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Gentlemen and ladies, Here is a clip of Scruffy's hunt last year with Lorenzo in Uruguay. This is his first buffalo charge. The video is a little fuzzy because it started life as a VHS copy from an 8mm video, which I converted to digital then rendered into a format that wouldn't take forever to download. I could do MUCH better with the original 8mm tape, but this gets the idea across fine! Check it out here! Scruffy can tell the story, or you can find it in the archives on this forum. Cheers, Canuck | ||
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I can't believe it!! what a surprise Canuck!! Mario was so excited that he don't stop talking !!!  The hunting team was Richard Powell, Ed Foden, Daniel Gastan (the Gaucho), his brother Mario and myself. You hear only one shot but there were two shots, a 416 rigby and a 300 winnie  Those ol'days are gone forever, due to foot and mouth desease we cull the last wild herd of them...maybe a few of them still roam around but it's impossible to find them up there ! I'm at home taking care of a broken ankle  so it was a nice surprise, thanks Canuck.L | |||
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Richard, How great to see the video again. But also sad that buffalo hunting is now a thing of the past in Uruguay. We are the lucky few who got the opportunity to hunt them with good friends Lorenzo, Mario and the Gaucho. Ed | |||
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You're welcome! Better late than never, eh?  Sorry to hear about your ankle Lorenzo! The commentary on this video is infectious. I find that every time I seem something cool or extraordinary I can hear Mario's voice in my head saying "It's Amazing!" (in his "accent" of course ). And that's just from seeing the video a few times.I love the look on Richard's face afterwards too. Pretty much says it all! Cheers, Canuck | |||
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Hi Ed !!! We have had some nice moments eh !! Nothing like a close call with a buff to keep away cholesterol !!  | |||
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Yeah ... Richard's buffalo look ,,, walking around for about five minutes with the mouth hanging open. My damn dork look .  .. You're right, Ed !!! What a great great time .. Breaks my heart that the damn gov't decided they all had to go ... Lorenzo ,, I e mailed you just today ... How did a tough hombre like yourself break an ankle ??  | |||
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Hi Richard !! I broke my ankle in a very silly way....I was buying some cows and I was standing in the..that place where you put all the cows in a line for vaticcination...(don't know the word in english)...anyhow, I jumped from there to the floor with the right foot infront (just like a bailarina ) , I landed with my 90 kilos ontop a little stone that was hidden in the grass  That was the end of your tough hombre...1,90 metres long in the grass and screaming like if I was fighting with a lion As you can see, no brave story behind to help me catch the atention of a nice señorita L | |||
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That'a good video.But,where is the charge or did I misunderstand?Best- Locksley R. "Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book - I call that vicious!"- Friedrich Nietzsche | |||
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Yo, Robin ... The charge happened as Mario turned to show the leaf with the drop of blood on it to Lorenzo .. Gaucho and I had stepped out of the trees when Gaucho heard the bull. It was ten yards away in very tall grass - he said about where it was (fraction of a second) and as I turned to look the bull exploded out of the grass at us .. Head low and coming quite a lot faster than I ever imagined one would or could ..We fired simultaneously and the bull was knocked down .. As you can see from the video I wasn't prepared to let it get back up so shot three more times .. In a clearer version of the tape the camera picks up the bull flailing around ... just a very fraction of a split second after it had been knocked down .. Unlike some well known videos of shot to pieces .. gravely wounded bulls being approached in the open and then getting gunned down as they made their final stand .. this was mostly a desperate attempt to save our lives.I'm so glad that Mario was there and filmed what he did and could ... I've hunted with these men three times now .. Mario, Gaucho, and Lorenzo. They walk tall.  | |||
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Well done Scruffy, these beasts are highly dangerous when wounded. By the way, I don´t buy Lorenzo´s tale about breaking his ankle in a casual manner. Methinks he was playing soccer, he is such kind of "patadura" (translates into something like hard foot, meaning a bad player). | |||
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No more soccer for me for a while I only want to get this fixed right, I don't want to be hunting in the middle of somewhere and break it again due to poor rehabilitation care.... I don't understand why, I nearly don't move and the same this thing still hurts a LOT !!!!  L | |||
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Lorenzo, Don't lie...you were having lunch with your wife and a pretty girl walked by and you looked so she kicked you under the table and that is what broke your ankle. Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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That must e thrilling scruffy.Congrats.-Locsley,R. "Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book - I call that vicious!"- Friedrich Nietzsche | |||
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Hey Richard. Very cool experience. Congrats on the buffalo! What were you using the .300 or the .470? By the way, I found it interesting that through the whole video, you didn't say a word, and then at the end, you had this strange, stunned look on your face...  Was that the buff charge, or is that your normal look? President & CEO Enter360 Media Group Inc. http://www.enter360.com Tactical Marketing for the Shooting Sports Industry | |||
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Well, my great Uruguayan amigos called it Richard's buffalo look. Comes with the realization that this magnificient beast came within a second of killing both myself and Gaucho. I asked ol' Gaucho (who is about 35 and limber) if he could have gotten out of the way of that buffalo and he admitted that he couldn't have. Later he told Lorenzo that you don't go hunting and expect to die .. And he has two little kids ... I was using a .416 Rigby. Uruguay does not permit the importation of any calibre larger than 6.5 for some obscure reason so I couldn't bring my Sako LH 416 Remington. Hopefully I can take it to Oz for buff there in July. Although I must admit after about ten safaris and five trips to South America and various other places .. it is a lot easier sometimes to leave them at home and borrow a rifle. Before anyone goes nuts on me,  I am left handed and it is a real inconvenience to use a right handed rifle .. but it is nice not to travel with them .. Especially to South America passing through Miami ... Aaarrghhhhh ! Paper work !!!  Oh, yeah .. your question about whether that is my normal look, Sheldon ??? | |||
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Lorenzo, The word you were after is a "race".Cattle yards have a race to put all the cattle in a tight line.HTH Regards,Shaun. Kids in the back seat cause accidents,accidents in the back seat cause kids. | |||
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In Texas we call it a 'cattle chute" or just "chute". Exciting hunt! Don_G ...from Texas, by way of Mason, Ohio and Aurora, Colorado! | |||
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Thanks Shaun and Don. Here we call it "tubo de ganado" (cattle tube). That hunt with Ed and Richard was the very best hunt of my life, we worked hard for our buffs, it was hot, we drink cold beers at night and we have good laughs talking about the english lessons that Mario and the Gaucho have had before the hunt..... The story is... A couple of weeks previous to the hunt, they went to visit an old woman who was an english professor. They arrived with a huge pile of hunting magazines and said to her....we don't want to learn english, we just want to talk about this !!! After some classes the other only student, a young girl, gave up and never apeared again completely bored of talking about "grunting" "sniffing" "take it" and similar things.  L | |||
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On my Pa's buffalo ranch, we call it a "chute". At the end of the chute, he has some single compartments that we call "tubes". The last one has a mechanism to hold the buffalo still while you tag its ear, give it a shot, whatever, and that is the "squeeze tube". Funny mix of lingo. Cheers, Canuck | |||
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