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The herd buffalo might have a simple caption to explain that only soft point ammo is used in these circumstances to eleviate through & through's and suplementary wounding.

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I have to say when I read that comment, about shooting into a herd, I went back to look for that scene. I remembered seeing herd of buffalo approached and then it ran off. Finding the scene a second time, the criticism was spot on in my opinion. It was a shot I would not have taken, irrespective of using a soft point or not. On my last elephant hunt, we stalked in and out beside a feeding herd of buffalo seven times looking for an old hard bossed bull. We never spotted one, but saw many impressive long immature soft sets of horns, which looked great to my inexperienced eyes! But the PH had been instructed, ONLY hard bosses! Anyway, while looking at the herd in the jesse, I had trouble picking safe shot paths with my open sighted .450 double, so the PH and I swapped rifles, I used his .416 Remington with a scope, while he watched the three or so elephant bulls walking in the same direction a few metres in front of us the whole time. They never knew we were there, the ele bulls or the buffalo. The point of this long winded story is, I would only take a shot with the .416 with soft points IF THERE WAS A CLEAR PATH BEHIND AS WELL.

A softpoint in the shoulder will probably stop. Through the lungs behind the shoulder? Maybe, maybe not? A fmj will penetrate through in a lot of places.

I think if we had a discussion on shooting buffalo in a herd, separate from any particular video, most experienced guys would say the same.

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John aka NitroX

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