Forums.NitroExpress.com

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact NitroExpress.com: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies

*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

You are not logged in. [Login]

Main Index · Search · Active Topics
New user · Who's Online · FAQ · Calendar

Shooting & Reloading - Mausers, Big Bores and others >> Big Bore Rifles

DUGABOY1
.400 member

Reged: 02/02/03
Posts: 1340
Loc: TEXAS USA

Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?
24/07/06 01:25 PM

Hoppdoc , I see you have drawn 24 views before me, and no-one seems prone to offer an opinion!

It is my condidered opinion, that no shotgun is the best choice for follow-up for a wounded Leopard, and I doubt you will get a second shot on a leopard from a blind, so we are discussing a follow-up. I do agree, however, if one does use the shotgun, the best choice in ammo would be a pair of Brenneke slugs! I, on the other hand, would rather have a good 9.3X74R double with a low powered, illuminated scope, in a quality set of QD rings and bases, and a set trigger on the right barrel, for the first shot from the blind. Then remove the scope for the trip to the tree, or for follow-up, if he gets in the weeds!

It is a matter of record, almost everyone who has been mauled by a wounded leopard, was following him with a shotgun. Admittedly, most of those were useing Buckshot, not slugs, and at the ranges you stand a leopard charge a shotgun has a pattern of less than 3". With the Drilling, if that is what I wanted to use, it would be a double 9.3X74R, or 375H&H flanged, with the shot barrel on the bottom useing a Brenneke slug. The recovery time from a 9.3 round, is much faster than from a 12 ga slug, and the bottom barrel is too slow to get into action, regardless, of what the top pair are chambered for!

Now that the opinion is expressed, let me tell you I have not taken a leopard, with any firearm, but I do know fire arms, and what they are capable of performing! So the opinion, above, can be taken with a grain of salt, but it is cheap, at the price you are paying for it!

--------------------
..........Mac >>>===(x)===>
DUGABOY1, and MacD37 founding member of DRSS www.doublerifleshooterssociety.com
"If I die today, I have had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"

Post Extras

Print Post

Remind Me!

Notify Moderator

Entire topic
Subject	Posted by	Posted on
IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	hoppdoc	22/07/06 09:27 PM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	Preacher	25/07/06 11:27 AM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	shakari	25/07/06 03:58 PM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	hoppdoc	25/07/06 10:54 PM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	Preacher	25/07/06 11:50 PM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	DUGABOY1	27/07/06 01:44 AM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	NE450No2	28/07/06 04:35 AM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	bulldog563	28/07/06 04:49 PM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	Preacher	29/07/06 05:49 AM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	luv2safari	02/08/06 08:47 AM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	Preacher	24/07/06 09:25 PM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	shakari	24/07/06 10:41 PM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	Preacher	24/07/06 11:29 PM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	shakari	25/07/06 04:51 AM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	Preacher	25/07/06 05:44 AM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	shakari	25/07/06 07:23 AM
Re: IS THE 12 ga, DRILLING THE BEST LEOPARD GUN?	DUGABOY1	24/07/06 01:25 PM

Extra information

0 registered and 64 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator:

Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Thread views: 3481

Jump to

NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact

Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved