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.
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?
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.
Re: Head shots on buffalo?
Re: Head shots on buffalo?
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Originally Posted by
TStone
It is a very sad sound. Both blue- and black wildebeest also, occasionally, bellow when giving up the ghost.
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...:sh:
Re: Head shots on buffalo?
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Originally Posted by
TStone
It is a very sad sound. Both blue- and black wildebeest also, occasionally, bellow when giving up the ghost.
I had also had a BWB give loud, high pitched nasal 'squeal' when getting shot. One of the saddest sounds for me is a back bear death bellow.
Re: Head shots on buffalo?
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Gert Odendaal
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...:sh:
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.