Really bad to hear about the PH's getting beat up. Thankfully it seems like they'll heal.
Still that's what makes buffalo hunting so special. Even well-placed shots with heavy rifles and good bullets, won't always drop an adrenlyned-charged buffalo in time to save lives.
People who hunt buffalo (clients, PHs, and trackers/observers)have to accept the fact that they could get maimed or killed. It comes with the territory.
Dangerous game hunting in not a carnival-type "thrill" ride, where there is a controlled, engineered, approach to an illusion of risk. The risks in DG hunting are present and very real.
If you can't suffer the consequences, don't go dangerous game hunting. PHs and trackesr know that, clients may understand that in a intellectual way, but maybe not in the sense that it is a real part of the game.
To hunt cape buffalo from that perspective, means that you are willing to risk permanent injury or death (to yourself or others)in order to try and kill those magnificient, courageous beasts.
If the buffalo dies and you and your people live, you win.
If you or your people die and the buffalo lives, he wins.
If you both die, then you broke even.
That's the real essence of that kind of hunting. If you are not prepared for the buffalo to win or break even, then don't get in the game.
Regards.
