What is your caliber choice for the tiny 10?

[AfricaHunting.com]

Hey Marius, ek stel belang om aan my volgende lysie te begin werk aka d Tiny 10. Baie dankie Hannes Oberholzer

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[sgt_zim]

My suggestion 7 x 57 ( 275Rigby).

I'd go with 6.5x55 with one of the 155-160 gr bullets, MV around 2400. But I don't own a 275 Rigby, so there's that.

 

[IvW]

6.5x57R/20ga combination gun.....

 

[Hunter-Habib]

I like a .243 Winchester , if my white hunter can source one . I like the 100 Gr Winchester Super X Power Point .

Or else , I use 300 Gr solids in a .375 Holland & Holland Magnum . Any 300 Gr solid will do .

I've even taken a couple of duikers with a 12 Gauge ( a Miroku Over & Under ) and AAA shells ( South African Swartklip ) .

 

[rookhawk]

Tiny-10 are creatures of opportunity. You never find them, they find you. And what are you doing when they find you? Hunting something else of course.

The very best choice is a 375HH with a soft in the chamber and a magazine of solids behind it. It will work for whatever you were actually hunting. With a hasty throw of the bolt that soft ejects to the ground and you have your 3 second window to hit that klippy or duiker with a solid that will do modest damage to the hide of the target.

The 375 is an amazingly practical weapon. The reason it isn’t more popular is that it shamefully can do it all and that’s boring. I’d much rather tell you about a 22 savage double rifle for the tiny-10 and a might 470 double rifle for the big-5, but nonetheless the 375 is the go-to plan when you see something you want to shoot with 3 seconds to decide that wasn’t on the menu for the day’s agenda.

 

[IvW]

Tiny-10 are creatures of opportunity. You never find them, they find you. And what are you doing when they find you? Hunting something else of course.

The very best choice is a 375HH with a soft in the chamber and a magazine of solids behind it. It will work for whatever you were actually hunting. With a hasty throw of the bolt that soft ejects to the ground and you have your 3 second window to hit that klippy or duiker with a solid that will do modest damage to the hide of the target.

The 375 is an amazingly practical weapon. The reason it isn’t more popular is that it shamefully can do it all and that’s boring. I’d much rather tell you about a 22 savage double rifle for the tiny-10 and a might 470 double rifle for the big-5, but nonetheless the 375 is the go-to plan when you see something you want to shoot with 3 seconds to decide that wasn’t on the menu for the day’s agenda.

Unless you are hunting them specifically doing so is more of a challenge than the big 5......

 

[rookhawk]

Unless you are hunting them specifically doing so is more of a challenge than the big 5......

For certain. You can hunt all of the big-5 or the dangerous-7 in a single country. To hunt the tiny-10 you’d have to travel to several countries and several regions within each country. It is not a trivial undertaking.

It took me 4 safaris to get my klipspringer, I couldn’t fathom the effort to dedicate exclusively to the tiny-10.

A .222, .223, a savage 22 High power, or a 22 hornet would be wonderful choices for the tiny-10 if hunting exclusively for them. So to would the .221 fireball or .204 ruger.

 

[KMG Hunting Safaris]

Hey Marius, ek stel belang om aan my volgende lysie te begin werk aka d Tiny 10. Baie dankie Hannes Oberholzer

Hannes,
Jammer vir die laat boodskap. Het hom heeltemal gemis. Stuur my n email of Whatsapp, dan kyk ons wat ons vir jou kan doen.

Groete,

 

[xausa]

On my last trip to Africa, I brought along a Krieghoff Teck combination gun in 12 gauge/.30-'06, with an interchangeable barrel in .222 Remington. It proved to be ideal for the smallest game. I have no idea whether Krieghoff still offers such a combination, but it was a winner for me that time.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

On my last trip to Africa, I brought along a Krieghoff Teck combination gun in 12 gauge/.30-'06, with an interchangeable barrel in .222 Remington. It proved to be ideal for the smallest game. I have no idea whether Krieghoff still offers such a combination, but it was a winner for me that time.

Now , I remember where I saw you before . You're the gent who built those three beautiful Springfield M1903A3 action sporters - One in 7 mm Remington Magnum , one in .375 Chatfield Taylor and one in .458 Winchester Magnum . Do you still have any of them ? And did you put hinged floor plates on them , or did you leave them with the original military floor plate release ?

 

[xausa]

Now , I remember where I saw you before . You're the gent who built those three beautiful Springfield M1903A3 action sporters - One in 7 mm Remington Magnum , one in .375 Chatfield Taylor and one in .458 Winchester Magnum . Do you still have any of them ? And did you put hinged floor plates on them , or did you leave them with the original military floor plate release ?

You have a remarkable memory. However, the actions were high-number 1903 Springfield actions, and they retained their original floor plates and releases. At the time I built them, I had never been to Africa, and when I went, I used a Krieghoff O/U double rifle in caliber .458 WM, with an extra barrel set in .375 H&H, thur obviating the need for another rifle. My taste in stocks changed and I reluctantly parted with the three Springfields several years ago. My stock maker, Hal Hartley, had excelled in stocking single shot rifles, but the fore ends on his bolt rifles were just too long for present day taste. This was my .375 Chatfield-Taylor.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

You have a remarkable memory. However, the actions were high-number 1903 Springfield actions, and they retained their original floor plates and releases. At the time I built them, I had never been to Africa, and when I went, I used a Krieghoff O/U double rifle in caliber .458 WM, with an extra barrel set in .375 H&H, thur obviating the need for another rifle. My taste in stocks changed and I reluctantly parted with the three Springfields several years ago. My stock maker, Hal Hartley, had excelled in stocking single shot rifles, but the fore ends on his bolt rifles were just too long for present day taste. This was my .375 Chatfield-Taylor.View attachment 413889

Absolutely stunning . Do you remember how many rounds the .458 Winchester Magnum held ? I assume that the Springfield action is adequately strong for all .458 Winchester Magnum and .338 Winchester Magnum loads ?

 

[shark_za]

If you are only after the tiny 10
Bolt action in 6.5 Grendel with 120gr Swift A-Frames at around 2400fps.

And a shotgun.

 

[Dr Ray]

270 Winchester using 110 grain Bullets

 

[dchamp]

Another caliber, somewhat unconventional maybe would be a 300 Blackout, with 220g bullets subsonic, should prove interesting.

 

[C.W. Richter]

.22 WMR FMJ if legal-perfect. Any caliber using solids, or with heavy-for-caliber, stout, high SD bullets at short range (swift a-frame, woodleigh-we used a 6.5 WSM with 160 gr Woodleigh PSPs (SD>.300) zipped right through with little expansion at <100 yds.) 375 w/ solids has worked wonders. Even heavy-for-caliber, high SD hunting (not light, low SD, thin jacketed varmint) bullets in the 22-250 would work fine (i.e. 60gr+ at 3500 fps or less) as we've shot many similarly sized varmints at range with very minimal damage. Any recommendations for light, low SD, expanding-type bullets in any caliber is simply going to result in a one-sided mount (with the other side splattered all over Africa!) I'd bet a barnes (or a-square) 200 gr in 3006 or the like would work wonders, too. Many manufacturers (i.e. Hammer, et. al.) make solids, monometal or FMJ for the smaller calibers (i.e. 6.5-7-30) and those would be ideal. All of our shots on the little guys have been quite close (well inside 100 yds.) The recommendation for the 757 (or 257 Roberts) above is an excellent one-using bullets as described above. Although definitely NOT a fan on the larger stuff, this is where the lower velocity 6.5 Needmore would also perform well (with proper bullet selection-not the 129s they sell in the store.) It's the bullet that does the work (in this case, poking through the animal without a lot of damage upon exit.)

You more often than not run into the little guys as targets of opportunity when hunting larger game, so you must have the proper bullets on-hand for not blowing the far side off the pygmies. I'd bet more are shot with larger calibers than not (many .375s for sure, and most all are dialed in for follow-up shots on DG with solids, so it's overbore but perfect.)

For all other bullets/shot placement, God invented Taxidermists!

 

[xausa]

Absolutely stunning . Do you remember how many rounds the .458 Winchester Magnum held ? I assume that the Springfield action is adequately strong for all .458 Winchester Magnum and .338 Winchester Magnum loads ?

I don't have any specific recollection of magazine capacity, but I assume is was four. According to 'General Hatcher in his Hatcher's Notebook, the high numbered Springfields were tested to 125,000
CUP, which would easily accommodate any commercially loaded US ammunition.