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I don't know what you mean by "PRARIE DOG GUN" but though the clip is quite jerkey on my computer, I suspect it happened a lot faster in the field! The rifle he is useing is, I suspect a 375 H&H, or one of the WBY mags, with a 3-9x40 scope which is, along with the caliber, common on that type rifle, for lion hunting, usually carried set on 3X.

Most people have no idea how fast a lion can cover 50 yds, even with horrendous wounds. In an all out charge, a lion can cover 50 YDS in less than 4 seconds, and one is lucky to get more than one shot with a bolt rifle. He is hard to put down after he's been hit, and gets his adrenalin up, with any rifle. The only shot that will put him down for the count is one that hits the brain, or spine,or shocks those things suffeciently, to shut down the Centeral nervous system, once he starts. Addionally, he is hard to hit, because of a combination of his lightening speed, and the fact that he is lower than you, and charges in a slight curveing route to you. The angle for sighting is changeing constantly, both for lead, dirrection, and elevation. Many of the old hands at lion hunting of old, would drop to their knees when charged by a lion. This took away one of the angles by puting the rifle on the same elevation as the lion, leaving only lead to deal with. The elevation staying the same from a ON THE KNEES shot, throughout the charge.

Even on a canned lion "SHOOT", it is still dangerous when the lion decides to get nasty. A fence is no draw back to the lion getting on you, uless it is between him, and you! In this case, if it is a canned hunt, it almost turned out in the lion's favor!

Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way, in favor of canned hunts of any kind, but the fact it is, being canned doesn't take the danger away, when lion are the target!

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