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Like I said before - when the leopard was stationary, there were several VERY poor shots fired - shotgun and rifle both - were they trying to get it to charge by shooting in front and to the right of it? Not impressed with the shooting - but have found, with most hunters I've seen, that's about normal.

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There were no shotguns in that film! The double barrel you were seeing was a Krieghoff double rifle! A full 90% of a wounded leopard getting to the shooters in a charge, the follow-up was done with a shotgun. This is not a common practice, because the PHs have learned over time from the experience of others, that a shotgun is not a good choice for this activity.


I think you would change your tune if you had been the one holding the rifle. A fast moveing Leopard is not an easy target to hit, and harder to stop when you do! The angle in low, moveing fast, and constantly changeing. The lead amount is constantly changeing, and misses are far more common than with larger and slower animals.

As old lion hunters have found, when charged they dropped to their knees, so the angle is the same for the whole charge. This would not have worked in this case because the grass was too high, and a lower shooting position would have hidden the target.

Monday morning quarterbacking is a very easy profession,one everybody is qualified for, but it doesn't pay very well!

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Originally posted by shakari:
Let me also say that the charge in that video is relatively slow to most Leopard charges. Admittedly, they're all different but from my personal experience, they're usually a hell of a sight faster that that one was........ usually, you get time for one shot only.

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Karl,

I agree ir started a long way back but I reckon the buggered forleg slowed him down a fair bit.

Interesting what you say about the charge. For some strange reason, I can never remember the charge itself. I always remember spotting the animal and identifing the charge and I always remember the moments after the shot and the animal is down.......... but the bit in between, including the shot itself, is always a complete blank........ Christ knows why, but that's the way it is with me.

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Shakari, the bit I remeber from a charge is only the ends of my barrels, and the buffalo, nothing else registered at all, not even the sound of the shots, or recoil. One other thing I remember is I could see a tuft of grass still in his mouth as he came!

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Of course, the eternal question is always going to be, will the next one be the same!

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Thankfully, for the client hunter it doesn't happen all that often, but you are right, you always wounder if the next one may get home with his charge. Buffalo don't seem to scare me much, but a close in lion absolutely scares the piss out of me, especially when the light is fadeing!

You guys get to go in after the screw-ups, and sort them out.......Bad day at Blackrock!

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