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From initial post.... "A good rifleman can stop a charging tusker with a leg shot" You buy that?[/QUOTE No I don't buy that, Why in the hell would you shoot a charging ele. in the leg??? To piss him off more?? Still got to kill him at some point after he is shot in the leg  NRA LIFE MEMBER DU DIAMOND SPONSOR IN PERPETUITY DALLAS SAFARI CLUB LIFE MEMBER SCI FOUNDATION MEMBER | |||
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What about a big old horny bull elephant looking at you like you are the object of his affection. You can borrow money, but you can't borrow time. Don't wait, go now. Savannah Safaris Namibia Otjitambi Trails & Safaris DRSS NRA SCI DSC TSRA TMPA | |||
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Shoot him in the middle leg. Steve "He wins the most, who honour saves. Success is not the test." Ryan "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Stalin Tanzania 06 Argentina08 Argentina Australia06 Argentina 07 Namibia Arnhemland10 Belize2011 Moz04 Moz 09 | |||
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Lot's of guy's seem to fear death by jumbo. I agree. When I die, I want to go just like Grandpa, I want to just close my eyes and fall asleep with a smile on my lips... NOT screaming and Shrieking like the other people in his car !!!!!!! LOL Dave Fulson | |||
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Smelling the bull moose and then spotting him fifty feet away while I am in the open unarmed and watching him decide is he going to run or just stomp my scrawny ass. There is most assuredly something primal in you that takes over when you smell a big critter that close and you do not know where it is. When your nose tells you you're not alone anymore it's a completely different situation. | |||
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The snake you just heard but can't see. That focuses my attention. kh | |||
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Put me down as one who also has a fear of snakes. On more than a dozen safari I've only seen one, but he dropped into my lap in an open Land Cruiser while driving through long grass. There's a lot more to the story but while the snake and I played pattycake everybody else bailed out of the vehicle. Mike ______________ DSC DRSS (again) SCI Life NRA Life Sables Life Mzuri IPHA "To be a Marine is enough." | |||
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Snakes...Snakes...Snakes...last August a black mamba tried to shake my hand through the open window of our land cruiser, that really got my attention....and negotiating rocky cliffs with a pack on. | |||
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In flight fires, 1960's seniority flight attendants, and push feed rifles. | |||
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Snakes of course But how 'bout getting thrown into a third world jail for some trumped up reason? Guess I don't travel enough or maybe watch too much T.V. | |||
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Spiders and millipedes, hope to avoid in September. | |||
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For me there are two horrors. First, trying to go on with my life without my son. Second, being eaten alive or to add being eaten alive and drowned at the same time. CTJ NRA Life Member DSC Life Member Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. Ronald Reagan | |||
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Don't worry Steve I'll get you some nice mittens!!!! Brett DRSS Life Member SCI Life Member NRA Life Member WSF Rhyme of the Sheep Hunter May fordings never be too deep, And alders not too thick; May rock slides never be too steep And ridges not too slick. And may your bullets shoot as swell As Fred Bear's arrow's flew; And may your nose work just as well As Jack O'Connor's too. May winds be never at your tail When stalking down the steep; May bears be never on your trail When packing out your sheep. May the hundred pounds upon you Not make you break or trip; And may the plane in which you flew Await you at the strip. -Seth Peterson | |||
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Before this thread turns into a Lou Reed song, I will jump in!  Only two things scare me. Taking off. And landing!  Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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big, nasty centipedes, especially inside a tent or near a sleeping bag! | |||
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What frightens me the most?..... ...the thought that I might never get back to Africa! "White men with their ridiculous civilization lie far from me. No longer need I be a slave to money" (W.D.M Bell) www.cybersafaris.com.au | |||
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Dying itself is not a big thing, death is death, albeit fire, elephant, gunshot - from a two legged one while parked at a traffic light, you name it, in essence it is over very quickly in most cases and even if it is not the mind will be conditioned for death. Not sure who the Poet was, but it always rings in my mind in sticky situations, "in dying death has no more dominian over me" i fear what i leave behind, not death itself Carlosthejackal - i could not agree more!!! | |||
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Brett, You'd have to do a lot better than that. I'd need an electrically heated full body suit, boots and hat..........and a generator on wheels!!  | |||
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Buddy, it's not the flying you need ot be worried about, it's hitting the ground when you stop flying! | |||
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Snakes and husbands who carry a gun for a living ... Chuck Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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Its not the speed that kills, it is the de-acceleration  | |||
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Good ol' boys foaming at the mouths about Barry in an age of scary heat engines and optics gives me a nasty feeling beyond deja vu. | |||
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Getting stuck in really tight places. I know it's mostly irrational, cause why would I get into these places in the first place: like caves, where you have to wiggle your way through, or as mentioned before getting stuck in a crevasse. I'm claustrofobic as hell. I always take an aisle seat on the plane, just so I can move around more. I'm too naive to worry about most other things. Frans | |||
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Snakes,, snakes , snakes! They blend in and are deadly, I kill myself trying to get away even if they are suppsosedly harmless. I jumped off a perfectly good tractor last week when a 5 ft rat snake came out from under the seat and got under my feet while I was shredding weeds. Seriously, I hate snakes, mostly rattle snakes, copperheads, and water moccasins around here,,,, no mombas, cobras, boomslangs, or puff adders,,,, but they all scare me tremendously! you can make more money, you can not make more time | |||
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Ever having to explain to my wife why she has to take penicillin for my kidney infection ...  Truthfully, being seriously burned, having terminal cancer, or being bitten by a poisonous snake. "Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult." | |||
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Real fear is waiting fopr the results of your next CT scan. 465H&H | |||
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Idiot ticket agents at the airport check in counter. | |||
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I fear departing this world without having adequately prepared my sons for what comes.  | |||
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Add me to the snakes list, want to kill'em all!! Don't much care for high bridges either! | |||
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My vote is for Snakes and high places. Can't take either of them any more. | |||
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AMEN to that. just had my latest one and remission is holding! having been bitten by a rattle snake and suffered no long term ill effects, i figure that i am unlikely to get bitten twice in a lifetime. Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… | |||
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Good to hear! Keep them coming. Brett DRSS Life Member SCI Life Member NRA Life Member WSF Rhyme of the Sheep Hunter May fordings never be too deep, And alders not too thick; May rock slides never be too steep And ridges not too slick. And may your bullets shoot as swell As Fred Bear's arrow's flew; And may your nose work just as well As Jack O'Connor's too. May winds be never at your tail When stalking down the steep; May bears be never on your trail When packing out your sheep. May the hundred pounds upon you Not make you break or trip; And may the plane in which you flew Await you at the strip. -Seth Peterson | |||
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Very glad to hear that Jerry. You have outstanding work in Mozambique. By the way, the lads in camp asked me to say hello ... Johan | |||
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Greatest fear? Two things - 1. We are told to "fear God" and that "the fear of God is beginning of wisdom." So, I fear God. 2. Dying, and not hearing, "Well done my good and faithful servant" when I get the great white throne. I fear nothing else on this earth. | |||
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Being stuck in customs/immigration with Walter and having him say "Don't worry, I can talk our way out of this" Mike  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Given my location and absence of dangerous game animals I would say poorly raised dogs from the more dangerous breeds followed by anything rabid, followed by a wounded mature boar. "Experience" is the only class you take where the exam comes before the lesson. | |||
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"Nothing is so much to be feared as fear." (Henry David Thoreau entry in his journal,1851) "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. (Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first inaugural address, 1933") ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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