Don't mess with Waterbuffaloes. Especially if they're drinking.
They aren't water buffalo, they are Cape Buffs and are considered the most dangerous game animal in Africa.
This is because of all of the "BIG FIVE" game animals, including lions, leopards, hippos and rhinos the Cape Buffalo are the only ones that cannot be turned from a charge with a non fatal shot. If the hunter doesn't place the slug through the nose and into the brain pan (no chance of penetrating that thick horn "armor" on their skulls) the hunters wind up as toe jam.
They aren't water buffalo, they are Cape Buffs and are considered the most dangerous game animal in Africa.
This is because of all of the "BIG FIVE" game animals, including lions, leopards, hippos and rhinos the Cape Buffalo are the only ones that cannot be turned from a charge with a non fatal shot. If the hunter doesn't place the slug through the nose and into the brain pan (no chance of penetrating that thick horn "armor" on their skulls) the hunters wind up as toe jam.
Thanks for the lesson hounddawg. This sounds like the kind of situation Marlin Perkins would send Jim Fowler into.
Thanks for the lesson hounddawg. This sounds like the kind of situation Marlin Perkins would send Jim Fowler into.
Well, one of the unintended benefits of reading HUNTING and GUNS & AMMO MAGAZINES for forty plus years is familiarity with Africa's BIG FIVE, and I've lost count of the number of hair raising hunting dangerous game stories I've read in that time.
My fave is the one where a hunter with a shotgun goes into a dark cave in pursuit of a man eating lioness, and "...he could smell her as she watched him approach in the dark".
But, next in line are those about a charging Cape Buff and how they hold their noses up and present that small target to hunters with nerves of steel. Those who miss the brain and don't get off a second shot find themselves trampled under 2,000 lbs of angry, "Won't take no for an answer" Cape Buffalo.
Well, one of the unintended benefits of reading HUNTING and GUNS & AMMO MAGAZINES for forty plus years is familiarity with Africa's BIG FIVE, and I've lost count of the number of hair raising hunting dangerous game stories I've read in that time.
My fave is the one where a hunter with a shotgun goes into a dark cave in pursuit of a man eating lioness, and "...he could smell her as she watched him approach in the dark".
But, next in line are those about a charging Cape Buff and how they hold their noses up and present that small target to hunters with nerves of steel. Those who miss the brain and don't get off a second shot find themselves trampled under 2,000 lbs of angry, "Won't take no for an answer" Cape Buffalo.
Can you even imagine doing that yourself? I can lose my cheerios if the light changes to yellow too fast. Thanks much for the Cape Buffalo link. Very interesting. I wish I would've liked Wild Kingdom as a kid. I had the attention span of a gnat. If that. :)