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Wanted to share pics of safari with Save Valley Safaris booked by Ron Oliver (African Hunting Safaris)June 13-27 2007. All but leopard shot with H&H 577 BPE 3" circa 1893 585gr. cast lead bullet 1650 fps .At 50 yds. One shot zebra 94 yds.  Three shot Buffalo  Warthog one shot 40yds.  Leopard one shot 50 yds.  | ||
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Thanks Watchman! Welcome onboard.  You will definatly feel home here on this forum with that type of gun....  Did you shoot blackpowder or smokeless? Thanks for sharing...pictures are really a lot more intersting than letters...  DRSS: HQ Scandinavia. Chapters in Sweden & Norway | |||
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I used 67 gr. of H-4198 powder, 585 gr. hard cast lead bullet, 13 gr. of dacron filler ,fed. 215 primer, Jameson brass, MV 1650 fps KO factor of 76. First shot a buffalo broadside went completely through buff lungs and found under skin on other side about 70 caliber. Other two recovered at about 70 caliber. Buf went about 20 yds. then expired. Double tapped the buffalo with first two shots!! | |||
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Wow! - beautiful rifle and great pics. Thansk for sharing!  | |||
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Watchman, Congratulations on a great hunt! Very nice photo's! Welcome aboard! Doc52 B. Searcy & Co .577 NE Double Rifle Shooters Society "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote!" Benjamin Franklin 1759 | |||
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Wow What a rifle!. If you own a gun and you are not a member of the NRA and other pro 2nd amendment organizations then YOU are part of the problem. | |||
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watchman - looks like a great hunt. Congrats! I've met your PH several times, but can't recall his name. What is it again? | |||
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Good shooting. Looks like you had a great hunt. Bill Member DSC,DRSS,NRA,TSRA A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -Mark Twain There ought to be one day - just one – when there is open season on Congressmen. ~Will Rogers~ | |||
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Watchman congratulations of your hunt, and some nice animals for sure! That is a beautiful old rifle. Is it fluid steel, or damaskus? I have a rifle that looks exactly like that one, chambered for a black powder cartridge called 58 Berdan Carbine. It isn't an H&H but it is a very nice rifle, and fun to shoot, and hunt with! I've thought several times about taking mine to Africa to collect a few plains game with it, but haven't yet! Again, nice trophies, and a beautiful rifle! Congratulations!  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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THE RIFLE IS A Holland and has 26" damascus barrels and weighs 12 lbs. 8 oz. | |||
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Very classy! (I think Mac meant his is not a H&H) NRA Life Member, Band of Bubbas Charter Member, PGCA, DRSS. Shoot & hunt with vintage classics. | |||
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what a marvelous old DG rifle. Craftsmanship like we will never see again...sadly so. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us. I had always wondered where you went after leaving MASH, Col. Potter. Rich DRSS | |||
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These are great pic's! What a fine safari.Now, have you ever heard that people who live together for a long time begin to resemble one another? In the shot that includes the buffalo, the lady and the gentleman [who I assume are husband and wife for decades] absolutely sub- stantiate the aforementioned concept!  Jack OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.} | |||
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Did anyone else notice the expression on the guys face just to the right of Watchman in the first pic? He has this look that says "he shot this Zebra with that thing?!" | |||
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Nice shooting. How long have you had that rifle? ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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wow!! How cool to be able to hunt with a rifle like that. What bullet mould did you use? Rich DRSS | |||
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