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Australian Water Buffalo #171657 07/25/2016 11:27 AM
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Hey guys, I'm at a hotel in Sydney Australia preparing for the long plane ride home tomorrow but I wanted to share a photo of my Australian water buffalo taken with a .454 Casull Ruger Super RedHawk and 325 grain Barnes Buster hand loads with you.



This combination worked really well on the buffalo but I wasn't impressed with the Busters on the wild boars that I also took. Posting from my mobile phone has proven challenging so I'll share more details later.

Re: Australian Water Buffalo [Re: Darrell H] #171658 07/25/2016 11:51 AM
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Very nice!...What didn't you like about the Barnes Busters?

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Nice buff!


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 Originally Posted By: MOHunter
Very nice!...What didn't you like about the Barnes Busters?


My complaint about the Barnes Busters is the small meplat. Wish they made a revolver-only version....

Congratulations on the great buffalo, Darrell! Great trophy! Can't wait to hear the details and see more pictures! WOW - GREAT HEADGEAR!


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Re: Australian Water Buffalo [Re: Darrell H] #171661 07/25/2016 1:34 PM
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Dang that's a fine specimen. Good show, Darrell.


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Re: Australian Water Buffalo [Re: s4s4u] #171663 07/25/2016 3:41 PM
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Congrats on a great trophy!


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Great job Darrell, was wondering if you were over there. Can't wait to hear the rest of the story. I don't see any spears....

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Huge congrats on a great animal!!!!


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Great job Darrell -- great bull! Congrats on a job well done. Look forward to hearing the details. Safe travels

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Congrats! Darryl on a great bull.

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Look at the size of him! Congrats, and excellent shooting. Can't wait to hear the full story.


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Congrats looking forward to hearing the whole story.


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Congrats, Darrell! Glad it came together, as planned, this go around. That is a fine trophy! There could be a lot of knife scales cut from those horns
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Re: Australian Water Buffalo [Re: Darrell H] #171675 07/26/2016 12:42 AM
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Is that 454 SRH borrowed from an Aussie resident or could you bring you own in?

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Beautiful..... Glenn told me you were there and I thought to myself that your going finish what you started because I can see the handloads arrived on time.... Good for you but BAD for the water buff which is a monster..... We really needed a "shot in the arm" here and you supplied it in spades. I tip my hat to a true handgun hunter.....


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WTG, awesome trophy!!!!

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AWESOME...just AWESOME

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Congratulations on a nice bull! I'm looking forward to hearing the details, and seeing more pictures!

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Great buff, Darrell! Congratulations!

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My man!! Great bull Darrell!

Look forward to catching up and hearing all about it!

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Congratulations on the trophy, Darrell!

Would like to hear details on trip!







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Nice one Darrell. Hope you had a bunch of help getting that out of there!!
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Nice looking buff Darrell. Like everyone else waiting impatiently for the rest of the story.


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Thanks for all of the replies and positive comments guys! I'm back at home and trying to get over jet lag and get caught up at work and on the honey do list! I'll try to post some more details soon. In the meantime, please see if this video works for ya....

Water Buffalo Video

Thanks again guys, I'll post some more details ASAP.

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Awesome buff and great video. I kept waiting for the reload as you ran forward.

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You took one hell of a nice Water Buffalo!


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My quest for water buffalo actually began in the summer of 2014. After reading about handgun hunting water buffalo in Australia by handgunners such as Mark Hampton and JD Jones, I knew that Australia was a destination on the bucket list. However, as I understand it, foreigners can no longer bring handguns into Australia. In order to take an Australian water buffalo, I would be required to use a handgun owned by an Australian.

Like many of you, I saw Lynn Thompson's Handgun Hunting Down Under video. After watching the video, I knew that outfitter Matt Graham of Hunt Australia owned at least one revolver capable of cleanly taking water buffalo. I contacted Matt and he informed me that he had a couple of revolvers in camp; a Ruger Redhawk in .44 Mag as well as a Super Redhawk in 454 Casull. Since the 454 Casull is one of my favorite (if not my favorite) revolver cartridges and I had a gun just like his, I knew that I wanted to hunt water buffalo with Matt's 454 Casull Super Redhawk and I booked a hunt for July, 2014.

Unfortunately, even though Matt did have the gun he was having difficulty getting ammo for it. The plan was for me to bring ammo with me. Even though I couldn't bring a handgun into Australia bringing handgun ammunition was not a problem. I bought 100 rounds of Buffal Bore 360 grain hard cast ammo, but since I had no idea what the revolver would like I also took a box of 50 various handloads loaded with 325 grain Swift A-Frames, 325 grain Barnes Busters, and 335 grain Cast Performance bullets.

To make a long story short, I arrived in Australia on schedule in 2014 but unfortunately my bag did not. Therefore I had a nice 454 Casull in camp but no ammo to shoot in it.
\:\(
Matt's wife Millie and my travel agent worked diligently with the airlines to get my bag located but in the meantime I hunted buffalo with Matt Graham's double rifle in 450 Nitro Express and I connected with a nice bull on day 3 of the 5 day hunt.


My bag finally showed up in camp around midnight the night before the last day of my hunt so I was up before daybreak installing an Ultradot and getting it ready to sight in as soon as it was light enough to shoot.



The gun shot the 360 grain Buffalo Bore ammo well, but it shot the 325 grain Barnes Busters amazingly well.



Unfortunately, I only had one day to hunt with the handgun and I just couldn't get it done. I had a great hunt, but I still wanted to shoot an Australian water buffalo with a handgun.

Fast forward to 2015...

I contacted Hunt Australia and asked Matt if he still had the ammo that I had left with him in 2014. He said that he was sure that he still had it so I booked another hunt for July, 2016. Since there was a gun and ammo in camp, I wouldn't have to depend on the airlines for anything. It was a foolproof plan or so I thought.

About eight weeks before the hunt I paid the final balance on my hunt and booked non-refundable airline tickets. Six weeks before the hunt, I was contacted by Matt and informed that Hunt Australia was no longer conducting water buffalo hunts. My hunt was being transferred to another water buffalo hunting outfit but I would need to change my airline tickets to arrive in Darwin instead of Gove. Matt assured me that he would have the gun and ammo in the new camp when I arrived and I was also informed that my application to bring 50 additional rounds of Barnes Buster handloads into Australia had not yet arrived. To make a long story short, my import permit arrived literally the day before I flew out. The gun was picked up by the new outfitter but the ammo was still missing in action. Foolproof plan? Methinks not!

To be continued...

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Darrell, Congrats once again on a dandy bull! And more congrats for your perseverance. They have took the fun out of traveling with guns/ammo for sure. Your success has further reminded me I'm getting old! Good job shooting -- great buffalo!

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Great video, and good shooting!!!!

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Thanks again guys!

I left Atlanta on Thursday, July 14th and after a brief layover in Dallas I boarded the Quantas flight across the Pacific. I arrived in Sydney in the early morning hours of July 16th after being thrust 14 hours into the future. Luckily there was a bag on the baggage claim conveyor that had my name on the luggage tag containing an Untradot and 50 rounds of handloaded ammunition! After painlessly making it through customs, I now had the ammunition in Australia. If only it would make the next leg of the journey and arrive with me in Darwin the following day then I might actually pull the hunt off this time!

I spent the day near the Sydney waterfront and rested up after the previous days of traveling.


The next morning I left for Darwin and after an uneventful five hour flight, I waited anxiously at the baggage conveyor for my bag. I watched the conveyor like an eagle searching for prey and as the last bag came around my heart begin to sink. I then noticed a lady pushing a bag wrapped in flourescent green tape toward the baggage claim area and quicly realized that it was mine. Again I though wow! This hunt might actually happen this time!

I was met at the Darwin aiport by my guide Peter Anthony and his lovely wife, Donna. After loading my gear into the Toyota Hilux we began the long drive to the hunting camp. After a couple of hours of driving on a paved highway, we stopped at the closest settlement to camp and purchased a few supplies in the little village of Pine Creek.


Afterward, we made a right turn onto a dirt road and I don't think that Peter touched the steering wheel for miles! We drove about 45 miles an hour for another four hours and arrived at Wombungi Station; a large cattle ranch of over one million acres.



Just getting to the edge of the property didn't necessarily mean we were "there". It took another hour or so of driving to finally reach the camp, arriving just after nightfall. It didn't take long before Paul, the camp chef, had prepared the first of many delicious meals.

I learned that the camp had been washed away during the previous wet season and everything had been recently been rebuilt. Here are a few views of the camp:

The cooking/dining area:


My comfortable cabin:


I also had my own toilet/shower:


As you can see, I was really "roughing it".
\:\)


A small stream flowed through camp and this is where water was pumped for washing dishes, flushing toilets, and hot showers, etc.

Here is the view from the front porch of my cabin:


After flowing through camp, the stream cascaded down a beautiful waterfall forming a deep pool:





It would be hard to imagine a more beautiful site for a buffalo hunting camp anywhere in the Northern Territory Outback.









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I sighted in the borrowed Ruger Super Redhawk on the morning of the first day in camp while Peter, Donna, and Paul were busy doing other things. I borrowed a cardboard box from Paul to use as a target and after a few shots, I had it grouping well and zeroed at 50 yards. Unfortunatley the only ammo in camp for the gun was the 50 rounds of ammo that I had brought with me. None of my leftover ammo from two years ago had made it to camp so I sighted the Ultadot in with as few rounds as possible. Shortly thereafter, Peter, Donna, and I headed out for our first day afield.

We hardly made it out of sight of camp when a wild boar appeared on the edge of the road. Peter asked me if I wanted to shoot it? I asked how much hogs were going for these days and he said they were "free". Hmmm...let me think about it..."boom"! The hog was quartering away and the Barnes Buster hit him on his right sight angling forward through the chest and exiting on the opposite side. He gave little reaction to the shot but he ran forward and just stood there for a moment before beginning to run again. I fired another shot in his general vicinity but I don't think that I touched him on that shot.
\:D


He crossed the road out of sight. I followed Peter into the bush and I picked up the blood trail but Peter had already spotted the hog. He hadn't gone far; he was just standing there and he was definitely feeling poorly. I shot him again, low in the right shoulder and he hit the ground. Amazingly, he got back up so I put another shot in the same shoulder a couple inches from the previous one and this time he stayed down. He finally expired and quit moving completely a few minutes later. I had my first hand-gunned Australian animal on the ground!


Even though we didn't take a buffalo on the first day we definitely saw many of them, including some that I thought were shooters. However, Peter was being a bit selective since it was our first day of hunting and I was the only hunter in camp.







I also saw many kangaroos on the trip:


Dingos:


And plenty of feral donkeys:


We also saw lots of wild horses and scrub bulls (wild cattle). In order to control their numbers, any of these animals could be taken by hunters at no cost (with the exception of scrub bulls) if desired but since I had only a few cartridges in camp, I felt that I needed to be a bit conservative.

To be continued...



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Darrell, I hope that at some point, you will compile your adventures into a book of short stories with the pictures! Thanks for sharing, and I am looking forward to the next installment of the Australian bull chronicles!

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 Originally Posted By: Boot
Darrell, I hope that at some point, you will compile your adventures into a book of short stories with the pictures! Thanks for sharing, and I am looking forward to the next installment of the Australian bull chronicles!


A couple of Darrell's hunting adventures are published in my books to include another bovine hunt in my latest book -- too bad I didn't have the time to include this one!

That is simply awesome, Darrel! Are you recovering at home or are you back to work?


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DAMM GOOD video of the water buff handgun kill. That was perfect execution of you handgun hunting skills. If you should ever get to South America for another buff, you will have taken them on 3 continents. Just something to think about.....


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Good shooting,let em all go!!!!!

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Thanks again for all of your comments guys!

Day2

We headed out to a new area on day two. On the way, I spotted another hog on my side of the vehicle and I yelled "PIG"! Unfortunately, he didn't hang around long enough to get shot at so we headed off once again in search of buffalo. Again we saw lots of buffalo, including one nice old shooter bull with broomed horn tips. However, upon seeing us he quickly gathered his harem of cows and left without even saying goodbye.

Day 3

I arrived at the kitchen just as it was breaking daylight and was talking with Chef Paul when all of a sudden Paul said "there's a pig!" I looked in the direction that he was pointing and sure enough, right across the stream from camp was a large boar rooting around. Unfortunately the 454 was in my cabin so I quickly sprinted the required 150 or so yards to retrieve it. Unfortunately by the time that I had returned the hog had rooted out of sight in the long grass. Lesson learned...don't even come to breakfast without your gun in the Outback.
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We hunted a completely different area on day three and we were determined to get a bull on the ground. We spotted a nice bull with a herd of cows from the road so we parked the vehicle out of sight and headed back on foot to try to approach close enough for a shot. Unfortunately we spooked a herd of domestic cattle which in turn spooked the buffalo and they ran into the bush. The cattle on the station were wilder than the buffalo!

We drove further down the road and spotted a lone water buffalo bull grazing next to a big brahman bull. After only a quick glance we noticed that he had good mass and broomed horn tips and we decided to make a go for him. He was approximately 100 yards from the road but I wanted to be 50 yards or less if possible in order to ensure a good shot on him. We used what little cover was available for our stalk but he didn't stick around. However he only ran a short distance into the bush and stopped. Peter attempted to call him by imitating the sound of a young calf in distress. While he didn't come to the call he was definitely interested in it and he just stood there staring at us. I attempted to close the distance and again he ran off. Peter once again called to him and he stopped, turned, and faced us.

There was a cattle path that led to a forked tree and Peter instructed me to crawl toward that tree while he called to the bull to keep his attention. This plan worked brilliantly as I was able to reach the tree and get in position for a shot. Unfortunately there was a small bush obstructing the bull's vitals. I could see the buffalo's head but I would have to guess where his vitals were and hope that the bullet would make it through the bush to him so I was uncomfortable in taking the risky shot.

Peter came in behind me and the bull just stood there staring at us. Peter once again called to him and the bull finally made a few steps foward offering me a clear shot. I aimed for the white patch at the base of the throat and sent a Barnes Buster on its way. The bull showed a good reaction to the shot, he stumbled and began staggering around. I was able to get another shot off before the bull ran to my left. I was able to get another two shots off before losing sight of the bull once again so I ran forward. The bull's was kneeling on his front legs and I was able to put my final two shots into him and he slowly laid down on his left side.

As I was reloading the revolver, Peter motioned for me to join him and we approached the downed bull. He asked me to put an insurance shot in the bull's spine and I quickly obliged him. We had finally done it! On my second trip to Australia, we finally had a nice bull on the ground and I learned that Peter's wife Donna had captured the whole thing on video on her iphone. I was glad that I didn't know I was being videoed or I'd probably have screwed the whole thing up!

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Way to go Darrell.If he's still standing keep shooting,and always pay the insurance!!!!!!!!!!


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What a great story. Thank you for sharing, and beautiful bull.

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How many times did you hit him and where were the hits? How was the penetration and terminal performance of the bullet? That sucker soaked up some rounds!!!


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Zee, I hit him 7 times. First shot was at base of throat and last shot was in the spine. I also hit him two times in left shoulder and once in right shoulder, two in guts.

I'm not an expert on buffalo but I was very pleased with how quickly he went down. He was dead in about 60 seconds. My 2014 Australian Water Buffalo took 3 rounds from a 450 Nitro Express and he survived much longer and traveled a much greater distance. Even though he never went out of sight, my South African cape buffalo survived approximately 20 minutes with 5 shots from my freedom arms 475 Linebaugh.

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