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Water Buffalo
Posted by Murphy on Apr 16 2005
Ed,
Three out of four buffalo do not prefer Barnes.
I know 24 different African Professional Hunter and none ever told me a story about an African Cape Buffalo that dropped and stayed down after one shot. I've never seen it, I've never done it, I 've got to get that bullet! What species (there are four)and where do you hunt water buffalo? Normally we only shoot Mbogo between the eyes if he is wounded or coming, which was that?
If you only have recovered two Barnes bullets how do we know how well they expanded. I have 22 Barnes X bullets recovered from animals, I can send you some more, but at least a half dozen show no signs of expansion. Two are shaped like horse shoes. Two have expanded fully and lost the petals. The rest show only some expansion. Eight of these came from Zebras, four from the same Zebra and they are 270 grain Barnes. I haven't been so lucky with Barnes copper bullets. I fired three of the above. I also have a 416 solid, (sledgehammer) taken from the brisket of a Zebra after a texas heart shot at about 120 yards, stopped the zebra, only 66" of penetration. I have a taxidermy bill from Africa for R35,077.00 (USD7,344.00)for animals I took two years ago. We need to talk more about Barnes.
Murphy
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