Ripp
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Had a friend send this to me...found it very fascinating.
Enjoy
Ripp
San "Persistence" hunt video
Edited to add video to NE.com
Edited by NitroX (21/12/07 12:08 AM)
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peter
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wow it is stuff like that, that makes me think that i need to go to africa.
thanks
peter
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Ripp
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Peter my friend--
I have never met you and really don't know you..but heed these words of advice..
GO---you will never be the same..
Ripp
-------------------- ALL MEN DIE, BUT FEW MEN TRULY LIVE..
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Peter my friend--
I have never met you and really don't know you..but heed these words of advice..
GO---you will never be the same..
Ripp
Ripp, I agree with you. Once one goes to Africa, they're changed forever.
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JabaliHunter
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Somehow I totally missed this on the BBC. Anybody know what the series was called? The DVD would be worth having - as with most of David Attenborough's films...
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Ripp
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Somehow I totally missed this on the BBC. Anybody know what the series was called? The DVD would be worth having - as with most of David Attenborough's films...
this should help--
Ripp
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Collection-David-Attenborough-Disc/dp/B000B3MJ1E
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JabaliHunter
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Thanks Ripp - looks like it was probably in the Life of Mammals series..
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NitroX
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A truly amazing feat of endurance to hunt in this manner and actually outrun a kudu to exhaustion and death. Mankind is a wonderful and amazing creature.
-------------------- John aka NitroX
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Govt get out of our lives NOW!
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hoppdoc
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Wow!!
Makes me feel like a real wussy!! Bet the fellow who had the spear was happy to see bow and arrow hunting come along!!
Wow Again!!!
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How did he get his spear in the heart after all that! Even with a scoped rifle, my hands would have been shaking....
Awesome stuff.
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DDouble
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Spetacular film!!!
Those genes are buried but alive in all of us... we can all be reminded of those extraordinary feelings of elation we all have had on the longest of our chases... these must have been imprinted in our memmory thousands of years ago when we (hunters) saved the lives of our kin offering them the food we achieved from the Hunt...
it shows the workethic of the capitalist, yet it shows the sharing of the work and food of the true socialism, it probably shows where comes the motivation of marathon and triathlon atletes, the joy of an honest sweat, the ritual of the Hunt
it shows the taking of the life and the love for the same animal, the love for the land and all things dear to us...
-------------------- Ddouble
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Amazing and touching footage, thanks Art for sharing. The magic that is Africa will hopefully never die.
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AspenHill
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That was a truly fascinating film clip.
I don't think a 'westerner' could claim to be able to accomplish such a hunt. We have our long range rifles, bows and hides and call it a hunt nowadays, nothing wrong with that, it is just a far easier way of getting the same result.
Few of us modern peoples can afford the time needed to become so persistant and develope such endurance in our mechanized society. I am glad there are some out there who can still do it 'that way' to remind us of how difficult life really was or could be.
-------------------- ~Ann
Everyday spent outdoors is the best day of my life.
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MarkR
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Just amazing!!!
Wonder what calibre spear that was and how many grains of what powder were used.
Cheers, Mark.
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starwars
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I have read so much about the bushman, this video certainly speaks to there knowledge, and determination of there lands and animals.
-------------------- Richard
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Mosarwa
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I know these guys. The guy who in the end kills the Kudu is Karowe, from Cgacge, a small village in southern Ghanzi District, Botswana. They also work at a cultural tourism camp in Ghanzi called Trailblazers. I used to live in Ghanzi and hunted with them. We tracked eland and kudu together, They have an amazing ability to read tracks. When they track, they take on the animals persona and “act” like it, getting into its head and predicting where it’ll go.


Look at all the cattle tracks. In there are a few bull eland tracks. They figured it out!
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