Saeed, OUTSTANDING pics. Thank you.

5 Star Applause:

Yep, great entertainment with high sociologic and natural history value with lots of high definition WOW, despite Walter! Thank you Bwana Saeed.

Nice video but poor rifle and bullet performance.Is that barrel throat worn out?

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Nice video but poor rifle and bullet performance.Is that barrel throat worn out?

Might be, but it still shoots within "one minute of buffalo". And that is plenty good enough for me.

a change of wind

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Originally posted by shootaway:
a change of wind

shootaway: One ring shy of a pair, as always.

I did find the videos on the opening post of page one of this thread. Impressive running shots and crumpling buffalo, and safe gun handling by Saeed. The barrel of that .375/404 UAExpress never touched the back of Roy's head. Nice soundtrack and slow-mo replay too.

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Nice video but poor rifle and bullet performance.Is that barrel throat worn out?

Shootaway - Darwin has been looking for you. Something about an overdue appointment.

Nice shooting in the thick stuff! And the videos are top quality.

Saeed,

welcome back,nice video and photos.


Hamdeni

Saeed,

Thanks for the report and videos!

The guide had his open site left hand rifle on that second bull real quick, like. It seems strange to be running close range at such powerful and unpredictable animals?

Also, I notice that each time you shoot Saeed, you eject the case in your hand and case it, before fireing again? Do you carry your rifle loaded behind the guide? Do you have more than one shot in the rifle at any one time?

Great picts and Videos. Thanks.

Saeed,
Thanks for taking the time to take us along. The photos, as always are great.
I enjoy each of your trips.
Bfly

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Originally posted by Exit31:
The guide had his open site left hand rifle on that second bull real quick, like. It seems strange to be running close range at such powerful and unpredictable animals?

Also, I notice that each time you shoot Saeed, you eject the case in your hand and case it, before fireing again? Do you carry your rifle loaded behind the guide? Do you have more than one shot in the rifle at any one time?

Great picts and Videos. Thanks.

We both load our rifles and put the safties on as soon as we leave the truck. The rifle remain loaded at all times unless we stop after shooting an animal or for a break.

I save all my cases - some have been on 10 or more hunts. That is why I eject them into my hand and put them into my pocket. My rifle takes 3 rounds, and I normally load up as we run after an animal after shooting it.

We have lost some cases on previous hunts, where others using my rifle tend to eject the case and forget it. This happens despite my asking them to make sure the cases are collected.

This year we employed a fool proof system fo not loosing any.

Each hunter who borrowed my rifle was given a box of ammo, and told that the box would be examined each day. And it better have a total of 20 - either loaded rounds, empties or both. Anything missing, and he no longer has the pleasure of hunting with that rifle!

This worked like a charm, none of them lost a single case

Saeed,
Congratulations on another successful safari!
What is the longest shot you have ever taken on a Buffalo?

Awesome photos, I liked the way you cleared the PH with your muzzle in the running buff video, that was fast and first class safety, great shooting as always. Thanks for sharing with us.

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Originally posted by Vemo:
Saeed,
Congratulations on another successful safari!
What is the longest shot you have ever taken on a Buffalo?

The longest shot on buffalo was just over 300 yards - shortest was probably less than 10.

Buffalo at under 10 yards or 300 yards plus: The high-velocity .375 "edge" with the right bullet.

It is ironic that the bullet is named for Walter, Walterhog!

I shudder to think what could have happened had Walter been swinging that rifle behind Roy's back.

(Hey I am still trying to make up for the gag that got me called queer for Walter.)

Walter came very close to meeting his maker yesterday!

I have told him, on so many occasions before, to never, ever, touch my two 375/404 rifles!

I came down yesterday, and found he has taken both rifles apart, and was in the process of "cleaning and renovating" them! I caught him just in time before he was about to take the scopes off too "to clean underneath them"!

Those scopes have never been touched in all the years since they have been installed on these rifles. They never needed adjustments, or "cleaning" as he called it.

He sent my daughter Hessa up to her mother, "to ask her for something that makes Uncle Walter happy".

This is his code word for cakes, pies or ice cream. Preferably in large quantities!

Hessa asks him how he could eat so much sweet things. "I need to make up for the sweets I did not get when I was little"

She asked "Didn't your mommy and daddy give you any sweets?"

Walter "No, they were both nasty to me, just like your daddy is now"

Hessa "My mommy and daddy are not nasty, they have give you cake and ice cream"

Walter "Only to keep me quiet"

Hessa "You should not talk with your mouth full"

Walter started laughing, and said "No one is nice to me in this house"

He should thank his lucky stars. He might have ended up being fed to the crocs instead of being fed cake and ice cream!

The shocked look on his face would have won an Oscar on a Hollywood movie.

He said he only wanted to be "helpfull"!

Please make a commercial movie

As always your photos are excellent and well selected. I do so enjoy seeing all the animals and there beautiful colorings. The baby chicks in the river will show you straight away that God knows what he is doing. Excellent blending and camo.

Videos? Where are they? I have been looking for 2 days, but can't find a link to them. Getting too old?

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Videos? Where are they? I have been looking for 2 days, but can't find a link to them. Getting too old?

Look at my first post onm thie thread.

Two videos and one report links are there at the bottom.

Saeed,

I believe the crocs would appreciate Walter having more cake and ice cream.

I can certainly understand how you felt. You get a rifle JUST right, finely sighted and tuned. Then along comes Suzy Homemaker looking for "scope lint".

I think back on those pictures you posted of Walter's stock work (his "beaver chewed special"), and shudder to think what havoc he could cause with screwdrivers, allen wrenches and torque wrenches. You need to get him a cutting torch and set him loose on old propane tanks!

Jim

Remarkable,

Saeeds safe gun handling in video 2 - under pressure.


I appreciate that.

Thank you Saeed - I kept looking on page 3 where I first saw a report after you returned.

Saeed,where exactly did you shoot the broadside standing buff? It seems that he was hit on the shoulder.Did the bullet pass through? Where was the running buffalo hit when he went down,if he was hit a second time? What power was your scope set at? How many times was the buff in the first video hit? Why didn't it drop dead with the crack of the first shot? There must be a problem with the barrel.I will try to get a video of my shooting on my next weeks caribou hunt to see if I can do better.I hope my father doesn't screw up the filming.STAY TUNED!

Shootaway buffs are not boos. From what I can gather it would be quite possilble to kill a boo by throwing an axe or a rock at it. Boos offer themselves. The natives would kill them with sticks afters asking their permission to do so...

Buffs on the other hand don't seem to know anything about quitting life, no need to ask, rather they are successful because of their penchant at takeing it (life), when called upon. They live in a very rough neighbourhood.

Boos suffer flies, buffs suffer lions.

When I was a little boy my mom would stop at a local farm once a week to buy eggs. She would park the car near the farmer's barn door. While she was doing her commerce inside the farmers house my brother and I would sneek inside the barn and rub the bulls face. It was in a stall and held by the neck by two large wood beams.

At the first rub of its face ( I would pass my hand on its forehead and nose as you would pat a dog or a cat) it would not do anything at all. It looked very beatiful and majestic as it just look at us.

On the second rub of its face it would get foamy at the mouth and the nostrils would get damp at bit. Its former doe eyes were a bit animated now, but the bull would still just look at both of us.

On the third rub of its face it would ratchet its neck up the wood beams with such force as to kill a caribou when its horns and skull hit the roof of its stall. The foam from its mouth was coming out in streams now, very much like a cheap movie where the rabid mad man was about to commit murder. The mucus from its nostrils was shooting out like it was choking on its own saliva. (Like my 5th grade teacher, at the time only a little worse.)

By now its eyes were supernatural madness, like something Herman Melville would describe when Ahab wanted to single handedly harpoon and kill that great white whale while standing or dancing one legged on its back!

All I can say at this point is that a forth pat on the face was to risk life and limb and it was better to run like hell out of that barn before that bull wrecked it and killed us and make mother really angry at brother and I.

So shootaway don't make your mother mad. Don't mix-up bandaid for boo with big medicine for bull.

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Saeed,where exactly did you shoot the broadside standing buff? It seems that he was hit on the shoulder.Did the bullet pass through? Where was the running buffalo hit when he went down,if he was hit a second time? What power was your scope set at? How many times was the buff in the first video hit? Why didn't it drop dead with the crack of the first shot? There must be a problem with the barrel.I will try to get a video of my shooting on my next weeks caribou hunt to see if I can do better.I hope my father doesn't screw up the filming.STAY TUNED!

If you look at the first video, you will see the two bulls walking away. I fired a shot at the rear one, hitting him in his backside. That caused him to stop. He then stood broadside, and another shot was put through his chest - behind the shoulders. He moved a few steps and stopped. Then another shot was put into his chest - also behind the shoulders, which can be seen very clearly on the video. Again, this had very little effect.

He then turn around and ran back, the next shot hit him in the neck, dropping him. The scope was on 8X with all these shots, distance was about 200-250 yards.

Buffalos, more than any animal I know, seem to absorb an extraordinary amount of lead sometimes and show no reaction to it.

shootaway,
You should see if your Uncle Walter (the original monkey's uncle) will answer a PM and explain everything to you. Then go sit in the corner and try to be a nice boy please.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Saeed,where exactly did you shoot the broadside standing buff? It seems that he was hit on the shoulder.Did the bullet pass through? Where was the running buffalo hit when he went down,if he was hit a second time? What power was your scope set at? How many times was the buff in the first video hit? Why didn't it drop dead with the crack of the first shot? There must be a problem with the barrel.I will try to get a video of my shooting on my next weeks caribou hunt to see if I can do better.I hope my father doesn't screw up the filming.STAY TUNED!

If you look at the first video, you will see the two bulls walking away. I fired a shot at the rear one, hitting him in his backside. That caused him to stop. He then stood broadside, and another shot was put through his chest - behind the shoulders. He moved a few steps and stopped. Then another shot was put into his chest - also behind the shoulders, which can be seen very clearly on the video. Again, this had very little effect.

He then turn around and ran back, the next shot hit him in the neck, dropping him. The scope was on 8X with all these shots, distance was about 200-250 yards.

Buffalos, more than any animal I know, seem to absorb an extraordinary amount of lead sometimes and show no reaction to it.

I have to commend you Saeed, it seems you suffer fools well.

But Mark Twain was in the same situation as shootaway:

"When I was sixteen, my father was the most ignorant man in the world.
By the time I reached 21, I was surprised at how much he had learned in five years."

Saeed,

Nice shooting on the two running buffalo (video #1 & 2)!

Did you aim for, and hit them, in the spine?

(I was amused by Roys use of the shooting sticks in video #1).

You were "following through" quite nicely without them!

Well done.

Andy

This is great Saeed
I enjoy it very much, both the pictures and the videos.

More "Miles and miles of bloody Africa."
Viewed with great pleasure.

Walter is quite the fashion king. I really liked his white safari hat with the small paw prints on it. Is that from the "Hello Kitty" collection?

I don't know if Benjamin Franklin Said that or not What I always say Let the wind blow freely. And I don't care who's around.

Ben did say it and DRG must be a big fan of Ben Franklin.
Since we wore this out, we'll probably not hear anymore about the fart machines, that gracious gift from DRG.

The best use would be to let one of those sound effects off under Walter's chair whenever possible.

Walter should not be allowed to use the fart machines. He probably doesn't need one to make farting noises anyway, does that enough on his own.

To your health, Walter!

Walter is right. He is the most "misunderstood" person I know!

He does things which makes all of us around him scratch and shake our heads, and look at him withe amazement.

We get the same thing back from him!

Walter goes hunting fully equipped. He carries a GPS, video camera or two, two digital cameras, an Ipod, stereo speakers, portable, battery operated fan, binoculars, spotting scope, magnifying glass, sattelite phone, GSM phone, sunscreen, bug repellent, powdered drinks, and some food.

He never leaves the truck. And when he does he never goes more than 200 yards from it. He says he fears we would leave him behind if we came back and he was not around!

We live in hope one day this will happen.

Two weeks ago, on our safari, we saw him and the trackers busy looking for something in the back of the truck and on the rack on the roof.

Roy "What have you lost now?"
Walter "Don't ask stupid questions! You and Saeed are only going to laugh when I tell you. Go bother him, he is over there taking photos of some insects in that river over there"

Roy spoke to Philip, one of our trackers, in their language. While answering Roy he mentioned a SIM card.

Roy "Why did you take the SIM card out of the telephone and bring it on the truck to go hunting?"

Walter "I don't KNOW why! I just did, and I lost it! If you are not going to help, go away and don't bother us"

Roy, shaking his head, "You are unbelievable Walter! Why can't you do things any normal person would do and keep your SIM card in your phone and leave it at the camp? You cannot use that phone here anyway!"

Walter "What would you know about normal people? You think you and Saeed are normal? You are both crazy! Look, he is coming back, and now I am going to have more stupid questions to answer"

As I got close to the truck, I knew something was happening "What is going on?"

Roy, laughing, "Walter lost his SIM card!?"
Me "What SIM card? I hope he has not taken my SIM card from my sattelite phone"

Walter "No I did not! You bloody SIM card is in your bloody Thuraya phone! You promised to shoot my bloody head off if I touched your phone! In fact, I wanted to have a sweety from your bag, and then decided not to touch it. I did not want to give you any excuse to be nasty again"

Me "Why did you bring your SIM card on the truck?"

Walter, looking at Roy "You see what I mean? More stupid questions to answer"

Philip found the SIM card in the back of the truck. Luckily we have not shot anything by then, or is might have gotten swept away in the blood and gore!

Two days later, we were driving along when we saw some kongoni.

Walter was supposed to shoot one.

It took him about five minutes to extract himself from the truck and get ready to go hunting.

By that time I had the rifle loaded, Roy had the shooting sticks and Alan his video camera. All three of us were standing ready, waiting for his lordship to disembark!

They walked about 100 yards from the truck, looked at the kongoni and warthogs feeding, and decided none was big enough to shoot. So they walked back, and we all got into the truck to continue our drive.

Walter, banging on the roof of the truck, and screaming "ROY STOP THE CAR!"

Roy "What now?"
Me, looking through the back window, "I think Walter has lost something! He is busy rummaging through his bags!"

We all got out of the truck to see what the latest hoopla was about.

Philip, lauging, said, "The binoculars are lost"

Me "Did you take the binoculars out when you walked?"
Walter "I don't know"
Me "When was the last time you used them?"
Walter "I DON'T KNOW? Instead of all these questions, why don't you help look for them?"

We all walked back to where Walter walked to shoot the kongoni. We looked, and looked, and found no binoculars.

Walter, talking to Philip "They are bigger than the SIM card. so if you could find that one, you can find these too"

Philip was laughing and shaking his head.

Nelson was shouting at us from the truck, he had the binoculars in his hands.

Walter "AH my friend Neslon found them"!

This sort of thing is a daily occurance with Walter!

Saeed,

I used to have a hunting companion that was an excellent camp cook and some of Walter's antics remind me of my friend Robert.

There was never a dull moment around Robert but there was always a lot of great food to eat.

He as long since lost his health due to his drinking habits but hunt camp will never be the same without his wit and stories.

Long live the Walters and Roberts of this world.

You are fortunate to have Walter around. Never a dull moment. Every hunting party should have a Walter along.

$bob$

Those stories of Walter are just classics. I only wish that we had video of Walter being caught by Saeed taking his beloved rifles apart!

He came here yesterday, as usual, and went straight to the food and drink table.

I have just finished putting together the first DVD of our hunt of this year. He was laughing as he watched Roy, Nelson and me looking like drowned rats after chasing buffalo for miles.

I then fast forward to the part where he shoots a kongoni.

Walter "OH SHIT! You are not showing that part too, are you?"

Me "You wanted to be in the video, so you are in it"

Walter "Can I add commentary to my part? I want to say like that Mark Sullivan I LET THE KONGONI CHOOSE HOW HE LIKES TO DIE, That way it won't look so bad"

Me "Just watch, I think you will be surprised how well you did on that hunt!"

He watched, and saw that I cut out all my involvement in this caper. And all one could see was that Walter WAS the hunter who finished that kongoni. At the end, he said:

"That was just GREAT! I hunted that kongoni, and I have the video to prove it! And I like your comment on the bullet hitting something anD breaking into 3 parts. All my shots in the wrong place can be explained now. Also, now I have discovered another way of hunting, and still be proud of it. Instead of sending you to shoot my animals, I carry the rifle, you do the shooting, and I appear in the video with the dead animals. Perfect! I will get my reputation of a great African hunter"

Me "Keep on dreaming! You cannot imagine how hard it was to cut out all the nasty comments Roy and Alan were making on that video about you"

Walter "Roy and Alan are my FRIENDS! At least they would be if you are not around to ruin my reputation as a hunter"

Me "They have first hand experience, they have been hunting with you for so many years, they do not need me to get them on the right track about you"

Walter "Shutup and show me the part where Nelson was almost dying! I love that part! Poor guy! He slept like a baby that night. He did not even snore! Ha ha ha ha"

Me "You know, I could use some creative editing, and show you as being the hunter who shoots everything, would you like that?"

Walter "NO NO NO! Only if we could send the video to people on other planets. Those on earth are well aware of my hunting ability"