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hoppdoc
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Re: WHY DO YOU HUNT DANGEROUS GAME? [Re: MRobinson]
      #56616 - 08/05/06 11:16 AM

My gut feelings are the same as yours except I have not hunted DG in Africa. I eagerly look forward to it.

My hunting buddies feel differently. Most certainly have the means if desired but no stated desire to hunt Africa. They would rather sit hours waiting for a whitetail( great fun to me but not electrifying hunting) or hunt for bigger game in the West(definitely more fun/ more enjoyable to me).

Africa/DG just doesn't entice them, thus my remarks above. The risk/reward thing doesn't turn their crank.Whether its the bigger rifles needed, the potential danger, African politics,or the other uncertainties of a DG hunt, who knows? It may have absolutely nothing to do with internal fortitude-- it may be African hunting just doesn't interest/appeal to them!! How sad!!

Any suggestions on promoting African hunting amongst such a group??



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Re: WHY DO YOU HUNT DANGEROUS GAME? [Re: hoppdoc]
      #56625 - 08/05/06 02:18 PM

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Re: If only for the budget... [Re: hoppdoc]
      #56626 - 08/05/06 04:56 PM

Great response Hopdoc-

I've looked at hunts and was considering getting out last year, with the ten month old daughter and the high maintenance young wife things are just a bit off the *get out to africa for a DG hunt soon* track.

I greatly appreciate your note here.
I have friends giving me the same advice.
My wife actually supports the idea too. It will likely be a handful of years before I can get out to hunt in africa, we'll just have to see what happens as time comes around.


--Tinker

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Re: If only for the budget... [Re: tinker]
      #56637 - 09/05/06 12:30 AM

Had a conversation with an elderly fellow in his late 70's at the oral surgeons office while I was waiting for the oral surgeon.

He had taken a portion money from the sale of various homes over several years and went to Africa on 3 hunts. He had taken DG and several plains game animals.

I asked him if he ever had any regrets about the money spent on safari---he grinned widely and said "H*ll no, I am just mad I didn't go more! You can never have enough african hunts!! Money can't replace them." Indeed, they were the highlight of all his years of hunting!!

As others have said before--
GOTTA JUST DO IT!!

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Edited by hoppdoc (09/05/06 12:33 AM)

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Re: If only for the budget... [Re: hoppdoc]
      #56702 - 09/05/06 01:07 PM

He under stated the case. They aren't the highlights of your hunting career, they are some of the highlights of your life.

JPK

Edited by JPK (10/05/06 09:51 AM)

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Re: WHY DO YOU HUNT DANGEROUS GAME? [Re: hoppdoc]
      #56876 - 11/05/06 08:17 AM

Why do you hunt dangerous game?

I dont think you can explain why you hunt dangerous game to even another hunter, who has no desire, or has not had the oppertunity to hunt dangerous game! I believe it to be imposible to explain it to a non-hunter, or anti-hunting person. It sinply does not compute, with them!

IMO, for what it's worth, is that man has pitted his brain power against the brawn of dangerous animals as long as people have been in existance! Man is a surviver, and the reason man has control of the world, as much as he does is because of that need to apply brain over brawn! In other words, it is in man's nature to take on what ever he percieves as a barrier to his progress, be it animal or dangerous terrain.

For myself, I find that I'm a natural born risk taker, and it shows when one delves into my activitives over my fairly long life time! I have hunted most things, at one time or another, but only the animals that can bite back really interest me. I consider an animal dangerous only when you get in close, where if you make a mistake, things could very well get you killed. Anyone can sit off at 200 yds, and snipe any animal without risk, however no animal is dangerous to an armed hunter at 200 yds. I don't see the point.

This is like drugs to me, and the high it gives me is addictive. The confronting of an animal that your firearm doesn't give you all that much of an advantage, is where it is , IMO!
I guess I'm an adrenaline junky, and nothing gives me a fix like getting into the weeds with a big buffalo, or brown bear, when both you, and he knows what the outcome will likely be, depending on which of you makes the first mistake!

Anyone, who has been there, will tell you, everything goes, suddenly, into SLOW MOTION, and there will never a time in your life where you are more aware of your own mortality, but strangely not scared! That fear factor changes once things are concluded, however!

No prairie dog hunt will give you that BRASS IN THE MOUTH taste you get from being in close to an animal that can, not only kill you, but would be quite happy to do just that!
IMO there is no activity that compares!

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