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gryphon
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The writer got ripped.
#216209 - 06/09/12 08:52 AM

Got this from a buddy today.

"Hey, remind me to tell you about Col A*****, he’s over in Africa on a lion hunt. The camp had a big Wart hog in a pen, it got out, the only tree was covered in 50mm thorns, he tried to climb it, fell out and is in hospital with 60 odd stitches from the hog."

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500Nitro
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Loc: Victoria, Australia

Re: The writer got ripped. [Re: gryphon]
#216210 - 06/09/12 08:58 AM

Ouch is all I can say.

I hope they clean the wound.

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Ben
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Loc: Northern Territory, Australia

Re: The writer got ripped. [Re: 500Nitro]
#216222 - 06/09/12 01:12 PM

Poor bloke. I enjoy his books. As young and aspiring hunters of not much more than rabbits, but with bigger dreams, my brother and I had access to the one about the different species in Australia and New Zealand, and we read it and referred to it many times.

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NitroX
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Re: The writer got ripped. [Re: Ben]
#216225 - 06/09/12 02:46 PM

Yuck, never like the idea of anything involving needles or blood in Africa. I always carry my own syringes in my medical kit for such emergencies. South Africa and ? may be OK, but some countries definitely are not.

Good luck to him, hopefully he didn't loose anything important. Spoke to him way back when about writing. And before that he was one of the writers that got me inflected with the safari and double rifles bug.

Interesting about the wartie though, lots of tourist camps have semi-tame warties wondering all around the camp. Wonder why this one went for him?

Lion hunt? Which country? Gryphon do you know?

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ozhunter
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Loc: Sydney, Australia

Re: The writer got ripped. [Re: NitroX]
#216235 - 06/09/12 04:53 PM

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Interesting about the wartie though, lots of tourist camps have semi-tame warties wondering all around the camp. Wonder why this one went for him?

Lion hunt? Which country? Gryphon do you know?

Yes, one of those so so tame camp pigs.
RSA lion.........

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HuntingSchneider
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Loc: Tamworth, NSW

Re: The writer got ripped. [Re: Ben]
#216241 - 06/09/12 07:23 PM

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Poor bloke. I enjoy his books. As young and aspiring hunters of not much more than rabbits, but with bigger dreams, my brother and I had access to the one about the different species in Australia and New Zealand, and we read it and referred to it many times.

I rescued his book "The Australian Hunter" from the incinerator at the school library in about '89 or '90.

The state was going through one of it's anti gun phases (less frequent then than now) and all the firearm related books at school suffered. I was too slow to grab any of the others.

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JohnTheGreek
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Re: The writer got ripped. [Re: HuntingSchneider]
#217963 - 14/10/12 11:05 PM

I hunted in a conservancy where a farm owners wife had a pet female warthog. "Hoggles" was fine with the family but super territorial with anyone else. She would let you pet her if being held by the owner but would bluff charge and get all sorts of irate at any other time. I still remember the three of us (PH included) hiding behind lawn chairs and trying to fight off Hoggles who, by the way, had been hand raised since a piglet.

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Sville
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Re: The writer got ripped. [Re: JohnTheGreek]
#218001 - 15/10/12 11:04 PM

Thats bad luck....

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DaggaBoyBlog
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Reged: 28/02/12
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Loc: Sydney, Australia

Re: The writer got ripped. [Re: Sville]
#218198 - 20/10/12 12:57 AM

We're just back from a hunt in Musina for Brown Hyena and they had two warthog sows. They both hated women and children but for the lads they would roll over so you could let them rub their bellies. Hopefully Col has no ongoing drama from his thorny tussle! If the elephants don't get you the thorns will!

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