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Charles: If you are going to hunt buffalo, good on you. Im with the character means more than width crowd, but whatever floats your boat.
Bear in mind this experience is like no other, and you need to drink it in, enjoy it. You hunt buffalo for the privilege of having hunted buffalo. A cow can kill you just as dead as a bull, and a small bull can kill you just as dead as a big bull.
The 'trophy' if there is any, is in the experience.
More is the power to you if the experience is a humbling one. It should be, when one is hunting such a grand beast.
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Charles: If you are going to hunt buffalo, good on you. Im with the character means more than width crowd, but whatever floats your boat.
Bear in mind this experience is like no other, and you need to drink it in, enjoy it. You hunt buffalo for the privilege of having hunted buffalo. A cow can kill you just as dead as a bull, and a small bull can kill you just as dead as a big bull.
The 'trophy' if there is any, is in the experience.
More is the power to you if the experience is a humbling one. It should be, when one is hunting such a grand beast. I could not possibly agree more sir... Well said!
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Never measured this one. Definitely under 40". Thanks RAC!
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Charles: If you are going to hunt buffalo, good on you. Im with the character means more than width crowd, but whatever floats your boat.
Bear in mind this experience is like no other, and you need to drink it in, enjoy it. You hunt buffalo for the privilege of having hunted buffalo. A cow can kill you just as dead as a bull, and a small bull can kill you just as dead as a big bull.
The 'trophy' if there is any, is in the experience.
More is the power to you if the experience is a humbling one. It should be, when one is hunting such a grand beast. Thanks ingwe. I hope to hunt buffalo next July. I have saved up, I am working to get in buffalo hunting shape, and I am hoping to fly on air miles to avoid spending my budget on air fares. Now if my aging body will hold up and no joints failures before then. 
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I did a TON of walking right before my hunt. Glad i did....
it will depend on where you are hunting, some hunts can be short, others, not so much. I killed my bull in the last 20 minutes of the last day of a 14 day hunt. We worked for him.
Some days we logged 15 miles,others very little,depending on the tracks we were following.
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And don't forget to keep shooting until he stops moving! Buff are tough critters and about 10 times bigger than a whitetail so be ready to follow up with a 2nd, 3rd or more shots.
It will be one of the greatest experiences of your life.
I am continually astounded at how quickly people make up their minds on little evidence or none at all.
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Charles, do you know where and with whom you will hunt yet?
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And don't forget to keep shooting until he stops moving! Buff are tough critters and about 10 times bigger than a whitetail so be ready to follow up with a 2nd, 3rd or more shots.
It will be one of the greatest experiences of your life. Like this?? ![[Linked Image]](http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh300/163bc/Mozambique%20Africa%202014/013_zpsb8d31219.jpg)
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Well under 40" ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/Fjold/Africa/100_1129.jpg)
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Here's one under 40". Never measured and probably never will. He's my trophy regardless of size. Wouldn't trade him for anything. I was more interested in the hunt than size, and I got what I went for. ![[Linked Image]](http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab99/TDBall56/P1010895.jpg) David
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Beautiful buff, gentlemen. I'm quite jealous. I'll just have to live vicariously through you all for (hopefully only) a few more years until I get over for one.
Paladin, is that a rail under your barrels there between the fore end and front swivel??
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Good eye FF. It's a GoPro mount.
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Some beautiful buffalo gents! BTW Fjold had one of his mounted in the best mount Ive ever seen...post a pic please Fjold! 
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This one is from Mozambique, under 40" but I haven't measured him. The hunt started early morning and as you can see from the light we finally got a shot late in the afternoon. The trophy is the memory of the hunt. ![[Linked Image]](http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp77/wildcatter264/AfricaAug2009024.jpg)
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Charles, do you know where and with whom you will hunt yet? I plan to hunt with Pieter Kriel in South Africa.
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Some beautiful buffalo gents! BTW Fjold had one of his mounted in the best mount Ive ever seen...post a pic please Fjold! Thanks Here are the photos that my taxidermist (Anthony Maxwell) took. ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/Fjold/Africa/BuffStare.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/Fjold/Africa/DSC03248.jpg)
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Thanks for posting Fjold!
Thats still my fave buffalo mount, far and away!
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Thanks Fjold!
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Thanks for posting Fjold!
Thats still my fave buffalo mount, far and away! Yep, best I've seen. I saved that one. DF
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