Here's one of the buffs that fell to our rifles, a joint effort in this case as Mark was best positioned
to administer quietus once Ian's opener had stopped the bull:




A better candidate for the ice-box. Ian on the knife:





John:

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Yet the .275 and more so, the 6.5mm was Bell's buffalo slayer.

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Karamojo Bell used the heavy round-nosed FMJ solids for all his .256 and .275 shooting as I understand it.
Seem to recall his barrel had "never been polluted by the passage of a soft-point bullet".
I would consider shooting at a buffalo with a HV 140-grain soft-point while on foot in the presence of others to be fairly irresponsible.
...especially when "the others" are more appropriately armed!




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Edited by Marrakai (11/08/25 09:27 PM)

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