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My mistake. I went back and reread the Sullivan thread and I think you're actually an MS advocate.

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Not really an advocate. Neutral please! Can I sit on a fence? I'm the host.

I enjoyed Mark Sullivan's original "Black Death" video because I believe it wasn't staged. The approach was with Mark walking and the client in a vehicle because he was in an wheelchair. The buffalo got up and charged, Mark missed on the first shot (missed or missed the brain) and dumped the bull on the second. Almost got collected himself. Exciting stuff and it got HIS andrenalin going. I also like hunts featuring double rifles.

For later buffalo charge videos I think a formula was used to re-create the charges.

As for ethical or not. As one poster in a previous thread said, many PHs wait for half an hour for the buff to stiffen up. No one has any problem with this on ethical grounds. If following up immediately results in a charge then more luck to the guys facing a charge.

Similarly it is common practice to approach a buffalo from behind and downwind. If approaching it's head and upwind also results in a charge, then there is nothing unethical about that. Most people avoid it though because one day someone will get killed.

Some people claim the animals are intentionally wounded. I have no first hand knowledge on this at all. Nor I have seen anyone print anything who had first hand knowledge of this. On one of his videos he does state the client - made up for a lot of errors because a charge resulted from a wounded buff. Maybe it was "Sudden Death".

Personally I prefer a PH with a different style but everyone likes different things, so go for it.

Lastly where would we be on internet forums without discussions on "Mark Sullivan", "Peter Capstick", "Hemingway" and "Robert Ruark".

If "Capstick" with his stories put African safaris back into the limelight, then maybe Mark Sullivan has also helped re-juvenate the interest in double rifles.

(Those last two paragraphs were designed to put the cat among the pigeons! )



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