My first Eland

**HANNESB** · 04-07-2011, 21:08

Hi

My young eland bull shot on Brulpan in the Northern Cape. What a nice part of the world....
Attachment 5001

**Wismit** · 04-07-2011, 21:11

Tell more !!

What rifle, bullet, distance etc !!!

Nice one !!!

W.S

**Dinat** · 04-07-2011, 21:20

Well done boet

**HANNESB** · 04-07-2011, 21:29

Hi
I used my .30-06 loaded with Sako SHH 180 gr. The distance was 210m, but I made the mistake of using my friend's rangefinder reading, which was incorrectly given as 175 m. This caused my first shot to be about three inches low and it went through the brisket. Luckily it only moved a bit and I put one through the lungs, which exited trough the opposing front leg.

For this hunt I tried to develop a load for a 220 gr Rhino, but could not get the bullet to group. I suspect stabilisation problems due to the length of this bullet and my Tikka's twist of 1 in 11. At short notice I went back to the Sako's, which has accounted for numerous kudu in the Eastern Cape.

**Bundu Ric** · 04-07-2011, 21:44

Congrats and well done.

**THOMAST** · 04-07-2011, 22:13

HANNESB,
As a matter of interest, what rangefinder does your friend have?

Oh, and congratulations! You will be eating in style for a while!
(Wow! I'm a poet and I don't even know it!)

**GameFarmer** · 05-07-2011, 07:17

Nice one!

**umshiniwam** · 05-07-2011, 07:23

Well done.

The Rhino .308" 220 grain bullets are very long. I could not get them to work in my .30-06 either.

**Yousuf** · 05-07-2011, 07:55

Nicely done. Agree with THOMAST about eating in style for a while

**mtoich** · 05-07-2011, 08:40

Very nice! I Intend on getting my 1st Eland at the end of Aug sometime and I hope it to be somewhere around the size of that one of yours. Do you know how much did it dressed?