Just got back from my buffalo hunt with Brenton Hurt, Territory Buffalo Safaris. My wife and I had a wonderful time. The accomodation were wonderful considering the remote location. I never expected to have hot running showers and wine every night. Gave my wife a new ideas on how we should do things when we go hunting a home.

We saw one to two hundred buffalo a day. There wasn't a question if you were going to shoot one, it was just which one you were going to shoot. I shot my animal on the 3rd day. Could have shot him from the airstrip to camp right after we landed but I enjoy hunting and Brenton wanted to find a good bull. So we looked over many, many, many bulls before I shot this one. Not sure of his actual measurement, somewhere between 94 and 96.

The first shot was offhand at about 80 yrds as we were standing in water and no rest was avaiable. The first shot broke his shoulder but he didn't go down so I ended up shooting him 4 more times before he finally gave it up. I was shooting a 375 H&H with 300 gr. Barnes TSX bullets at 2,500 fps. Recovered to bullets expanded perfect. Never found the others. These guys are tough! I think it would be a very tough animal to stop in a charge and I don't think they would hesitate to charge. I had shot this one three times, destroyed his left shoulder and when he finally figured out where we were he started trying to make it our direction.

You can contact Brenton at http://www.territorybuffalosafaris.com

Hopefully I am attaching a picture with this post.

I can hear the excitement in your 'voice' from your written comments, so no doubt you had a good time.

Well done and congratulations.

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They sure don't die 'instantly', do they ?

Great Bull Mate.

Well Done....

Nice buff! You are right these buffalo are tough, and they will charge. I got charged by my buffalo last month after he recieved 5 .375 rounds. He finally fell at 9 yards.

Nice pic, well done.

Nice buffalo

Thanks for the report,ill be heading up there in just over a week,375 too

Excellent buffalo here in Argentina we dont have this kind of horns ,ver nice.Juan

Juan

What calibres do you usually use for water buffalo in Argentina?

What sort of prices do you charge?

End of serious questions:

Hunted any with a spear yet?