Mpofu
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Following the 'Buffalo charge' thread, I managed to get hold of the video 'As the dust settles'.(Highly recommenderd).
There is a buffalo charge on the video, a lot more dramatic and a heck of a lot more dangerous than the one with the female hunter.
This one has a wounded Buff followed up into pretty dense Mopani, where it waits for the hunters and charges from a very short distance. How the tracker didn't get taken out either by the buff or got shot by the hunter is amazing!
Also , for the guys who cackle on about using really big bore weapons, there is a scene of a hunter firing his double (a 470?) and the weapon literally flys out of his hands and lands on the PH!
For what it's worth,I reckon a hunter ought to use the weapon he is most comfortable with.
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rgp
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The scene you described with the .470 does not surprise me. Some people will not practice with a heavy rifle nor do they intend to ever shoot it unless absolutely necessary. A surprisingly large number of people actually purchase a "big rifle" under the assumption that they will fire it exactly once to take a brown bear or a cape buffalo.
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500grains
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I cannot imagine a .470 flying out of my hands, and I am not very strong. The recoil of a .470 is not so great, and the rifles usually weight 10 pounds or more.
Did the guy pull both triggers in order to get the gun to fly out of his hands?
Or was he off balance when he shot?
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rgp
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A lot of people buy the gun and a box of ammunition and three years later they still haven't finished that box. Granted it isn't too much but the sad fact is that the average person doesn't want to shoot anything more powerful than a .30-06 and even prefers to avoid that level.
That is why if you're patient you can find used like new .375's and .458's for sale for a fraction of their original cost. Most of those rifles seem to come back to a gun shop unused.
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Mpofu
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500 grains,
I don't know if he pulled off both barrels. He took a pretty hasty snap shot at a charging Elephant Bull. Pretty dangerous , when you consider an unarmed hunter ,an air borne 470 with it's safety off, a still charging Ele bull, and the PH distracted from firing by the flying 470 !
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NitroX
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I will have to buy that video as it sounds interesting.
If a double flies out of your hands and it is only a .470 you can't be holding it properly or have a poor stance.
Especially if a buffalo is coming at you. I don't think you would feel the recoil at all in this situation even if it doubled and I should know.
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WRM458
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Where did you get the video from?
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Mpofu
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I got the video from www.outdoorvisions.com
Re the guy losing hold of the double, I am afraid I mixed up on the videos as I had just watched a few of them . The relevant scene is not from As the dust settles, but on the 'Very best of African sporthunting productions', and it is an elephant they are after , not a daggaboy.(Got that one wrong...big time !!)
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