Who is hunting cape buffalo with a 577 NE.?

[Brian]

I would sure like to talk to someone who is hunting cape buffalo with a 577 NE.
Am I the only nut who uses a 577NE single shot for buffalo? Please let me know, I won't tell anyone. Brian

 

[CZDiesel]

A single shot! Dang going “Old School!”
Can we see this work of art?!?!

 

[Brian]

Yes, it is an old $200 Harrington and Richardson "Handi Rifle" 10 ga. converted using the Stub Barrel method, to .577 NE. I have added a stock that really mitigates the recoil. The loaded rifle with a reflex sight weighs just under 13 lbs. No one who has seen it has called it a work of art !

I hope to hear from someone else experience with a big bore single shot on cape buffalo. In the old days they were fairly common, reportedly.

I am interested in all the gory details!

I believe that there are a few converted .577 NE Ruger #1 out there. Brian

 

[Brian]

I dug out this old story. It was my first buffalo hunt (2017 I think) with the rifle and I made some 700 grain hard cast bullets for it. That was the first stock that I made for it The next two stocks I made got progressively uglier.

B

Thread 'A Cape Buffalo Cow Hunting Story'

May 12, 2017

This story is published in the current issue of The African Hunting Gazette.

South Africa: Year 2016

NEVER MIND THE BULL

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Kipling, 1911

By Brian Gallup

I was standing on the target range at Buffalo Land Safaris in the beautiful lowveld, near Kruger Park. My rifle was a .577 NE single shot that I recently built from an old 10 ga. shotgun. The bullets were my own 700-grain hard-cast solids. This was going to be an interesting Cape buffalo hunt.

I had just met my two young professional...

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[Brian]

Sorry, most of you have seen this old video. Most of it is true.
Enjoy.