| cooch |
| (.300 member) |
| 02/05/09 10:22 AM |
Re: Brittany Boddington Leopard Incident
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Jabali Hunter.
You stated
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Secondly, I don't really understand why BB shot. For two reasons.
My conclusion is that in effect, she got carried away due to the adrenaline-fuelled situation. She shouldn’t have shot and an accident occurred.
Did she fuck up? Yes. Is there any harm discussing it? No. No-one on this thread has been uncharitable towards BB.
As others have said, hindsight is a wonderful thing. I won't hold this against her. Others have done far worse.
Someone who was there disagrees with you.
Quote:http://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1411043/m/1081092801/p/2
........In the statements we did state that it took 3 seconds and that she did not know that Punki was under the cat she never saw him trough the high grass so she did the right thing and what we as PH's told her to do. And she would have never shot if she knew he was there. This was a freak accident and it could happen to your insensitive ass aswell!!!
Nic Kruger PH on the hunt
Now you can possibly argue that the PH is protecting his client, but I suggest that you think carefully before you call someone who was there - and who has sufficient experience to understand what was going on - a liar.
The situation was that the leopard had charged the party, and was believed to be wounded. Both of these facts create a strong imperative to stop it as rapidly as is reasonably possible....
There is good reason to argue that the lass did the right thing in the light of the information available to her at the time . It is probable that the only thing that she did wrong was to miss low. All those who have never missed a shot please raise their right hands. No? I thought not.
Respectfully........... Peter