Thread: .270 muzzle speed

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

one has to marvel at how buffalo hunters could head/neck shoot long strings of animals one after the other all with single round kills at extended ranges...using no rangefinder or ballistics programme..no ELD-X ELD-M shikes they may not have even had smokeless powder yet.....
maybe they was just smart cookies

Slightly off topic, but from what I have read the Buff skin hunters had shooters who shot from horse back at close range, shooting at the edge of the herd to keep them mobbed and contained near the skin drying camps. Buffalo are not hard to kill with a .270 150gr to the Atlas from personal experience so the same shot from horseback would be easy enough