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500grains
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Woodleigh .510" softs on game
#56227 - 03/05/06 02:08 AM

Woodleigh 570 grain .510" softs.

LEFT: new bullet.

MIDDLE: bullet fired into elephant chest at point blank range. (ele was already deceased). Penetrated from the bottom of the chest upwards almost to the spine.

RIGHT: bullet fired into the snout of a live cape buffalo cow at 13 yards or so. Bullet went into her snout back a bit from the wet part, through the skull beneath the brain, out the back of the skull and stuck in the third vertebrae.

Conclusion: Woodleigh softs are good for body shots but not preferred for head shots.

Fired from .500 Nitro Express.

Here is the cape buffalo snout:

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Re: Woodleigh .510" softs on game [Re: 500grains]
#56228 - 03/05/06 02:13 AM

For some reason the pics are not working. Can someone help? Thanks.

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Re: Woodleigh .510" softs on game [Re: 500grains]
#56231 - 03/05/06 02:59 AM

Edited: Pics fixed now.

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Some pictures from Namibia

Some pictures from Zimbabwe

An Elephant Story

Edited by Charles_Helm (04/05/06 01:36 AM)

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Re: Woodleigh .510" softs on game [Re: Charles_Helm]
#56232 - 03/05/06 03:03 AM

Thank you Charles!

Can you tell me what was wrong with my posting format?

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Re: Woodleigh .510" softs on game [Re: 500grains]
#56233 - 03/05/06 03:13 AM

The codes were not quite right -- the first picture used a code to the Photobucket page rather than the .jpg file itself and the coding for the second picture was scrambled a bit.

Edited: Detail no longer needed.

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Some pictures from Namibia

Some pictures from Zimbabwe

An Elephant Story

Edited by Charles_Helm (04/05/06 01:37 AM)

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Re: Woodleigh .510" softs on game [Re: Charles_Helm]
#56235 - 03/05/06 03:43 AM

Thank you.

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Re: Woodleigh .510" softs on game [Re: 500grains]
#56240 - 03/05/06 04:20 AM

I have to say I can't believe the penetration on the second bullet with so much expansion/flattening!

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Some pictures from Namibia

Some pictures from Zimbabwe

An Elephant Story

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Re: Woodleigh .510" softs on game [Re: Charles_Helm]
#56317 - 03/05/06 09:56 PM

That 2nd bullet is a beautiful mushroom all right. Geoff MacDonald is one of the world's best bullet builders for sure.

500grains: Great photo. I wouldn't be too hard on the 2nd recovery though, shot from only 13 yds and traversing bone all the way. It looks fine to me, and quite obviously it did the job! Remember no-one sets off into the hunting field with the intention of deliberately making a frontal head-shot on thick-skinned DG with a soft-nose bullet, ever! It's nice to know that a Woodleigh will still cut the mustard if it all goes pear-shaped.

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Re: Woodleigh .510" softs on game [Re: 500grains]
#56326 - 03/05/06 11:55 PM

500-

You state the animal was shot at 13 yards and the shot went under the brain and further into vertebratal bone. May I ask-- Was the animal charging or adrenalized?

Did the shot have the same shock effect as a CNS hit and the animal immediately collapse? What was the animals response? Did the shot turn the animal?

Looks like the bullet was tough for a soft and performed well and didn't fragment despite the abuse of going thru the bone. Indeed, a harvested animal with a total bullet energy dump in the animal!

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Re: Woodleigh .510" softs on game [Re: hoppdoc]
#56338 - 04/05/06 01:55 AM

Gentlemen,

I got this cow by lying in wait behind a bush as the herd fed toward us. Wind was favorable, but the cow saw us and was about to decide to run off when I stood and shot her. As I had not shot a buff with a soft before, I had a soft in the right chamber for experimental purposes. But at that distance and with her looking at me I could not resist a brain shot.

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