Call The Shot Dry Land Hippo, Charging

[Hunt anything]

One question, are we hunting hippo or just get caught between the hippo and where he wants to be? So we might get caught with a pea shooter.

 

[LivingTheDream]

Red, or I am waiting for him to drop his head. 20 yards is still fairly far out for a charge. I am guessing red breaks the neck/spine. Either way I think it is enough damage to slow him up quite a bit.

Green if hit as he is now would work, but that head is going to swing, at 20 yards seems like a more likely miss or not fatal hit.

 

[K-man]

Green first shot. Second just keep shooting since I carry an R8 I will be able to get 4+1 in him on the 20 yd charge. I won’t be trampled with bullets still in the gun. (Just kidding) nothing more scary then being on a hippo trail in the reeds at first or last light.

 

[Aeuba470]

I'd use my 470 but any double 450 ne or bigger. I said red but meant green. Although in reality most hippo charges the hippos head is down. I'd honestly like to think I'd wait for that shot. Never been involved in a hippo charge so just speculation on my end.

 

[Petrovič]

Probably somwere between red and green and then empty my ZKK600 in 9,3x64 Brenneke with total of 4 handloaded Peregrine 293 grains/19 grams solid FP (mixture of bronze and pure copper) in his face. Trying between eyes most of the time.

 

[Sarg]

Blue with .577NE or Orange with .500NE.

 

[sureshot375]

I’m going with green. A krieghoff .500/.416 simply because that’s what I carry these days.

Hippo skulls are a lot thinner than say an elephant and a good head shot near the brain with just about any center fire rifle is going to stop a charge. Get too far away from the brain and you are in for bad times.

 

[wolfhunter]

green model 70 winchester 416 remington mag. 400gr bear claw folowed by hornady solids

 

[Andrew62]

CZ 416 Rigby, 400 grain Barnes TSX

 

[SRvet]

Green dot but I would probably be waiting for him to drop his head or at least square up to me to make the problem easier. I would be carrying a 458 Lott with 450 grain CEB flat nosed solids @ 2250fps