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water/cape buffulo with stone points........ has it been done??
Justin Snyder:
--- Quote from: DanaM on December 23, 2009, 07:38:15 pm ---I'm wondering id Tiller is still going to wear a loin cloth and lure it into the open for ya eddie >:D
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The really cool thing is Tiller smells pretty enough that you don't have to worry about the buff smelling you. ::) :-*
hermitking:
:o
I don't know if it has been posted here yet, but from what I have been told, Cape buffalo have 4 inch wide ribs that almost overlap like scales. It is unlikely that any arrowhead is going to slip between the ribs. To bow kill one I would suggest a very heavy arrow with a very thick bone crushing head.
I was told by a fellow who read up on Mongol war strategy that the way Mongols dispatched elephants was with a solid iron or steel arrow shaft. The head and shaft were on piece of metal. I am not sure if they used fletching, but up close these iron arrows were supposedly able to penetrate the elephant's skull. Being that the arrow must have been extreemly heavy by arrow standards, I suspect that these were close range shots performed in group volleys. This was back in the good old days when men used elephants for war mounts and artillary platforms. The elephants were probably armored at times.
Other than those comments I would only add that I would never hunt a Cape Buffalo with gun, bow or other hand held dispatcher. I might consider an armored vehical, like an abrams tank, etc. Hunting moose is enough for me.
zeNBowyer:
I hope someone posts some more info on that steel arrow,
that would be an interesting high tech 'dart' coming from a heavy bow:)
Justin Snyder:
Hermit, go back and read the previous page. And YES, quartering shots can pass between the ribs. We already know that buff can be taken with wood bows with wood arrows and metal points because it has been done. The only question now is which stone and what point design.
Kegan:
Hmmm. That elephant comment got me thinking. Hill used a fiberglass longbow, 115# at 28" with a 1700 gr aluminum arrow and a larger one of his normal heads (4" long and like 1.5" wide or soemthing). ANyway. He shot one of those into an elephant skull and only got three inches of penetration, and then got 31" on a broad side shot.
For his own buffulo I'm pretty sure he used his regular ~90# hunting bow with ~700 gr cedar arrows. Hmmm... >:D
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