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Sweetheart,

They are your deeply rooted Phobias and as plainly cited,others don't even shrug shoulders. Hint.



Hell...you can't even punctuate for yourself and that's REAL scary for you. Hint.

Fhuqking LAUGHING!..................

No sir - no buff pics.

I have a weird relationship with Africa. I like the lore, love the rifles and will spend time watching the hunts on youtube but I have no desire to actually go.

No desire to really shoot anything over there - my bloodlust for any critter has waned a lot lately. I'm not big on guided hunts and the like because just sluicing some thing and hanging a head - meh, just doesn't make my socks move. I'm big on any deer I shoot off our property or out of our UP deer camp and I always felt pride in ducks and geese I shot on the bay but to say, go to Kansas and shoot a large white tail - just not all that important to me. Non-trophy hunter, I'm comfortable with my penis size, don't need to BS people about "Got 3 150 class and a 170 class buck" WGAF that matters? So no - I've never shot a trophy anything. I'm ok with it. Oddly enough - it's usually other people that take issue. I have done "semi-guided" bear hunts in Canada as a youth which were a blast but BTDT so unlikely to repeat.

The closest I come to a real desire but not enough to spend the money would be an Alaskan hunt of some sort - mostly just to experience the country/landscape.


I'm happy doing what I do now - deer hunt the UP, hope to find a duck hunting opportunity here and there and do some grouse hunting now and continue to support various conservation groups. My son is 22 - grandchildren are likely in the next couple years, I just want to spend time outside with all involved, bloody hands don't matter to me - want others successful.

I've said it often - I don't care if I never shoot another deer in my life but I better be able to go deer hunting every year.

Stick to what you know- Alaska. You have some credibility there. Not like Phil by a long shot.
Africa? - you couldn’t find it on a map.

Hint- ur phoucing retard act don’t work here darling. Just sayin dumb qhunt. #midget

I see one of the Bizarro World Midas twins has polluted this thread and quickly turned it into a pile of excrement.

Wow, what an interesting turn this thread has taken. Hardly surprising...

I saw the aftermath of a buff attack in 97 while chasing one in the Klaserie. A buff suffering a serious infection after a lion attack launched himself off of a dry riverbank on to a game guard who didn't stand a chance. Wrong place, wrong time. Welcome to Africa.

While Buff can take some serious punishment, if everything goes right, it is simple enough to kill. Unfortunately, the likes of Mark Sullivan and others have glorified and exaggerated the hunt to an extent that many clients are needlessly $hit scared of them.

For the record, I've seen more PHs wounded by "dead" Impala and Gemsbuck than Buff. But I don't want to go chasing a wounded buff in the reeds either. That's just asking for a free trip to the hospital... or worse.

I once shot a mule deer at close range several times. It would not go down. It was in heavy bush and I believed it was wounded by my friend. I wanted to end the chase then and there, so I shot till it dropped. Branches were flying all over, but the deer was hit each time, just not necessarily where I was aiming.

Game sometimes cling to life where by all indicators they should be dead.

50 is too young to go. My condolences to the man that lost his life to the Buffalo. They are a tough animal and one to be respected.

Bb

Shortly before this discussion degraded beyond my interest and tolerance, I had planned to make a constructive comment as follows:

Somewhere I had read that no 4 legged game can walk or run if either the shoulders or pelvis are shattered. The wounded animal may be able to crawl, but not run to either charge or escape. This has been repeated in many hunting stories. So, as part of my preparation for my first Cape Buffalo hunt, a part of my practice was locating these two bony structures and pulverizing them with a 400 grain Woodleigh solid BEFORE firing my first shot at the Buff target.

As it happened in RSA, my DG PH and trackers led us to the rear of a small group of buff and to within 25 yards of the last of the group. As the PH set up the sticks, I
saw that only the pelvis would be visible after my first shot as the buff was grazing almost directly away from me towards some thick cover. My shot placed a 400 grain Woodie just behind the rearmost left rib and the buff responded with a rearward kick of the left hind foot and began to slowly walk away. My next shot shattered the pelvis
and brought my buff down with a loud crash that shook the ground.
It turned out that my first shot had gone through the heart and though lethal, was not enough to drop the critter to the ground.