Forums.NitroExpress.com

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact NitroExpress.com: Buckshot & Big Cats

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies

*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

You are not logged in. [Login]

Main Index · Search · Active Topics
New user · Who's Online · FAQ · Calendar

Hunting >> Hunting in Africa & hunting dangerous game

Ingwe
.275 member

Reged: 08/07/04
Posts: 70
Loc: Texas

Buckshot & Big Cats
23/07/04 09:11 AM

I know of several instances where Peter Capstick shot big cats with his 12 gauge, and it always worked with rather spectacular results. There was the jag that bit his foot so badly - he shot it in the face with the 12 and blew his head clean off. I know of a lioness once that was intent on rearranging his anatomy, and all he had was his 12 loaded with 7 1\2 bird shot. He shot her in the face and also evaporated her head. Same with the big jag in Belize, and I know of at least 2 other lions - all their heads were turned into a mist of hair, teeth, bone, blood, and brains. Not surprisingly, Peter wrote high praise for the 12 on cats up close.

On the other hand, I have heard a lot of stories of hunters in deep yogurt because they failed to stop a charge from a cat with a shotgun. However, in these stories, I have never seen where it was said if the cats were hit square in the face like Peter's, or if they were hit but not in the head, or if they were missed entirely, or even if the hunter was able to fire his shotgun at all. So, I am wondering - what is the deal with the 12 gauge on cats? The hunters who get hammered - are they hitting the head squarely like Peter and still getting nailed? Was Peter just lucky and happened to have cats that were less buckshot resistant than other cats? Why the apparently conflicting opnions on this topic?

--------------------

_________________________________________________

Learn from other people's mistakes - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Post Extras

Print Post

Remind Me!

Notify Moderator

Entire topic
Subject	Posted by	Posted on
Buckshot & Big Cats	Ingwe	23/07/04 09:11 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	iqbal	28/07/04 01:59 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	NE450No2	28/07/04 12:13 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	NitroX	28/07/04 01:49 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Will	29/07/04 09:52 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Ingwe	28/07/04 01:28 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	canada	28/07/04 01:37 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	AdamTayler	01/08/04 06:51 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Ingwe	01/08/04 09:20 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	canada	01/08/04 08:54 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	shakari	02/08/04 04:44 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	mikeh416Rigby	02/08/04 08:31 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	mickey	23/07/04 11:33 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Will	24/07/04 11:55 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	atkinson6	27/07/04 05:23 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	DUGABOY1	27/07/04 10:51 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	4seventy	27/07/04 12:53 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Ingwe	27/07/04 11:37 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Ingwe	27/07/04 06:58 AM

Extra information

0 registered and 7 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator:

Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Thread views: 3323

Jump to

NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact

Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved