TheRealHawkeye,
The famous PH Harry Selby "turned" a wounded/charging rhino in 1954 with a double-barreled PURDEY shotgun. - I would presume that the DB was loaded with buckshot, though Robert Ruark didn't identify the load..
RSA Senior Game Ranger Leonidas H. Geist in 1962 literally decapitated a wounded lioness at "about one long step" away with a load of buckshot out of his trusty 16 x 16 x 9.3x74mm drilling. - He later described the result as "a near thing."
ADDENDA: Lord Robert Baden-Powell (YEP, the founder of the Boy Scouts) said in an article for THE LONDON SUN that he witnessed a man named Thomas Matthew Obenga "peel a wounded leopard off of a British LT, using a .303SMLE bayonet". = Lord Baden-Powell said that it was "The bravest act that I've yet witnessed."
As a result, PVT Obenga was promoted to SGT, The Kings Royal African Rifles.
yours, tex
Last edited by satx78247; 07/18/18. Reason: addenda/missing word
