Bro- you might misunderstand.
Not sure if you are an old African hand or not, but in Africa, and this permeates all involved in bush life, there is a sense of fatalism, and a casual acceptance of danger and bad outcomes. Bush Africans have this “it’s bad ju ju, but won’t happen to me” attitude.
All who spend time in the bush see life and death the way nature does - a part of the cycle of life.
Of course, our hearts go out to the family and loved ones affected. The posting of photos is a reminder and a display of the raw power of the Buffalo and acknowledgement they are not domestic bovine, but truly dangerous game.
We honor the animals taken, and we honor our brothers that have fallen to the dangers of hunting them. It’s no sh\t real crawling through head high grass following a track after something that can cap your your ass in seconds. Nobody in this thread I see is dissing the fallen hunter, but rather reminding each other of the dangers and the thrill of confronting dangerous game.
It’s difficult to describe in a couple of paragraphs. Maybe some of the other African vets can help me out.
I'm no 'old African hand', but having spent time in 8 African countries so far, have probably seen as much of Africa as many here, and more than a few. I've witnessed raw animal power. I watched a rhinoceros take on a young bull elephant at a waterhole and saw him hook and ram and badly injure him. That was on the Serengeti. I've watched a pride of Tsavo lions take down and eat a still kicking zebra, starting with his stomach. I've hunted alongside San bushmen in the Kalahari in Botswana. I've seen the big five up close, in the wild. I loved taking in all of it. All of which of has nothing to do with posting buffalo hero shots after a man got killed on a buffalo hunt. I think doing so is in poor taste at the very best. A man is killed on a hunt and some respond by posting up hero shots and congratulating each other on their pics of buffalo they took in years past? Just doesn't seem at all appropriate.
I enjoy seeing pics and reading of folks hunting all manner of game, dangerous and otherwise, and learning about things. That's why I read here. Funny, but when there are posts about brown/grizzly bear maulings and killings, no one posts up, "hey, looky here at this bear I killed!', with others chiming in with comments like, "nice bear, dude!', 'I took mine with a .416!' and 'when are we heading back to the peninsula to chase another?' Why is that? Probably because doing such is uncouth and boorish in my opinion. Obviously, YMMV.
Take care.
