| DUGABOY1 |
| (.400 member) |
| 15/08/04 05:47 AM |
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Re: Why not more head shots?
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In reply to:
A lot of times when the conditions are not good for a brain shot, the neck shot is easily available. It just seems to me like I see a lot of cases where people take the heart/lung shot, when the neck would have been just as easy. One of my favorite shots in North America is to stick the bullet right where the head and neck are joined, and the animal is virtually decapitated. To me, it is just as easy to put the crosshairs there as the heart/lung area.
Well. like Dizzy Dean said, "It ain't bragging if you can do it!"
The trouble with this idea is than even guys who shoot Buffalo all the time, can seldom make those shots! The nature of Cape Buffalo is such that a VERY close miss on either of these shots, is going to result in someone haveing to go into the weeds after a very pissed off Cape Buffalo. I'm hopeing if I'm with you you don't try either of these shots,unless you are a very lucky man!
The brain shot is researved, IMO, for when nothing else will stop him, and he is very close, too close to miss! Because if he is close enough to need a brain shot, it had better be dead center, because, in most cases, there will not be another chance!
