Weatherby Weathermark 375 H&H. One shoulder shot at 18 yards with Federal Cape Shok 300gr Swift A-frame. Did not run far. Three follow-up shots with 300 gr Woodleigh solids
September 2016, Mokore Safaris, Save, CZ 550 Northfork 300 SS and 300 CPS September 2018, Mokore Safaris, Coutada 9, Mozambique, AHR CZ 550 Northfork 300gr FNS, plus a host of other bullets
Zambezi Delta, Mozambique. M70 Safari Express, 300-grain A-Square Dead Tough soft at 60 yards, with a Monolithic Solid as an unnecessary insurance shot as we approached the dead bull. He ran about 50 yards back into the herd to expire. Not incredibly wide, but exceptionally old. The soft from this bull passed completely through both lungs and out the opposite side, strangely enough. The insurance soild made it through both shoulders and ended up behind the skin on the opposite shoulder. That bullet is shown in my avatar.
Beautiful Buff. Gotta ask why you switched to the 416 Rigby. Did he eat all your 375 ammo and come looking for more?
Yes/no...... He took very 2 well placed shots, by any shot placement poster's standard. We had tracked him for a long, longtime. A wounded buffalo, in very thick cover. So, I grabbed the PH's 416 Rigby for the final shot. He was quartering away in trot. Dropped him like a bag of dirt.
Given the option again, would you choose a 416 over a 375 for the first shot? Wondering because I have a 375 and I'm considering a 416...possibly...maybe...with permission from the Dept of Finance.
Really just depends on you situation & planned usage. Longer shots & more variety of use = .375 Hunting DG in thick/closer quarters = .416 Rigby all day. I fell in love with it. Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to sit behind it at the range all day. But they are not horrible to shoot, especially on hunt of a lifetime. I know there are tons of people that will say their buff dropped DRT with their .375. So be it, good for them. I did not have that luxury. It was extremely thick & dense.... distance was 75-100 yards for first 2 opportunities.
2015 Buffalo taken on the Sandveld Nature Reserve in the RSA. Same pic as my avatar. The Sandveld is a 60,000 acre reserve with a self-sustaining, reproducing buffalo herd. Took him on day 3 of the hunt after tracking him for several hours in the morning from a pan. 80 yard broad side shot with a follow-up Texas heart shot. The rifle is a Kimber Caprivi shooting 300 grain Barnes tsx. Recovered the first bullet which took out the top of his heart and broke the off shoulder before lodging just beneath the skin. Perfectly mushroomed and looks to have retained virtually all of its weight, though I have never weighed it. I took my next buff with a custom 404 Jeff, and will be taking that rifle back in 2020 for another buff. The Caprivi will go at the same time as my buddy is borrowing for his first safari, to include a buffalo. Says it will be his only safari - famous last words!
“Says it will be his only safari - famous last words” Ain’t that the truth! And congrats on a very nice Buff!
Taken in Limpopo, August 2017. 375 Ruger guide rifle. Swift 300 grain AFrames back by Northfork solids. 50 yards.
Taken in the Luangwa Valley July 21st 2018 rifle CZ 550 American Safari Magnum. Swift A-Frame 300 grains.
Thanks @TOBY458 for a great thread. I hunted all DG exclusively with my Whitworth based custon 375 H&H for years so here we go! Not in chronological order. My first Buffalo Bull in the Okavango in ‘92 shot from a mokoro
