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NitroX
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Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up
#283165 - 01/06/16 03:44 AM

https://www.facebook.com/spitskop.safaris/videos/1050684285006271/

Dramatic close call charge of a wounded lionness.

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Re: Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up [Re: NitroX]
#283184 - 01/06/16 06:44 AM

Now THAT is intense..

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Re: Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up [Re: Ripp]
#283287 - 03/06/16 05:35 AM

real close shave
She seems to be covered in blood on the right shoulder but not at all impeded. Scary

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Re: Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up [Re: Ripp]
#283294 - 03/06/16 07:17 AM

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Now THAT is intense..

Ripp

A tribute to the cool shooter under pressure.

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Re: Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up [Re: gryphon]
#283296 - 03/06/16 07:53 AM

Apparently the hunter shot the lioness off the cameraman.

Not good but better than real bad for the cameraman.

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Re: Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up [Re: Rule303]
#283302 - 03/06/16 08:28 AM

Cats can be VERY tough! Scary charge for the camera man- had a lot of faith in the shooters, I must say.

I shot a rather large feral Tom kitty through both shoulders with a .45 cal. round ball - at a range of about 15 yards, impact velocity 1,900fps. I reloaded then walked up to it and it raised it's head - hissed and spat at me.

A deer would have been stone dead by the time I approached it

That 45RB through both shoulders would be equivalent to shooting a lion with about a 64 pound(er) cannon ball through both shoulders at point blank range. My kitty cat was immobilized, but still alive and quite pissed.

The lioness was shot through and through - blood appeared behind her shoulder left side, and out through the other shoulder/leg right side - not pinky frothy, might even have been heart blood.

Cats can be VERY tough.

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Re: Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up [Re: DarylS]
#283305 - 03/06/16 08:54 AM

My eyes may be deceiving me, but I think I can see what looks like an arrow protruding from both sides of the lion's neck. Could this be an archery hunt gone wrong?

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Re: Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up [Re: xausa]
#283316 - 03/06/16 12:44 PM

Good eyes!

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Re: Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up [Re: prairie_ghost]
#283321 - 03/06/16 06:29 PM

Was a bow hunt, my mate is the camera man !! 20 or 30 stitches. Martin kept the camera rolling though. Good man to have alongside you !

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Rule303
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Re: Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up [Re: Mike_Bailey]
#283323 - 03/06/16 07:50 PM

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Was a bow hunt, my mate is the camera man !! 20 or 30 stitches. Martin kept the camera rolling though. Good man to have alongside you !

One cool dude. Think I would of been filming down the lions throat, well that's where I would be shoving the camera.

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Ripp
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Re: Lion (ness) charge - wounded follow up [Re: Rule303]
#283333 - 03/06/16 10:42 PM

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Was a bow hunt, my mate is the camera man !! 20 or 30 stitches. Martin kept the camera rolling though. Good man to have alongside you !

One cool dude. Think I would of been filming down the lions throat, well that's where I would be shoving the camera.

Absolutely...incredible he kept it rolling...tough guy...

Ripp

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