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    Posted: August 09 2011 at 6:43am
Ok so its ot completely standard, in fact its a No4 Mk1 action only but hey its still awesome.  Its a 45-70 built on one.  I took this Buff with it on the weekend dropped to the first shot and I put 2 more 'insurance' shots into him just to make sure he didn't want to get back up and kill me!
 
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  Nice animal.  Your first carabou? 
 
What bullet did you use?
 
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Carabou? Thats a Water Buffalo, yes it was my 1st and I used a Woodleigh 400gn PPSP on top of 49gn of AR2207 powder.  Exellent performance I shall be using them again! 
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the top of the heep , A no 1 , most saught after and most deadly animal that walks , what a great trophy
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How Old are You .303 ????  You look very familiar ......were You in Turkey in 1989 ????  or a South American country in or around that time ????????
Did some work in the Army with some Guys from Down under twice ....and Damn You look like one of them !!!!!!
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Highly unlikey that you ran into me White Rhino, seeing as I was 6 in '89, don't get me wrong I was a Bad A$$ 6 yr old but no it wasn't me.
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Was Your Pops or Uncle in the Military ????? and did any thing crossed up with the U.S.????
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Yep both Dad and Uncle are both ex New Zealand Army (Dad Artillary and Uncle Infantry).  I know Dad went to Hawaii with his uit once in the 80's and both have worked with the US at some point.
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Very wise putting a couple insurance shots into him, how does water buff taste like anyways??
I really like the 45-70 and the Enfield, being made into one is the best use of both. Nice rifle, excellent post.
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Tastes like Beef, pretty good really.
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carabao = water buffalo in Filipino.  Same species as your trophy. 

 
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Originally posted by .303 .303 wrote:

Yep both Dad and Uncle are both ex New Zealand Army (Dad Artillary and Uncle Infantry).  I know Dad went to Hawaii with his uit once in the 80's and both have worked with the US at some point.



Well I never did any thing in Hawaii and it would have been Infantry that I did the work with ...pretty cool guys though ...loved to have a good time ...just that we were not supposed to be able to get alcohol in Turkey ...but We did !!!LOL!!!!
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Originally posted by Dux-R-Us Dux-R-Us wrote:

carabao = water buffalo in Filipino.  Same species as your trophy. 

 

 
There you go I learnt something new. Smile
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the top of the heep , A no 1 , most saught after and most deadly animal that walks , what a great trophy
 
Try the African buffalo. Takes a lot to bring him down. Took a friend of mine 12 shots with a 375 to bring his down. All good chest shots, and they barely made a difference. They had to track him down in a reed bed, and was eventually taken down with a head shot whilst charging my friend. The PH used a 458 to eventually take the buffalo down.
 
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the top of the heep , A no 1 , most saught after and most deadly animal that walks , what a great trophy
 
Try the African buffalo. Takes a lot to bring him down. Took a friend of mine 12 shots with a 375 to bring his down. All good chest shots, and they barely made a difference. They had to track him down in a reed bed, and was eventually taken down with a head shot whilst charging my friend. The PH used a 458 to eventually take the buffalo down.
 
 
Obviously they were'nt all that good, and/or the bullets performed badly.  I am not an expert in buffalo hunting, having  a total of 1 Cape buffalo to my credit, yet I think the above is more the rare exception. 
One rarely hears stories like this from real people.  I don't believe it is that common as gun writers like PH Capstick would like to have us believe.  Most give up the ghost pretty readily from the conversations I have had with others that have hunted buffalo, including PHs.
My PH stated in all his years of hunting buffalo (+25) he never faced a charge. 
 
From what I understand the Asian buffalo can be just as nasty as his African counterpart, and deserves as much respect when hunting him. 
 
tally ho
 
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This thread has a bug, as I just lost 15 minues of writing.
 
 
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