Baboons
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Only shot one in the Northern Transvaal raiding the farmers garden.....338 1 Bab 0
My impression from a few trips in Namibia is that if you are on a ”hunting farm” by which I mean the owners are farmers first and hunting guides secondly you will be told to whack any jackals or baboons you see without asking.
On the other hand if you are with a professional outfit who basically rent the shooting rights off a farmer/s everything has a price tag.
Odd. Shot several yellows in luangwa
enfieldspares
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Many years ago when "the Kynoch" was still a Witton with its red roads and yellow roads and etc., I went to ask about buckshot (if they would sell it as bags of loose buckshot) as the idea was buy a large quantity to market it as swaged lead balls for .36 calibre blackpowder muzzleloading revolvers. Anyway that came to nought as their machinery couldn't make .375" diameter balls.
But what I did learn was that Kynoch did make three ball buckshot for the .410" sold specifically to their then still existing African sales market to be used against baboons. Not available in the UK as it fell foul of the five projectile s2 requirement. Now it seems some Americans are peddling it to other Americans as a exclusive "custom load" for use in Taurus Judge type revolvers. Yeah right! Fancy packaged surplus baboon loads more like!
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But what I did learn was that Kynoch did make three ball buckshot for the .410" sold specifically to their then still existing African sales market to be used against baboons. Not available in the UK as it fell foul of the five projectile s2 requirement. Now it seems some Americans are peddling it to other Americans as a exclusive "custom load" for use in Taurus Judge type revolvers. Yeah right! Fancy packaged surplus baboon loads more like!
Oddly expensive Eley .410 shotshells
Can anyone tell me why a relatively modern domestic repack of 5 Eley “Fourlong” .410 shotshells with 000-buck would be worth $94.00?! The pack from American Derringer literally has only 5 shells and is completely unremarkable as compared to other Eley Fourlong .410 shotshells that can be found...
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In Namibia I was told to shoot every cheetah or jackal I saw.
The guy next door told me to shoot the above plus lions on sight.
Heym SR20
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As a young teenager on farm in Zim I was sent out with an old Brno 22 LR to shoot baboons. Told by Granny F …. who ran the farm to shoot them between the eyes and get close, and don’t make them angry. When you first see them they are really quite large, with big teeth. I never got close enough to feel confident shooting one.
But my trying to stalk them kept them out of the mealie fields.
But my trying to stalk them kept them out of the mealie fields.
Stalker62
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Just looking at what 'you' are quoting/paying for Baboons and Buffalo.
It seems awfully expensive (it is all awfully expensive) were you go?
They are pretty formidable things. They have excellent hearing, eyesight and sense of smell, they can cover huge amounts of ground very quickly, they cover each others backs and they are very very smart. Couple that lot with huge strength and big teeth and they are not something to mess with. Got this guy at 308m and that was a lucky 'rounded the corner and they were there' shot.
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I was offered a baboon but declined it. The PH told me that the area we were in was so densely populated that shooting made little difference and very few people actually want to eat them, so I couldn't see the point in shooting one.
I think the only reason to shoot one would be on farmland.
I think the only reason to shoot one would be on farmland.
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