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500grains
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Re: Shooting Baboons? [Re: terry]
      #29851 - 22/04/05 03:14 AM


Terry, it's 'cause you have that jarhead training which I lack.

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Re: Shooting Baboons? [Re: terry]
      #29891 - 22/04/05 07:19 PM

Bowhunting a baboon? Now that's a real hunter challenge that I'll like to take up.

If you are in a hide next to a watering point you may very well get one. I think that if you know where they sleep at night, and you go and hide very well there during the day, you may get one when they return at dusk.

But I'm one of those mad ones for which the stalk is the hunting! Now stalking a troop of baboons in broad daylight? No, I just don't think I'm up to it. Not that I can't stalk, it is just that I'm not so lucky! I believe that only a very lucky, and a good one too, hunter will ever stalk and shoot an arrow into a baboon from a troop in broad daylight. Don't say it can't be done, but will be a real challenge!

In good hunting.


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terry
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Re: Shooting Baboons? [Re: 500grains]
      #29892 - 22/04/05 08:25 PM

500: I cut my teeth bowhunting whitetails in the woodlots of Pa's farm country. Good camo/scent control/an sitting rock soild is the way of an archer. Just as short barreled Dble guns is the way of a safari hunter.
I own and use both, harvested game on both continets with both.
I would say today as an older man the higher more defined skills of a successful archer are to be admired.
Have I killed a baboon with a bow & shaft, yes.
Have I killed more than 1 like that,no.
In truth I've never killed many, not my cup of tea. Humanoid? in some of their actions. A tad too many actions for me.
Once while on safari the owner/PH had been asked to remove a few due to their love of maize the locals had planted. I shot with a 45-70 half a dozen or so over the course of 10 days. These were the old Kodak Instanmatic Blk& Wht days. I took a few pics and upon development back home. My bride saw a pic we had posed for the camera by proping up a large male into a sitting position and I sitting along side it picking thru the coarse hair as if I was a troope mate searchinbg for lice. My bride asked which one was the "monkey" the poor beast I'd slain or the fool picking the lice? Those were my last 'boons!!

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Re: Shooting Baboons? [Re: NitroX]
      #30188 - 28/04/05 08:23 PM

NitroX,
You remeber the one I took infront of the camp when you and me hunted in Limpopo??Can't remember if you took any pics of it??At the specific camp where me and Nitro hunted there was a 1km non hunting area around the campsite.This rule was only to be broken when it was jackel or baboon.When there are no hunters in the camp the baboons will raid the kitchen and the open air lounge where there is usually fruit and other snacks on the table.The other problem that south-african game farmers has with these creatures is that they often catch small or newborn impala lambs witch is not so good for a game farmer or ranch owner.

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