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My question was more along the lines of how many of the water buff died quickly from one shot. Not including spine and brain shots.

My experience is even with heart shots they take a while to die. If they are aggro that time can be enough if at close enough range to squash someone.

I'm not an expert, just what my experience has been and observations.

My experience with a double on elephant, is that it gave me a lot of confidence on approaching very close, both two barrels and a .450 calibre with good bullets. If I shot a .600 and shot it well, that would be double the confidence for the really big stuff in the thick.

What I find from the featured video, is that is a fun and entertaining video. And I wish I was hunting buffalo, lion and elephant myself ... tomorrow.

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The ones I specifically shot with the 404 all dropped and died one shot. Was using Parker Hale factory solids and reloads with RWS solidss. I also must have tried a couple of Kynoch soft nose rounds at some stage in the proceedings as I had some empties at the end of the trip. Did get confusing at times as to who was shooting what and the 404 dispatched a couple of wounded ones getting to their feet once inside the bush. At one stage my mate had his scope on 9x when he went to finish a big wounded cow rearing to her feet as we approached so could only see black at the couple of metres range we were at. I covered while he cranked back to 3x and then head shot her.

All sounds a bit amateurish by today's controlled standards but that was us then, not a care or worry in the world. Not so sure I would like to repeat it at my age today, I couldn't run as fast or as far as I could then, if I had needed to.

BTW I've never liked heart shots on any animal hence my preference for the higher shoulder and brisket shots where the arteries are. A kneeling shot which I like on any animal front on nearly always angles the bullet up into the spine which helps for that quick put down.

Couldn't agree more with you on the entertaining value of the video and I would join you in a flash to hunt the big ones today.

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