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Buff Trip 2018
#319024 - 12/08/18 09:18 AM

Just returned from four awesome days in some great country. Some great trophies too many to write about so pictorial with descriptions.
Cheers Mick
Jezza with his first scrubber. Buff bull walked in so his first buff followed. 9.3x62 250 sako power heads

Very good bull 2x hydros front on 1 recovered from rear leg, 9.3x74 chapius

286 hydro

Caught up with the other group, they had taken a couple of cows and a bull,Willis, Oscar, Matt Chris,Jezza

Weatherby 338WM,Sauer 202 9.3x62, sako Bavarian 30-06, chapius9.3x74,, Win extreme 325WSM,Thomas Blissett 500BPE

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: 264]
#319025 - 12/08/18 09:31 AM

BUFF FIGHTING SEQUENCE
Spotted a bull heading up a burnt floodplain. Chris was after him when a second was spotted coming in on a tangent to the first. As they got closer together the first bull charged the other from around 200m. the second bull didn't realise until they were only a few Metres apart.
He turned and took the impact, then it was on for young and old. Waited 30 years to see a fight and not disappointed.

Chris and Jezza won, bulls didn't react to the shots, both kept fighting until one weekend and broke away. Both went down near each other.

Chris 500BPE 440 woodies angry young bull

Jezza 9.3x62, unaware bull impact cuts above eye

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: 264]
#319026 - 12/08/18 09:45 AM

Jezza with a scrubber out of a mob returning to camp 160m running

Meaties with Jezzas 9.3, first caused few anxious moments running straight at us from 30m second shot dropped it at 8m. Not charging.

Chris recovering last years trophy 3.5km to camp

young bull

taking a break at a croc friendly spot

beautiful spot

Little water fall

Jezza with bull coming off water

Chris with a good bull with 500BPE shooting a bit high

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: 264]
#319027 - 12/08/18 09:59 AM

back straps for dinner Chris 500BPE. Bull returned for a look and Jezza dropped him. Nice bull

Got into some fresh burnt country with new regrowth, found a mob of scrubbers .Jezza and I dropped 4 heres a couple of bulls.

160m 9.3x74

early morning bull 500BPE and recovered woodie 440 RNSP

good bull 40m 1x 270gr ACP

Shot above disturbed another bull and Jezza dropped him with a couple of 325ornyxs

Left Jezza at a water hole for a rest. He got decent bull coming in to water.

Swapped rifles with Chris, enjoyed shooting his 500BPE 25m didn't get up

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: 264]
#319028 - 12/08/18 10:10 AM

Chris about to double tap a old warrior great shooting dropped on the spot 40m 270 gr ACP

Great old bull

Chris was shooting well 130 and 160m second running

Bull taken on the way up pics on return

returning to camp, big days

scrubber I pulled up with a cow call, Jezza dropped him when he stopped

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: 264]
#319029 - 12/08/18 10:18 AM

Good bull I missed with 1st shot second and third as he was running

Hydro lump front leg

Jezza with a old bull that took several rounds to drop, tough SOB

Chris with a young bull myself with his mate

Cooling feet after about 22km's

topping up water at a spring

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: 264]
#319030 - 12/08/18 10:23 AM

recovered 250 tsx's from cows

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: 264]
#319031 - 12/08/18 11:11 AM

Great pic's Mick!
Bull fight was top shelf stuff. Thanks for sharing

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Edited by Iowa_303 (13/08/18 11:36 AM)

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: Iowa_303s]
#319033 - 12/08/18 01:11 PM

Well done Mick, looks like a great trip. Plenty of buffs and the weather looks like it was pretty reasonable as well. Great looking country with some nice watering spots. Thanks for posting.

Matt.

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: Waidmannsheil]
#319038 - 13/08/18 11:06 AM

Looks like a great time in the field!

Really great to see the old BPE out there too.
Thanks for the nice report.

Cheers
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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: tinker]
#319054 - 14/08/18 06:01 AM

Great trip Mick - all bloody jealous here!
Hydro lump front leg.....WOW, never though you could recover a hydro they just zing through?
Can you go over that particular part mate it really has me intrigued, what was the muzzle velocity as the faster they're pushed the better they work?

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: 93x64mm]
#319058 - 14/08/18 07:19 AM

Quote:

Great trip Mick - all bloody jealous here!
Hydro lump front leg.....WOW, never though you could recover a hydro they just zing through?
Can you go over that particular part mate it really has me intrigued, what was the muzzle velocity as the faster they're pushed the better they work?

9.3x74 at 2350fps 286 gr hydro
Shot was around 130m running, mid body raking to the front left leg. Broke the leg and stopped under the skin. So velocity had dropped and a fair bit of gut before breaking the leg. Recovered three from bulls now. Also on this trip 40m front on in the neck full length of the body and stopping again in the rear leg under the skin. Bull ran straight at me and another at 15 same shot opposite side exited the rear leg. lots of penetration.
Ill post pics of recovered projectiles.
Cheers Mick

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: 264]
#319065 - 14/08/18 11:28 AM

G'Day Fella's

Thanks for shaing 264.
Great to see you out there, gettin amongst them.
Thanks also for the ballistic report on the various Woodleigh bullets.
I have a few Hydro's for my .404 Jeff (and others), that I need to test on a big critter.

D'oh!
Homer

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: Homer]
#319087 - 15/08/18 11:29 PM

Which 500BPE were you using?

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: DoubleD]
#319220 - 21/08/18 04:16 PM

A Thomas Blissett, theres a pic of it with all the rifles. Great to shoot. Cheers Mick

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Re: Buff Trip 2018 [Re: 264]
#319641 - 06/09/18 08:09 PM

Well down Mick. A bloody excellent four days. You shot far more than we even saw over four days.

I like the one on the far right the best.

Amazing to see a good fight. The first buffalo I shot, the one with Matt Graham, was an hour it had a very brief scrap with another bull, but only one head butt. Then a sleep off in the water between the two, before the smaller bull left, and the older one immediately started eating again. This scrap of your bulls looks far more impressive. But the most impressive scrap I have seen was two elephant bulls having a head butt and pushing session back in Kenya in 1988. But too quick and over to get a photo back then.

Good photos of yours.

I assume this is a cow?

And then there was two ...

Lovely spot.

Thanks for posting.

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