| Ripp |
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| 01/10/15 06:07 AM |
Crossbow Hippo
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http://huntforever.org/2015/09/03/crossbow-hippo/
| Cazadero |
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| 01/10/15 12:38 PM |
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When I go back (one day soon) it will be for buffalo and hippo...
| larcher |
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| 02/10/15 05:58 AM |
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I am no supporter of cross bow because it's closer to rifle shooting than bow's.
Moreover, I won't shoot a hippo in the water.
Now after this ethical and arrogant commentaries, I am pointing that this hunter is very honest and took a lot of pleasure to the point of sharing with everybody. And no one will protest for minus one hippo on earth????
Each of us has his own requirement and it's easy to rap on people happy to share his hunt and his pleasure. So be it, ethics is the religion of any hunter,whenever ask of.
My restricted experience in France or in Africa makes me clear that when anybody hunting is confronted with bad luck or whatever, in day -1 or -2 days of the end of the hunt or safari, he lowers his standards.
So when one is throwing ethics in hunting, he is just like everybody claim, especially on forum?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
| Ripp |
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| 02/10/15 06:15 AM |
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I shot mine in the water with the late Ian Gibson..it took almost 4 hours to pop back up..but a nice one none the less..used a portion for baiting lion..
Lots of fun hunting them..but IMHO, buffalo is way way more exciting..
Ripp
| rigbymauser |
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| 04/10/15 07:34 PM |
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Darting hippos ought to be fun..
| Mike_Bailey |
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| 04/10/15 10:57 PM |
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Can anyone tell me what fps he is getting out of that 1250 grain arrow ? (approx) ? thanks
| crkennedy1 |
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| 05/10/15 06:23 AM |
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Can anyone tell me what fps he is getting out of that 1250 grain arrow ? (approx) ? thanks
295 to 325 fps
| Mike_Bailey |
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| 05/10/15 07:00 PM |
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Thx crkennedy1 (can you tell me how you worked it out ? sorry to be a heathen but in the article he mentions some formula, "kjoules" or something ?), thanks, Mike
NitroX
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| 05/10/15 09:54 PM |
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Finally read the article. I don't see JB's concerns about use of a cross bow or shooting a hippo in water. Never thought about these as ethical concerns before, and most seem to be shot in the water. I know some people want to hunt one on land as it is more challenging and can be so much more fun.
As for the article, can someone please tell me how it was a "dangerous game" hunt?
Why do these writers always feel the need to try and me all manly and claim it is dangerous and death defying?
Hippos do kill a lot of people, but usually unsuspecting people swimming or Africans in boats, or unlucky people in front of them when they go running downhill to water when surprised on land.
He he, my closest call on hippo was on my honeymoon, going past an unfriendly hippo on a sandbar, while we were in a canoe and I stopped for a photo. Two Zambians came to the river bank to enjoy seeing a Mazungu white man and his wife killed in a canoe.
No death defying cross bow hunt from land required. :0
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NitroX
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| 05/10/15 10:35 PM |
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FOUND IT!
Was sure I had scanned and posted it before. Went through twenty old threads to find it.
The resultant hippo photo from my honeymoon, an "experience which left for the rest of my life shaken, from the fear of facing the muddy wet death of the Zambezi, the dangerous game, hippo ..." well it was a bit nervy for about thirty seconds while we rowed past unarmed ...
And the hippo in the photo looks almost like he did in real life. Too bloody close!
| Cazadero |
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| 06/10/15 11:57 AM |
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I know some people want to hunt one on land as it is more challenging and can be so much more fun.
Shooting one in the water may not necessarily be easy, but with an average rifle and scope and a little bit of practice how hard can it be?
On the land? With open sites?
Now that is a completely different game.
| Cazadero |
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| 06/10/15 11:58 AM |
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Great photo.
Tell us more details please.
Did he even take notice of you?
Why didn't you have a guide?
| crkennedy1 |
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| 06/10/15 02:32 PM |
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Mike, according to my calculations a 1,253 grain arrow traveling at 235 fps will produce about 153 ft.lbs. of Kinetic Energy with a momentum of 1.31. Thanks