Some of our European counterparts hunt the elusive goat-antelope creature, the chamois, in the Austrian Alps with a kipplauf. This is a tilt-barrel single-shot rifle which is often chambered in a European rimmed cartridge such as 6.5x57R.
I was hunting Boer goats in the Nandewar Range in northern NSW, with a Haenel Jaeger 9 kipplauf chambered in .308 Win. The Boer goats, like the chamois, don’t have the large horns our usual feral goats have, but they make up for that with the delicious flavour of their meat.
It was February and the blackberries were out. The previous afternoon I had taken the kipplauf with me when having a feed of the blackberries to see if there were any rabbits or even a fox hanging around. There was no sign of recent rabbits but there were three pigs there. I shot the first pig and instead of the others running off, they pretty much stayed still, allowing me to replace the spent .308 with a new round and shoot the second pig. I shot the third pig as he was
