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I didn't realize partitions had "petals". The front half of the bullet usually blows off and the rest acts like a wad cutter (small exit holes and minimal wound channel). I think the wart hog is testiment to that. I don't see any big holes in your animals. Were you impressed with the bullet? Great safari and fabulous animals. The Waterbuck is something to behold. I have never seen the horns splayed out like that. You did well grasshopper <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Flinch

Pete,
Great photos and great account of the hunt!!!

Where in Wales do you live? I lived in England for two years and loved spending time in Bedgellert. Especially, hiking around Snowdon and Treffan. Not to mention, I miss having roe deer and red stag in the freezer. I also spent a bunch of time near forfar in Scotland stalking stag and roe deer

Regards,

Ted Evans

Hi!

I just signed up for this website today. Thanks for the photo's and story. I went to Zimbabwe last August and had a terrific time. I too am happy with the performance of my CZ550, although mine is a 416 rigby as my hunt was for elephant and cape buffalo. I will post photo's soon if anyone is interested. Barnes 'X' s and solids performed perfectly.

Cont... For those who are displeased with the regulations in RSA, I took 5 guns including a .44mag pistol and over 1,000 rounds of ammo with me to Zimbabwe (most of it for my shotgun) with NO PROBLEMS! Also, my bull elephant hunt only cost me $11,000.00 and I added a 40 inch cape buffalo for an add;l 3K. I am going back!!

Thanks for the great report and pics. What a great time!

Flinch,

I was using 286grn Barnes X not Partions, hence my comment about the petals shearing off.

Was I pleased with the bullets performance? Generally, yes although I do have a nagging doubt about the way they performed on the two warthogs especially the first which ran a hell of a way despite being well hit. On the bigger stuff they gave tremedous peneration and as I said I only recovered one bullet from the whole hunt. I am convinced that a fair few of the shots I took would not have been feasible with conventional bullets in smaller calibers such as the .308win.

At the end of the day, I think the results on seven animals is too small a sample to draw any real conclusions on and as the Barnes are the first Premiums I have used, I have nothing to draw any comparisons with. I like the peneration they gave and I like the accuracy in my rifle ie sub1" groups when i do my part. Perhaps I might have had even better results if I had used the 250grn Barnes X??

With regards the lack of exit holes in the pictures, thats quite deliberate as is the lack of blood. The PH took quite a lot of trouble to make sure the pictures were "clean" and that included washing the animals down when needed. The only one we failed with was the last Warty. We were running very short of light and we simply could not stop him bleeding from the mouth...

Although my PH did a fairly good job of all this, JJ is extreamly good at it. I have seen many of his pictures and within the constraints of the light available, they are generally excellent. He attaches a very high importance to high quality trophy pics for his hunters and as good as he is, he is still striving to get them better.

Regards,

Pete

Ted,

I live just up the road from Llangollen, so I know the area you are talking about well. My only complaint about Wales is that it has virtually no Roe deer although they are starting to spread in, just not fast enough for me!

Regards,

Pete

Hi Pete,
I have been through Llangollen, you live in a beautiful part of the world!!! That was the one thing that I found interesting, there is very little game in Wales. There are roe deer thick as can be in Hampshire where I lived, but not so much in Wales. As you say, they are very prolific and hopefully their numbers will improve in Wales. If they do, I can't think of a more spectacular place to hunt than Wales. Do you have any stag in the mountains of Northern Wales?

Regards,

Ted