Solid before soft point

[Miletic]

Much safer than trying to shoot cape buffalo in the head with your first shot......

“I saw it on YouTube”

 

[fourfive8]

Daga boy is approaching me at high speed.
I raise the carbine and shoot.
One bullet after another.
This is a situation I have thought about many times. I wonder if it is better that in say 416 rigby the first bullet is solid and the second soft? In which order do you who have had such situations put the bullets in the barrel? Thank you

That scenario is so unlikely that it’s not worth the worry. The implication is that you’re strolling through the bush in Africa where buffalo live and one decides to charge for no reason??? More the stuff of imagination or nightmares than reality. The more common scenario would be where you shoot a controlled, carefully aimed shot into a buffalo at an angle you decide upon. THEN the buffalo runs in some direction away from you, perpendicular to you or at you. At that point you start shooting at a moving buffalo from unpredictable and poor angles trying to get a bullet into vitals. Then is when well designed, tough solids are called for.

The post about “no conversations needed for any bullet other than TSX for buffalo” is blowing smoke up somewhere. Over the last 20-30 years great advances have been made in bullet design/tech and availability. But there remains a significant difference in design and use between softs and solids. The TSX is a good bullet but it is still an expanding soft. Also, if it were the do-all bullet as claimed, it would be the only bullet used or carried by all PHs…. Anecdotal, but nonetheless worth consideration.

 

[Flipper Dude]

I suspect it would be the only bullet carried by a great number of PHs, if elephants weren’t in the area. I know this is true of several prominent PHs that you’ve heard of.

 

[Longwalker]

"I think a good compromise would be the north fork cup point solid…" Me too. I've only shot one CPS at a buffalo, but it did its job exactly as I hoped. Hit hard, visible reaction to the shot, penetrated very deeply, expanded to a wider diameter, good wound channel, and retained all weight.

 

[Vinootz]

I made a comment above and had typo . But I think u goer the point. Solid(monolithic /homogenous) “or”tough like Aframe. I got to check before I hit post reply. Lol