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Hunting Safari South Africa - Cape BuffaloCAPE BUFFALO HUNTAFRICA'S CAPE BUFFALORifle Requirement: CAL .375H&H or larger The minimum calibre by law is the .375 H&H. This is for a good reason as this is one tough animal to bring down. This thick skinned animal requires a hard and heavy bullet designed for deep penetration. The two most likely positions will be a broad sided shot, slightly off centred or a full frontal shot. BROADSIDE SHOT A heart shot is recommended where the bullet needs to be placed just below the centre horizontal line of the body, just behind the front leg. The .375 has enough penetration to reach the heart and will also do enough damage to the lungs for the Cape Buffalo to go down within 100 to 150 yards. FULL FRONTAL SHOT There is more risk to this type of shot as the target area is smaller. The projectile must be designed for very deep penetration as the path towards the vitals need to pass through thick skin, then a thick layer of chest muscle and bones before reaching the vital organs. A shot left or right from centre may take the projectile in-between the shoulder and lung cavity, this will do little damage and will only wound the animal. This is when it becomes Africa’s Black Death. A wounded Cape buffalo is Africa's most dangerous animal to track. Back-up rifles should be bigger than a .375H&H as a charging buffalo will only go down with a brain or spinal shot. The advantage of shooting a heavy calibre, loaded with solid brass ammunition is that if the hunter misses the brain, the bullet may then penetrate the head, drives through the neck bones and muscle and hopefully hit the spinal chord on it's way to the back end of the animal. WOUNDED CAPE BUFFALO A wounded Cape Buffalo will seldom charge immediately after the first shot. It normally runs off, head for cover of thicker bush, and then ambushes the hunter and trackers. Extreme caution must be taken when tracking a wounded Cape Buffalo. hunting, hunt, pictures, africa, limpopo, south, africa, cape, buffalo - CAPE BUFFALO HUNTING SAFARIS
- Cape Buffalo ( Syncerus caffer caffer )
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Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) or also called the African buffalo is a mammal at the order of Artiodactyla, and family Bovidae. It is one of the most dangerous game animals, with human as the only natural enemy. They can defend themselves also against lions.
Cape Buffalo live on the open pastures, close to jungle and swampy ground where they can wallow. They can be found in Ethiopia, Somalia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania.
Cape buffalo is massive built with powerful limbs and cow’s tail. The average height of male is 150 – 170 centimetres, length – up to 3 metres and weight is 425 – 900 kg. Females are about 10% smaller. It head is board with wide mouth, bare, with moist nostrils and drooping ears. Characteristic are its horns. According to them, age and sex can be differentiated. Mature males have broad base shielding forehead with horns up to 100 centimetres wide and 150 centimetres long along curve. Females’ horns are 10 to 20% smaller, without boss. Their fur is short, thin and scant, mostly bark or dark brown.
Buffalos are non-territorial and extremely sociable animals, living in large mixed herds (having up to 1500 animals) that inhabit exclusive traditional home ranges (its large depend of large of the herd).
The gestation period of cows is 11 and half months. The have first calves at five, bulls mature at eight.
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