I am in the market for a good African Hunting video. I see a lot of ads for Mark Sullivans videos, but they seem a bit expensive. Are they worth the money?

If you turn the volume off on the Sullivan videos, at least you can see how a charging buffalo behaves. More importantly, you can see that it is relatively difficult to get them to charge. It looks like they must first be gutshot, pursued and harassed, and then approached to a close distance. There are exceptions to that, of course.

If you run the Sullivan videos with the volume on, they are quite boring.

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Originally posted by Ezra4570:
I am in the market for a good African Hunting video. I see a lot of ads for Mark Sullivans videos, but they seem a bit expensive. Are they worth the money?

Ezra4570,

Depends on your preference. Mr. Sullivan likes to provoke charges and wait until the last few feet to fire. Some think this is exciting..others think it is foolhardy. Personally, I enjoy his videos even if he is a bit melodramatic. At any rate, he is a controversial and colorful character! Keep your eyes peeled around the classifieds...I bought, watched, and resold 2 Sullivan videos recently. You can do a little better than full retail! Welcome to AR!

They are great if you like watching someone pester and provoke a charge out of an animal that otherwise has only getting away on his mind.

For entertainment value only I like them. I find the dialogue obnoxious. The cinematography is great. As a "HOW TOO" most would agree they give people completely the wrong idea of how things are done on safari.

Mark

I have enjoyed watching all of them.

I enjoy watching them but get tired of the Sullivan speech about letting the animal choose how it is going to die. Clearly the animals are wounded and provoked.

One has to admit he is calm under pressure.

I would pass on Sullivan and buy Boddingdon's or Flack's videos. Also, if you are considering a hunt, contact Adam Clement and he will send you a couple of excellent videos.

They are exciting to watch but as a few posters stated earlier, turn the volume down.

I get sick and tired of listening to MS tell "How the animal will chose to die" and after every kill, "In my Professional career this has to be the most exciting animal I've taken" He is right about "him" taking it!!!

As dogcat said above me, Adam Clement has some really good ones.

Watch one with the volume up and then happily watch another with the volume turned down. They are interesting to watch, but it gets repetative.

To see good hunt footage that is more intructive and founded in reality try Boddington On Buffalo. His leopard video is not quite so good.

Another one I like is by "Big Bore Production", I think and features a hunter named Mark. Most of the hunting is with PH Barry Stiles of Buffalo Range Safaris in Zim. I think the name is "Death by Double Rifle" and it features the hunter and quite a collection of nice double rifles being used.

JPK

big bore productions is owend by mark bucannon i talk to him often and im helping him sell his 577 wesley richards double.

Boddington's videos were mentioned and I have to differ with JPK a bit...Craig's leopard video is excellent. I thought just the opposite in that his buffalo video wasn't as good as the leopard video.

Sullivans's whole "I allow the buffalo (substitute hippo, etc.) to choose his destiny" schtick is a load of shit.

I like the Capstick videos and I have Adam Clement's new videos and they are very good. Also, get on the list for Saeed's videos.

Andy

I like Sullivans videos but feel like the rest that they are melidrmatic.

When I show them to a non-hunter they always tell me they never thought of hippo or buffalo as dangerous, until they see that.

I like the European Hunter's Video line, and like Boddingtons, Big Bore, Safari Video, and most of the rest.

I think the worst part about all of them is the price. Most are $40.

I like the videos of MS and i like action movies the true is that if you see them just as an action movie they are great but you will not learn anything from them .Juan

I've enjoyed the earlier ones which I have seen.

They should be REQUIRED watching for EVERY PH AND AFRICAN HUNTER.

Whether you agree with his methods or not, IF you are CHARGED, his technique is the only thing that will save you.

If I had not seen his videos, and used HIS TECHNIQUE, there is no doubt I would have been KILLED or at the very least seriouslly injured by a Gorilla in 2004.


I suggest you watch his videos in the order they were filmed. If so you can see how he learned [out of necessity] and perfected HIS technique.

He has become radical no doubt.
But think, in the history of MAN how radicals have advanced knowledge.
Look at early explorers, [what the world is not flat???], the Wright Brothers, the first person to jump off a barn with an umbrella or a sheet.
All radical in there time.

What better way to figure out how to stop a charge than to go out and be charged????

And SURVIVE.


WHAT!!! You are going to replace a defective heart with a "good" heart from a dead person????

His Technique ??
When the buffalo charges he shoot them in the head..I saw a friend of mine doing the same thing a couple of years ago , and he never saw one of his videos before...I will tell him that next time he must shoot them in the knees to avoid royalties...

You must shoot a wounded animal as soon as possible, walking around to put yourself a couple of meters infront of the poor beast is just pushing the animal to charge...and after doing that silly thing, waiting to have it closer to avoid missing and aiming in the head is not a technique is just common sense..

L

Let me ask everyone this, do you think a buffalo (or hippo) will punch MS' ticket one of these days?

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Originally posted by 577NitroExpress:
Let me ask everyone this, do you think a buffalo (or hippo) will punch MS' ticket one of these days?

No, he is not brave enough to follow them in thick grass.

He only follows those that would offer good filming opportunities.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by 577NitroExpress:
Let me ask everyone this, do you think a buffalo (or hippo) will punch MS' ticket one of these days?

No, he is not brave enough to follow them in thick grass.

He only follows those that would offer good filming opportunities.

They are exciting to watch but it leaves me w/ a feeling that I should be cheering for the buffalo or hippo to win the conflict. Anyone that allows a wounded animal to suffer for the sake of film footage should be used for leapord bait IMO. I look forward to seeing Boddingtons' DVD on buffalo.

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Originally posted by 577NitroExpress:
Let me ask everyone this, do you think a buffalo (or hippo) will punch MS' ticket one of these days?


No, he is not brave enough to follow them in thick grass.

He only follows those that would offer good filming opportunities.

Saeed, I think you nailed it.

I don't recall what video it is, but what sealed my opinion about MS was when he was filmed kicking dirt with his boot at a hippo(?) trying to provoke a charge. That showed zero class in my opinion and showed me his true intentions - his own glory and selling "exciting" videos.

I realy want to see the last video he makes