I think the drama is way overblown, but it sells to those that like that sort of thing.
When you consider how many combat veterans we have in the USA, and I might add Canada as well, the "DEATH" motif with the dramatization of how awfully dangerous this all is seems to bring a lot of smirks from a lot of 19-25 year old men that have endured more danger in a morning than mark Sullivan has in all his hunts combined.
Mark has no "cause" to fight for other than fun and profit, and if it were anywhere near as dangerous as he likes people to believe, he would not be going back into the thick of it.
Do I know? Yes, I have hunted dangerous game, and I have fought human enemies too. There is a HUGH difference.
Nearly everyone I have ever known was hooked after their first DG hunt and could not wait to go back. See if you can find a combat vet that fought a protracted battle and saw a large percentage of his buddies die or be carried away with large amounts of their bodies missing, who would just LOVE to go back and do it all again next week.
Dangerous game is dangerous. I don't say it's not, but so is skydiving, rock climbing and skiing. In fact far more skiers die in their sport than hunters do. Same thing is true in dirt biking. True, it’s a lot cheaper to ski than it is to hunt Cape Buffalo, so more people ski. The odds are not comparable one to one, but the idea I am writing about I still believe is sound.
I also used to sky dive a lot, (As well as Ice climb and Rock climb) but if I had believed my parachute was mis-packed I would not have jumped it.
If I knew that I had even a 50%-50% chance of getting seriously hurt of killed in ANY sport every time I did it, I don’t think I would ever do it---- and I don’t believe any other sane man would either, let along do it a lot.
Hunting D.G is done for fun and thrills. Not because you REALLY believe the animal is truly on a 50-50 basis with you in a life and death conflict.
Hunting is not combat, no matter how much Mark wants to make people think it is. Sports are sports, Skydiving or hunting buff.
Neither one can compare to advancing into an ambush of RPK, RPG and AK fire, or trapping a platoon of ters or cong who want to live as bad as you do.
In the USA alone we have probably 1/4 million men right now that have more understanding and experience with death and danger than Mr. Sullivan does on all his hunts combined. Mark is getting a lot of knowing grins that he seems to be unaware of.
His videos would be better if he didn't try to make people believe he was a hero instead of just a dedicated hunter.
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