New YouTube video. Brian Gallup Hunts Cape Buffalo with a .577 NE Single Shot.

KMG, I think that you were hunting about 3 miles from where I was hunting! Klaserie River on the border of Kruger park and just south of Hoedspruit?
Yes the country is sure in pain with the drought. The wildebeests look like bicycles!
They had a little rain this month.
Was Timbavati a good place to hunt?

Thanks, Brian
 
mbogo3. Amen! A 375hh with a heart shot makes them run like a scalded cat for 35 - 45 yrs usually.
With the .577 (neart shot) They just hunch up and look for the nearest thorn tree to lie down under.
The Ph's had not seen anything like it.
 
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mbogo3. Amen! A 375hh with a heart shot makes them run like a scalded cat for 35 - 45 yrs usually.
With the .577 (neart shot) They just hunch up and look for the nearest thorn tree to lie down under.
The Ph's had not seen anything like it.
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Beg to differ, .375 H&H dropped this guy where he stood in Zimbabwe. Watched your .577 video and the hit with interest and certainly nothing bad can be said of it, though it also isn't the Hammer of Thor at dropping them. The perfect recipe for that is heavier than the .375 H&H but at the .375 H&H's speed. .458 Lott and .450 Rigby come particularly to mind, .416 no slouch either. Also have dropped bull Wood Bison much larger than Cape Buffalo with .375 and it still acts immediately. Like a big gun as much as the next guy, more actually also have a .577 build on the go, but we have to keep it real on comparing to .375 et al. Just ask Dogleg, he's shot more large wild bovids than anyone, with a lot of things.

 
Brian, I was a little bit south of you, but in the same neck of the woods. I attached a thread for my hunt and it really looks like it has gotten even worse based upon comparison to your video.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1428038-Dangerous-Game-Hunt

I do most of my hunting down in the Eastern Cape, so quite a bit different in terms of terrain, but we saw lots of leopard tracks where I was hunting and two of the biggest bushbucks I have seen in awhile!
 
Can't find the story but there was an instance of a heartshot cape buffalo with a .375 H+H FMJ surviving and the next day flattening a tracker before being finished off with a burst from an FNFAL by a Warden. No doubt they are tough and I'll likely never get to hunt them.........Harold
 
jones, Actually your fun pot stirring bring a good point to focus. The African farmers do a lot of hunting with little rifles like the .223. Over the years the .303 british FMJ has taken many dangerous African game by intrepid farmers.
Also many Rhino and Elephants are killed with 7.62 FMJ by rangers and poachers.
And, good handgunners kill cape buffalo very well, I'm told, with those big pistol cartridges. The 9.3 and 338mag. is used succesfully every day on cape buffalo too.
Cheers, Brian
 
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jones, Actually your fun pot stirring bring a good point to focus. The African farmers do a lot of hunting with little rifles like the .223. Over the years the .303 british FMJ has taken many dangerous African game by intrepid farmers.
Also many Rhino and Elephants are killed with 7.62 FMJ by rangers and poachers.
And, good handgunners kill cape buffalo very well, I'm told, with those big pistol cartridges. The 9.3 and 338mag. is used succesfully every day on cape buffalo too.
Cheers, Brian
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So on the one hand, on a heart shot with a .375 H&H Cape Buffalo just runaway to live another day, and on the other hand farm hands with rusty .303 Brits are slaying dangerous game willy nilly with FMJ's???
 
Hoytcanon. I don't konw why my post on my experience with my .577NN is attracting jerks. Don't you two have anything better to do.
1. Read the post correctly. That would be a good place for you to start.
2. The history of the 303 British as used by the Boers for a farm rifle is common knowledge.
3. Your tone is disrespectful. Please realize that I am just sharing African hunting knowledge /experience with fellow hunter. I am not looking for a debate with a loose talking wannabe.
4. You don't read posts correctly but you have done 30-40 barrel stubb jobs. Ya' right. You and Ardent, who says that a 375 kills better than a 577, should get married.

PS. A Dirty Harry picture. Perfect for a wannabe.
 
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Hoytcanon. I don't konw why my post on my experience with my .577NN is attracting jerks. Don't you two have anything better to do.
1. Read the post correctly. That would be a good place for you to start.
2. The history of the 303 British as used by the Boers for a farm rifle is common knowledge.
3. Your tone is disrespectful. Please realize that I am just sharing African hunting knowledge /experience with fellow hunter. I am not looking for a debate with a loose talking wannabe.
4. You don't read posts correctly but you have done 30-40 barrel stubb jobs. Ya' right. You and Ardent, who says that a 375 kills better than a 577, should get married.

PS. A Dirty Harry picture. Perfect for a wannabe.
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Yep... you caught me... I'm a wannabe... don't even know what a stub is... don't know much about hunting or history... and can't read.... you nailed me chief... tucking tail now and running for the brush..
 
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