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Originally posted by Sunshine:
Although living in South Africa since 35 years I have never seen a black mamba. Other snakes plenty, i e cobras, puff adder, pythons and others. As a forester and hunter, some years ago at home not far away from Kruger National Park, I was in the bush on a daily basis but still, there were only invisible mambas. They were watching me, that's for sure.

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Originally posted by Jerry Hoover:
Namibia,2007,our first morning in the bush and we were hunting gems buck. We saw lots of decent gems buck, but nothing we wanted to take. Dirk,the PH says let's move and hunt another area. Namibia in June is chilly in the morning, but when the sun comes up the temperature begins to rise and it becomes quite nice. We were driving down a two track to another area when all of a sudden there was a whap on the door of the old Land Rover. Dirk yells out the famous 4 letter word and I start looking around. Dirk was driving and my wife Carol was riding shotgun with the tracker and me in the high seats. I am looking around and all I see is some grass moving. Dirk then tells me a black mamba was sunning itself on the two track and we had run over its tail. Mambas being mambas it struck the door of the Rover about six inches below Dirk's arm. It had struck the door hard enough to make a small dent in the door. Needless to say I kept an eye out for snakes but the only other one seen was a baby rock Python about 8ft. long. Those are the only snakes I have seen in 3 safaris. Jerry Hoover

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Any updates on Mr. Schoeman's condition?

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Originally posted by TWL:
Went to the site Gunscore refers to and read the doctor's notes. He opines that the "bite" was a "dragging" across the skin with little envemonation. Wow. A very lucky man, indeed.