I've been involved with hunting African game all my life. What has amazed me is the lack of a hunter realizing that bullet placement is THE # ONE FACTOR in how fast an animal will go down. A buff can take one hell of a lot of shooting in what we say are 'killing' shots. I hunted with a PH whose job it was to feed a crew of workers building a railroad back in the '40s and '50s. I've stood by him and shot buffs that ran off to die in the tall grass to die moments later when every buff he shot dropped in his tracks. When he told me he'd shot a whole herd of zebra, one after another, and none of them ran off, I raised my eyebrow. He looked at me with a smile and said, "If you drop a zebra instantly, the herd will just stand there and look around. Then you do the same to the next zebra and so on down the line till they're all dead". BUT he said, "If you miss your bang/flop and one takes off running, all the rest will do the same".

Several days later we came onto a herd of zebra and I changed my hold, aiming for the neck where he'd told me to shoot. What he'd said was true. The rest of them just stood there. At the time I was with another hunter and he did the same thing with the same results. Then the PH shot one for leopard/lion bait and there were three dead zebras laying on the ground and maybe a half dozen standing there just looking around.

When I have time I'll tell you what happened with the baits we put out. Till then I'm hoping this dangerous game shooting cools off a bit. I'm relatively new here and am somewhat surprised at how 'testy' discussions become. I've been there and done that but still respect "to a point" another sportsman's point of view. It may not be the right one but there's really no need, IMO, and we all have those, to draw out the swords.