Valie and other fellows,
I'm not so keen on my office today and would rather continue here with our experiences .
Weapons and caliber and stories about 
On the photo you can see the double rifle of my PH Valie Enslin from “Thats Africa safaris”
A noble double rifle with this noble animal is much more atmospheric and is
simply more elegant than my Brünner Safari bolt action rifle in .375 H+H caliber.
I love the following picture very much:
It is a wonderful Verney Carron in caliber . 470 Nitro Express with 500 gn Hornady bonding bullets.
He takes these on all big game. Everything except elephants, in favor he reloads to Hornady full metal jacket and has been well served and alive with it for 25 years.
Despite the Hornady critics.
He regularly shoots lot of elephants a year with his guests, mostly from South Africa and the USA, his main clientele.
He has an incredible amount of experience (with big game as well as with guests).
Elephants and lions are his favorite game, which he also hunts in his camps in Zambia and Mozambique.
In South Africa, the most common big game cartridges for bolt action are the .375 H+H and the .458 Win Mag (not surprisingly ).
For double rifles it is the .470 NE and the .500 NE
All other calibers are usually more difficult to obtain.
Also due to the fact that South Africa is supporting Russia in the Ukraine war, components are getting harder to get for reloaders (he estimates 50% of big game hunters in RSA load themselves).
The Gamescout had the .450 Rigby and a PH friend of Valie's who visited us, shot a .404 alongside the 9.3x74R (look at that) and has been in the business for 45 years.
With the 9.3 x 74, he shot numerous elephants, even attacking ones, without any problems.
It was never a problem and the sample sentence was “I'm still alive” Good shooters with strong nerves are always worth their money when hunting.
I calculated that the 9,3x74R at Zero 0 has only 35 KG less than my loaded .375 H+H with the same bullet weigth of .300gn.
That won't make the difference either.
Even if I wouldn't hunt elephants with the 9.3 or .375, although I know that countless have fallen with it in the last 100 years, you don't hear much about the hunters for whom it didn't work so well
It was striking that in certain circles elephants are shot like roe bucks back home, but the population of the gray trunks is also brutally high.
A White Rhino also crossed our path in the evening.
At present, the final black market price is USD 90,000.-/kg!!! horn.
The horns weigh between 5-7 kg, round half a million dollars per rhino, and with the trade ban on rhino horn, the price is rising all the time.
These animals have no chance.The mafia behind it does not miss out on this and human lives that actively protect these animals are just as likely to die as the rhino itself.
However, the price of ivory has fallen almost drastically, but is still high enough to arouse great desire.
The fat man walked calmly ahead of us.
He knows that he is under protection (but I wouldn't be so sure)
So young and already so strong, what will he look like when he grows up !!
After the buffalo hunt we took a real vacation and were lazy, which is not always easy for active persons like us and you also have to learn to let go in the bush.
The 40 degree heat did the rest, however, to bring the energy down.
In the afternoon we always went on game drives and wanted to stalk elephants just to take photos in shooting distances.
But bulls were few and Valie didn't trust the numerous cows; bulls are simply more relaxed.
We also didn't want to provoke any trouble if a cow elephant was lying on the ground.
Our days at the camp came to an end with game viewing and lot of lessons to judge the animals and I was happy and satisfied.
I was also happy that I had shot so early - when you're at home, you forget all about idleness and are even happier about what you've experienced.
Apart from the buffalo, there was nothing left free and the quotas are strictly enforced.
At least you save the money for the next buffalo hunt .........
The area there is actually more an elephant stronghold, but I saw considerably more buffalo.
Depending on how you get into the migration movements.
Of course, some hunting agents also brag enormously about the size of the hunting territory.
I have already read 250 - 400,000 ha, but: No water - no animals. Quite simply, this applies to the whole of southern Africa.
Even if the news hurts.
The elephant is the number 1 destroyer of the environment there.
They know very well that a greater reduction is necessary, but the politicians in South Africa are as clever as they are here at home
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I think you can see the ear slit quite well.Take its center,a hand's wide in front and the side headshot sits perfectly and all good bullets + calibers also have exit.What surprised me,headshot is mandatory there,no shoulder shot as the first shot.
Now a short break and then it goes on.
Foxi
