Oldbloke wrote:Noisydad wrote:Definitely think about the venerable .45-70, they were used to wipe the buffalo herds in the US in the late 1860's and they were loaded with black powder too!
Might do the job, but arnt the yank bison about half the size of our buffs? Just asking
Never seen one up close have you?
Bison are about as big as Bovines get. Bigger and heavier than cape buff and even our water buff
Nearly 2m tall and 1500kg they are huge but not as cranky and dangerous Cape buffalo but you gave to remember when the great herds were nearly wiped out by black powder cartridges back in the day they were driven on horse back to near exhaustion before being shot with little regard to humane kills and not shot on foot one on one like you would hunt a water buffalo or scrub bull these days. There's s reason the dangerous game cartridges were so popular in Africa.
That said there are plenty of blokes taking buff and bull with bows but a broad head driven hard will penetrate deep and create a large wound channel
Like I said earlier in this thread I'd start at .338WM and go up. Basically id take anything from the Sako Brownbear range
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