From: "IG", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<Baboons have always sounded to me like great quarry for the varmint
hunter -
not big enough to be big game, but not small either, very wary indeed so a
challenge to one's fieldcraft - and with a whiff of danger too, since they
can be very nasty if they decide to go for you rather than run away...
My friend spent many years in South Africa and confirms that .22 centrefire
rounds do not stop baboons reliably - he's also seen one take a solid hit
from .308 and not go down. You apparently need something flat-shooting, with
lots of punch from a good frangible bullet to deliver so much shock & damage
that the critters are knocked out immediately.>>
Just been doing this in Africa. However, the rifle I had with me was a .338
win mag. That puts them down and they stay down. Fast, flat shooting and
exceptionally accurate over very long ranges. The perfect round for
everything in Africa. Nothing to beat it for every species apart from maybe
an Elephant. Or a rhino.
IG
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