Cape Buffalo taken with 10mm

[Bakerby]

He actually has killed two buffalo successfully, both heart shots. As far as him being stupid, or an idiot he is making huge amounts of money doing what he loves, he is very successful, if you read his blogs the dude is very knowledgeable about hunting and ballistics and seems to understand the limits of the round. Is he crazy yeah.....but it makes for a fun show. I mean if all you are gonna do is call folks names what is your point. You wanna debate why you disagree with his hunt I for one will listen...we will prob disagree but that is cool.

[Mike D]

2 shots, dead buffalo.

What's the problem again?

My boss shot a cape with a 458 Lott and didn't recover it. I'm more impressed that Razor did it with a 10mm.


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[rognp]

What ever/however. Thinking this over its kindof a parallel to taking a performance car to over 150 MPH using tires rated for 80MPH.Sort of using the minimum support to get the greatest thrill. Sure you can do it, but should you. If you succeed then youre a hero. But if you get he trackers or the PH killed or maimed then how do you rationalize it?
   10mm or 40 cal for dangerous game, I think Id be more comfortable with 400 grains at 2000FPS.

[Rick R]

Most African countries don't allow hunting with a semi auto rifle or pistol and have minimum cartridge requirements for dangerous game.  Figure $9-$12K for a normal buffalo hunt, I bet several government officials had their kids "college fund" padded to get that video pulled off.

Interesting that the PH was carrying a double rifle with a red dot sight and a semi auto handgun.   And there was a second guy with a boltgun in there too.  The hired help might not have been thrilled guiding some crazy American with a pop gun.

As a visiting hunter I always figured there is a kind of hunting "feng shui", they do it how they do it there because it works.  On my first plains game hunt to So Africa we went to the range to check sights and when we got back to camp our PH told the company owner "Dey are Americans, but dey brought sensible rifles!"  If I ever go back for dangerous game I'll be toting a boltgun in .375 or .416.
I guess after a dozen or so head of DG a fellow might move to a magnum revolver, bow or muzzleloader but I don't know that I'd ever get that bored with life.