G'day my fellow impractical, ridiculously-sentimental double-riflemen! I am hoping some of you can inspire me by posting pictures of plainsgame you knocked for six with your big doubles, in order to help fuel my insanity. Obviously I have used my double .500NE over here to good effect so-far, on wild dogs and pigs of all sizes, in addition to the buffalo it is created for. So, knowing that it works on pigs, I imagine that, in the right stalking country, it'll work on vlakvark in Africa; and, since it is just a matter of time before mine knocks-over a feral donkey, I imagine that if I can just get to seventy metres from a zebra (perhaps in the Limpopo region?), it'll work in that application, too. Nobody ever accused me of being smart, but I do like having fun with my big double! Cheers, Ben

Some fun with the 470NE
Under good conditions, up to 80m off hand should not be a problem.

Thank you, Adam! Is that a duiker? What kind? I'm not real good at knowing the difference between those and dik-dik or steenbok, etc.

Good work but that turkey is a bit scrawny. To me, a duiker, dik dik and steenbock are all the same but I don't know the difference if there is any. I do recognize pigs, living in Iowa where pigs vastly outnumber people and are generally much nicer to boot.

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Originally posted by BenKK:
Thank you, Adam! Is that a duiker? What kind? I'm not real good at knowing the difference between those and dik-dik or steenbok, etc.

Kliffhanger a/k/a Klipspringer.

dpcd

That "turkey"is a wood duck !!!

Adam
I can't believe you shot a Wood Duck with
a big bore double rifle !!! LOL

I've used .222, .243 and 22.250 but not
a big bore !

Here you go.
Warty with 470NE loaded with 400 grain speer gold dot, ~ 40M side on.



Zebra with 470 NE 500 woodleigh, ~ 45M quartering away.



Nitro

From memory off of the top of my head, with my 450/400 3 1/4" I have taken the following animals:
Several skunks and armidillos, deer, several wild pigs, black bear, 2 caribou, warthog, zebra, several baboons, 2 cape buff [the wife one as well], a bull elephant and a lion.


With my 450 No2 double rifle, I have taken:
Several skunks and armidillos, 2 squirrels [head shots, they went to the skillet], 3 coyotes, several deer, several wild pigs, wildbeast, eland, baboons, several cape buff and several elephants.

I do not have enough time to type all the different game I have taken with a 9,3x74R double rifle.

BenKK:
I don't know how to post pics here. Damn. With my .450-400 Harrison and Hussey boxlock ejector (1920) I have taken (from memory) lion, leopard, hippo, croc, sable, warthog, buffalo, caribou, whitetail, and three poacher's dogs.
Cheers,
Cal

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Originally posted by cal pappas:
... and three poacher's dogs.

Thanks, fellows. Cal, I'll send you a PM with my e-mail address if you want to send me some pictures to post up.

Better yet!

Why doesn't the Ozzie teacher teach the Sourdough teacher!

Mike, Cal promised he's going to learn how to do it himself!

I have never seen a duck with a pointed bill in the middle of a field, but ok, if you say so; all ducks look the same to me. I know there are red headed and green headed ones and they fly through here all the time, being on the Mississippi River. Plenty of geese and eagles too (I do know what those two look like). And I did take a class in wildlife biology but have forgot all of it. Forty years will do that to your brain; beware young people. Oh, yeah, I have killed a bunch of stuff with my 450-400; none of it DG.

dpcd

They are a weird thing (the Wood duck).

Often stand around on the edge of farm dams,
eating grass. Almost like a small version of
a Canada Goose.

And they crap everywhere !!!

Blackie at 218 yards with a Searcy .470 field grade South Africa.