| kamilaroi |
| (.400 member) |
| 02/06/10 08:36 PM |
Re: Big Head's Tragic Death - From "Buffaloes" by Carl Warbu
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Kamilaroi, you seem to play "bad man down" at every chance. I just happen to be one of those poseurs who uses "Duggaboy" and hunts and write about Cape Buffalo. Have you ever shot one? Ever been charged? I put the fourth .416 into my Dugga Boy at 6 yards. He was coming, but not too fast. He certainly wanted a big piece of me, though.
I've been dangerous game hunting for 15 years and writing about it for the same time.
Am I what you meant by "poseurs"?
If so, come away from the keyboard and hunt with me next year. It's handgun and leopard time. I'll provide the S&W 500.
Or, is the beer just the right temp and the shrimp are done, and, oh, that chair looks sooooo comfortable?
Tom Murphy
Las Vegas, NV
"Dangerous Game Hunting Magazine"
Sigh.
In short, some years back a poster maybe Duggaboy(?) responded that African buff were the duck's guts in aggro and insisted that waterbuff, banteng and wild cattle were mere wimps. Sort of a "my dicks bigger" exercise.
Since then I've been waiting for a similar proponent.
My experience here in OZ is just that (and extensive) but for some blowins to Afika do the "I've got a big ego and chequebook to match" gig bores me to metaphorical tears. Should you want to then write away to your target audience. To set yourself up with a 50S&W is as I understand it using a hot loaded 45/70 and I would imagine you used a "back-up" PH.
In short I identify with the hunters ethos and value the experience rather than what "situations" others by disregard or stupidity might might put themselves and their PH in.
FWIW I have access to game across both the Americas, arctic and northern Europe and bits of Afrik at minimal expense but home is where the heart is.
For sheer rat cunning give me sambhur any day. EOS