Q Mega Fix vs Blaser: a sitatunga hunt in Uganda

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• Day three of the hunt delivers two sitatunga from machans, the raised blinds overlooking the papyrus: Vanessa takes an old bull from the stand they had glassed the day before, and John takes his within ten minutes of sitting.
• Vanessa is a seasoned Blaser shooter, with a .375 for dangerous game and a .300 Win Mag for everything else, and this trip puts a Q bolt action in her hands instead.
• Her sitatunga ran after the first hit, so she put a second shot into it on the run; in papyrus a wounded animal is one you do not want to track.
• Her unsolicited verdict, relayed by KB, was that she could not have shot any faster with her Blaser, which he credits to the Mega Fix's 45-degree bolt throw matching a straight pull for follow-up shots.
• The rifle comparison is Q's own view on Q's own channel; there is no timed or side-by-side test.
• KB's bull came only after several empty sits, when the group moved to a machan built into a large tree on a river system about an hour and a half away and found a bull already feeding in view.
• KB's sitatunga, taken with a Mega Fix, is the oldest and largest of the group's three.

About this Gun Review video

Q Mega Fix vs Blaser, from Q's own Uganda hunting series. In episode 3, Vanessa, a longtime Blaser straight-pull hunter, takes a sitatunga with the Mega Fix and lands a follow-up shot on the run in the papyrus. Q founder Kevin "KB" Brittingham relays her verdict that she could not have shot faster with her Blaser, and credits the 45-degree bolt throw. That comparison comes from the rifle's maker, not an independent test. John and KB also take old sitatunga bulls from machans.

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