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Ross Seyfrieds........22Hornet.......Cape Buffalo..........somebody mentioned it. In Precision Shooting Magazine........22 LR ........elephant.......twice
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223 seem like overkill to me...……..I use a green switch to hunt Kodiak Bears, so anything larger than that is not sporting.
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Just stay away from a 270.
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When I was in high school my dad used to say I was getting big enough to hunt bear with a switch. Which is a green branch from a sapling for you who don't speak ohio-an.
So maybe that's the secret. Grab the thin part of a two piece fishing rod and have at it.
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I did shoot a fly last week with a salt gun at work. One of the sales guys bought it and i was playing with it. Damn cool and it worked great. Cute girl wanted the fly off her desk. I complied. Gonna load it with coper dust from barnes and see if i can piss off a Kodiak.
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Depends on if you are using iron sights or not...
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As long as I shoot thru the shoulder....with a Berger! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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chlinstructor,
PITY that I've "caught you IN" at least a few "mistakes of fact" OR more likely in KNOWING LIES. = Tell everyone what your excuse will be when I next go to Mother's home, make a Xerox of the letter that MAJ (He was then a 2LT, USAR.) Murphy wrote from a hospital in USAREUR to my mother at Christmas 1944, when he was recovering from a bullet wound to the hip. = The letter is 5 handwritten pages long & mentions mother teaching him English. (Mother never taught 5th Grade or any other elementary grade.) My guess is that MAJ Murphy actually took 8th grade English before going to the TXARNG.
NOTE: MAJ Murphy was evidently born in the hamlet of ONIONVILLE, Hunt County, TX, spent his early boyhood there & after his father deserted the family, he lived in at least 6 different towns before joining the TXARNG. = Mrs. Murphy, Audie & his sisters all did farm "stoop labor" to keep eating regularly & followed the "picking season", wherever they could get work. His mother also was sometimes employed as a housemaid for various people. (Life was always difficult for the family, until Audie went onto AD & started sending money home.)
When I copy/post that letter to the forum, we can all have a big HORSE LAUGH at your expense, "Mr. Knowitall".
yours, tex Guess SATX78247 never could find that “letter” Audie Murphy wrote to his Mother. Go figure. 😜
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62 grain green tip between the eyes
All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
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When I was in high school my dad used to say I was getting big enough to hunt bear with a switch. Which is a green branch from a sapling for you who don't speak ohio-an.
So maybe that's the secret. Grab the thin part of a two piece fishing rod and have at it. or just grab that Daisy red ryder!
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Having witnessed personally that a single well placed round of 5.56 ball from the Vietnam era will kill anything that walks I do have reservations about tackling a buff with the round. Given no other choice I'd be inclined to stack about 20 pallets of ammo, snatch it in a sling load with a chinook and drop it on his head from about 1,000'.
If it were a buffalo cow you just reduce the lead a little.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Nothing less than a .223AI!
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I've heard that 7.62X39 works well on any African game. You just need enough of them - shot placement is strictly optional.
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Having witnessed personally that a single well placed round of 5.56 ball from the Vietnam era will kill anything that walks I do have reservations about tackling a buff with the round. Given no other choice I'd be inclined to stack about 20 pallets of ammo, snatch it in a sling load with a chinook and drop it on his head from about 1,000'.
If it were a buffalo cow you just reduce the lead a little. LOL. That’ll work!
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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If anyone ever thought a 223 FMJ to the dome of a buffalo wouldn’t kill said buffalo stone dead has never seen a full grown angus take a 22lr in the head and hit the dirt. It’s what I would pick, cuz I’m a real man. PH sissies and their big bores. I thought exactly the same thing....
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I did shoot a fly last week with a salt gun at work. One of the sales guys bought it and i was playing with it. Damn cool and it worked great. Cute girl wanted the fly off her desk. I complied. Gonna load it with coper dust from barnes and see if i can piss off a Kodiak. Gotta try that on REALLY big flies.
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Ross Seyfrieds........22Hornet.......Cape Buffalo..........somebody mentioned it.
My recollection was an H&K 300 in .22 Mag and that multiple head shots didn't work.
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I read where a guy in Germany shot a Roe Deer with a .223. Went though it, a couple of Swine, a Red Deer and a King Tiger Tank ! I’m now convinced it is THE most powerful cartridge that’s ever been invented.
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maybe before you shoot your 223 at that black beast, you should make it a little more sporting ? sneak up behind that old black bull slap him on the rearend,then run like heck and then turn and shoot that old black beast with your 223. let me know how that works out for you ?
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