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<blockquote data-quote="Jurgens" data-source="post: 745233" data-attributes="member: 42811"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Bigsk</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Wildrose and Greyfox are both on the spot for caliber choice.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">According to the new laws the minimum bullet weight needed is 150gr for the animals on your list up to the Kudu and 175gr for Eland. For some reason our minister only used bullet weight to determine the standards and neglected to take all the other factors in considerations that contributes to killing power. On our local forum there was a nice debate on how idiotic that is.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I would loud the 7X57 with 150gr TTSX bullets for where you are going and the species on your list. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">There are very long shots to be had where you are going to hunt as it is open and the wind can be very stiff in the Karoo. The animals will go down with a well placed shot. A bad shot will keep you tracking for a very long time. If you hunt the Blue wildebeest make very sure of your shat placement as they are know as the poor mans buffalo as they are very tuff and can take a lot of punishment as well as the Eland. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The small game on your wish list I hunt with my .243Win with 90gr E-Tips and the rest with my .30-06 with 180gr TTSX. My dad has a 7X57 with 140gr TTSX, 7mmRemMag with 160gr TSX and a 9.3X62mm with 286gr TSX bullets.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If you are a very confident shot with your rifles bring the 7X57. If you have are not 100% satisfied buy a new rifle and come over gunned. There has been one or two occasions that I had wished that I used a bigger caliber but that was in the Bushveld where tracking can be very difficult.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The most imported part in my opinion is to have 200% faith in your caliber and shooting abilities. Most of the complaints that PH's has is that the clients comes with calibers that they cant shoot as they flinch and wound game and that end in a long day of tracking.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The animals here are not that tuff, if you take in to account the 7X57 an .303 have been used to hunt all the non dangerous game in SA for more than a 100 years. A have a 1919 .303 in its original condition that comes from my great grandfather that I still use if the opportunity arises.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">All of the above is my personal experience and opinions so if it is useful use it or don't if it is not.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Regards</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Jurgens</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jurgens, post: 745233, member: 42811"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Bigsk[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Wildrose and Greyfox are both on the spot for caliber choice.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]According to the new laws the minimum bullet weight needed is 150gr for the animals on your list up to the Kudu and 175gr for Eland. For some reason our minister only used bullet weight to determine the standards and neglected to take all the other factors in considerations that contributes to killing power. On our local forum there was a nice debate on how idiotic that is.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I would loud the 7X57 with 150gr TTSX bullets for where you are going and the species on your list. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]There are very long shots to be had where you are going to hunt as it is open and the wind can be very stiff in the Karoo. The animals will go down with a well placed shot. A bad shot will keep you tracking for a very long time. If you hunt the Blue wildebeest make very sure of your shat placement as they are know as the poor mans buffalo as they are very tuff and can take a lot of punishment as well as the Eland. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The small game on your wish list I hunt with my .243Win with 90gr E-Tips and the rest with my .30-06 with 180gr TTSX. My dad has a 7X57 with 140gr TTSX, 7mmRemMag with 160gr TSX and a 9.3X62mm with 286gr TSX bullets.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]If you are a very confident shot with your rifles bring the 7X57. If you have are not 100% satisfied buy a new rifle and come over gunned. There has been one or two occasions that I had wished that I used a bigger caliber but that was in the Bushveld where tracking can be very difficult.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The most imported part in my opinion is to have 200% faith in your caliber and shooting abilities. Most of the complaints that PH's has is that the clients comes with calibers that they cant shoot as they flinch and wound game and that end in a long day of tracking.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The animals here are not that tuff, if you take in to account the 7X57 an .303 have been used to hunt all the non dangerous game in SA for more than a 100 years. A have a 1919 .303 in its original condition that comes from my great grandfather that I still use if the opportunity arises.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]All of the above is my personal experience and opinions so if it is useful use it or don’t if it is not.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Regards[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Jurgens[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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