SOUTH AFRICA: Back From A Wonderful Journey & A Great Hunt With Wayne Wagner Safaris

[FlowHamed18]

Today I got home from a really great Safari organised by Wayne Wagner Safaris.

The PH was Ian Brown and we were hunting my first buffalo for 7 days in the Limpopo province.

I have to say that Ian is a wonderful person. He is friendly, funny and a really great PH who is living for the hunt itself.

From the first second of daylight until the last one we were out in the bush searching for tracks and following them through the bush.

The accommodation was nice and the food was always great.

As I am not a very good writer, only a few sentences on my buffalo.
On day 6 of 7 we found this old bull on his way back from the waterhole into the thickness.

We were able to stalk him up to 40m where I was able to hit him with a perfect broadside shot from my .404 Jeffery.
The bullet broke his opposite shoulder and he was down after 20m.
After the death bellow I paid our insurance with a second shot nonetheless.

There he was lying - my first buffalo...
Scratching at the 40 inch mark, with a boss full of character and over 12 years old this is really my dream buffalo

 

[jasyblood]

Congrats on a great first buffalo! I hunted with Ian 4 or 5 years ago. Great PH and person and one of the most scenic camps I've ever stayed at!

 

[WyoBull]

Congratulations on a great looking Buffalo!

 

[cpr0312]

Congrats and thanks for sharing!

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Great buffalo! No surprises that you had a great hunt with Ian. He was my PH on my first hunt to RSA in 2010.

 

[Nyati]

Great buff congrats

 

[mark-hunter]

The picture speaks thousand words!
Congrats!

 

[Deepfork]

Wow!!! Congrats!!

 

[.300RUM]

Awesome, definitely on my bucket list.

 

[Adipose]

Very sweet, congratulations on your first buffalo.

 

[Neophyte]

Outstanding!

 

[FlowHamed18]

The Barnes TSX 400gr did it's job perfectly. It was stuck in the broken opposite shoulder and did a lot of damage to both lungs and the blood vessels.

 

[FlowHamed18]

Thanks to all of you for the congratulations!

 

[.300RUM]

On our trip last year, two fellas were using TSX bullets, I think one was 165g in .308 and the other was 180g in 30.06, all hand loads. Was extremely impressed as all recovered bullets looked exactly like yours and what would be on an advertisement for said projectile.

I was using 180g Nosler Partitions in my .300 Remington Ultra Mag, this bullet exploded in a Waterbuck. Shot in the right shoulder area and this was recovered just under the skin on the left side. Copper jacket is all that's left.

 

[Graham Hunter]

If you turn it over you should still have the lead in the base below the partition.

 

[Graham Hunter]

What distance were you shooting at?

 

[.300RUM]

Shot was about 160 yards, there will be no lead at base as lead is contained by copper jacket.

 

[Graham Hunter]

On a Nosler Partition the base is not covered by copper.

 

[.300RUM]

I have looked at this and seems that you are correct, the picture on the ammo box doesn't match the cross-section of the manufacturers example.

 

[Graham Hunter]

I'm not sure that is even a Partition. Remington stuck a lot of different components that didn't match.