Dragging this thread on a bit longer...

His good points are that he seems to find a great deal of amazing trophys, and has cool guns to hunt with. And of course you get to see lots of buff and their differant reactions. But that's about all I can appreciate.

Yesterday I veiwed "Death at my feet" on a DVD I've borrowed, and it's consistant with the couple of MS films I've seen before. That is to say, not my cup of tea... Just the fact that he says "we could shoot this wounded buffalo now, but we won't, so that he can choose his own death" (or at least something very close to that quote). And then the minutes of MS BS goes on. When they're standing only about 15 meters away, and the animal is wounded, I think this shows very little respect to the animal, and they're just prolonging it's suffering. This kind of thing just gives hunting a bad reputation IMO, and I can only hope that anti hunters don't get a wiff of what goes on in MS videos. I personally would rather shoot the animal again right away, and put it down, as I have always tried to do when possible... MS just likes to drag on, spewing his "philosophical" BS, letting the animal get even more wound up, so that a charge is inevitable when they get even closer. OK, they create cool charges, but then it appears that most of the charges are dealt by MS himself, and the client often doesn't get off a shot. At least it seems that way when I replayed several charges frame by frame. I guess it's up to each and every hunter, but I prefer shooting my own animals.

Then there is the elephant on the above mentioned film, Maybe I missed something, but when I played that scene over and over, using the DVDs zoom button too, it looks to me like the client actually missed the elephant (after being told to shoot, when it was in at a very poor angle). The shot appears to puff up visable dust behind the elephant on the upper left side as far as I could see, while MS' shot (when the elephant has turned around so we can see his side) puffs up dust on what I would presume is in its spine above the rib cage. Has anyone else noticed this?

And then there's the charge where the buff get shot in the mouth by MS. The thing that shocked me here was that the client didn't have any ammo in his borrowed 500 Jeffery!

He forgot to reload, and MS hadn't reminded him... I guess the clients sense of survival wasn't very evolved... What kind of dufus goes after a wounded buff with an empty gun! And what kind of PH doesn't remind the client to fill his mag and reload, after the clients shot 4 shots (or whatever), and their about to close in on the wounded, pumped up animal... Not very proffesional IMO. It just shows that MS is focused more on himself, and his own shooting, than the clients if you ask me.

So all in all, I feel that MS' comments about "This is what real hunting is all about", should be changed to: "This is what making an action movie, that will fill MS pockets with money, is all about". And he is talented at that. But his films leaves me with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

Erik