Cape Buffalo return after shooting

[Foxi]

Hey Folks,
before you have to go to bed.......look at this.
Sweet dreams
Foxi
p.s. the gun looks like Blaser R93

 

[Red Leg]

That hunter acquitted himself very well indeed.
And amazingly that notorious Blaser 93 some how didn't kill him, the PH and the tracker as well!

 

[BRICKBURN]

Thanks for sharing that.

Sure soaked up a lot of lead.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Wow that got exciting fast!

 

[CAustin]

That was really action packed!

 

[gillettehunter]

Interesting video. That hunter knew how to shoot. Did a good job. Thanks for posting. Bruce

 

[Nyati]

An exciting hunt. Thanks for sharing, Foxi.

 

[KWALATA SAFARIS]

Have seen this multiple times, where another bull returns to the other, on two occasions the returning bull paid no attention to us and severely mauled the bellowing bull.

I have never though shot the second, I also don't believe this bull (the second was shot in self defense, as it was still to far away) but rather as a second tag.

Cool footage though.
My best always

 

[Wheels]

Who said the 375 doesn't have stopping power.

Neat video Foxi. Thanks

 

[Foxi]

Who said the 375 doesn't have stopping power.

Neat video Foxi. Thanks

my PH in Zimb always said: .375 best penetration ever.
Imagine, the hunter would have a double with open sight......

I'm happy when you Gentlemen, enjoy the pics and videos.
Foxi

 

[Amon458]

I've never been buff hunting but is it normal for them to take that many shots or was it bad shot placement or because it was a 375?

 

[sestoppelman]

Buffalo are very tough critters, especially when adrenalin kicks in. Multiple shots are the norm with them. I am no expert but have taken two. My first took 3 hits from .375's to die, my second took one shot from my .375 and DRT! No finisher needed either. A story related by Charles Askins really attested to the toughness of this critter. Before the bull in question succumbed it had soaked up like 11 rounds of .460 Weatherby. The hunter was bleeding from the nose from shooting and the buff had multiple .45 caliber holes to bleed from before it was all over. Some think the .375 is marginal, but it really isn't. A lot has to do with whether the bull knows he is being hunted and how wary and alert he is. If he is just minding his own business, unaware, and properly shot with most anything he will go down.

 

[Foxi]

I've never been buff hunting but is it normal for them to take that many shots or was it bad shot placement or because it was a 375?

sometimes nobody can understand the things on a hunt.
One good shot of a .300 Win Mag may be perfect and than 6 from big calibers.........
look below,Mark Sullivans first shot on the nose of a buff.
No reaction and that with .500........
Foxi

 

[Velo Dog]

Have seen this multiple times, where another bull returns to the other, on two occasions the returning bull paid no attention to us and severely mauled the bellowing bull.

I have never though shot the second, I also don't believe this bull (the second was shot in self defense, as it was still to far away) but rather as a second tag.

Cool footage though.
My best always

Jac0,

The scenario you describe happened to my prize when I knocked down the buffalo shown in my avatar, for the 2nd and final time.
One of the other bulls that had been more or less running with him, after he picked himself up from my 1st shot, came back immediately after my 2nd shot and began repeatedly bashing the dead bull hard enough to rock the carcass a bit but not quite roll it over.
The PH (Hannes Swanepoel) is a calm person by nature (all you PH's are refreshingly calm people) and just quietly instructed me to "load both barrels with solids" and "do not shoot unless I do".
This carcass bashing was over a hundred yds away so, there really was no immediate threat to us.
I had already reloaded two solids and so I just said "I already have" and/or "I understand" or something like that.

Upon watching this video clip, it occurred to me the 2nd bull was not after the hunting party but only interested in his fallen comrade, exactly as my one and only buffalo shooting experience had been.
However, I didn't post on it here for fear that mine was a one in a million experience and this video perhaps really was showing a charge at the hunter (even though it did not look like it to me).
Again, I have but one experience with buffalo hunting.
Now that you have said it looked like a charge only at the fallen one, you have emboldened me to come out of the closet with my opinion - LOL.
And, my opinion mirrors yours on this except that it did not occur to me until you mentioned it that possibly if not probably, a second tag was being filled.
I had presumed the client had simply fired into an animal that was not really after him or any member of his hunting party, only after the downed bull.
Another tag being filled does make perfect sense though, now that you mention it.

I once saw a farmyard rooster do the same to a freshly slaughtered rooster.
I guess they figure - "I couldn't whip him in life but while he's dead I bet I can!"

Thanks for validating my single buffalo hunting observation.

Kind Regards,
Velo Dog.

 

[KWALATA SAFARIS]

Jac0,

The scenario you describe happened to my prize when I knocked down the buffalo shown in my avatar, for the 2nd and final time.
One of the other bulls that had been more or less running with him, after he picked himself up from my 1st shot, came back immediately after my 2nd shot and began repeatedly bashing the dead bull hard enough to rock the carcass a bit but not quite roll it over.
The PH (Hannes Swanepoel) is a calm person by nature (all you PH's are refreshingly calm people) and just quietly instructed me to "load both barrels with solids" and "do not shoot unless I do".
This carcass bashing was over a hundred yds away so, there really was no immediate threat to us.
I had already reloaded two solids and so I just said "I already have" and/or "I understand" or something like that.

Upon watching this video clip, it occurred to me the 2nd bull was not after the hunting party but only interested in his fallen comrade, exactly as my one and only buffalo shooting experience had been.
However, I didn't post on it here for fear that mine was a one in a million experience and this video perhaps really was showing a charge at the hunter (even though it did not look like it to me).
Again, I have but one experience with buffalo hunting.
Now that you have said it looked like a charge only at the fallen one, you have emboldened me to come out of the closet with my opinion - LOL.
And, my opinion mirrors yours on this except that it did not occur to me until you mentioned it that possibly if not probably, a second tag was being filled.
I had presumed the client had simply fired into an animal that was not really after him or any member of his hunting party, only after the downed bull.
Another tag being filled does make perfect sense though, now that you mention it.

I once saw a farmyard rooster do the same to a freshly slaughtered rooster.
I guess they figure - "I couldn't whip him in life but while he's dead I bet I can!"

Thanks for validating my single buffalo hunting observation.

Kind Regards,
Velo Dog.

Perfect summation, I could not agree more.

My best always

 

[Wheels]

Not meaning to change the thread, but here is a well know clip where the buffs buddies take advantage of his plight.

 

[siml]

Velo dog, you perfectly correct. I have seen the same thing several times.

 

[matt85]

sometimes nobody can understand the things on a hunt.
One good shot of a .300 Win Mag may be perfect and than 6 from big calibers.........
look below,Mark Sullivans first shot on the nose of a buff.
No reaction and that with .500........
Foxi

not disagreeing with you on shot placement. but in the video I think his first shot hit the boss, if you pay close attention you can hear the bullet ricochet.

-matt

 

[KWALATA SAFARIS]

not disagreeing with you on shot placement. but in the video I think his first shot hit the boss, if you pay close attention you can hear the bullet ricochet.

-matt

At that range, the energy on the 500 would have knocked the buff of his feet if it hit him on the boss.

 

[bassasdaindia]

Have seen this multiple times, where another bull returns to the other, on two occasions the returning bull paid no attention to us and severely mauled the bellowing bull.

that statement I also agree with , the more dominant bull trophy is normally hunted and the other bull now takes the oppurtunity to become the dominant bull and therefore mauls him.