most of the year with thoes grandkids hanging all over me like damn Christmas tree ornaments...

I do get back during hunting season to guide on my Texas leases and visit the family but I just get plumb lonesome for the half Texas kids in Idaho...There cross breeds you know, half Texan (on their mothers side)but don't tell them, they think their full bloods....

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Ray Atkinson

ray@atkinsonhunting.com
atkinsonhunting.com

03 July 2001, 13:54

Crosshairs

Yeah, I was starting my family when I lived in Texas and my dad insisted that I drive across the border to New Mexico to have my kids.

He said when my wife goes into labor to load her in the back of the truck and make tracks for Hobbs NM because he just couldn't stand the idea of having his grand kids born on foreign soil!

So ya know Ray... the thought of half breeds didn't settle too well with my kids grand pa either...

03 July 2001, 17:42

Saeed

Talking of Texas, when I moved there, everyone was asking me where I was from at out shooting club.

I always told them the same thing, saying "Dubai".

To normal people, that was enough, but it certainly was not for my Texan friends!

They always asked what State it was in too!

For a while, I tried explaining where Dubai is geoghraphically, then I had to give up when they started telling all there friends that "Saeed comes from Dubai, Saudi Arabia!"

After that, I just said "Dubai, Texas"! That solved my problem.

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www.accuratereloading.com

04 July 2001, 10:17

Atkinson

Crosshairs,
I wouldn't be too concerned, Check your history books, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Colorado was originally Texas, we just sold off the worst part, so we could micro manage better...

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Ray Atkinson

ray@atkinsonhunting.com
atkinsonhunting.com

04 July 2001, 11:43

Crosshairs

Ray,
You're killing me man....
* First it was the hotrods and homos
* Then it was the cross breeds
* and now this...
Uncle... you win... I conceed...
Have a great 4th!
Cross

04 July 2001, 12:09

<Crawfish>

Saeed,
Dubai, Texas ?? isn't that around Dallas???

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Handgun Hunter

04 July 2001, 14:50

<Don G>

I always figured Dubai, Texas was somewhere north of Bogota, Texas and south of Paris, Texas.

That's OK Saeed, I have a tough time explaining where Cash and Avery, Texas are, too.

Don

04 July 2001, 15:08

<George Hoffman>

Hey, fellows,,,,I now live in Texas, but was a Missouri, Hillbilly, before moving to N. Mexico then colorado now for the past 26 years in Texas. In fact I have lived here long enough, that nobody ask me where I am from anymore. About those "heart shots"
I shot critters from both ends, both sides, and every angle from all positions. I still do not know were the heart is. I guess thats why we keep shooting like we do most of us are still looking. (grin)
George

11 November 2008, 00:41

.366torque

quote:
Originally posted by Saeed:
Texas Heart Shot On Cape Buffalo

We were hunting in the Chete safari area in Zimbabwe. We came across the tracks of a large buffalo bull, and decided to follow him.

We followed this bull for about 3 hours, taking us all over the place, sometimes actually re-crossing his own tracks. Eventually, he got mixed up with a large herd, so we had to give up on him.

A couple of days later, we saw his tracks again, in the same area we tracked him previously.

We decided to give him another go, and started on his tracks. Eventually, we caught up with him, and I managed to get a shot into his chest, for a lung shot. The bush in this area was very thick, and a lung shot buffalo can go a long way before giving up the ghost.

We ran after him, but he stayed a few yards ahead of us. All we could see of him was just black glimpses while he was disappearing into the bush.

This went on for about 15 minutes or so, and next time we saw him taking off into the bush again, with only his backside showing, Roy shouted: ï¿½Shoot him up the bum!ï¿½

The bull was about 100 yards away from us, and I just shouldered my rifled and fired. The bull staggered and fell down.

We walked up to him, and put a finisher into him. He was the biggest bodied buffalo I have ever shot.

This is where my second shot hit him.

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saeed@ emirates.net.ae

www.accuratereloading.com

You forgot to include Walter's comments. I'm sure he had something to say about the location of the shot!