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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 115374" data-source="post: 2044368"><p>Yea, it seems like things have a tendency to go bad in a hurry when you need them to go right in the worst way. I am a 460SW revolver guy for bears for just that reason, one less thing you have to worry about. I have had 3 close encounters with grizzlies and fortunately they went the other way. I had a charge by a black bear sow w/ 3 cubs 2 yrs ago and she stopped fortunately. I was charged and chased across a bridge by a buffalo bull in Yellowstone in 88', my fault, I got too close for a picture 15 yds. I have been charged by Elephants in Zimbabwe twice - one was a juvenile male in Musth, the other was a group of cows w/calves that we got too close to, it happened before we knew they were there. Again we were able to run and they gave up the chase. The last was by a wounded cape buffalo in 08'. We tracked 5 bulls from sunup til about noon, caught up with them as they were just about to go into a Mopane thicket. We stopped and gave them about 45 min. to lay up as my PH thought they would do at midday in the shade. We checked the wind constantly with ash bags as we butt crawled to the edge of the thicket. The problem was there was a screen of Mopane about 10 yds wide and 15 yards deep that was about 50 yds from the main thicket. We didn't realize it until we got there. So my PH is glassing the main thicket looking for buffalo when he sees movement on the other side of the screen 15 yds. from us. It turned out to be a tickbird on the back of one of the bulls that we thought went into the thicket. After determining he was probably the only one that close to us, we found a small window that I could shoot him in the shoulder/lungs while he was laying there. I did, he jumped up and came around the screen of brush on the right side and I shot him on the point of the onside shoulder as he was lining up me, hitting bone and lungs. He stumbled and spun away like he had enough, I went to chamber another round, the round jammed nose up at an angle in my CZ 375HH, about that time I hear my PH say shoot him again he's gonna come again. The bull was now coming around my PH's side of the thicket to my left. PH asked me if I was jammed I said yes, he shot the bull under the chin with his 458 Lott but missed the spine. By this time I had cleared the round with my finger and shot the bull thru both front shoulders and he collapsed. Before I went on that trip I cycled every single round thru my rifle to try and identify any potential problems w/ feed issues. When I got home I took the gun and rounds to my smith and told him what happened, he tried to duplicate what happened and troubleshoot the gun but could find nothing wrong. Like I said earlier, things can go wrong in a hurry when you need them to go right. That is why I chose a revolver over a semi-auto and a pump shotgun over a semi-auto in bear guns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 115374, post: 2044368"] Yea, it seems like things have a tendency to go bad in a hurry when you need them to go right in the worst way. I am a 460SW revolver guy for bears for just that reason, one less thing you have to worry about. I have had 3 close encounters with grizzlies and fortunately they went the other way. I had a charge by a black bear sow w/ 3 cubs 2 yrs ago and she stopped fortunately. I was charged and chased across a bridge by a buffalo bull in Yellowstone in 88', my fault, I got too close for a picture 15 yds. I have been charged by Elephants in Zimbabwe twice - one was a juvenile male in Musth, the other was a group of cows w/calves that we got too close to, it happened before we knew they were there. Again we were able to run and they gave up the chase. The last was by a wounded cape buffalo in 08'. We tracked 5 bulls from sunup til about noon, caught up with them as they were just about to go into a Mopane thicket. We stopped and gave them about 45 min. to lay up as my PH thought they would do at midday in the shade. We checked the wind constantly with ash bags as we butt crawled to the edge of the thicket. The problem was there was a screen of Mopane about 10 yds wide and 15 yards deep that was about 50 yds from the main thicket. We didn't realize it until we got there. So my PH is glassing the main thicket looking for buffalo when he sees movement on the other side of the screen 15 yds. from us. It turned out to be a tickbird on the back of one of the bulls that we thought went into the thicket. After determining he was probably the only one that close to us, we found a small window that I could shoot him in the shoulder/lungs while he was laying there. I did, he jumped up and came around the screen of brush on the right side and I shot him on the point of the onside shoulder as he was lining up me, hitting bone and lungs. He stumbled and spun away like he had enough, I went to chamber another round, the round jammed nose up at an angle in my CZ 375HH, about that time I hear my PH say shoot him again he's gonna come again. The bull was now coming around my PH's side of the thicket to my left. PH asked me if I was jammed I said yes, he shot the bull under the chin with his 458 Lott but missed the spine. By this time I had cleared the round with my finger and shot the bull thru both front shoulders and he collapsed. Before I went on that trip I cycled every single round thru my rifle to try and identify any potential problems w/ feed issues. When I got home I took the gun and rounds to my smith and told him what happened, he tried to duplicate what happened and troubleshoot the gun but could find nothing wrong. Like I said earlier, things can go wrong in a hurry when you need them to go right. That is why I chose a revolver over a semi-auto and a pump shotgun over a semi-auto in bear guns. [/QUOTE]
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