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Thank you for the updates. Our thoughts and prayers go to the PH, as well as Gideon and his family.
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yes this is the same story that featured in the news papers. if i am not mistaken the Watts family are from Kimberley and are ex - professional rugby players. they breed them tough over in the N-Cape
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Best wishes to the Watts family....
Hunted a place they owned near Vaalwater,never met Gideon.But hunted with brother Gerhard.Good people....
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This is just like Gideon...putting himself in harms way to save another! I chose him because he has pulled NOT one, but TWO leopards that were making people into mince meat off...... and killed the leopards with his knife! Holy Chit! That is one bad azz PH! But that kind of thng will catch up with you sonner or later. I hope he gets back upon his feet soon.
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yes this is the same story that featured in the news papers. if i am not mistaken the Watts family are from Kimberley and are ex - professional rugby players. they breed them tough over in the N-Cape Yes, Gideon was a professional rugby player and had thighs like tree trunks.
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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.
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My PH on my first African trip told of being mauled by a buf. He got a horn through each calf muscle while trying to stay out from under the front hooves. He said he was in remote camp with a cardiologist and Iodine only as an antiseptic. They flushed the wounds daily with iodine and he pulled through. Over the years he's been pretty hard to kill. He was shot by some Chadian poachers a few years ago. Now lives in Moz.
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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. Good post, I learned pretty quickly that inches of horn etc. mean nothing. You hunt buffalo, simply put..to have had the experience of hunting buffalo.... Ruark said once you have hunted buffalo, you are dissatisfied with anything else. I would concur.... Ingwe
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I wounder how many PH's get nailed by DG per year?
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