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water/cape buffulo with stone points........ has it been done??
cracker:
Guys thats the funniest thing I've seen on here in a while I could just picture DT holding a camera bobbin around like crazy while he runs like mad and squeals like a little girl in a horror house.While someone else runs ahead of him yelling faster faster you fool you fool.
Coo-wah-chobee:
--- Quote from: Little John on November 01, 2008, 11:22:13 am ---I would be scared of a stone point failing on such a tough and dangerous beast. Now a heavy self bow and one of my heavy ashby style trade points on a heavy, and properly designen shaft should be do able. Like Justin said I know it has been done with trad. gear. This trade point is besides a 190 gr. grizlzly for comparison and weighs in at about 300 grains. 7/8 inch wide and three inches long, single bevel edge and made from a thick saw blade. Kenneth
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Stone points killed mastadons dead as yesterday's news ! I would be afraid of steel failing. C'mon guys where is yer sense of adventure ? ;D ;D....bob
deerhunter97370:
THE ELEPHANT STORY
Howard Hill has been asked many times to tell the facts on bagging an elephant with a bow and arrow.
Following is a list of questions and answers.
How many elephants did you bag? 3
How many arrows did it take for all three? 4
How heavy a bow did you use? 115 lbs.
Was this a hand drawn bow? Yes
Did you use an explosive tip or poison on the tip of the arrow? No
How long an arrow did you use? 41" with a special designed broadhead
How much did the broadhead weigh? 1700 grains
How much penetration did you get? 31.5"
Where is the best place to hit an elephant? Between the ribs into the heart or lungs
How much did the elephant weigh? 10,000 lbs.
This is off the Howard Hill Archery web sight. I think if it can work on an elephant it should work on a water buffalo. Joel
stickbender:
I agree with Deerhunter. We can put a head cam on Eddie, and wire him up for sound, and put him in a pair of camo depends, and some sneakers, and spray him with cow in heat juice, and send him on his way. Man that didn't make for a pretty visualization!Actually the Water buffalo's usually hit you with their chests first, then they go to hooking and mashing. Of course if they see Eddie, and start in his general direction, and get a whiff of him, they might think it had already been done, some time back. I know I sure wouldn't want to be twenty five yards from one with only a bow and arrow! I would definitely leave a very distracting and confusing scent mark , as he arrived at the site,where I once was......
Wayne
Hillbilly:
;D ;D ;D I wanna go watch this when y'all do it. Then I'll go hunt impalas or duikers or something that won't kill you. ;D ;D I've seen several sets of footage of people killing cape buffalo with a compound bow, so I'm sure it could be done with a selfbow. Howard Hill and Fred Bear, Pope and Young, all killed a pile of big mean nasty critters with stickbows-I'd just as soon pop a buffalo with an arrow as a lion, grizzly or polar bear. Our great-great-great (add fifty more greats here) grandpas all dispatched big beasts that would stomp you into doodoo or eat you with stone points. A buffalo sure isn't any more tough or dangerous than a mammoth, mastadon, wooly rhino, aurochs, sabertooth cat, cave lion, short-face bear, or any of a number of big ill-tempered critters that they got their weekly groceries from. A big rhyolite point would get the job done, and it won't bend when it hits a rib like the metal point will.
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