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Finn was a advocate of the .458 and I don't disagree with anything he said. Just keep that ammo fresh and you'll be fine.
Here are some buff pictures from the years.
I took this one with a .375H&H in the Zambezi valley. 300 gr Barnes TSX one shot kill through the top of the heart the buff went less than 30 yards and dropped stone cold dead. I have started shooting buff higher in the shoulder and hitting the top of the heart or the "spaghetti junction" above the heart. It really kills them fast. Faster than a lung shot or a heart muscle shot.
I took this one several years before with a .470 double rifle using .500 gr Barnes X and Barnes solids. This ended in a full blown close range charge. The bull took two shots through the lungs initially from my .470 then took four more before he stopped. The story was written up in African Hunter Magazine in the 2008 SCI show edition January 2008
I killed this one in the Kilombero of Tanzania in 2002 he took one frontal shot to the heart with from my .458 Lott with a 500 gr WLSP then I swatted him three more time as ran away. 10 minutes latter we found him lying in the long grass and he was able to get up on wobbly legs and act like he was going to charge but put a 500 gr solid through his neck which ceased all hostilities. When we opened him up he had a golf ball sized hole right through the bottom of his heart from the first shot. Apparently he hadn't read the manual where it says heart shots are fatal!@
Another bull that I killed in the Kilombero. This picture shows my first attempt at a Lott conversion. The rifle was a stainless M-70 that I re-barreled. The reason it's wearing that stock is that it shot itself out of two others right before the hunt. I put that el cheapo Houge on it and it held. It now wears a very well done Mc Millian and prototype set of protected ear sights My buddy Ashley Emerson has got it at the moment but I'll get some pictures of it up ASAP.
Here are some buff pictures from the years.
I took this one with a .375H&H in the Zambezi valley. 300 gr Barnes TSX one shot kill through the top of the heart the buff went less than 30 yards and dropped stone cold dead. I have started shooting buff higher in the shoulder and hitting the top of the heart or the "spaghetti junction" above the heart. It really kills them fast. Faster than a lung shot or a heart muscle shot.
I took this one several years before with a .470 double rifle using .500 gr Barnes X and Barnes solids. This ended in a full blown close range charge. The bull took two shots through the lungs initially from my .470 then took four more before he stopped. The story was written up in African Hunter Magazine in the 2008 SCI show edition January 2008
I killed this one in the Kilombero of Tanzania in 2002 he took one frontal shot to the heart with from my .458 Lott with a 500 gr WLSP then I swatted him three more time as ran away. 10 minutes latter we found him lying in the long grass and he was able to get up on wobbly legs and act like he was going to charge but put a 500 gr solid through his neck which ceased all hostilities. When we opened him up he had a golf ball sized hole right through the bottom of his heart from the first shot. Apparently he hadn't read the manual where it says heart shots are fatal!@
Another bull that I killed in the Kilombero. This picture shows my first attempt at a Lott conversion. The rifle was a stainless M-70 that I re-barreled. The reason it's wearing that stock is that it shot itself out of two others right before the hunt. I put that el cheapo Houge on it and it held. It now wears a very well done Mc Millian and prototype set of protected ear sights My buddy Ashley Emerson has got it at the moment but I'll get some pictures of it up ASAP.
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