whitworth is kind enough to post pics from some hunts i was a part of in one capacity or another and large game taken with handguns. two elk and a buffalo. i'll add more info here when the pics are posted.

I will post them later in the day -- have no time this morning. Standby!

Sorry for the delay......

Here are three of the photos, more on the way. tradmark will have to explain.

Here are a few more that I posted before. Again, tradmark will have to explain.

MEAT, I SEE MEAT!
Great hunting but can you fine a pre paid box to send one to me?

Now I need the story! I need to get some of that meat.

yeah we need the stories behind the pics

I agree. Where are you tradmark??

Oh my what fine jerky they make. Think we can talk him into sending us all some?

sorry, i've been working rurally and getting slammed and comp probs at home, will post stories when things slow down today.

This was my accompaning text to whitworth on the pics and i realize that the pic that never made it to you is the bull elk pic.

"hey, sorry this took so long, gonna start a thread you could post these under. not sure why i can't get this figured out. the pic of the cow was one shot this year by my best bud with a .460 smith and wesson 275 grain barnes at 1825 fps from corbon, my bud is a texas hunter safety instructor and has hunted more than anyone i know of, he said it was the most dramatic hit on an elk he'd ever witnessed. the ammo performed superbly, a stutter step to the side and straight over, fist sized exit hole. no bullet was recovered. both lungs and liver were taken out and the offside shoulder blown to bits. lots of meat damage on that shoulder but no tracking into the thick stuff either.

the bull elk is one he shot with a 454 casull 2 years ago with the buffalo bore 300gr jsp dead on in the chest, ran about 20 yards in a weaving pattern and fell over, the bullet was recovered in the hide on the left rear ham after breaking the hip/femur and had blown out the chest cavity, ruptured heart and aorta as well as two messed up lungs, bullet expanded to just over 80 caliber.

the buffalo was one i shot about 4 years ago, pretty big one at that, estimated about 1700-1800 lbs, shot with the buffalo bore 420 grain long flat nose at 1350 fps out of my bfr, the first shot the bullet in the left shoulder broke apart and the buff limped off about fifteen yards, the second one quartering away put it down for keeps after about 2 steps. the first bullet broke apart but still blew out the shoulder and damaged one lung. the second did as advertised and took out both lungs. and the offside shoulder, hence the collapse. wound cavity on the second shot was largely indistinguishable from similiar shots with the casull and a lfn or wfn hardcast, not sure why the bullet blew up but i also had that happen this year with the 430gr hardcast 45/70 load, took two shots and lost all meat on the onside shoulder and many lead fragments in the lungs. not sure if that's a cast peformance bullet issue or what but i tend to err now on the side of monometals, corbon penetrators or the best softpoints like the buffalo bore jsp or the winchester double bonded???? i think they're called."

the second set of pics are from a hunt last janary. the smallish buffalo with the big hispanic guy is decieving. he's about 7 ft tall and around 500lbs, his son in that pic is 11 and 5'10" tall and weighs 260lbs so it makes the buff look alot smaller than it is. he killed that buff stone dead with a 45/70 and bb 430 grain hardcasts. no pistol used in that one, he's supposed to send me pics on his cow elk this year that that hardcast load exploaded on and had to have another finishing shot put through it. i'll try and get the bull elk pic up.

i love autopsy photos but in one hunt it was pouring rain and no photos were taken, in the 2nd set of pics i had some taken but in a poorly lit skinning shed at night and they didn't turn out well. coudn't get real close ups. my bud in NM just didn't take them. worst hunt to lose pics on was that of my waterbuffalo about 8years ago. i'll get a pic of the mount up and will also get a pic up of my first cow elk hunt up. ended with a 240 grain xtp quartering away and faceplanted the elk. a DRT scenario.