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The following is just a hearsay and I am selling it just as I bought it.

A friend of mine was sharing a camp in Zim (Save - Brooklands) with an US hunter that shot a Buff quartering towards him with a said bullet in .485 Lott. Shot was right on the point of a shoulder toward opposite hind leg. Bullet totaly disintegrated upon hiting the bone on the shoulder and never made it in the boiler room. They got the Buff later on, however that guy sweared that DGX will never see a DG hunt again...

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This post and the first is the reason why I prefer solids on big animals. I know it is against the grain for many but I know with a solid I can hit a buffalo on the point of the shoulder, high in the brisket, in the rear end, in the head, and in the spine and it is going to penetrate and go the distance each and every time. Every one of these shots is a killing or anchoring shot. When I hunted buffalo oh so many years ago I really knew nothing about softs and solids but I instinctively loaded the .404 up with solids and went to a slaying, it worked so well on each and everyone that got in my sights.

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