I used the 35 Whelen Ackley Improved on two Plains Game hunts, '96, 2002. I used the 250X/2550 fps and the second trip the 200X/2970 fps. Pure killers. I killed Kudu, 2 zebra, Black Wildebeast, Blue Wildebeast, Red Hartebeast, and Oryx. I was also trying out some loads with a friends 300WM, 338WM, 375 H&H or there would have been more! I feel those weights at that speed are closer to the 9.3x62 than Remington's factory loads in the std Whelen. I once used the Woodleigh 310 sn/2400 to shoot a Eurasian sow up close. Big, clean hole, no bllodshot meat!
On the 2002 trip when foggy one morning, when parked, trying to see into a herd of Black Wildebeast on our left, we had three Rhino trotting from our right pass in front of the little Toyota PU close enough to brush the front bumper. My Whelen felt "tiny" in my hands, ha, same when we got almost too close to a Cape Buffalo and to a pond with 4 honking hippo. Big Guys! ha
On the 2002 trip when foggy one morning, when parked, trying to see into a herd of Black Wildebeast on our left, we had three Rhino trotting from our right pass in front of the little Toyota PU close enough to brush the front bumper. My Whelen felt "tiny" in my hands, ha, same when we got almost too close to a Cape Buffalo and to a pond with 4 honking hippo. Big Guys! ha
