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poprivit
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Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?
20/06/11 03:14 AM

Ok, here's another opinion. What say you?. BTW: I may just borrow my brother's Win. M 70 .300 Win Mag. I used to have one, and everything shot with it and a good 180-gr. bullet fell down, including a Tsessebe, Lechwe #3, Warthog and a Sititunga. "Course, if I could take a handgun ... S&W Performance Center 500 Mag with hardened lead 600-gr. bullets. Worked on a giraffe, should do for leopard. Probably pass right through and not stop until Angola. However, can't take it to Namibia.

"Even with good legs, you cannot outrun a leopard and as you have mentioned, shot placement is crucial for a clean kill. I have known a farmer in Namibia who sometimes shot gemsbok (oryx) successfully with a .22. A leopard is not a very large animal and it is also soft skinned. So a .257 WM will be effective on leopard. But in Namibia and Zimbabwe for example, the minimum legal caliber for plains game is 7mm (.284) and I think also for leopard. However in Namibia, a minimum of 1,991 ft-lb (2700 joules) is required for leopard which would make your rifle legal."

I hope this helps.

Werner Dörgeloh

Intu Safaris
Hunting far and wild

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OK, which rifle for leopard?	poprivit	18/06/11 03:32 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	bonanza	21/07/11 05:49 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	poprivit	21/07/11 08:16 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	bonanza	21/07/11 09:05 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	poprivit	22/07/11 03:29 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	bonanza	22/07/11 09:52 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	HogPilot	20/09/11 03:59 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	9.3x57	21/07/11 10:26 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	JabaliHunter	19/06/11 03:19 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	poprivit	19/06/11 05:53 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	Rule303	19/06/11 02:24 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	FATBOY404	19/06/11 03:04 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	eagle27	19/06/11 03:51 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	FATBOY404	19/06/11 07:04 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	DarylS	20/06/11 01:35 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	poprivit	20/06/11 03:14 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	Ripp	20/06/11 03:35 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	gryphon	20/06/11 12:01 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	albertan	20/07/11 03:41 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	DarylS	21/07/11 02:01 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	tophet1	20/07/11 05:04 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	93mouse	19/06/11 07:09 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	Blank	19/06/11 12:37 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	hughman	18/06/11 04:21 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	NitroX	18/06/11 05:25 PM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	DarylS	19/06/11 02:21 AM
Re: OK, which rifle for leopard?	Mike_Bailey	19/06/11 02:31 AM

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