G'day mates! Just landed in Darwin from Arnhem Land and finishing our inaugural HEYM buffalo down under event.

Six hunters, seven days and thirty buffalo taken with HEYM doubles. Calibers from 375 Fl Mag to 577.

LOTS of photos and some great video to follow... standby.

Thirty buffalo... Gotta go on one of them adventures!

cant wait to se the pictures and video, did not bring a 600NE? to bad.
did you guys use a 500NE? dont think i have ever seen a video where someone hunted and with one. i have a 500NE.. but havent taken anything with it yet.

btw du you work for Heym? and who paid for the buffalo?

Hi Chris,

That's sure to be a great collection of footage!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Nitro_Andreas:
cant wait to se the pictures and video, did not bring a 600NE? to bad.
did you guys use a 500NE? dont think i have ever seen a video where someone hunted and with one. i have a 500NE.. but havent taken anything with it yet.

btw du you work for Heym? and who paid for the buffalo?

No 600NE but I did take 9 bulls with my Heym 577NE. Four of the 9 bulls were taken between 91 and 120 yards, open sights. I think my closest shot with my 577NE was roughly 30 yards. Others had closer shots.

New_Guy will be posting pics and videos. We took our time with photos and shot lots of video.

Epic trip with a great group of hunters.

I can't wait!!!!!

Thanks to everyone that replied to Safari James' plea for ammo.

Fortunately, we found 404 and 450/400 at Lacky's the day before we chartered out to Bulman!

The ammo did finally show up in Darwin, and the charter company sent it out on another flight two days later.

Chartering into Bulman... Glad there was a fence around the landing strip!



The hunting party.

From left to right... Graham Williams (Australian Buffalo Hunters,) Matt, Marc, Jim, James and me (Tony is out of photo.)

Man! Talk about a plush airstrip in the bush!

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The landing strip is located inside of Graham's hunting area, and the camp is about an hour and a half. Not 15-minutes into the drive, we spot a very old bull. We drove past him and quickly scrambled through a truck load of luggage for a rifle and ammo. The wind was good and we were able to intercept his path within a quarter-mile or so.

This is the 450/400 with the 400gr DGX.
(If you find this file to be too large, let me know, and I'll shorten the next ones.)




The first shot broke his on-side shoulder and anchored him pretty well. The bullet was found under the off-side skin.

This old bull was just under 48" wide.

We have a lot of recovered bullets from this trip, and they will hopefully provide info for double rifle readers here.

We shot:

Swifts
Hornady DGX
NF Cup Points
NF Solids
Woodleigh Softs
Woodleigh Hydrostatically stabilized
Barnes X
CEB

Will start gathering those photos for the thread.

Beautiful bull! Congratulations on a fine adventure!

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I did take 9 bulls with my Heym 577NE.

Long live the 577!!! :-)

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Originally posted by ozhunter:
Any wild Boar shot or fishing done whilst at Graham's inland block?

We shot three... Will post the photos, but I didn't get the impression that there were too many pigs there. Maybe we were too focused on buffalo???

404 Jeffery, 400gr DGX recovered from buffalo at @ 140-yards.

364gr recovered weight

450/400 3", 400gr DGX bullets. All recovered from Buffalo @ less than 50-yards (don't recall the exact distance on each of these.)

302gr recovered weight


254gr recovered weight


305gr recovered weight

450/400 3", 400gr Swift A-Frame. Recovered from buffalo @ 20-yards.

354gr recovered weight. This bullet went in behind the ribs, through the off-side shoulder and was found under the off-side skin.

This was the second buffalo shot with the 450/400. Video to follow.

Hi Chris,

great Story and Infos.
Congratulations to this great adventure.

QUESTION
Who is this gentleman on your side?
Witch kind of gun/caliber did he have?

Best wishes.

F.

Congratulations, Chris! I see Tony taught you to put the empties in your pocket! LOL!

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Originally posted by Bockhunter:
Hi Chris,

great Story and Infos.
Congratulations to this great adventure.

QUESTION
Who is this gentleman on your side?
Witch kind of gun/caliber did he have?

Best wishes.

F.

Bockhunter: The gentleman on Chris' right is the guide/outfitter, Graham Williams (Australian Buffalo Hunters). The rifle he is holding is my Heym 577NE double rifle.

Nice buffalo, both of them. Chris that reject wood turned out pretty nice too.

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Bockhunter: The gentleman on Chris' right is the guide/outfitter, Graham Williams (Australian Buffalo Hunters). The rifle he is holding is my Heym 577NE double rifle.

Okay...
:-)

I tought in the first Moment, where in the world did he get this rifle in down under.

Did he shoot it?
:-)

Best wishes.

The Bock.

Another a "wide, flat" one. This one a bit wider than the first. He measured just shy of 50", and that was with the heavily worn horn being about 4" shorter than the long one. A great old bull.

I'll get this video online ASAP. With a strong wind, we were able to get within about 15-yards of him! Great video work, James.

This was the widest bull we shot... at about noon on the last day.





We were moving along a creek when we spotted this bull coming up from a fresh mud bath. We could only see one horn (the short one), but we knew there was enough visble mass and wear on that one horn to give him a closer look.

You may be able to hear the wind in the video. It was strong, straight in our faces and big help in stalking up on this one.

We didn't get a good look at the other horn until just before I shot, but based on the wear, we had already decided to take him.

The first shot is a 400gr Swift... in behind the shoulder, through the vitals and stopped in the off-side skin after breaking the leg.

Notice on the second shot, that the bull swings his horn around in front of his shoulder... that bullet was a 400gr NF cup point. It went through his right horn and continued through the bull exiting on the opposite side!

The two follow up shots (quartering away) and the final shot in the chest were also cup points. We were not able to recover any of those.

This is the first buffalo I took with my Heym 577NE on the first evening of the hunt. If you enlarge the picture you will see a nice group behind the shoulder which was shot at roughly 75 yards. The high shot you see actually dropped him as it disrupted his CNS.



This is the second bull I shot during the trip. This particular bull was in a ravine and we stalked him until he caught our wind and then ran. We watched him run up the hill on the other side of the ravine and we lost him in the brush. As luck would have it the he ran into a position with the wind in our favor and we slowly made the stalk to within 60 or so yards. I dropped him off-hand with a single shot from the 577NE. He did require a finishing shot to the brain as you can see in the picture.



This is a really nice cow buffalo that Graeham (PH/Outfitter) wanted me to take. I was able to stalk within 30 yards and land a well placed shot on her shoulder with the 577NE. Upon impact she bolted straight ahead for a ravine and I hit her with the follow up shot at a full run and she went down in a heap of dust. I'll post the video once I am able to sort all of the digital artifacts from the trip.



Prior to the trip our good friend Marc assisted me in dialing in a load for the 577NE and this was the result…. Effectively a 1" group at 100 yards with open sights using 750gr Woodleigh RN softs.

I can't wait to hear the rest of the stories. It looks like that 577 is finally really broken in.

One of Marc's first cull bulls. Taken with his HEYM 450 NE and Swift A-Frames + Woodleigh Hydrostatic solids.

Great trip guys, keep the photos and videos coming!

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Originally posted by chilcotin hillbilly:
...It looks like that 577 is finally really broken in.

Guess how many rounds of ammo he brought home...

You blokes sure had a great time! Very happy for you. Congratulations.

Great photos and good shooting.

Glad you had a great hunt.

Cheers, Chris

Great story on this buffalo.

Marc and I had spent the morning putting a number of miles under our boot soles when we spotted a group of bulls off to our right grazing on fresh grass sprouts. I quickly glassed the bulls and didn't see anything I liked so I turned my attention in the opposite direction. To my surprise there was a decent bull feeding along at about 70 yards. While glassing him I noticed another bull further out sleeping in the shade of a large tree. About this time the PH said he wasn't interested in any of the bulls located in the group on the right. Trying to not sound like a smart ass, I asked him what he thought about the monster sleeping under the tree to our left.

Ranging the bull revealed he was 141 yards form our position. Since he was sleeping and we had the wind in our favor we decided to see if we could slip in a little closer. We carefully stalked within 91 yards of the sleeping bull before the other bull that I mentioned began trotting in his direction and of course startling him out of dream land.

I quickly took a good bead with the 577NE and touched off a well placed shot followed by a second barrel. The bull ran a bit, stopped, and started walking broadside at roughly 105 yards. I put two more rounds into a 3" group and a few inches forward of the first shot. He stumbled a bit and then went down.

A very rewarding hunt.




Here's a frontal view of the same bull.




Aiming in on a buffalo with the 577NE. I ended up passing on this one.

Look like all of you guys had a great hunt. Doing it with doubles makes it even better. That's a mighty pretty 577.

Lots of very nice HORNS!!!!!!!!!!

WOW, impressive the size of those holes, they sure leak a lot of fluids huh?
Some of the pics didn't come up for me. The vids did and when clicking a picture, flipped to the FB section so I got to see a bunch there.
Nice seeing all the holes punched and them still going. Mighty fine shooting for those cannons too. Those shells on the bench look like they stack up like good cigars too.

How much ammo did you take and how many came home?
Thanks much for sharing with us. Sure helps a lot as a couple of us are hoping to go next year.

Was it one of you guys that took the handgun? IF so, how much hassle did you have getting it there??
George

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Originally posted by new_guy:

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Originally posted by chilcotin hillbilly:
...It looks like that 577 is finally really broken in.

Guess how many rounds of ammo he brought home...

Trick question right! Ha Ha Ha

Kinda wondering what was done with the meat. Have had seen some hunts where the locals got it, but others, where we were told they'd just be left there for the scavengers to take care of..

Yes, this was a HEYM hunt, and I told him I wouldn't post this clip.

But Tony just had to bring his 405 "Big Medicine," and he shot it so well that I figured I had to post it after all...

Damn good shooting Tony!



This old bull had apparently been attacked by dingos as a calf. His ears were completely gone, and his nose and roof of mouth were badly mangled. Maybe this stundted the growth of his horns? Who knows, but he was an old bull with a narrow horn shape.

Graham Williams


We took a couple of scrub bulls too. I was impressed, as they were pretty "switched-on."



On the way out of camp one morning, the first group spotted this bull, and Marc got it with his 375 flanged. We were close enough behind to watch the whole hunt unfold. I love the wood on that rifle.





Engraved muzzles are a nice touch.

MARVELOUS REPORT CONGRATULATIONS.I wish you came to Argentina just to test this beautifull rifles

As a change of pace from the hunting pictures, here's a view of our buffalo camp situated along a nice river. Adequate accommodations for the group.




This was the view from my tent. It was relaxing to enjoy a cup of coffee while overlooking the river each morning listening to the sounds as everyone was scurrying around getting ready for the days activities.



Tony made up some biltong from the buffalo and it turned out to be an excellent snack. Almost thought I was back in Africa.

Thanks for sharing the wonderful photographs of your adventure. Absolutely superb.