Ronald W Schaefer
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One last thing, those bacon wrapped filets are like very high quality Kobe beef...they just happen to cost about $100.00 per pound after processing!
Yeah paying for a guided hunt all meat is high dollar I have been lucky and kill 8 to 10 a year get to keep 1 or 2 and have never paid a cent all processing is done by me I guess the sun shines on a dogs butt every now and thenYeah but how much per pound
Just an observation and NOT a criticism of 445 Superman's NA comment. Since the Nilgai is not native to North America perhaps their experience has convinced them that there is a better kill to caliber ratio with 30+ calibers and want the hunter to be successful given the cost of such a hunt. My opinion is to verify the 30 cal limit. If so this thread is done. Yea, I have had a bad day with hearing aids that get pulled off with every wiggle of the mask.As some have said its not really a caliber thing more of a SHOT PLACEMENT thing. 7RM is capable of all NA game. Load or buy something with good bullets and see if they work for your rifle. The 7RM is more than good enough for Mr Blue... its all in shot placement....
Who is 445 superman. . Hey they, the owners of these places can do anything they want. Shoot maybe they should put minimum at 585 Nyati. Wonder if that can get through. If I called about a hunt and they said I can't use my 7mm. Of any flavor rifle I'll just call another place. But darn I would show up with my 445 supermag or my 41 GNR #2 OR MY 454 CasullJust an observation and NOT a criticism of 445 Superman's NA comment. Since the Nilgai is not native to North America perhaps their experience has convinced them that there is a better kill to caliber ratio with 30+ calibers and want the hunter to be successful given the cost of such a hunt. My opinion is to verify the 30 cal limit. If so this thread is done. Yea, I have had a bad day with hearing aids that get pulled off with every wiggle of the mask.
Umm. From the sun?
Sun and the bitin' stabbin' stingers. Many comin' from the ground hang out at eye-level.
Ok I hunt Nilgai at least once a year sometimes twice. Dropped piles of them. You will never find a tougher animal in NA. Sorry that's just my opinion and the reality is they are thick skinned animals.
as such your typical lead core of any kind is not going to do the job. I've watched many hunters write a check for a animal than was hit as many as 5 times walk/run off. You want immediate terminal performance, period. 7Mag is awesome. I recommend Barns LRX solids not TTSX.NT CEB's not Hornady, not Nosler. The only bullet I see them consistently dropped with is Barnes with these small calibers. Use the biggest bullet you can at the highest reasonable velocity. You need to penetration with full energy transfer. Breaking the axel on this animals will work but I've only see it worth with 338-416 calibers at 80-300y. Only one of those went all the way through.
My personal choice is 338LM 280g Barnes LRX at 2945FPS. Longest shot was 511y,DRT blew his heart up. I've seen 300wm and 300Rum just tickle these beasts at 75-100y! Then bam, gone.
the RUM shooter hit it 5 times. Never found it.
375HH or 375RUM are other good calibers.
you can talk to Sam Ilse who is the only guide I go with. We have shot a lot and he has seen more Nilgai shot than any other human on the planet. He knows and Id trusthis recommendations.
I just finished building a 338LM for a client specifically for Nilgai Killing.
It's the smallest calIber I will personally use.
7mag is a caliber that definitely kills above what you would expect. Use the Barnes LRX bullets and try to get a shot at 250y and under. Ask Sam what he thinks but that is my recommendation.
Yeah, and when you start hunting with your buddies who moved here from Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, they do silly things like ring the dinner bell at the feeder. The cheesehead had hung a soup can for that purpose and thought he would pretend to call the deer in ... I just remember looking at him like WTH? and then feeling the most excruciating pain when the paper wasps that were living in that can stung me right below the eye. I never hurt that bad all the time I spent boxing when I was younger and I **** near punched him right there, lol.
He was the same guy that scoffed at me on our first bow hunt together about the flora and fauna are all out to get you. He ended up at the ER with a staph infection from a mesquite thorn that buried in his leg when he decided to bury a tripod in some brush. Needless to say, he is the first one to warn new out of state hunters to be careful hunting in Texas, lol.
This is exactly.
I have guided a fair share of nilgai hunts and a 7mag is not under gunned. Most places want 30 cal because they don't know any better. Work up a load with the 175gr accubond LR. That bullet is a great example of why a 7mag is more than capable.
True that.Most of these out of state hunters have never seen a Rattlesnake that can strike well above the knee.