African Hunting Gazette

The Luck of the Draw

In June this year we had a client come out - we'll call him Bob for now. And he was up for the challenge of stalking and arrowing a Cape buffalo on foot. Bob was shooting an 80 lb Elite with a total arrow weight of 750 grains. Adequate enough equipment for the job at hand. My colleague Werner and I decided that together we would take Bob out for the hunt. One can never be too careful while stalking buffalo, so we thought two guns better than one if things went a bit pear-shaped if we managed to get an arrow into the bull.

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