A few seconds with a .500 Jeffery in Arnhemland...

Congrats on the successful hunt! I have the same rifle and I had some work done to it as well, had some lead added to the buttstock and forend for balance and had a new buttpad installed. The rifle is a hair over 12.5 pounds and it handles like a dream for me. It balances so well for me that I don't notice the extra weight that much. It has become my favorite rifle in my collection. I hope to be able to field test it very soon!!
 
Great shooting and great buffalo. Fun pictures. Can you tell me what is in the tree right above the buffalo? Is that a blind(I know it isn’t), a nest, or part of the tree? Thanks. To me it looks like the tree took a bunch of soil and the grass and grew straight up?
 
Great shooting and great buffalo. Fun pictures. Can you tell me what is in the tree right above the buffalo? Is that a blind(I know it isn’t), a nest, or part of the tree? Thanks. To me it looks like the tree took a bunch of soil and the grass and grew straight up?

Yes, just part of a tree.
 
G’day Dr Ray, sorry, beyond the obvious I don’t know. I will try to find-out soon. I’ve run-out of dig-time so far. I really do want to recover one.
 
Great shooting and great buffalo. Fun pictures. Can you tell me what is in the tree right above the buffalo? Is that a blind(I know it isn’t), a nest, or part of the tree? Thanks. To me it looks like the tree took a bunch of soil and the grass and grew straight up?

I think it’s a cabbage palm / karnpayn with a build-up of dead fronds.
 
I think it’s a cabbage palm / karnpayn with a build-up of dead fronds.

It's not a Pandanus/Spiral Palm is it Ben ?
 
It's not a Pandanus/Spiral Palm is it Ben ?
I don't know for sure. I'm trying to get better at knowing the names of trees and birds, and I just looked in the Jawoyn book and tried to match it up. What we call pandanus here is usually lower to the ground with its foliage. But I have been wrong many times, so anything's possible!
 

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csmith wrote on 19_A_CPT's profile.
Not sure your price range. Have a 375 H&H with a muzzle brake. Nice rifle only fired a few times. Also a Mossberg 375 Ruger its been used and shows a few hunts on it.
Two African Safaris Hunted South Africa both times,
9 game animals taken
Has anybody hunted with Phumba safari in steenbokpan south Africa?
 
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