NitroX
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| 12/12/20 09:20 PM |
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Re: Hippo taken on land with a double
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What was that about "old farts" repeating themselves?
Well I went looking for a image of that Zambezi hippo. Couldn't find it. Have to scan it from an album.
BUT I did find this old fart telling the same stories. Lets compare.
The most recent:
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I have never hunted them but come across them several times. Other than just pods in the rivers and lakes.
First land hippo was in a Kenyan "jungle", it was feeding in the bush and when we came around the corner of the bush path, it was like lightning into a pool of water. I got a photo, all it is is a blurred grey flank of the hippo. Maybe 50 feet away from us. They are fast.
I remember being on the Zambezi on a fishing boat, "relaxing" after being thrown off the Gwayi hunting ranch by the "Warvets" in 2001. We were on the river. Our camp was above us on the hillside above the river. A couple of black dues were fishing on the waters edge. Someone somehow on the hill surprised a hippo feeding in the bush between the camp and the river and it came barrelling down the slope at great speed. We thought the two dudes might get swiped, but the hippo changed the angle a bit and came past them instead hitting the water with a great splash.
From January 2007:
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I've seen hippos on dry land twice at full speed.
The first at about 15 metres in a swamp in Kenya at a waterhole. We only had cameras but it was greased lightning running across our front to hit the water. Being a tourist group I wonder what would happen if the hippo decided to go through the camera jockeys?
15 metres vs 50 feet? Not bad.
But I have regressed to being imperial again. Quote:
The second was on a boat on the Zambezi. Someone had disturbed a hippo feeding higher on the hill in some bush and it came down at speed straight for an African fisherman at water's edge. We shouted for him to watch out, and luckily it veered. That hippo coming down a fairly steep bank would have been very hard to stop by shooting if on the ground. It is amazing how fast they can run too.
You see, when one tells the truth about a "story" it is much easier to remember, and not as hard to remember how you loed previously.
Stories might be embellished, bit with fact, experience and truth at their cores, they are amazingly consistent. As long as one can REMEMBER them!!!!