June '12 Australia buffalo hunt

[Snapshot]

I wondered why the Banteng hunts were so expensive, compared to the reasonable price for Water Buff.

[Kilimanjaro]

I wondered why the Banteng hunts were so expensive, compared to the reasonable price for Water Buff.

 

Cornered market and supply and demand.. That's the only place that has them. Cool hunt though. I hope I can do it someday.

 

I will post some more pics of the trip and some of the other guy's trophies tomorrow. Off to the dentist for a wonderful afternoon of repairing a crown.. Fun!!

[firstcoueswas80]

You're FINALLY getting that thing fixed?!

[Kilimanjaro]

 

 

My buddy Cal with his bull taken with his 1910 Wilkes 600NE.

 

 

Cal's bull before he became intimately acquainted with Cal's 600NE.

 

 

[Snapshot]

Nice bull.

 

Your buddy looks like the kind of guy who can handle a .600 NE. The bullets from those guns are so big they should have a license plate attached to them.

[Kilimanjaro]

Rob with a cow buffalo he DEVASTATED with a frontal shot with his Bland four bore shooting a 1500grain lead ball.

 

Here is the penetration results. A round ball traversed the entire length of the buff.

 

Here is an assortment of the ammo that had been recovered from Rob's various buffalo. Other than the rifling marks & a few nicks, all were perfect & could be (and were) reloaded. These projectiles weigh in at 1500gr. It is an unbelievable weapon. Rob says to shoot it with a full blackpowder load is the extreme of a man's tolerance of recoil. With the smokeless, it was a beast to shoot but quite manageable.

The round in the picture is a 375H&H to give you scale.

[Kilimanjaro]

Some of the bird life in this part of Aussie:

 

Kookaburra

 

Cockatoo

 

Galah (Rose breasted Cockatoo)

 

A couple of up and comer scrub bulls..

 

George in the middle of recoil with the four bore!

 

The thing almost took him out of his shirt!

 

Fresh water croc. He didn't appreciate us fishing his creek..

 

Some more buffalo..

 

Mike's buffalo and his scrub bull.

 

Some more fantastic artwork..

 

A helluva big and nice chunk of the beautiful Northern Territory!

 

[Snapshot]

Nice pics. That 4 bore cartirdge is HUGE. I have never shot anything bigger than a .458 Win Mag. I can only imagine the recoil of those big thunder boomers.

 

......and those Buffalo don't look too happy. Was it Capstick that said "A buffalo will look at you like you owe him money" ?