What better way to start the Hog forum......

[Marty]

.........than with a photo?

Boar pig I shot last year with my SAKO 691 .375 H&H using 300 gn factories, while looking for buffalo. It burst out of the water behind me where it was laying up. Pig went down like it was poleaxed.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d10/Spudbull/PA110078.jpg

[Bill Gunn]

Nice pig !

You probably answered this before, but is the meat from a water buffalo good eating ?

Water buffalo is the only big 5 game animal I would be interested in hunting. They are quite the beast !

[Altjaeger]

Welcome back Marty! I noticed yesterday was ANZAC day.

[Twanger]

Nice porker! And nice cartridge too.
Some day I'd like to own a rifle chambered in .375 H&H, "just because." Maybe a double, but the bolt gun looks good.

[vashper]

... And nice cartridge too.
Some day I'd like to own a rifle chambered in .375 H&H, "just because." Maybe a double, but the bolt gun looks good.

namely - "nice cartridge". I just returned from unsuccessful hunt. Wounded big boar gone into forest, dogs lost tracks. License was closed :(.
The only reason - inappropriate cartridge, marksman (not me, luckily) used bolt .308 and mared the weekend to our team and to boar of course.

[Bushman]

Would LL ever be all over this one! I used a .308 down in TN. to get my largest boar and it worked very well. That same boar had been hit in the neck that morning by a .30-06. Tough animals.

[vashper]

Well, but it's difficult shot - in the neck of running boar (I talk about battue). And if shot in lung or worse in stomach - it's catastrophy, if boar is really big.
Yes, 308 is sometimes very well. But 375 would not be worse, isn't it?

[Hi Ball]

Hello Marty! Well there is one thing about a .375H&H on big porkers and that is they stop em like running into a brick wall. Great picture, the porker get my vote for BEST IN LOOKS. LoL:D:D:D:D

[MOGC]

Water buffalo is the only big 5 game animal I would be interested in hunting. They are quite the beast !

Bill, my expertise on the subject calls for some clarity in your question. The "Big Five" is a reference to African dangerous game and the buffalo in question there is the African Cape Buffalo. Marty is hunting Australian Water Buffalo and while the water buffalo is generally larger in size than the cape buffalo of Africa, they don't seem to have the same bad temperament as their cousins. I do like the look of those Aussie buff horns which are often called “sweepers” because of their extreme wide spreads. I have a knife handle made of water buffalo horn and it polishes up into a very nice looking material. BTW, in case my credentials are called into question I’ll let you know it comes at the high price of reading hundreds of magazine and book articles which could have placed me in jeopardy of extreme eye strain.

[DUGABOY1]

http://www.doublerifleshooterssociety.com/images/545_4K_Ranch_January_2007_Frozen_Hogs.jpg

This was a one day bag by 12 double rifle hunters near Brady, Texas in Jan 2007 at a DRSS (Double Rifle Shooters Society) get together. We are a club of double rifle shooters, and hunters who have members world wide. The link to our website is in my sig line below. The website is under construction, but on the history is a picture of the four founding members on our first hunt. I'm the fourth guy from the left labeled as MacD37 which is my old company screen name for work. This first one was at Camp Cooley Ranch near Ridge, Texas. This all started right here on HuntAmerica yrs ago!

[Bill Gunn]

Bill, my expertise on the subject calls for some clarity in your question. The "Big Five" is a reference to African dangerous game and the buffalo in question there is the African Cape Buffalo. Marty is hunting Australian Water Buffalo and while the water buffalo is generally larger in size than the cape buffalo of Africa, they don't seem to have the same bad temperament as their cousins. I do like the look of those Aussie buff horns which are often called “sweepers” because of their extreme wide spreads. I have a knife handle made of water buffalo horn and it polishes up into a very nice looking material. BTW, in case my credentials are called into question I’ll let you know it comes at the high price of reading hundreds of magazine and book articles which could have placed me in jeopardy of extreme eye strain.

I know, your right, I should have said.... "African Water buffalo is the only big 5 game animal I would be interested in hunting." woops... :dong:

[DUGABOY1]

I know, your right, I should have said.... "African Water buffalo is the only big 5 game animal I would be interested in hunting." woops... :dong:

BILL there are no water buffalo in Africa! The African buffalo is a "CAPE BUFFALO"! , a dwarf buffalo, or Nile Buffalo, and none of those are water buffalo either!

Water Buffalo are Aisian buffalo like the ones you see in Viet Nam in the rice fields in front of a plow! These are two different species all together! This is a very common mistake people make! About every third person that comes into my trophy room asks "Where did you shoot that "WATER BUFFALO?" while looking at a shoulder mount of a CAPE BUFFALO!

This is a link to a Water Buffalo!
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9G_bHIaKqlLOC8AftujzbkF/SIG=12kf7irkh/EXP=1269463962/**http%3a//www.treehugger.com/galleries/asian-water-buffalo-0203.jpg

This is a Cape buffalo
http://www.docsgunshop.com/cape_buffalo.jpg

[Bill Gunn]

Well I'll be dipped in a swamp, and rolled in flamingo crap, I give up....

[DUGABOY1]

Well I'll be dipped in a swamp, and rolled in flamingo crap, I give up....


Is that picture supposed to make that cape buffalo a WATER BUFFALO because he is cooling off in the lake?