Buzz Charlton tuskless charge

[Altitude sickness]

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Very interesting to slow this charge down. Buzz elbows his hunter out of the way. The apprentice PH comes up into action. And they both fire at the exact same time. Both hitting the mark.
No time for a bolt action follow up in this scenario

 

[R.M.C.]

Do I have to have Facebook to watch?

 

[Altitude sickness]

I’m not sure RMC hit the link I posted and find out

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Eeesh! That was a hair raising moment, glad they got it sorted as it was about to be very ugly.

 

[R.M.C.]

I’m not sure RMC hit the link I posted and find out

It took me to a private Facebook page, I'll keep trying. Thanks for posting!

 

[Altitude sickness]

I’ll try to post it another way in the files

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

I’ll try to post it another way in the files

Yes please, I am not on facebook either.

 

[Andrew Short]

I’ll try to post it another way in the files

I dont mean to steal the thread, but this may be the same video.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Sorry that’s not the video. I’m still trying to save it from Facebook

 

[grand veneur]

I dont mean to steal the thread, but this may be the same video.

I know this video from another forum, but it does not seem to me to be a tuskless elephant. I see a tusk.

Is that really the same video ?

 

[Altitude sickness]

It’s not the same video. The one I’m trying to load shows they just walked up on a Ele. They just killed and this one came from 90 degrees to the right

 

[Andrew Short]

Sorry that’s not the video. I’m still trying to save it from Facebook

My mistake.

 

[PARA45]

I couldn't watch either, and I don't have FB.

 

[grand veneur]

That's okay, seems to be about the same situation.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Until the video gets more widely broadcasted.
All I can do is take screen shots of the video and narrate. Sorry

First picture they are looking over the area. They shot the first elephant.

Second photo is when buzz is alerted to another elephant coming in from behind

Then he yells for everybody to move back

The elephant is just coming into the screen. The Hunter moved out of the frame buzz gets his rifle into action.

Elephant keeps coming, then the apprentice PH comes into the screen. He has a bolt gun with an RMR mounted.

Both shoot and hit with good shots.

Then you see the apprentice move the butt of his rifle into his right arm pit to cycle the bolt. Instead of staying on the rifle and cycling the bolt.

Elephant falls and Buzz tells everyone to move out.

Sorry for the hype. Facebook must lock videos down

 

[Andrew62]

Scary stuff, sure glad they were able to make those critical shots!!

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Watching Buzz drop charging elephants with his .416 Rigby is like watching the finest theatre. The young man is a master at his craft.

I was once almost nearly killed by a charging bull elephant myself in 2006. I was using a .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Musgrave loaded with Prvi Partizan 300Gr round nosed copper jacketed FMJ solid factory loads. Unfortunately, the bull had charged and I had made an ineffectual frontal brain shot. That bull would have flattened me like a pancake, had my white hunter Devon not successfully downed him with a more efficient frontal brain shot. Devon was armed with a .505 Gibbs magazine rifle which was built by John Bolliger on a Granite Mountain Arms African Magnum Mauser action. His bullet of choice was the South African all-brass flat nosed 600Gr DZOMBO MK. VI monometal solid propelled at 2150 fps.

Later, I found out that my Prvi Partizan 300Gr copper jacketed FMJ “solid” bullet had broken up on the elephant’s skull bone and completely split it’s thinnish copper jacket.

 

[Marinho]

Buzz used a Ruger M77 416 Rigby on this charge

 

[Altitude sickness]

Buzz had a double. The apprentice used a bolt

 

[Altitude sickness]

The young PH and his bolt rifle