The Physiological Pathology That Kills Your Game When You Shoot It (Final)
" Can a kid's bowling ball that has the same momentum as a 300 gr .375 bullet kill a Cape buffalo?"
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Andries
- Aug 5
- 4 min
The Physiological Pathology That Kills Your Game When You Shoot It (3)
"What keeps that gemsbok alive? Knowing what keeps it alive we know what to do to kill it."
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Andries
- Aug 3
- 5 min
The Physiological Pathology That Kills Your Game When You Shoot It (2)
"That energy is absorbed and contained within the bullet as it is rapidly slowed and can not be "ejected" to do work."
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Andries
- Aug 2
- 3 min
The Physiological Pathology That Kills Your Game When You Shoot It (1)
"... it finally seems that at least the myth of “hydrostatic shock” has had a quiet, unattended burial".
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Andries
- Jul 14, 2021
- 4 min
"The Thing A Man Hunts Most When He Hunts Is Himself" - Part 2: Rats With (Unusually Wide) Horns
"Hopefully he will come back to South Africa and hunt a big bossed 35" mean beast - and find himself".
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Andries
- Aug 15, 2020
- 3 min
(DG Rifles Part 3): The Musgraves
It will be rare to see a larger than 1/2 MOA group for any off the shelf rifle.
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Andries
- Jul 31, 2020
- 11 min
Kick The Habit (2) - A Tongue In Cheek But Serious Treatise On Recoil
The shooter’s physiological reaction to recoil, objectively seen, is the visible work being done on him by the rifle. His psychological...
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Andries
- Jul 28, 2020
- 11 min
Kick The Habit (1) - A Tongue In Cheek But Serious Treatise On Recoil
Recoil is what it is - live with it and do not flinch
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Andries
- Jul 3, 2020
- 5 min
The "Mystery" Mass Dying of Elephant Is No Mystery
Many elephant have been dying in Zimbabwe - and by their hundreds since two months ago in Botswana - and it will become thousands very...
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Andries
- May 2, 2020
- 7 min
7 mm Twins (2): The 7x64 Brenneke and the .280 Remington (the 7mm Odd Six?)
As identical as identical gets. But the .280 Remington has an amazing story!
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Andries
- Apr 1, 2020
- 2 min
Shot Placement (5): A Bullet's Home Is Where The Heart Is
"All of them, including Northern Hemisphere deer species"
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Andries
- Mar 21, 2020
- 3 min
Shot Placement (1): That Rowland Ward Impala (edited)
"The heart is low in the frontal chest cavity almost resting on the breast bone which is the bottom protective shield"
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Andries
- Dec 22, 2019
- 4 min
"Education" means to educate the young. (#1 in the series)
"Shot placement into the heart or brain is so ingrained in us that it is no longer part of the discussion in hunter education"
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