Argentina March 2004. If i could figure out how to post a pic i would. Rick maybe you can help me out. I was hunting birds when the outfitter offered my buddy and I a chance to hunt Asian Water Buffalo which are easily as big as Cape. Only one problem we didn't have a rifle. He offered us his 300 Weatherby with "bullets made just for this rifle" I looked at the ammo and realized the outfitter didn't know jack about rifles because the rounds were loaded with 180 grain ballistic tips. I told him that wasn't a buffalo round but he insisted it was. I told him we would hunt Buf but I would not be held responsible for a wounded animal if I made a good shot and the bullet failed to perform. He reluctantly agreed (i think he just wanted the trophy fee). Anyway we got into a good spot hidden under a tree about 200 yards out. My buddy shot first and took a nice bull with 3 shots. The first one was enough but as long as it is still standing our theory is keep shooting. The herd ran around the dying animal for a minute and then settled down as they couldn't see us. So i grabbed the rifle from Greg (my hunting partner) and took aim on a great bull looking right at us. Unfortunately the Ziess scope had a piece rattle loose during Greg's shot so we quickly disassembled the rear eye piece and sort of fixed the problem but I ended up with about a 2/3 field of view. The buf was still trying to figure out what we were so I shot him right were the neck comes out of the body and he dropped like a rock. Charlie Sisk hates this story but I have 4 witnesses. The ballistic tip dropped a 2,000 lbs animal with one shot. Truth be told the shot was probably around 225 yards and the bullet had slown down enough that it basically acted as a Partition.
The real problem was the outfitter looked at us smugly and said " I told you these bullets were made for buffalo". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
