Black Wildebeast w/ my Heym

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29 May 2008, 22:56

450/400

Black Wildebeast w/ my Heym

I shot this Black Wildebeast in Namibia on May 16 with my Heym 450/400 at about 80 yards. I plan on posting a trip report this weekend.

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30 May 2008, 00:30

MacD37

Congratulations 450/400, if you haven't already done so you will learn that you will never be happy without a 450/400 double rifle, and that PH Heym is top of the line of new double rifles!

Very nice black willie as well! That is one animal I haven't taken, and have always wanted one, but they simply do not exist where I have done most of my hunting in Africa!

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30 May 2008, 00:57

450/400

Thanks! I bought it with the intention of hunting buffalo on my next trip, but it came in just before I left for Namibia and had to take it with me. There was no way I was going to Africa and not take it.

30 May 2008, 04:01

new_guy

That is certainly the first Black Wildebeast taken with a HEYM 450/400.

I guess I'll have to get you a plaque for your wall.

PS - Beyond the obvious results, how did the Hornady Soft Point perform?

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30 May 2008, 09:12

AzGuy

quote:
Originally posted by 450/400:
C'mon Chris. Is this the first animal taken in Africa with a Heym 450/400???

Rules Clarification:

This century or last?

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30 May 2008, 10:10

450/400

Good point AzGuy!

The Hornady soft point worked like the hammer of Thor. That's all I can say. It's somewhere burried in the Namibian sand.

30 May 2008, 17:44

dirklawyer

quote:
Originally posted by 500grains:
Outstanding! We don't need scopes!!!

Amen Dan your preaching to the choir here, I hate carrying a scoped anything especially a DR. Nice shot and results 450-400!

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30 May 2008, 18:30

new_guy

quote:
Originally posted by 450/400:
C'mon Chris. Is this the first animal taken in Africa with a Heym 450/400???

Unfortunatly it isn't - you left about a month too late to claim that title.

The first African animal taken with one was a bull elephant last month.

BUT, I am 100% certain that you have the first Black Wildebeast.

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30 May 2008, 19:51

MacD37

quote:
Originally posted by AzGuy:
quote:
Originally posted by 450/400:
C'mon Chris. Is this the first animal taken in Africa with a Heym 450/400???

Rules Clarification:

This century or last?

For some reason I doubt Heym made a 450/400 before a few months ago, and certainly not in the last century!