The Distance to Sight in For Cape Buffalo?

[trperk1]

I think you are over thinking this.

I would personally sight in for 100 which should have you pretty close at 50. An inch high at 100 wouldn’t hurt anything.

You aren’t going to be trying to brain shoot a charging buff at 30 yards. A charge scenario is going to be more like 30 feet or less. It doesn’t matter where you sight in you will be low at that kind of distance because of the hight over the bore. Also, your shooting at that point will be instinctive. You will not have time to aim in any thoughtful way. In a charge you will need to shoot both eyes open like a shotgun.

I’ve shot a charging buffalo, right between the eyes at 8 yards. Exactly where I was aiming.

 

[375Fox]

That’s a crazy story! I want to watch that video, can you post the link to it?

Where can we watch that?

I think this is the one he’s referring to. Looks like the hunter had a very unique experience but I don’t think it’s a good advertisement for the outfitter

 

[Doubleplay]

If you can hit a paper plate at 100 yards consistently over the sticks, you are good to go for buffalo.
Don't over think it.

 

[375Fox]

I will need to try once hunting a farm buffalo. I so far had only one wild buff in Caprivi. He stood his ground. Neither run, nor charged.
He already had two broad side lung shots, and spitting blood on the mouth, turned to me, then I took third shot in the head.

Just remember the buffalo from one farm to next can be very different because the fencing and the game management on that farm. Some farms could give an experience very close to wild buffalo and others not so much. A buffalo in the Caprivi will be very similar behavior to any other buffalo in that region because they have the ability to move.

 

[Andrew62]

I've always sighted my .375H&H at 100 yards.

 

[Datchew]

Excellent topic

 

[franzfmdavis]

I think this is the one he’s referring to. Looks like the hunter had a very unique experience but I don’t think it’s a good advertisement for the outfitter

Goodness, gracious!

 

[BryceM]

Interesting video. Educational, and almost disastrous. Interesting the buff that is down let the other one work him over without reacting much........ then a sudden resurrection when shot again.

Like has been said, "it's the dead ones that kill you."

American bison bulls will also work over an animal that is down. It's a behavior that's pretty strange to me.

There's potentially lots to critique, but possibly the PH should have been ready to shoot and shooting as he got up. With cover so close, it's an either-or situation though.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

If you’re sighted at 100, or probably even 200 yards, at 50 the bullet will be no further off than the distance between the bore and the scope. Not enough to worry about in my opinion considering the size of the target.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Goodness, gracious!

Yep. I'm not hunting with that outfitter/PH.

 

[CZDiesel]

Interesting video. Educational, and almost disastrous. Interesting the buff that is down let the other one work him over without reacting much........ then a sudden resurrection when shot again.

Like has been said, "it's the dead ones that kill you."

American bison bulls will also work over an animal that is down. It's a behavior that's pretty strange to me.

There's potentially lots to critique, but possibly the PH should have been ready to shoot and shooting as he got up. With cover so close, it's an either-or situation though.

After watching the video, and I could be wrong, I think the other Bull was trying to help his friend! He was trying to get him up and to safety…
The second Bull didn’t want to leave his friend even when confronted by a vehicle and hunters he knew would kill him!
Again I could be wrong but I don’t think he was working over that downed Bull at all but trying to get him up to run…

 

[Russ16]

Interesting video. Educational, and almost disastrous. Interesting the buff that is down let the other one work him over without reacting much........ then a sudden resurrection when shot again.

Like has been said, "it's the dead ones that kill you."

American bison bulls will also work over an animal that is down. It's a behavior that's pretty strange to me.

There's potentially lots to critique, but possibly the PH should have been ready to shoot and shooting as he got up. With cover so close, it's an either-or situation though.

I’m pretty sure it goes to the dominance thing. Turkeys do it to. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve shot a tom and the Jake’s that were with him didn’t run off but started kicking the living hell out of the dead one.

 

[mark-hunter]

Somebody mentioned brain shot of buffalo.
It happens, sometimes.

So, does anybody have a scull mount of buffalo which was brain shot?
I wonder how does that fit on trophy. (the hole, the damage?)
Picture?

 

[Altitude sickness]

I’m pretty sure it goes to the dominance thing. Turkeys do it to. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve shot a tom and the Jake’s that were with him didn’t run off but started kicking the living hell out of the dead one.

It’s dominance reaction. Pretty common with males in a group.

Also perhaps the point of fenced Buffalo made above has some merit. A quick search shows the video above is from a game farm that conducts wildlife drives and sightseeing. The vehicle looks more like a sightseeing vehicle than hunting vehicle.

Perhaps those bulls get pestered by that same vehicle all the time.

 

[Frederik]

I think this is the one he’s referring to. Looks like the hunter had a very unique experience but I don’t think it’s a good advertisement for the outfitter

There we go proof that suppressors take all the oomph out of the DG rifle.
Not only making the recoil less for the hunter but for the buffalo also

Me think's PH and Co needs some time on the shooting range.

 

[375Fox]

There we go proof that suppressors take all the oomph out of the DG rifle.
Not only making the recoil less for the hunter but for the buffalo also

Me think's PH and Co needs some time on the shooting range.

The recoil in that video seems suspiciously light for a 375. I have to wonder.

 

[Frederik]

Back to the original question sight in at 50 meters and check what rifle is doing at 100 and 150 meters.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Somebody mentioned brain shot of buffalo.
It happens, sometimes.

So, does anybody have a scull mount of buffalo which was brain shot?
I wonder how does that fit on trophy. (the hole, the damage?)
Picture?

John Buhmiller gave Earl Jackson a buffalo skull with a large bullet hole between the eyes. John was a well known barrel maker and Earl was a gunsmith who worked with my dad at Hungry Horse Dam. Earl and Dad built my 03A3. I remember the skull hung in Earl's shop above his machining lathe. Regret not asking for the story behind it. That would have been in early sixties. All the players but me are long gone.

 

[mark-hunter]

My late grandfather had a lot of trophies (not African), now I feel sorry I never asked to tell me the story behind each of them.

My buff. (screenshot from mobile phone video) Two shots are already in the lungs. Spitting blood at this moment. He turned to us, I aimed between the eyes, shot him below left eye. He dropped with that third shot.
So, there will be some signature on the trophy. I wonder how it looks like. So, if anybody has a scull mount, holed, I would appreciate to see.