The Woodleigh Hydrostatically Stabilised Bullet
John Marozzi is the inventor of the Hydrostatically Stabilised Bullet (HSB). The bullet started as a thought or a seed implanted in the back of his mind in the late-1970s, when John was just 17-years-old. He would listen to his Uncle Max recount stories of encounters with marauding dangerous game that raided crops and wreaked havoc in Zambia.
Initially ‘Father Max’, who had graduated from an Italian seminary, was sent to Zambia to convert the locals to Christianity. Situated near the fertile Luangwa Valley, crops were frequently raided by buffaloes. He was further exasperated by the inefficiencies of his only firearm - a Short Magazine Lee-Enfield .303 British. The factory soft point bullets proved useless on heavy muscled big game and the military full metal jackets were slow going. In one particular close confrontation with a buffalo, his .303, together with assuredly “divine assistance”, just kept him out of the potentially disastrous predicament. He lamented that if he could only find a decent bullet, his .303 would do the job.
Books on Africa by respected writers Arthur Neumann, Sir Samuel Baker, Robert Ruark, Peter Capstick, John (Pondoro) Taylor and others have touched on the significance of using a properly constructed bullet on the intended game for
