Thread: Three Legga

Originally Posted by bunji

"He was in very good condition, the bullet that we presumed had taken his leg off by the joint had healed perfectly"

I wonder if it was a bullet wound ,when we were in Oz ,l spent a couple of months Helcopter shooting in a area that had been hit by a cyclone & had a lot of fallen timber (Coburg Penninsula) .We must have shot 20 + 3 legged Buffalo & Brumbies that had snapped their legs in fallen timbers & then had them rot off leaving the animal perfectly healthy other wise.

When we first encounterd this the Gov't vets came out to look (we would do spot blood checks for disease) as they were not sure the local Blackfellas had not been wounding them with their infamous wet sand shotgun slugs .The veternarians theory was that while a bullet would shatter bone & flesh, cutting arteries etc & possibly leading to bleed out, but more likely a slow death from some blood supply getting to part leading to growing infection.Where as a twist & break cut blood supply with twisting injury, leading to dead flesh & limb eventually dropping off with chance for skin to grow over wound & seal off.They took one 3 legged Buffalo a crew shot near camp & had it stuffed for the Govt Vet school/HQ .

Great write up ,l hurt my ankle years ago with a deer we were dragging out to a flat bit skidding on wet leaf litter & cleaning me up ,always been real careful since.What rifle combo you using ,looks like it has done the job perfectly.

That's an interesting thought, we will never know for sure buthe was doing alright till I stuffed his day up. I was using my 300 Win Mag and 200 gr ELDX bullets , I am running a Vortex 4x14 Viper HS which is a very good scope but are going to put a VX5 Leupold on it in the next week or so.