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Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff
29/06/03 02:46 PM

Gryphon

Yes I know you don't write for SS. Unfortunately you are right. It only takes a few minutes to read it now.

But when examining the species of buffalo how much of it is hype and marketing and how much is reality (?)

There is no doubt that water buffalo will stand around and act like cows. Especially before they were heavily hunted. But the talk of shooting them with light calibres also coincided with shooting from the back of horses, Landrovers and Landcruisers when the vehicle getting dented was less serious than squashed.

Just as most water buffalo are hunted without incident, also are the vast majority of cape buffalo. Perhaps the Aussie "Mark Sullivan" can "improve" the reputation of NT water buffalo. Can a water buffalo charge a chopper, I wonder ?

I think the Africans are very good at marketing and at building up the hype which "adds" to the hunt. Of course I could be wrong

I will have to look for some quotations from writers such as Bell on how he considered the hunting of buffalo.

Brooks

I think you are somewhat right. Each generation of hunters always looks back to the previous one or more as the "golden age", just like the future one will to us. Which is sad.

Unfortunately I think we will never again see the wonderful hunting that the Indian sub-continent once gave. The game there is crushed under the pressing weight of over-population.

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Grand old days to wish for	gryphon	22/06/03 03:58 PM
Re: Grand old days to wish for	NitroX	23/06/03 10:37 PM
Re: Grand old days to wish for - Here you go Gryph	NitroX	23/06/03 11:13 PM
Re: Grand old days to wish for - Here you go Gryph	gryphon	24/06/03 05:40 AM
Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	Ezine	28/06/03 02:58 PM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	gryphon	29/06/03 05:47 AM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	Brooks	29/06/03 12:08 PM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	gryphon	30/06/03 06:09 AM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	ovis	30/06/03 11:48 AM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	Karl	30/06/03 01:30 PM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	ovis	30/06/03 04:49 PM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	Karl	01/07/03 12:54 AM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	ovis	01/07/03 12:45 PM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	gryphon	02/07/03 06:12 AM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	ovis	02/07/03 01:55 PM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	Brooks	01/07/03 01:40 PM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	Karl	02/07/03 12:28 AM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	NitroX	01/07/03 02:31 PM
Re: Water buff more likely to fight than Cape Buff	NitroX	29/06/03 02:46 PM

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