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What a thread. Well no... I have killed exactly one buffalo in Zimbabwe 2018 IIRC. I showed up with a tweaked M70 416 Rem. My PH (happy that I could shoot a 416 well and didn't bring a 375 H&H that I surely would have shot equally well) wanted the rifle though he was shooting a custom walnut stocked 416 Rigby built on a high dollar magnum Mauser action. A beauty and a tank. He grabbed my McM stocked, Wisner sighted rifle and just fell in love. Just shy at 9 3/4 pounds it just feels right to me, if he thought so, well OK. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/TwgS2iU.png) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/4huBk7G.jpg)
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Campfire Ranger
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Thanks BCP for posting the article. Bell sort of parallels what Ross Seyfried has written about - "busting the magnum myth". Seyfried advocates for mastery of placement with the 6.5x55 and yes - even the much maligned .270 Win.. Bell had more exposure to big game encounters in a year than we can have in a lifetime.
My home is the "sanctuary residence" for my firearms.
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Campfire Outfitter
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"On we hurried, stumbling into pot holes up to the waist in mud,
our feet slivering about as if on glassy ice. Soon we were covered
from head to heel in the stuff. One simply could not keep it from
the rifle. Luckily these military-type bolt actions take a lot to make jam.
I could not help smiling as I thought of the large calibre double-barreled
ordnance affected by some hunters and the nice state it would have
reached in these conditions. One smear from a blade of grass on those
so accurately fitting action-faces and the monstrous thing would not close
or if it closed, would not open. I congratulated myself on having climbed
that fence some good while back.
I carried the .275 and had the .303 in reserve."
- (Chapter.10, page 146) Karamojo Safari.
-Bulletproof and Waterproof don't mean Idiotproof.
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Bore size I'd no substitute for shot placement and
Power is no substitute for bullet performance I shot a cape buffalo 15 yards with a 416 Rigby with a 410gr Woodleigh solid across the right front shoulder and on through the heart. It turned and ran 80 yards, collapsed and bellowed. I shot a cape buffalo at 15 yards with my drilling's 9.3X74R barrel with a 286gr Woodleigh solid across the right front shoulder and on through the heart. It turned and ran 50 yards, collapsed and bellowed. I'm sure a 30-06 with 220gr solids would have had the same results, given the same shot placement.
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Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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I'm sure a 30-06 with 220gr solids would have had the same results, given the same shot placement. One of our range regulars had shot Asiatic Buffalo using that combination,
Whatever you said...everyone knows you are a lying jerk. That's a bold assertion. Point out where you think I lied. Well?
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