Wynnwood,

You ended your posts on other forums where some disagreed with you with the same end you place here.

Its a petty try at ducking responding to the reasons and reasoning of those who disagree with you, whether its me or NitroExpress, 500Grains or Samuel Baker.

I've never hunted buff and so am less qualified to comment than some others. My baptism comes this Oct and I will get to do it twice then. I like 500Grains' response though, kinda puts things in perspective, you don't need to use an inadequate weapon to get close, you don't need your PH to babysit you when you're close either ; get close and use an adequate weapon.

The ad hominem attack in which you imply you're the one and only with nuts big enough to sway because you choose to hunt under conditions in which your choice of arms make your PH your babysitter and in which you imply that those who choose to use an adequate weapon are nutless and should hide with their PH's behind distant trees and shoot at long range is just weak.

As I said earlier, do what you want but don't look to me for awe and respect; I'll reserve that for the non pro who is equiped mentally, physically and with a weapon adequate to actually save a member of the team that hunts DG. (Not that I don't respect the pro who does it either!)

From your post here and elsewhere you've told of shooting a buff in Namibia with a bow and three, also in Namibia, with a 45/70 but you've never shot buff with the 458 Lott you said you have or the Searcy of unmentioned caliber that you also said you have. Why? Thats a question you have not adressed, and what are you trying to prove to yourself or others? I have great difficulty understanding why a man would place himself in danger knowing that he HAD to rely on another.

JPK