| 4seventy |
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| 09/01/05 11:00 AM |
Re: Black Death Charges
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In reply to:
There's plenty of dangers out there without increasing them by acting stupidly......and all this grandstanding you see on the videos is (IMO) just stupidity
Shakari,
Is it stupidity or is it a calculated risk?
If the guy in question (and we all know who) had no experience, was armed with a 222 and couldn't shoot for shit, then I would agree that it is stupidity.
However, the guy has experience, he's been doing it sucessfully for years.
His NE doubles are certainly "adequate" and he has proven many times that he can handle the guns and the situations well.
If a person has the ability, the experience, and the right equipment, does this still mean that he is stupid to do as he does?
Isn't there supposed to be a certain amount of "risk" involved in big game or dangerous game hunting?
Isn't that what it is really all about, putting youself and your rifle up against a dangerous animal?
Hunter against beast?
A challenge?
In reply to:
it's never just the PH who is successful or otherwise at these times, it's the entire hunting team, working as just that......a team.
True enough in Africa but in other places maybe not.
Here in Oz we usually cannot employ a team due to the high cost of wages and insurance etc.
Often the "PH" IS "the team"!
Driving, guiding, tracking, backing up, caping, skinning, carrying, cooking, cleaning, mechanic-ing, gun fixing and many more things are often the responsabiliy of the Aussie PH. Just one bloke.
It is still a pretty good life though!
