Hunting the dangerous & huge black buffalo of Arnhem Land. A multi-buff kill show that includes a lesson for Alain on how to hunt with a boomerang?! You gotta watch this!
The Largest Member of the Bovine family is not a water buffalo, but an animal called a Gaur. They are very impressive animals, large males have been known to topple lorries when upset or spooked.
Never ceases to amaze me how powerful some of these animals are, remarkable he was able to run to well after taking all those shots. Adrenaline is a hell of a chemical.
The curiosity is mainly due to the fact that the population in Australia is made up of feral domesticated water buffalo. Comparing them to cape buffalo is like comparing American razorbacks to European boar. The actual wild one is considerably more dangerous and harder to shoot.
i READ A BOOK THAT HAD hunting boomarangs in it the book was named strange and unuaual methods of hunting and I loved it the Author had pic's of his and he said he had added pieces of copper wire to the striking end of his to make it hit abit harder it was a very interesting book as he also had a trained cheetah which he hunted withfor coyotein calif.thk's for the video
Alain, I'm loving the shows but I think your habit of touching the eye with your muzzle is silly. It puts the hunter right in front of a (possibly) wounded animal that could charge. When I was learning hunting, I was told to ALWAYS approach a downed animal from the back and to the rear and poke or kick it in the rump. If it jumps up, it will most likely charge away from you, not at you. Seemed like good advise at the time
James every PH I have hunted with in Africa does the eye poke. Think about it as you approach the animal with the rifle loaded and off safety you have the perfect brain shot available if needed. Also a stunned animal my not react to a poke in the rear but will react when poked in the eye just as you or I would.
You inderstand that a large animal can turn and charge you just as quick as if you was in front of it. By the time you kick it and get your feet back under you and in position to shoot it would have turned and charged. Makes no difference so might as well have the muzzle in its face and both feet on the ground.
@@nomaschalupas2453 Possible, yes but much more likely for it to charge forward, especially if you are standing in front of it's face where it can see you! Secondly, there is never a time when you are all alone on these hunts. There are usually at least one or two other guns available to be pointing at the critter in case it jumps up. I'll stand by my original statement.
@@jamescooper2618 you realize the concussion caused by the bullet entering the eye socket alone would be enough to knock the animal out? .22RF are frequently used to knock cattle unconscious for slaughter... and anatomically, their bones aren't significantly different than buffalo (they're all bovine lol). If it twitches, pull the trigger lol.
It seems that for the buffalo in the wide open areas that using a Barrett rifle chambered for 50BMG would eliminate the worries about not getting clean kills @ longer range...especially for management purposes.
it is different when you are hunting something that can kill you - i hunted on an island off the north coast of australia - it was owned by the aborigines and they got all the meat (and there is a lot of meat there) very tough to bring down and scary when you are out on a salt flat with absolutely no cover anywhere
On not making clean kills at 300yd on buffalo: there is a reason the skin-hunters in the American west used such heavy artillery for bison, all about momentum and having a high SD. But, like ya said, what fun is it to lob bullets at them, when you can get close :) EX: 375 Ruger w/ 300gr DGS @2660 FPS MV @ 300yd has 76.556 LB*ft/s momentum, virtually no expansion VS EX: 45-105-540 Sharps (BP load) with a 540gr lead bullet @ a blazing (lol) 1360 fps MV @300yd has 80.897 LB*ft/s momentum even though if has only 2/3 the energy of the ruger at that range, it will expand to roughly .75" and still completely pass through the buffalo, or be under the far side skin. 3" Mag Slug load type recoil in an appropriate rifle. VS Ex: Smokeless 45-70-500 with a gas-checked 500gr hardened lead bullet @ 1527fps MV @ 300yd has 80.912 Lb*Ft/s momentum, and will expand to about .65" and exit the buffalo or be under the skin on the far side. (this will have less felt recoil than the BP load above). 2- 3/4" 12ga slug load type recoil VS Big Medicine 50-140-700 "Sharps" (BP load) with a 694gr Cast wadcutter@ a whopping (lol) 1350 fps mv @300yd has 100.083 lb*ft/s momentum, and will expand to roughly .85" and still exit the animal, or be just under the skin on the far side. Recoil in appropriate rifles (12-15lbs) is like a 3" Magnum 12 gauge slug load; not something you'll want to shoot all day, but survivable. Built a Muzzle loading double for a guy going to South Africa for buffalo that was regulated for this loading (obviously minus the brass case). he was only getting about 1225 fps with this loading, partly due to the vents, but mostly due to his insistence on 22" barrels, rather than my preferred 26" barrels for something like it. Frame of reference: Gun writers' and armchair-hunters' sweethearts= 300WM and 300RUM, with 230gr bullets at around 2480fps MV only have 71.512 LB*ft/s momentum @ 300yd in 1879, the Secretary of the US War Dept. commissioned the Sandy Hook Field Trials for evaluating the effectiveness of extreme-range infantry fire. With .45-85-500 (modified .45-70 govt load), at 2 miles, the bullet was still capable of striking nose first and punching through 2, 1 inch pine boards, and burying themselves 4-8" into sand (If you've ever shot or tried to compact sand, you'll know it arrests KE quite handedly). They hit the large, company-sized target 12/50 shots.
I’ve been watching you since I was a wee lad with my grandpa. Recently bought a browning .375 that looks like the rifle you were using in this video, the moment I saw the stainless steel I knew I had to have it. I’m planning on saving for the next 5 years for a .470 or .500 Jeffery. Any suggestions on a quality double rifle?
Go 470 as they easier to get ammo for and do everything! Doubles are all based on price you can afford. I seriously can't name a bad one but plan on spending $15,000.00 or more and don't be afraid to buy a used one.
This is bs. The returning boomerang was a toy. A hunting boomerang was never used to hunt buffalos which were only introduced a couple of hundred years ago. Ridiculous.
It’s like when Americans say they have the best navy in the world....but then one of their state of the art destroyers is nearly sunk by a stationary oil tanker...oh....two destroyers nearly sunk....
hahaha,, sorry to tell ya Alan, but you bin had,, thats not a boomerang,, supposedly boomerangs are made to return,, what ya got there is a nice pretty curved STICK ..
@joe v Yeah they hunted with a straight line boomerang,, and they use the curved boomerang to throw over head of the waterfowl to keep them grounded,, imitating a bird of prey hawk or something
heart's low on these animals, from this angle you'd run a chance of not getting the lungs especially good if you miss. Even with the first shot from that distance, He'd been down in 20-40 seconds and dead within 30seconds- 1 minute. Thing's don't live to long with a hole in their chest...
abcvzz STFU you bleeding heart SJW parasite, the animal he kills go to communities/people in need of food apart from that killing feral animals that don't belong in the ecosystem is doing that ecosystem a great service but yes he an does enjoy the hunt and SO HE SHOULD!! i know i do.....
abcvzz i'll think of you too the next hunt i go on as i kill my target animal then i'll laugh know you'd be crying like a little bitch about it........sjw lefty extremist vermin.......
Buffalo are very big and very stupid. They don't know they are supposed to fall down dead when struck by a bullet. They can soak up literally tons of bullet energy and still run off. A .375 H&H is marginal on a buff. Like using a .222 on a big buck whitetail. He put the first one in the "right spot" and the bull died from it, later on.
You just show everyone how stupid you are when calling others clowns. Obviously you dont know shit about hunting large animals. Ofcourse sometimes a animal can drop straight down but thats not a given even if you hit them all in the same exact spot. You would be more stupid to not take extra shot if you are able. Also, you saying 7 shots to kill a buffalo as if its not one of the toughest animals you could hunt and each animal has a certain amount of shots required to take down. A damn squirrel could sometimes take 3 shots to kill if you are off by the smallest margine and a .22 to a squirrel is like a damn mortar shell to baffalo if comparing by size.
We dont have Buffalo in the Philippines...that is a Carabao LOL. Carabao is a Philippine name for a water buffalo. Both are the same animal. If you still can't comprehend then try Google!
Australia has ZERO native hoofed animals (and some pawed). Sorry vegans. They have to go.
tommypk86 that’s not true we have wild horses wild pigs and bulls also buffalos 🐃
Faze _h1ghsky1 dum fuck their not native
@@perth7930, As Russell Coight says, "native foxes".
The Largest Member of the Bovine family is not a water buffalo, but an animal called a Gaur. They are very impressive animals, large males have been known to topple lorries when upset or spooked.
Never ceases to amaze me how powerful some of these animals are, remarkable he was able to run to well after taking all those shots. Adrenaline is a hell of a chemical.
The curiosity is mainly due to the fact that the population in Australia is made up of feral domesticated water buffalo.
Comparing them to cape buffalo is like comparing American razorbacks to European boar. The actual wild one is considerably more dangerous and harder to shoot.
sqrwysyny i durnie!!!!
i READ A BOOK THAT HAD hunting boomarangs in it the book was named strange and unuaual methods of hunting and I loved it the Author had pic's of his and he said he had added pieces of copper wire to the striking end of his to make it hit abit harder it was a very interesting book as he also had a trained cheetah which he hunted withfor coyotein calif.thk's for the video
Alain, I'm loving the shows but I think your habit of touching the eye with your muzzle is silly. It puts the hunter right in front of a (possibly) wounded animal that could charge. When I was learning hunting, I was told to ALWAYS approach a downed animal from the back and to the rear and poke or kick it in the rump. If it jumps up, it will most likely charge away from you, not at you. Seemed like good advise at the time
James every PH I have hunted with in Africa does the eye poke. Think about it as you approach the animal with the rifle loaded and off safety you have the perfect brain shot available if needed. Also a stunned animal my not react to a poke in the rear but will react when poked in the eye just as you or I would.
You inderstand that a large animal can turn and charge you just as quick as if you was in front of it. By the time you kick it and get your feet back under you and in position to shoot it would have turned and charged.
Makes no difference so might as well have the muzzle in its face and both feet on the ground.
@@nomaschalupas2453 Possible, yes but much more likely for it to charge forward, especially if you are standing in front of it's face where it can see you! Secondly, there is never a time when you are all alone on these hunts. There are usually at least one or two other guns available to be pointing at the critter in case it jumps up. I'll stand by my original statement.
@@jamescooper2618 you realize the concussion caused by the bullet entering the eye socket alone would be enough to knock the animal out? .22RF are frequently used to knock cattle unconscious for slaughter... and anatomically, their bones aren't significantly different than buffalo (they're all bovine lol). If it twitches, pull the trigger lol.
i have done this and yes there is no place to hide and that mud is so sticky and keep
It seems that for the buffalo in the wide open areas that using a Barrett rifle chambered for 50BMG would eliminate the worries about not getting clean kills @ longer range...especially for management purposes.
How many rounds did you put in the old buffalo?
lost count but kept shooting till he was done
They are always around the duck billed beaver ponds.
Would of been nice to know what calibers you used. Is 338wm with 250gr bullets enough gun for these guys?
If placed correctly
it is different when you are hunting something that can kill you - i hunted on an island off the north coast of australia - it was owned by the aborigines and they got all the meat (and there is a lot of meat there) very tough to bring down and scary when you are out on a salt flat with absolutely no cover anywhere
J Smith you are a very accurate indeed.
I.m. glad. I. Got. To. See. This. One.... it's. A. Good. Sequel...to. the. Spear. Throwing. Competition... for. 20.000. Schilling.s... then. This. One. On. How. To. Throw. The. Boomerang. Without. Injuring... yourself... good. Humor. Thankyou. Have. A. Nice. Day....
On not making clean kills at 300yd on buffalo: there is a reason the skin-hunters in the American west used such heavy artillery for bison, all about momentum and having a high SD.
But, like ya said, what fun is it to lob bullets at them, when you can get close :)
EX: 375 Ruger w/ 300gr DGS @2660 FPS MV @ 300yd has 76.556 LB*ft/s momentum, virtually no expansion
VS
EX: 45-105-540 Sharps (BP load) with a 540gr lead bullet @ a blazing (lol) 1360 fps MV @300yd has 80.897 LB*ft/s momentum even though if has only 2/3 the energy of the ruger at that range, it will expand to roughly .75" and still completely pass through the buffalo, or be under the far side skin. 3" Mag Slug load type recoil in an appropriate rifle.
VS
Ex: Smokeless 45-70-500 with a gas-checked 500gr hardened lead bullet @ 1527fps MV @ 300yd has 80.912 Lb*Ft/s momentum, and will expand to about .65" and exit the buffalo or be under the skin on the far side. (this will have less felt recoil than the BP load above). 2- 3/4" 12ga slug load type recoil
VS
Big Medicine 50-140-700 "Sharps" (BP load) with a 694gr Cast wadcutter@ a whopping (lol) 1350 fps mv @300yd has 100.083 lb*ft/s momentum, and will expand to roughly .85" and still exit the animal, or be just under the skin on the far side. Recoil in appropriate rifles (12-15lbs) is like a 3" Magnum 12 gauge slug load; not something you'll want to shoot all day, but survivable. Built a Muzzle loading double for a guy going to South Africa for buffalo that was regulated for this loading (obviously minus the brass case). he was only getting about 1225 fps with this loading, partly due to the vents, but mostly due to his insistence on 22" barrels, rather than my preferred 26" barrels for something like it.
Frame of reference: Gun writers' and armchair-hunters' sweethearts= 300WM and 300RUM, with 230gr bullets at around 2480fps MV only have 71.512 LB*ft/s momentum @ 300yd
in 1879, the Secretary of the US War Dept. commissioned the Sandy Hook Field Trials for evaluating the effectiveness of extreme-range infantry fire. With .45-85-500 (modified .45-70 govt load), at 2 miles, the bullet was still capable of striking nose first and punching through 2, 1 inch pine boards, and burying themselves 4-8" into sand (If you've ever shot or tried to compact sand, you'll know it arrests KE quite handedly). They hit the large, company-sized target 12/50 shots.
What round did y'all use
James Thornton that's .375 H H
Alan are they any good to eat,and have you tried it?
Very good eating. Even the old bulls.
There's not much left for meat after they fill it fulla holes😂
What do you do to stay in shape your not the typical old guy . Going on a dream buffalo hunt
Eat right, hunt a lot, drink an occasional beer and try and stay out of trouble.
Sling shot will work just as good.
i have done this on melville island - at least there the fires are started by the locals not lightning
what caliber guns did you use
.375 H H
photo of so much meat, murderers?
What calibre? 338Lapua or 375 H&H, 9.2?
375 HH
Nice looks fun ,witch gun and bullets did u use?
Borrowed 375's
Didnt bring your own.
Weres the double barrel nitro
Could not take it on this trip unfortunately...
amajing
I’ve been watching you since I was a wee lad with my grandpa. Recently bought a browning .375 that looks like the rifle you were using in this video, the moment I saw the stainless steel I knew I had to have it. I’m planning on saving for the next 5 years for a .470 or .500 Jeffery. Any suggestions on a quality double rifle?
Go 470 as they easier to get ammo for and do everything! Doubles are all based on price you can afford. I seriously can't name a bad one but plan on spending $15,000.00 or more and don't be afraid to buy a used one.
@@JAlainSmith love to hear from you v much, very nice of you to answer. Good to hear the input from a master 👍👍
This is bs. The returning boomerang was a toy. A hunting boomerang was never used to hunt buffalos which were only introduced a couple of hundred years ago. Ridiculous.
Wow Captain Obvious. You sure got it all figured out. 'Case you don't know, they were just fooling around. You didn't catch it huh.
Jack Spratt actually we use them for hunting before white man come to Australia
Well you can’t always be sure with Americans...I can’t tell whether Trump is serious or joking....
It’s like when Americans say they have the best navy in the world....but then one of their state of the art destroyers is nearly sunk by a stationary oil tanker...oh....two destroyers nearly sunk....
Did your mom tell you to say that or your boyfriend?
Wat did u guys do with the meat.
Ate it all, buff ribs on the bar b!
J Alain Smith got it.
@@JAlainSmith haha the black fellas up there wont even eat the buffalo - boar bait
Did that boomerang really hit you in the nuts? If it did you're the coolest guy I've ever seen after a nut shot.
Of course, we would never do recreates just for a laugh on Rugged X....wel maybe sometimes?
In the last scene the hunter behaves like a buffalo..😄😄😄
hahaha,, sorry to tell ya Alan, but you bin had,, thats not a boomerang,, supposedly boomerangs are made to return,, what ya got there is a nice pretty curved STICK ..
@joe v
Yeah they hunted with a straight line boomerang,,
and they use the curved boomerang to throw over head of the waterfowl to keep them grounded,, imitating a bird of prey hawk or something
When you kill a Cape Buffalo with a boomerang, do you like to go for a frontal brain shot or broadside heart and lung ?
Scrotum is very effective
What caliber and rifles are you using?
375 HH
And it's a winchester m 70 right?
@@gledgren9635 Yes in the old days that is what I shot. Now I shoot a Gunwerks Skull in 375 Ruger
I'm 12 and cant wait to shoot buffalo in africa
Are you able to bring your own rifles or do they supply them? Great hunt though!
Used theirs
Caliber and ammo selection?
Thank you
You throw with the LEFT hand, not the RIGHT!!
Tom Grosinsky lol lol
17:46 wasn't perfect, it hit the left lung, not the heart.
heart's low on these animals, from this angle you'd run a chance of not getting the lungs especially good if you miss. Even with the first shot from that distance, He'd been down in 20-40 seconds and dead within 30seconds- 1 minute. Thing's don't live to long with a hole in their chest...
Are you eating what you kill?
Shane Parker : always eat what we hunt! Pure, natural organic protein, doesn’t get any better than that!
abcvzz STFU you bleeding heart SJW parasite, the animal he kills go to communities/people in need of food apart from that killing feral animals that don't belong in the ecosystem is doing that ecosystem a great service but yes he an does enjoy the hunt and SO HE SHOULD!! i know i do.....
abcvzz i'll think of you too the next hunt i go on as i kill my target animal then i'll laugh know you'd be crying like a little bitch about it........sjw lefty extremist vermin.......
What in the world are you shooting with. Caliber? At that range a blow gun would be effective..)
That’s not a boomerang it’s a stick!
Hello
Hello gurl, howyadoin ;)
what a,,Beast
4 clowns in line ... 7 shots to kill a buffalo ...." hit the perfect spot" hahaha .....and he was still running ... buffalo dundees
Buffalo are very big and very stupid. They don't know they are supposed to fall down dead when struck by a bullet. They can soak up literally tons of bullet energy and still run off. A .375 H&H is marginal on a buff. Like using a .222 on a big buck whitetail. He put the first one in the "right spot" and the bull died from it, later on.
Armchair hunter...
You just show everyone how stupid you are when calling others clowns. Obviously you dont know shit about hunting large animals. Ofcourse sometimes a animal can drop straight down but thats not a given even if you hit them all in the same exact spot.
You would be more stupid to not take extra shot if you are able. Also, you saying 7 shots to kill a buffalo as if its not one of the toughest animals you could hunt and each animal has a certain amount of shots required to take down. A damn squirrel could sometimes take 3 shots to kill if you are off by the smallest margine and a .22 to a squirrel is like a damn mortar shell to baffalo if comparing by size.
Jajaja jajaja ese bato aaaaah my ball's
lol
In my watching of Alain's videos, I have determined that he is the worst high-fiver on the globe. Excellent hunter and host though. Good stuff.
I need to practice more... LOL
poor shooting
that is not ah buffalo that is a carabao lols
ervin bayale its a buffalo
We dont have Buffalo in the Philippines...that is a Carabao LOL. Carabao is a Philippine name for a water buffalo. Both are the same animal. If you still can't comprehend then try Google!
Dillon Monsen it's a Carabao
Some people are really dumb. Since when did an animal have one name?! All animals have different names in different countries!...Duh
There's no way u can kill a water buffalo with a boomerang no fuxkin ways about it my buddy
Captain Obvious are you kidding me? I love alternative weapons! LOL
Racist nonsense. You should be proud of yourself.
Was ur brain on airplane mode when you made this ?