Chacma baboon.....what's "big enough"?

[lcq]

No, you're not the only one that has that concern; I've been considering selling my AR15 for something else to compliment my M-14.......would like to get a nice bolt gun in .223 for varminting, but as you said, if it shoots back, I'd like something bigger. Besides, I'm not real crazy about the AR platforms.......
Unfortunately, the SA govt. has seen fit to prevent me from bringing my M-14 to their country.........too bad, as a 20 round magazine and a troop of baboons might make for some interesting memories!!

Sadly the AR isn't allowed in SA. You can get it in 450 bushmaster, 243, 308, 6.8 and 50 beowulf. really a very versatile platform

 

[IronCowboy]

It's the chimpanzees riding horseback and carrying two SAW's that you really have to worry about... Thankfully, they're only in 5.56!

 

[The Bongo]

A note on the 'primates with a 5.56.' The 5.56 was introduced to wound not kill. A FMJ 5.56 wounds and requires the wounded man to be carried by 2 to 4 others. The thinking is that's 3 or 5 men off of the battlefield instead of one. A lot of UK soldiers were very upset to leave their 7.62 Brownings for their 5.56 SA80s; particularly those that had used the former in the Falklands, and the latter in the Gulf!

I have no knowledge of Baboon, but Homo Sapiens die quicker with a 7.62.

 

[Reaper]

Doubtful that you'll be carrying a .223 around the bush. Most baboons are taken as targets of opportunity. Doubt anyone would waste a whole day just looking for smelly baboons.