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Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?
09/11/16 08:17 PM

eagle27, good to hear, and I agree with most of your comments.

I know I have lost a couple of large beasts and probably more than a few rabbits. Perhaps some feral goats when young and stupid and using a .222. Some ran away. We killed most of those, but when shooting hundreds of goats some may have got away.

I learned the hard way, not to take two brain shots on water buffalo with a double rifle. BANG, the first drops instantly, move to the second BANG, and it drops, gets and runs away. Shot through the skull but not the brain. We lost its tracks in the herd tracks of the many buffalo in the area. No blood trail to follow. Learned to never use the SECOND barrel for a brain shot. A reasonable bidy shot would kill the buffalo much quicker if it escaped.

The other was a hartebeest in Namibia. A bad shot, I found out later, the shooting sticks were being setu too high, and after several shots needed followup started to adjust the sticks myself for every shot, and instantly back to normal. As for hartebeeast, it ran off, the tracker was lazy and useless. I am the one who found the tiny dot of blood under the grass 80 metres further up the hill when the antelope stopped for a second. We searched for it that day, and kept any eye out for the next few days. The lady of the game ranch said "Jackals have to eat too ..."

My most painful wounding was successfully finished. Overall we followed a wounded wildebeest for at least 35 kms in 40 deg C heat back in 1988, and 25 kms the first day, followed by a 5 to 7 km walk to water. And another 5 or 7 kms the next morning to find the dead beast. A definite lesson in shooting well.

Any hunter who has hunted more than a small amount will have made a mistake. Mistakes are often what teach us more than successes.

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Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	PapaScarface	05/10/16 10:29 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	mchughcb	05/10/16 10:53 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	tophet1	13/10/16 08:15 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	06/10/16 03:11 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	Well_Well_Well	06/10/16 09:14 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	06/10/16 10:25 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gwh	06/10/16 09:30 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	Homer	07/10/16 10:03 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	Waidmannsheil	07/10/16 10:39 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	07/10/16 04:14 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	07/10/16 04:32 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	eagle27	07/10/16 05:16 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	12/10/16 02:33 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	12/10/16 04:45 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	eagle27	13/10/16 05:39 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	13/10/16 05:50 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	eagle27	14/10/16 05:21 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	NitroX	09/11/16 11:13 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	09/11/16 11:26 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	NitroX	09/11/16 12:05 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	eagle27	09/11/16 03:57 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	NitroX	09/11/16 08:17 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	Rule303	09/11/16 09:10 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	eagle27	10/11/16 03:37 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	10/11/16 03:58 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	09/11/16 04:01 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	NitroX	09/11/16 11:25 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	14/10/16 07:13 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	mchughcb	13/10/16 11:01 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	szihn	19/10/16 10:39 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	19/10/16 12:13 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	20/10/16 04:58 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	20/10/16 07:19 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	20/10/16 10:57 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	20/10/16 11:50 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	20/10/16 12:35 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	20/10/16 02:28 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	21/10/16 04:24 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	21/10/16 11:18 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	22/10/16 03:27 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	22/10/16 07:04 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	22/10/16 11:38 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	Homer	22/10/16 02:52 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	14/10/16 06:32 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	DarylS	13/10/16 06:02 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	Taylor416	07/10/16 07:28 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	BillG500	07/10/16 07:57 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	07/10/16 08:28 PM
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Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	Homer	12/10/16 07:54 AM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	gryphon	12/10/16 01:38 PM
Re: Where does the 7x57 Mauser stand as a sambar cartridge?	eagle27	13/10/16 05:30 PM

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