An excellent article on big game rifles

[Heym SR20]

When the chips are down | Guns on Safari!

Ten, and then recently three years ago, I wrote an article on a ‘working’ dangerous-game rifle and the differences that certain aspects of its design made.

www.gunsonsafari.com

 

[sh1kar]

500 NE non ejector. Double. Solids. Boxlock.

Practice. End of

 

[Nkawu]

Great article! Really good advice on the recoil pad too.

 

[Marcher]

Brilliant !! Real experience, and up to date.

 

[Selous]

It was a good read, thanks for the link

 

[Basil H]

Many thanks for this post. It deals with stuff that is beyond my experience, beyond my budget, beyond my aspiration even at an advanced age. However I enjoyed every word and it is so much more engaging than folk chattering about what mod to put on their .223 !

 

[Cumbrian 1]

I like the author as he points out a .450NE out penetrates a .470NE or .500NE

In the last nine months I’ve shot three elephant with my .450NE and they all dropped in their tracks. Two brain shots and one chest.

Mind you before that my CZ .375 gave the same result.

The biggest advantage is the second shot, my last two elephants were brained and as the arse hit the ground and the trunk was thrown up you could get the second shot in the chest.

With elephant you can never be overly confident, in the event an elephant is stunned by a near miss brain shot providing you’ve got a follow up in the heart/lung area it will never go too far should it recover.

The second shot is definitely an advantage on buffalo, immediately after the first shot you can get another one in the vitals.

 

[Lloyd90]

I like the author as he points out a .450NE out penetrates a .470NE or .500NE

In the last nine months I’ve shot three elephant with my .450NE and they all dropped in their tracks. Two brain shots and one chest.

Mind you before that my CZ .375 gave the same result.

The biggest advantage is the second shot, my last two elephants were brained and as the arse hit the ground and the trunk was thrown up you could get the second shot in the chest.

With elephant you can never be overly confident, in the event an elephant is stunned by a near miss brain shot providing you’ve got a follow up in the heart/lung area it will never go too far should it recover.

The second shot is definitely an advantage on buffalo, immediately after the first shot you can get another one in the vitals.

Do you get a lot of Elephant in Cumbria?

 

[User00040]

I'll take the semi auto and shoot from the chopper please. Ta.

 

[John Gryphon]

Quote from article "Recently I started using the Woodleigh Hydrostatically Stabilised Solids, commonly known as “Hydro’s”. From tests that Graeme Wright did in Australia, the Woodleigh Hydro is the best “brush busting” bullet available. It deviates less when a branch or some other obstacle is inadvertently in the way. I have also found Hydro’s to make the largest and most destructive wound channel of any solid I have used." End quote.

I have shot a few sambar with the 'hydro`s', they work as a soft point does but also as a solid. That concave cup on the projectile nose is the demon.

 

[Cumbrian 1]

Do you get a lot of Elephant in Cumbria?

Don’t know about elephants but plenty of pigs and moose about on a Friday night.

I was in Matetsi 1 in Zimbabwe last September for a double elephant and buffalo hunt and then Mozambique this June.

 

[sh1kar]

Don’t know about elephants but plenty of pigs and moose about on a Friday night.

I was in Matetsi 1 in Zimbabwe last September for a double elephant and buffalo hunt and then Mozambique this June.

Very nice. How did you get your .450 into Zim?
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[gixer1]

Don’t know about elephants but plenty of pigs and moose about on a Friday night.

I was in Matetsi 1 in Zimbabwe last September for a double elephant and buffalo hunt and then Mozambique this June.

Which flavour of pot noodles do you normally go for at the food bank first?

 

[Lloyd90]

Don’t know about elephants but plenty of pigs and moose about on a Friday night.

I was in Matetsi 1 in Zimbabwe last September for a double elephant and buffalo hunt and then Mozambique this June.

Sounds an interesting trip (Zimbabwe, not Cumbria’s night out!).

Any pics?

 

[John Gryphon]

Any pics?

Yes, that`s the important part for us droolers.

 

[reiver]

Don’t know about elephants but plenty of pigs and moose about on a Friday night.

I was in Matetsi 1 in Zimbabwe last September for a double elephant and buffalo hunt and then Mozambique this June.

Must be talking about out west jam eaters ?only scantly clad heifers up here in the east of the county the moose don’t migrate like they used too I blame Brexit
Reiver

 

[billy_boyle_2010]

Very enjoyable. A world I shall never encounter but still a lovely read.