Here's mine from Zambia last year

Senuko - Save - Zim - 2006

Holy crap on that video

Well, not literally crap on that video...you know what I mean

He got a lot closer when we were rowing. Also had some fun with a croc that wasn't quite dead on the same day.

Please excuse the quality of the picture, but it's a picture of a picture from a safari long ago in Burkina Faso.

I've posted it several times before, but, especially since it was on my first trip to Africa and my first experience with elephants outside of a zoo.... it got my attention:

I love this pic...although at this particular moment I think it's the elephant who is thinking "oh shit."

I'm a retired physician. A number of years ago, while examining a new patient, I noticed extensive scarring on his arms. It seems that he had been a Marine Corps pilot in Vietnam flying ground support (an F4 Phantom, low and slow). He was hit by ground fire and had to eject at low altitude with his plane disintegrating around him. He then asked me if I knew what EVERYONE said when they pulled the ejector handle. I confessed ignorance.

Just one word---SH*T! (Not "Oh SH*T", or dammit or anything else.

From this and personal experience, I have come to the conclusion that SH*T is the root word of the English language. It is what you use when you have time for only one word.

Seems like eles figure high in people's "oh sh*t" moments here.

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Originally posted by MJines:

I saw this on film, and that scene is not as hairy as when the last shot was fired on that elephant! Mike can handle that 500NE double!

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Originally posted by JudgeG:
Please excuse the quality of the picture, but it's a picture of a picture from a safari long ago in Burkina Faso.

I've posted it several times before, but, especially since it was on my first trip to Africa and my first experience with elephants outside of a zoo.... it got my attention:

Looking at the fletching in the lower right makes me want to name this shot......"Wrong weapon".

Baxter,

That photo is of Don Heath and his "Oh Sh!t" moment. If I remember correctly the elephant fell on him after the shot and broke Don's arm.

Perry

YEs I believe he tripped right at the last moment, I think. An amazing picture for sure.

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Originally posted by MacD37:

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Originally posted by MJines:

I saw this on film, and that scene is not as hairy as when the last shot was fired on that elephant! Mike can handle that 500NE double!

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And the camera always makes things look further away than they actually are. Great footage and a great demo of the 500's stopping power.

While hunting in DSA with CM Safaris last September, My PH Blake Wilhelmi and I were working our way along a rock ledge to get a look at a spring. The ledge was about 3 feet wide with a 20 foot drop to the spring below. With about 10 yards left to go on the ledge, we were confronted by a Black Momba.We froze, and after raising up and looking at us for a few very long seconds it slithered off. Glad one of the trackers weren't in front of us.

Bob

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Originally posted by Ryan Trenka:

I might have needed to change clothes after this!!!

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Originally posted by Ryan Trenka:

You owe us the story!

I have seen the video of that leopard charge but, I can't remember where.

Hopefully Ryan will put up a link to it and give us the story!!!

I posted the video link here a while back and gave the whole story. If you search Botswana leopard charge you'll get the story and all the "feedback" one tends to get on forums. The hunt was tremendous and scary all rolled up into one! Three days of tracking this particular cat. It started killing indiscriminately and was a local legend. Jeff Rann kept saying, when we finally catch up to him he's going to come, no matter what, and he did! Watch the video and let me know what you think.

AFTER?
Hell, I need to change my pants just looking at the picture.

Ryan's video

http://youtu.be/jcyvV4k8hY8

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Originally posted by Ryan Trenka:
I posted the video link here a while back and gave the whole story. If you search Botswana leopard charge you'll get the story and all the "feedback" one tends to get on forums. The hunt was tremendous and scary all rolled up into one! Three days of tracking this particular cat. It started killing indiscriminately and was a local legend. Jeff Rann kept saying, when we finally catch up to him he's going to come, no matter what, and he did! Watch the video and let me know what you think.

Hell of a video. Most real good oh shit moments dont get captured on film, and that was a good one...tell me, were your pants not even a bit squishy afterwards?

Its amazing how everything slowed, I heard him coming, reacted, seemed like I had dozens of thoughts fire through the brain with perfect clarity. I vividly remember thinking of what to do when he got in the truck... But when he was finally down we were all shaking, many moments of just standing there uttering "did that just happen?". We timed it and everything from growl to the 7th shot was I believe 1.7 seconds. One person described it as a "living roadside bomb" with all due respect to the military men and women.
Then we drank! A lot!

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Originally posted by boondoggle:
Ryan's video

http://youtu.be/jcyvV4k8hY8?t=3m18s

something wrong with that link..

Try the link now. I tried to get the video to start at the charge in the previous link.

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Originally posted by Ryan Trenka:
Its amazing how everything slowed, I heard him coming, reacted, seemed like I had dozens of thoughts fire through the brain with perfect clarity. I vividly remember thinking of what to do when he got in the truck... But when he was finally down we were all shaking, many moments of just standing there uttering "did that just happen?". We timed it and everything from growl to the 7th shot was I believe 1.7 seconds. One person described it as a "living roadside bomb" with all due respect to the military men and women.
Then we drank! A lot!

INCREDIBLE!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

And GREAT footage

That being Africa, what about the driver of that cruiser who would have been on the right side, UNDER the leopard or maybe he had time to roll the window up, like glass would stop that cats rear legs!

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Originally posted by boondoggle:
Try the link now. I tried to get the video to start at the charge in the previous link.

Thanks - works now. Very exciting, well done!!

While many/all of you have been "in the s**t" a hundred times over compared to me, this one got my attention!



My wife and I were in the PH's pick-up, stopped with the motor off. We had finished up our plains game safari and went to take some photos of this fellow and some buffalo on a farm in the area. About 5 minutes after we were sitting there, he decided he didn't much care for that "large, white buffalo" and came for us in a "spirited" run. The PH said exactly that- "oh s**t" and started the truck and off we roared.

Looking back, it's funny to see this photo, as the rhino doesn't appear to be in motion... nor did he in the four subsequent photos we took as he was getting EVER closer! I had to stop taking photos as the PH was bounding across the open field at about 40 MPH.

Our vary own Marius Goosen hires some damn good PH's (we were hunting with Marius and his outfit), and boy do they ever know how to drive stick! All I could think was "please, dear God- don't pop the clutch and stall us!" I asked Louw, the PH, if he has ever had a rhino connect on him while in the truck. He replied cooly and in that great accent: "Yaayess. I was in a similar situation with a client photographing a cow with her calf and she got quite cross. Picked up the rear of the truck off the ground by the bumper and gave the truck a good shake."

-John

Here's one more- a video I took while at Addo Elephant Park. I can only imagine the horror experienced if I was driving that econobox tin death trap!

http://s1163.beta.photobucket....atAddovsCar.mp4.html

-John

John,

Who says white rhino are all docile?

I like the one I saw on tv. Ivan Carter was facing a charging lion, after the second shot he turned to the camera and said, "that my friend is why you carry a double".
I saw it again, I think it was a Hornady bullet commercial.
Okie

None too pleased here!

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Originally posted by OkieNewton:
Ivan Carter was facing a charging lion ...

Here you go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-WJcYpNR0Q

Here's mine from Zimbabwe in 2004. This is truly terrifying!!

No time to take photo before, after the attack.
Mamba came to a knife fight and I brought an elephant gun. Six feet... Mike

Mike, Oh SH*T"...isn't that what Pierre says when he sees it's you getting off the plane again? :-)

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Originally posted by surestrike:
Here's mine from Zimbabwe in 2004. This is truly terrifying!!