herve747
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- Joined
- Dec 1, 2012
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- Bordeaux, France
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- South Africa, Australia, Spain, Turkey, Hungary
From Nov 4th to 8th, 2021, I will go for the 2nd time in the North of Turkey near the town of Amasya, for 5 days of wild boar driven hunt, with the outfitter DHD LAIKA. We will be 10 hunters, hunting wide areas in mid-range mountains, with firing distances from 30 meters to more than 200 meters. This will be the first group hunting there after the pandemic, so we should see a lot of wild boars hopefully.
Training started a couple of month ago. I will go again with my Blaser R8 Professional Success, but this time, I will take the 375HH heavy barrel, with Z8i 1-8x24 scope and Norma Oryx Bonded 300 grains ammunition. 2 years ago, I shot Barnes TSX 180 grains in 300 win mag barrel, with great success (8 boars taken) but none of the boars that I hit were knock-down at impact. In this driven hunt in the mountains, we are talking about very tough running boars in the mountains, on rough terrains, with bushes of trees still with leaves, at a range up to 200 m. Hitting the game on the first round in those conditions is already a feat, hitting the vitals is a miracle. So great expansion is needed to knock-down or slow the boar whatever the body area hit, so that a second round can be placed on the vitals.
The Norma Oryx has a decent grouping at 200 m, I had selected it already for Cafer Hunting in Zimbabwe, that is postponed due to Covid. The training ammunition is PARTIZAN PPU 300 grains (3 times less expensive), with a worst grouping but same impact height than the Oryx.
I will shoot from a Gitzo carbon tripod (light and stiff, originally for photography on travel) on which I have mounted the Y head from my Primos stick. It works extremelly well.
I will bring again 3 camcorders, of which 2 are waterproof. They will be in "fire and forget" mode on their gorilla pods, filming the shooting areas with big batteries and 64 Gigabits SD cards. I hope to bring wonderfull memories and some nice videos.
Here is the video of the first hunt 2 years ago, that was amazing.
I will keep you posted.
Training started a couple of month ago. I will go again with my Blaser R8 Professional Success, but this time, I will take the 375HH heavy barrel, with Z8i 1-8x24 scope and Norma Oryx Bonded 300 grains ammunition. 2 years ago, I shot Barnes TSX 180 grains in 300 win mag barrel, with great success (8 boars taken) but none of the boars that I hit were knock-down at impact. In this driven hunt in the mountains, we are talking about very tough running boars in the mountains, on rough terrains, with bushes of trees still with leaves, at a range up to 200 m. Hitting the game on the first round in those conditions is already a feat, hitting the vitals is a miracle. So great expansion is needed to knock-down or slow the boar whatever the body area hit, so that a second round can be placed on the vitals.
The Norma Oryx has a decent grouping at 200 m, I had selected it already for Cafer Hunting in Zimbabwe, that is postponed due to Covid. The training ammunition is PARTIZAN PPU 300 grains (3 times less expensive), with a worst grouping but same impact height than the Oryx.
I will shoot from a Gitzo carbon tripod (light and stiff, originally for photography on travel) on which I have mounted the Y head from my Primos stick. It works extremelly well.
I will bring again 3 camcorders, of which 2 are waterproof. They will be in "fire and forget" mode on their gorilla pods, filming the shooting areas with big batteries and 64 Gigabits SD cards. I hope to bring wonderfull memories and some nice videos.
Here is the video of the first hunt 2 years ago, that was amazing.
I will keep you posted.
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