After some indifferent results shooting meat-buffalo for the local community, I ordered in some 650gr Nitro Woodleighs to load in place of the BP Weldcores I had been using successfully with the previous rifle. Those softer bullets appear to have been over-expanding at the higher velocity, perhaps 'parachuting' on impact.

Walked a couple of creeklines yesterday afternoon looking for a worthy bull, but some fools on quad-bikes had torched the place on the previous weekend, and the buffalo had headed for greener pastures.

Did find a couple of hogs though. First one was in a sand wallow, looked like a boar but was just a big sow.

This is what a head shot with the .577 looks like!

Second one took off from an adjacent hidden wallow at the shot, but didn't offer a good sight picture till over 90m away. Luckily the big Webley was up to the task!

Third one was a better boar stalked in his wallow, never knew what hit him! Broken tusks unfortunately.

Boy, was it hot out there! Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Back for another look in a day or two, hopefully to find some country with a bit of grass left standing!