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Marshall Stanton
02-01-2001, 05:50 AM
We recently had two of our customers hunt Cape Buffalo in South Africa using our bullets in their handguns.... successfully!

Both hunters used our .476"-420g LFNGC bullets, one in a custom .475 Linebaugh, the other in a .475 Maximum. *Both of them harvested very nice buffalo with their sixguns.

We rarely get reports of recovered bullets, and even rarer is to have one returned to us. * Thought you folks here might like to see what one of these .476"-420g LFNGC bullets look like after penetrating several feet of Cape Buffalo! *This bullet encountered quite a bit of heavy bone during its travel.

I have not cleaned the bullet in any way, it is exactly as it was sent to us! *It was fired from the standard Linebaugh revolver. * No bullets were recovered from the buff killed with the .475 Maximum.... all were complete penetration shots.

http://www.beartoothbullets.com/upload/Buff_Bullet_2.jpg

Not bad for measuring penetration through heavy bone mass and muscle by the foot!

Thought you might enjoy this!

Marshall

jim lambert
02-01-2001, 07:50 AM
THAT BULLET HELD UP GREAT, CONSIDERING IT TRAVELED THROUGH A FEW FEET OF THE TOUGHEST GAME THERE IS, THATS WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS BIG BORE ROUND, KILLS ON BOTH ENDS. JUST TO BAD WE DONT HAVE ANY OF THOSE BIG BUFFS IN INDIANA. THE LOW ANTIMONY % REALLY PLAYED A ROLE IN THIS ENCOUNTER. WHATS THE WEIGHT EVEN WITH THE PAYLOAD OF MEAT?  THANKS MARSHALL.       JIM.

MT Callahan
02-01-2001, 08:07 AM
Gotta say it.....

YEEHA!!!!!