Me too, T-Bolt. Goober has precisely le mot juste with the Rourke quote. Me, I'd like to think that I wouldn't be screaming like a little girl, but I'm not so confident.
That walking up on one when it's still moving seems like a bad idea. Hammering it in the spine a couple of extra times until you're willing to bet your life it's really down seems like a better policy.
My father had somewhat the same experience in the Philippines during WWII. The only thing that saved him was he was carrying a B.A.R. He said the bull went down at about 20 feet away, on somewhere around the 18th round, but he didn't let off the trigger til it was empty.
Ted i have a friend who i have known 35 yrs or more who collects double rifles he has two 500s one of which i fired about 20 yrs ago Never Again he also has a Purdy in 500 nitro with a second set of barrels in 470 nitro and is having his gunsmith build him a 600 nitro with an option for a 700 nitro "MAD QUITE MAD"!!!!!!
As an aside, I’m sort of with Sepulveda on this one – if I’m correct, I think I recognize this guy from his awesome mullet. I don’t remember his name or anything, but if he’s the guy I’m thinking of, this is his thing – he purposely wounds these dangerous animals, then walks up on them close with his double rifle and goads them into charging so that he can get amazing video footage of his near-death hunting experiences and then sell them on DVD. I’ve seen him do the same thing with elephants and hippopotami and other dangerous critters.
You have to admire his balls, but he is an absolute asshole. I am an avid hunter, and would love to some day go to Africa and shoot a hippo and a Cape Buffalo and if possible, an elephant, but ethically with an eye towards as humane a harvest as possible. And anyone that wants to come on here and flame me for that, I’ll ask you to produce evidence that my next claim is wrong – the only reason that any wildlife exists on the African continent at this point is because hunters like me are willing to pay huge money to go over there and shoot it. Without that economic incentive, Africa would be a completely different place and they’d have killed it all off by now. So if you want to flame me, recognize what you’re asking for as an alternative to me shooting these animals.
That all being said, this guy needs to be hung by his ballsack. Anyone who purposely wounds an animal to goad it into charging him to get a thrill is a horrible human being, and in fact, many countries in Africa won’t even let him into the country anymore. Realistically, any hunter stands the risk of being charged by a cape buff if he accidentally wounds it and goes into the tall grass after it. But look at what this guy does – he’s got an obviously wounded animal on the ground, hurt, wounded, and suffering (my best guess by the way it humped up when he shot it the first time is that he gut shot it – I base that off of lots of years of shooting big animals and knowing what a gut shot animal looks like. I’d say he did that on purpose, knowing this asshole, but I have no way to prove that). Instead of just shooting it again as he obviously had ample chance to do from the original shooting spot, or from any number of additional spots along the path that he took to the final location, and even at the final location before the buff charged, he walked up to it, and obviously and purposely waited for it to charge. Watch it again with that in mind. When he’s walking up behind it, for instance, and it is obviously still alive – why not shoot it then? Any reasonable, ethical hunter would have. He wanted the charge. He baited it into it. Goaded it. I wish the thing had gotten to him and stomped a mudhole in him and then walked it dry.
So I guess my point from all that above is that, as impressive as this may look, it is really a shitty thing once you know what is going on.
He gut shot it (I would suggest on purpose), and instead of shooting it again to kill it, let it suffer while he swaggered up to it until he got close enough to get it to charge, all so he could stoke his own ego and line his pocketbook with DVD sales.
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Why don't you just skip to 11?
A quad + an extra pair of clean shorts.
A quad like you find on some Army trucks? That's the kind I'd want in that situation.
M-203 grenade launcher wouldn't be out of place.
...and a double row of concertina wire.
...backed up with claymores.
Jesus.
Like Rourke used to say:
"I could care less about those riflemen who can split a pea at 200 yards; I want to know how good you are on a charging Buffalo at twelve feet. "
Those thins scare the fudge out of me.
Me too, T-Bolt. Goober has precisely le mot juste with the Rourke quote. Me, I'd like to think that I wouldn't be screaming like a little girl, but I'm not so confident.
Airstrike... Just sayin...
That walking up on one when it's still moving seems like a bad idea. Hammering it in the spine a couple of extra times until you're willing to bet your life it's really down seems like a better policy.
My father had somewhat the same experience in the Philippines during WWII. The only thing that saved him was he was carrying a B.A.R.
He said the bull went down at about 20 feet away, on somewhere around the 18th round, but he didn't let off the trigger til it was empty.
Was I the only one rooting for the buffalo? Damn what a strong, courageous beast!
Ted i have a friend who i have known
35 yrs or more who collects double rifles he has two 500s one of which
i fired about 20 yrs ago Never Again
he also has a Purdy in 500 nitro with
a second set of barrels in 470 nitro
and is having his gunsmith build him
a 600 nitro with an option for a 700 nitro "MAD QUITE MAD"!!!!!!
As an aside, I’m sort of with Sepulveda on this one – if I’m correct, I think I recognize this guy from his awesome mullet. I don’t remember his name or anything, but if he’s the guy I’m thinking of, this is his thing – he purposely wounds these dangerous animals, then walks up on them close with his double rifle and goads them into charging so that he can get amazing video footage of his near-death hunting experiences and then sell them on DVD. I’ve seen him do the same thing with elephants and hippopotami and other dangerous critters.
You have to admire his balls, but he is an absolute asshole. I am an avid hunter, and would love to some day go to Africa and shoot a hippo and a Cape Buffalo and if possible, an elephant, but ethically with an eye towards as humane a harvest as possible. And anyone that wants to come on here and flame me for that, I’ll ask you to produce evidence that my next claim is wrong – the only reason that any wildlife exists on the African continent at this point is because hunters like me are willing to pay huge money to go over there and shoot it. Without that economic incentive, Africa would be a completely different place and they’d have killed it all off by now. So if you want to flame me, recognize what you’re asking for as an alternative to me shooting these animals.
That all being said, this guy needs to be hung by his ballsack. Anyone who purposely wounds an animal to goad it into charging him to get a thrill is a horrible human being, and in fact, many countries in Africa won’t even let him into the country anymore. Realistically, any hunter stands the risk of being charged by a cape buff if he accidentally wounds it and goes into the tall grass after it. But look at what this guy does – he’s got an obviously wounded animal on the ground, hurt, wounded, and suffering (my best guess by the way it humped up when he shot it the first time is that he gut shot it – I base that off of lots of years of shooting big animals and knowing what a gut shot animal looks like. I’d say he did that on purpose, knowing this asshole, but I have no way to prove that). Instead of just shooting it again as he obviously had ample chance to do from the original shooting spot, or from any number of additional spots along the path that he took to the final location, and even at the final location before the buff charged, he walked up to it, and obviously and purposely waited for it to charge. Watch it again with that in mind. When he’s walking up behind it, for instance, and it is obviously still alive – why not shoot it then? Any reasonable, ethical hunter would have. He wanted the charge. He baited it into it. Goaded it. I wish the thing had gotten to him and stomped a mudhole in him and then walked it dry.
So I guess my point from all that above is that, as impressive as this may look, it is really a shitty thing once you know what is going on.
He gut shot it (I would suggest on purpose), and instead of shooting it again to kill it, let it suffer while he swaggered up to it until he got close enough to get it to charge, all so he could stoke his own ego and line his pocketbook with DVD sales.
Goober, interesting observation.
See my comment below. Any reasonable ethical hunter would have done exactly what you described.
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