Hunting - if something goes wrong

of the traditioal big five of african game animals ,the smallest creature is ironically considered the most dangerous to hunt .

they are the lion ,elephant ,cape buffaloe ,rhino and leopard . the leopard is the very picture of stealth ,and is often hidden in the tree above you and refuses to roar like the lion and betray his position .being attacked by a leopard is kinda like falling into a very large blender set on high , except with the cutting blades all tipped with rotten bits of meat .

they say if you are walking through the bush and you happen to spy a spotted tail swishing back and forth from the branches overhead , DO NOT look up , but continue walking as if you did not see the tail .makeing eye contact will instantly result in the blender type action which is best avoided .

dead leopards because they are rather small by comarisn to the other four make for rather unimpressive trophey photo ops , and thus most guiges are able to diswade their clients from seeking such hazardous quarry .

 

Dangerous game is serious business and not all professionals hunters are qualified to do it.

Little known fact but the deadiest animal in South Africa is the hippo. More people are killed each year by them than any other animal.

 

JC:
I've read the very same.
They is "Black-hearted Devils" for sure.

Tim

 

actually the deadliest animal in africa , asia and in the americas is the mosquito but if leapords make rather unimpressive trophey pictures ,culled mosquitos , even ones jam packed with malaria , make really stupid looking photos for ones den or office .

the photo i display in my office , of me , a rolled up newspaper and a really large " rogue bull " mosquito , gets very little respect and much ridicule , even though i have it in a very expensive frame .

the most fearsome creature after the mosquito but well ahead of the hippo ,would be the black african ( or any other third worlder ) behind the wheel of any internal combustion vehical that weighs more than a vespa scooter .

hippos and crocs though very dangerous were never considered game animals in the african safaris heyday .

 

quillen , shooting a rabbit that is fleeing , with a shotgun , is entirely a different matter from shooting a lion which is CHARGEING , especially with a bolt action rifle . an m1 garand would be much better for this problem , though perhaps not very sporting .

a bipod on a rifle is useful only when one is laying prone .with a lion comming straight at you , few hunters would be inclined to lay down on their bellys .i wouldnt lie down unless i was going to try escaping down a very large badger hole .or you might play dead but i dont think that will fool a lion .

 

oops , now i have to eat my words on the bipod issue ,it is actually a shooting stick which is not attached ,
watching again , it looks like both the hunter and the guide may have hit the cat , right before impact .

it appears to me , from the credits , that the guide is indeed a boer ,though it seems his life is not at all boreing..