PW - Unit 6

PH Comment - Buzz

One for the record books. CMS most ambitious hunt to date. We wanted to take the big 4. Taken with open sight, with the very first Shikari Rigby Double. The only 450 Rigby ever built. We also wanted to take a lion by tracking. The massive lion was taken after 9km of tracking on day 4. It was a huge cat and will measure very high in the record books. Not that I am remotely interested in that. We then had a leopard we needed bait for, and PW then dropped a hard bossed buffalo with one shot, and bait problem was solved. After 3 sittings Phil got a great old leopard in broad day light, with the open sighted double, no mean feet. We then had several days to work on the ele and tracked and turned down lots of bulls. But decided to take a huge bodied 50lb. Again PW shot amazingly well, and it was a perfect side brain shot. I must complement PW he is the best open sighted double shootist I have had the pleasure of guiding.

Client Comment

The plan was an ambitious one. Take a brand-new Rigby Double in a caliber that had never been made before. 450 No 2, and hunt 4 of the big 5 in 21 days. All with open sights. A tall order. Buzz and his team of course pulled it off in magnificent fashion. A huge old lion was tracked on foot first Next was a hard boss cape buffalo, hunted up in the hills in a teak forest. Then a beautiful old leopard that toyed with us a couple of times before giving us a shot. Three of the big four in eight days. Remarkable. We took the elephant on day 16. Completion of the four of the big five in 16 days. Buzz’s entire team did a perfect job as usual. A fantastic hunt.