This hunt took place in the Municipal hunting grounds of a small village in eastern Spain, south of the Beceite area.
Temperature forecast was 21/11 Cº or 70/52 F, so we dicided to try and find a nice buck.

Hunt was organizaed by my good friend and Outfitter Jose Maria Aranda, a member of this Forum, local guide was David, not my first hunt with him either.

We started hunting by 7.30 PM, in the usual way, walking at mid slope in the hills, glassing down at the bottom of the valley, looking...

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The 375 WBy thread got me thinking of my favorite hunting cartridges off all time.

Here are mine:

22 LR
9.3x62 (followed close my a 375 wby--less bark with the 9.3)
450/400 3" (really it was the gun it was in--but was a sweet shooting as they come)

Ed

I’ve attached two images from the buffalo perfect shot book, one of the spine shot, the other of the lower heart shot. Which do you prefer, and why? As I view the images, simply holding four or five inches below the jaw looks like more exact shot placement, but it feels like I’ve read much more discussion of the heart shot.

Spine


Heart

If someone wanted one good versatile hunting rifle as opposed to multiples what chambering or cartridge would you suggest.

Where I’m saying hunting rifle I’m thinking hunting deer and pigs in Australia, Plains game in Africa, Deer in the UK or Elk or whitetail in the US or something in Europe. Generally any huntable species excluding varmints and dangerous game or rifles configured to those purposes.

The context is that the .308 common so if you wanted a nice scoped rifle in some other...

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this was asked in an after thought in another post recently and my knee jerk reaction was to vote for the 404 Jeffery. however I just sat down with my reloading manuals and took a look at both cartridges. it would seem at least according to the info I have that the 404 Jeffery and the 416 Rigby are nearly ballistic twins which a slight edge going to the Rigby due to the smaller diameter bullet. now according to my books they both push a 400gr bullet at around 2300 fps give or take 100fps...

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