If you love reading about the old African hunters, one that you surely know is W.D.M. "Karamojo" Bell, who hunted Africa at the turn of the 20th century. He preferred light calibers for his elephants, mainly the .303 British and the 7mm Mauser.
Yeah, the 7mm Mauser.
He also shot smaller calibers for his meat hunting.
On one occasion in West Africa in the midst of a famine he killed a herd of 23 forest buffalo using a .22 Savage Hi-Power rifle with lung shots.
The forest buffalo is a separate species, but still weighs 500-700 pounds. Bell was knocking them over with today's equivalent of a .223 Remington.
Just damn.
2 comments:
I knew about his use with .275 Rigby (aka 7mm Mauser) but did not know about his using the .22 Savage on water buffalo. That takes some courage, bordering on 'Come At Me Bro !'. :^)
Those old African Pros certainly had personalities who demanded living Life on the edge.
He also had dissected all of the animals and knew EXACTLY where to shoot them and he was good enough to do that!
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