TWB Hunter
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- Zim, Namibia
What has been your results using this round on dangerous game?
I have very limited experience with round but will provided my Cape Buffalo experience. In 2011 I purchased a Zim Cape Buffalo hunt with camp across river from Kruger. I shot left handed so I had purchased two left hand 338 Ultra Mags since Remington never made a production left hand 375 ultra mag. So I built a poor boy big game rifle by sending action off to E. R. Shaw for a 26 inch barrel that was .810 at the muzzle to get the weight up. Then I glass bedded to an old (1987) Bell and Carlson stock. These stocks was there first generation which has rifle sling mounts inside rifle stock with a horizontal bar vs the steel stud also had very straight stock with large size recoil pad Then I pulled a older Leupold vx 2.5 x 8 to mount on rifle. This rig with four rounds in gun plus four rounds on stock weighted 10 pounds 14 ounces.
Loaded up Barnes 300 grain TSX with IMR 4831 with two grains less than Barnes loading data. At the range I had velocity of 2,889 fps and was shooting .5 moa three shot groups ( most accurate hunting rifle I own) so said good enough. Downside is recoil is brutal so only shot 19 rounds before going to Zim but did a lot of dry firing off stick. The recoil even when using a mag shoulder pad would give me a headache after seven shots from a bench position. Upon arrival at hunting camp shot one time to confirm zero and shot two bulls with one shot each. The Barnes performed perfectly and both bulls were down within 30 yards of shot. These two bulls acted liked a whitetail shot with a 30-06. Gun was put in back in vault upon returning home and has not been shot since.
I have very limited experience with round but will provided my Cape Buffalo experience. In 2011 I purchased a Zim Cape Buffalo hunt with camp across river from Kruger. I shot left handed so I had purchased two left hand 338 Ultra Mags since Remington never made a production left hand 375 ultra mag. So I built a poor boy big game rifle by sending action off to E. R. Shaw for a 26 inch barrel that was .810 at the muzzle to get the weight up. Then I glass bedded to an old (1987) Bell and Carlson stock. These stocks was there first generation which has rifle sling mounts inside rifle stock with a horizontal bar vs the steel stud also had very straight stock with large size recoil pad Then I pulled a older Leupold vx 2.5 x 8 to mount on rifle. This rig with four rounds in gun plus four rounds on stock weighted 10 pounds 14 ounces.
Loaded up Barnes 300 grain TSX with IMR 4831 with two grains less than Barnes loading data. At the range I had velocity of 2,889 fps and was shooting .5 moa three shot groups ( most accurate hunting rifle I own) so said good enough. Downside is recoil is brutal so only shot 19 rounds before going to Zim but did a lot of dry firing off stick. The recoil even when using a mag shoulder pad would give me a headache after seven shots from a bench position. Upon arrival at hunting camp shot one time to confirm zero and shot two bulls with one shot each. The Barnes performed perfectly and both bulls were down within 30 yards of shot. These two bulls acted liked a whitetail shot with a 30-06. Gun was put in back in vault upon returning home and has not been shot since.
