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Originally posted by poacher458:
and Andrew put two in it's chest.

With his 500NE?

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Originally posted by LionHunter:
Andrew and Thor,

Having been on foot, late at night, in thick Zambia bush, on the track of a wounded Lion, armed with a .458Lott, accompanied only by my PH, and with other lions about, I can honestly say that it was the most terrifying time of my life, including 415 days in combat. But one does what is necessary. Fortunately he was dead when we found him.

Well done and good on you both. Nobody can imagine what this is like unless they've experienced it (and there ain't too many of us left) and reading about it will not adequately convey the sense of foreboding. That's him in my avatar.

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Originally posted by dyker:
Fairgame, fantastic stuff. Maybe I missed it but was the other lion not involved in the man eating?

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Originally posted by poacher458:
and Andrew put two in it's chest.

With his 500NE?

First blood mate. However I shot low on the charge as I could not see my site. The shot blew up a cloud of dust that may have saved us. However Thor had connected with his .458 and this evened up things a bit.

We saved the double for the close encounters.

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Originally posted by ozhunter:

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Originally posted by fairgame:

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Originally posted by ozhunter:

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Originally posted by poacher458:
and Andrew put two in it's chest.

With his 500NE?

First blood mate. However I shot low on the charge as I could not see my site. The shot blew up a cloud of dust that may have saved us. However Thor had connected with his .458 and this evened up things a bit.

We saved the double for the close encounters.

I once opened a tent at night to face a Lion at ten meters. From that night I vowed not to own an open sighted rifle without a flip up night sight. Those sights are great. Do you have one on your rifle?

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Fairgame, fantastic stuff. Maybe I missed it but was the other lion not involved in the man eating?

The female is still at large she is heading out of the communal belt back into the Luangwa valley.

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Originally posted by dyker:
Fairgame, fantastic stuff. Maybe I missed it but was the other lion not involved in the man eating?

The female is still at large she is heading out of the communal belt back into the Luangwa valley.

If she was in the company of the now defunct male it stands to reason that she is a man-eater as well.

Question: which of the two was responsible for the killer attacks - the male or the female or both?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdopXhi94ug

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Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:
Amen! WOW! Incredible! Hey, whatever happened with the black mamba?

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BaxterBone of us posted document.write('<nobr>'+ myTimeZone('Thu, 30 May 2013 13:10:06 GMT-0700', '31 May 2013 01:10')+'</nobr>');31 May 2013 01:1031 May 2013 01:10Hide PostVery good! Now THIS is what AR is really about.

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...of course the movie will also have to have a full mane, black-nosed, 6+ year old lion!

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The Lion was relatively immature and estimated at 4 years. The front left canine was missing and there was infection in the cavity.

if the lion was only 4, no way should you have shot him. the proper thing to do would have been to let him kill you both and be properly aged in 2-3 years to see if he was a legitimate trophy

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Originally posted by MacD37:
Andrew, that is some scary stuff! I don’t think there is anything on this Earth that frightens me like a big African lion, especially in the dark! I’m not afraid of Cape buffalo at all as long as I can see him, and I have an adequate rifle in my hands, but the African lion simply scares hell out of me. I have little trouble keeping my wits about me to shoot well while being confronted by buffalo. However anyone who thinks he will be able to do as well with a wounded lion closing on him fast as lightening is IMO alluding himself!

Andrew my PH, Simon Eldridge, and I were sitting around the fire one night in the Luangwa Valley, and Simon told me a story about a client, and himself sitting in a grass blind on a lion bait near the Luangwa River. The hippo had two big holes cut in each side to allow the lions to feed inside. The lions came in about six o:clock in the evening but were only lionesses, and half grown cubs and one two year old male. Nothing big enough to shoot.

They waited to see if a big male would come in, and he never did, but the other lions did not leave but moved away from the bait, and bedded down all around the blind, within 10 feet of the wall on all sides, and it got dark. The lions stayed there and the client and Simon were trapped in the blind. After about 30 minutes the client started to panic, and whispered to Simon that he wanted to flee the blind to climb a tree about 15 feet away. Simon told the client that he would never make the tree before one of those lions would be all over him.

Like you guys they had to spend all the dark hours in that little flimsy grass blind and dared not make a sound for about 12 hours. When day break came the lions went back to the bait, and still did not leave. Simon and the client eased out of the blind from the back and made their way back to the hunting car. The client was someone I knew, and when I asked him about the happening after I returned to the USA, and he got immediately angry, and said “that was funny as hell to Simon, but that was a damn dangerous situation, and I don’t think it was funny at all”! If you get a chance to talk to Simon, ask him about that story, and I’ll bet my next retirement check he will laugh his butt off. I on the other hand I would have not found it funny at all if it had been me, but I wouldn’t have wanted to get out of that blind with even one lion within 15 feet, much less 10 or 12 lionesses and cubs there!
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...of course the movie will also have to have a full mane, black-nosed, 6+ year old lion!

And I will be wearing one of Craig's shirts.

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Originally posted by Milo Shanghai:
Hi Andrew,
Are you and Thor writing this up? I imagine there are a few members who would like to hear the details and learn the lessons.
Best wishes from my sad London office,
Milo.