First stroll for the year...

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30 January 2015, 06:12

BenKK

First stroll for the year...

In addition to the mosquitoes and spear grass seeds, I found this fellow:

Merkel .500NE and Woodleigh solids.

Good luck in your double rifle endeavours for the year ahead, you mob!

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30 January 2015, 08:17

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Hey Ben I received your email. What a great way to start out the year! Good to see that you are staying busy with the .500 140AE. Busting those buffalo with 570 Grains of solid (Woodleigh) excitement to be sure. Great picture and thanks for sharing.

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31 January 2015, 04:22

BenKK

Yep, softs for mozzies! Trousers to try to keep the bastards from eating me! And because of snakes and these fiery little caterpillars that sting when you brush past them. When it dries-out later on, it'll be back to the infamous short shorts!

31 January 2015, 04:25

BenKK

Oh, the softs work fine for the first shot, front-on or side-on. But for the last year or more I've mostly been using solids. They're just perfect in every situation (on buffalo, I dislike them on pigs as they don't do enough damage quickly enough, silly as that sounds). But solids wreck a buffalo pretty quickly.

31 January 2015, 06:42

D R Hunter

Do you eat the meat friend? How is it?
What do you do with the horns?
Congratulations on the great shooting!!!

D/R Hunter

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31 January 2015, 09:29

BenKK

Yes, we eat lots of buffalo meat. It's nice. We also feed our little wild / stray / homeless dog that we're trying to adopt with it - the poor dog has had a really hard, abused life, so is pretty shy about humans, and just lives in the bush behind our house. Anyway, buffalo meat from older, bigger bulls is tough if you want to barbecue it, but I usually make stews and curries and chilli and roasts in the slow cooker. It doesn't have much fat. I prefer it to cattle.

31 January 2015, 16:17

9.3 X 75R

Congratulations sir!! I envy you guys in Australia a bit for having such good shooting on big game. It has to be great fun.

Reference the horns, are they of any use for making things like a powder horn, knife scales, Schnabel forend tips and the like?

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31 January 2015, 17:18

Zephyr

Where are you shooting your mossy's...
Last spring I had a New Hampshire Mossy charge my wife and I, I casually stepped in front of her and let the shot develop, my first shot bounced off his proboscis which caused it veered slightly to the right I side stepped to give me a better angle and was able to place a round in the spine at the base of the neck it crumpled at my wife's feet.
Perhaps Robinson can add the mosquito to his next addition to the Perfect Shot..

01 February 2015, 02:43

BenKK

quote:
Originally posted by Zephyr:
Where are you shooting your mossy's...
Last spring I had a New Hampshire Mossy charge my wife and I, I casually stepped in front of her and let the shot develop, my first shot bounced off his proboscis which caused it veered slightly to the right I side stepped to give me a better angle and was able to place a round in the spine at the base of the neck it crumpled at my wife's feet.
Perhaps Robinson can add the mosquito to his next addition to the Perfect Shot..

Plucky little mozzie! Not to be taken lightly.

01 February 2015, 02:45

BenKK

quote:
Originally posted by 9.3 X 75R:
Congratulations sir!! I envy you guys in Australia a bit for having such good shooting on big game. It has to be great fun.

Reference the horns, are they of any use for making things like a powder horn, knife scales, Schnabel forend tips and the like?

Some talented people do indeed make knife handles and stock fore-end tips out of the horn.

01 February 2015, 06:45

D R Hunter

I would think lots of things could be made from
the horns. Belt buckles, Chess pieces, jewelry and
so on.

D/R Hunter

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