Must have been the weekend for Sambar. I managed to shoot my first Sambar Sunday morning, was on private property still feeding.

Trying hunt101 for pics as problems with sonyimagestation lets see if this works

Now ya talking. Good work there. Nice looking first stag for sure.

Man, for the first sambar you have hit a nice jackpot.

Congratulations.

Well done, thats a great looking trophy head !!

Thanks guys I'm pretty happy about it. Have been out over the years more than 2 dozen times, I realise some guys go a lot more than that and never even see one. I did have the advantage of basiclly being guided on private property.
Was a long shot about 220yds from top of ridge into gully used the 416sw with Woodleigh 410sp.

I realise some people would not consider this hunting but I was out there and had to make the shot. Have done and do bow hunting so do the stalk in close thing as well and don't feel any less proud that it was a long shot.

I would not worry about that in the slightest, as you said you still had to make the shot...................so bullet performance ??

Good on ya Scott; a very respectable head.
Don't you just love that hit of adrenaline when you drop somethimg nice!?

Well done mate

One hell of a nice stag. Well done!

Good one mate , and with your own cartridge too. Well done .

You make me so jealous! Sambar are the best trophies in the world!!!!

416sw,
top stuff mate, how did the projectile preform at that range, complete pass through? Nice stag.

cheers cc

Thanks all
Bullet was not found, could only find the entry, no exit. Hit the spine over the lung diaphram area - down hill shot forgot about the distance is only the horizontal distance not the distance on foot. The spine was pulp for an 7" section.
Now I'm just going to have to shoot another one