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Thread: Head shots on buffalo?
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04-04-2019, 08:13 #11
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Re: Head shots on buffalo?
A buffalo's skull is huge and unless you actually hit a horn, in which case you have a more serious problem than taxidermy woes, head shots do not do enough damage to ruin the trophy. I have brain shot a buffalo and have seen quite a few skulls of brain shot buffalo and the damage was not enough to ruin the trophy.
The main problem with head shots is that it is very easy to wound.
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04-04-2019, 09:47 #12
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Re: Head shots on buffalo?
Linked to this, what do the trails guide learn when they do advanced rifle handling course to stop charges? Headshots as well?
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04-04-2019, 10:49 #13
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Re: Head shots on buffalo?
AL, with ARH, exersizes 2 - 4 are on the FGASA 'static.' (ie. bulls-eye) targets where brain and brain case hits count. On ex 5 & 6, which can be buff, lion or hippo targets, only brain shots count.
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04-04-2019, 10:59 #14
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Re: Head shots on buffalo?
.Sorry double post
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21-04-2019, 17:35 #15
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Re: Head shots on buffalo?
I slaughtered a huge Brahman bull a while back, when shooting it with a .22 LR Gevarm E1 , it fell down, rolled on it`s side a let out a death bellow exactly as some buffaloed do when they die of a rifle shot...it really was extremely strange to hear this sound from cattle like Brahman bull...I have slaughter a lot of cattle for meat processing the past ten years and this was the first time ever I heard a death bellow from cattle...
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17-04-2020, 17:17 #16
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17-04-2020, 17:32 #17
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Re: Head shots on buffalo?
Gert, you must have half shot the brain.
Normal well placed brain shot all the cattle I have seen being shot in more than 30 years of being big enough to witness farm butchering cattle goes downs without a sound- they just hit the ground. This include Hereford bulls that weight more than 1100kilogram alive.
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10-12-2021, 20:09 #18
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Head shots on buffalo?
I’ve witnessed several cattle dispatched in this manner by my late father using a 30-30 lever gun. All would drop to the front knees first, then roll over and kick for a minute. Once, a jacketed round was recovered in the spinal cord vertebrae just aft of the base of the skull. The old man had a talent for killing beef, North Koreans and Chinese soldiers.
I have been given the talking-to about head shots on game in Africa, by my acquaintance in another forum who is from Durban and guides hunts, after suggesting a good marksman could easily pull it off within reasonable distances. He posted a couple of videos for me to watch, showing how easily things can go terribly wrong for the hunter…and the animal, not the least.
R/Griff
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