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Post by mk70ss on Oct 4, 2022 15:43:36 GMT -5
Anyone taking Cape Buffalo with a handgun earns my respect
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Post by leftysixgun on Oct 4, 2022 19:51:19 GMT -5
The Cape Buff was taken with a 454? Id like to hear the bullet/load details please.
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Post by bearskinner on Oct 7, 2022 14:01:06 GMT -5
   Standard load with a 300 grain Sierra or 300 grain Swift A frame hollow point, for plains game. 26 grains of 2400, is full without compression. The sierras act like solids, and penetrate well, but are extremely accurate in my guns. I’m retiring my .454’s and starting over using .475Linebaughs and 500JRH both on FA83 chassis. Took one of everything with the 454, ready for the next caliber. The two sierras recovered from the cape Buffalo, snd one swift from the sable. |
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Post by 45MAN on Oct 7, 2022 17:16:59 GMT -5
View AttachmentView AttachmentView AttachmentStandard load with a 300 grain Sierra or 300 grain Swift A frame hollow point, for plains game. 26 grains of 2400, is full without compression. The sierras act like solids, and penetrate well, but are extremely accurate in my guns. I’m retiring my .454’s and starting over using .475Linebaughs and 500JRH both on FA83 chassis. Took one of everything with the 454, ready for the next caliber. The two sierras recovered from the cape Buffalo, snd one swift from the sable. MICHAEL: "MOVING ON UP" 'EH? NOT SURE EITHER THE 475 OR 500 WILL SHOOT AS FLAT. GOOD LUCK AND KEEP US POSTED. |
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Post by bearskinner on Oct 8, 2022 11:23:44 GMT -5
Just going different. Done it all with the 454.
Gives me a great reason to start all over with a new gun
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Post by sixguntech on Oct 8, 2022 19:17:22 GMT -5
Great pictures and congratulations on the hunt! Those Sierra's performed really well for a “non premium” off the shelf bullet!
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Post by magnum314 on Oct 8, 2022 20:47:31 GMT -5
Wow! All amazing for sure, but I really love that buffalo! That's a beaut', Clark! (If any of you get that movie reference!  ) Thanks for sharing! |
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Post by bearskinner on Oct 21, 2022 9:32:55 GMT -5
As for parking my well used, and familiar FA83 in 454, that has been my “Go to gun” for 4 African trips and many more in the States, 3 new hunting revolvers in the works. Two built on FA83 frames, one on a SS Blackhawk, with a bearskinner Bisley stainless grip frame, from RW. Calibers will be .500JRH, on a FA, ( donor gun) with an integrated barrel brake, milled into the new barrel by Jack Huntington. Next is a reworked .475L/.480 dual cylinder gun getting a seamless brake installed and some goodies from Gary Reeder. I have a few guns with these brakes on them, and they just plain work so good! I was fortunate enough to WIN a gift certificate for this while attending the HHC in Tennessee this month. Last won’t get to me for a while, but can’t resist another ( stainless) 500LINEBAUGH on the Blackhawk.
I should have the two FA’s back shortly, hopefully before the white stuff makes it really hard to play on my shooting ranges. I would love to work up some loads, so I can cast and create lots of ammo over the winter.
I get a lot of comments about putting barrel brakes on my guns. Here’s my take. I shoot a LOT one handed, and big guns recoil quite substantially. Call me Nancy, but I don’t ever want to scope myself, or punch myself in the nose with recoil. I really like brakes, especially on a large scoped revolver, while tracking them thru the brush. Just my personal preference, and everyone’s opinions will vary. My thoughts are try a big boomer both ways, it might change your mind.
Hoping to have load info and gun pics in the coming weeks…..
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Post by x101airborne on Oct 23, 2022 7:14:20 GMT -5
Were those Sierra bullets the "454 only" bullets or the regular?
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Post by bearskinner on Oct 23, 2022 10:45:40 GMT -5
 Sierra 300 grain Soft point( although there really tough bullets) 8830’s. They penetrate and hold together like crazy. Not to mention, they are extremely accurate. Used them on Moose, Bison, Hogs, Elk, Cape Buffalo etc. |
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Post by 45MAN on Oct 23, 2022 15:10:52 GMT -5
View AttachmentSierra 300 grain Soft point( although there really tough bullets) 8830’s. They penetrate and hold together like crazy. Not to mention, they are extremely accurate. Used them on Moose, Bison, Hogs, Elk, Cape Buffalo etc. BUT, UNFORTUNEATELY, CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE |
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Post by sixshot on Oct 23, 2022 15:59:50 GMT -5
Really well done Mike & also your explaination of brakes as well. I think it's just like using scopes, if you are more comfortable with them, use them, I think it just makes sense. If a person wants to shoot a big caliber but prefers to take a beating along with it just makes no sense to me. If you can tolerate a beating & still shoot accurately then do so, just like shooting with iron sights compared to a scope.
Mike your bullet performance was fantastic.
Dick
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Post by jwp475 on Oct 24, 2022 8:40:11 GMT -5
CONGRATULATIONS!🎈🎊🎉🧨💯✔️
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Post by coloradoyaler on Oct 28, 2022 11:16:57 GMT -5
In ah!!!! To harvest a croc with a handgun when their brain is the size of a walnut! WOW!
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Post by bearskinner on Oct 28, 2022 22:28:05 GMT -5
The load I have used for years, is extremely accurate, and the quality of a Freedom Arms FA83 is well known. I’m a bad shot, so I use good equipment, got a great rest, laying in the sand using my daypack as a solid rest. At 32 yards ( measured with a laser rangefinder) that half walnut shell bump is a tiny target. I shot a dime sized target at the range the morning of the hunt, so knowing the gun was dead on, I knew I needed to hold 3/4” high to make up for the barrel/scope sight line disparity. 40 minutes, with the croc still submerged, trying not to move, in the hot African sun. The primordial lizard would surface for a breath, then submerge again for another hour or so. Footsteps, or noises on shore, would reverberate into the water, spooking the creature away.
As luck would have it, just when we were whispering about possibly coming back or hopping to another section of swamp, movement. Slow exhale, ease on the trigger. Smack. His tail flipped a couple times, then still. Hammer back, just in case, nothing for a few minutes, let’s go get the Land Cruiser. Driving back to the beautiful slimy green oooze, my PH Christo, says “ let’s go get him”…… “ O, Heck No! I’m not getting into that nasty green water” there were things swimming around in that stuff, not to mention another croc.
So Christo got to earn his PH credentials alone, and with the help of two more strong trackers and a low boy trailer, got him loaded and into the Salt. An exciting morning of swamp hopping.
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) Thanks for sharing!
