Received this from an aquaintance of mine...Wish I was there with a rifle..

Mike

Here kitty kitty …

Here kitty kitty …

He must have gone into the long grass Mike, - I don't see him!

Mike,

Save the photo to your hard drive then upload it to your photo hosting site.

George

quote:

Originally posted by shakari:
He must have gone into the long grass Mike, - I don't see him!

Hamdeni

Nothing is more frightening than a charging invisible lion.

See how fast he is... INVISABLE...

STILL TRYING...


MIKE

Photos and link there now...

Mike

WOW !!!! Somebody or something really pissed him off just before they drove up.

DB, How would you of liked to be out in the open up on top????


Mike

I bet everyone was glad after the fact it was an open vehicle, and that it had to be hosed out at the end of the day! Kudude

Retreever

I can not view the link for the video.

Would you please email it to me?

Thanks

rrliljedahl@mchsi.com

Now that's a CLOSE encounter and without any firearms, it appears. Not something that I would care to be in the middle of. Interesting, how the one individual is smiling and showing his shoes. Wonder what his and the others' reactions would have been had the lion dragged him out of the truck feet first.

UEG, He was the camera man...He had his feet against the window when the cat hit it....

Mike

Dude, nuttin' but red X's on my end.

Wow! It's amazing he's around to smile having come that close to a very pissed off male lion! And to see the damage he did to the truck!

quote:

Originally posted by 475Guy:
Dude, nuttin' but red X's on my end.

red "x's" also.

auto defication moment?

good lord!!

jeffe

Folks look at those picture in sequince, and tell me how well you can place your shots on that cat, and how many you will get off before he hits you!

Remember that once he decides to start up the V8 and charge he will cover 100 Yards in about 5.6 seconds!!!!

I have the lion in full flight as my computer back ground and I love it.

Gerhard

Mike, where was this? It look desolate as hell.

quote:

Originally posted by retreever:
UEG, He was the camera man...He had his feet against the window when the cat hit it....

Mike

Due to the pucker factor he also had his large intestine against the truck seat!

Trying to find out where it takes place...

Link to photos at the bottom of the article of lion charge...


Mike

Here is a picture in full charge.



Gerhard

retreever,

If you send me the photos I will be happy to post them for you.

Here's some pics I took last year:- he went from this:-


To this:-


To this, in no time flat :-



Obviously a Lion without any sense of humour at all.

The one in the attack posted by reetrever looks like an aunthentic lion.It looks like that one can do alot of damage fast.

quote:

Originally posted by shootaway:
.... aunthentic lion .......

It looks like Kaokoveld/Skeleton Coast in Namibia. It's suprising how many animals are actually able to survive in that desolate region.

Steve,
What happened next?

This:-



Then he killed and ate me....

Well, alright, so the last photo was another Lion and another time...... With the previous animal, I was in a position where I was safe from the Lion - but the Lion didn't know that.....

This situation calls for a SHOOTING BALLERINA.

quote:

Originally posted by shootaway:
This situation calls for a SHOOTING BALLERINA.

And a hope of being able to change his tights, when it's over!

This is the only animal on the face of the Earth that simply scares me silly! That S.O.B.is hard to hit, and harder to stop, in a charge! I'll take a bait set-up, thank you.

We were hunting in Westwood in Zimbabwe in the early 90's. One morning we saw a herd of buffalo which was obviously being hurried by lions.

We decided to leave them for a couple of hours, and come back later. Hoping that the lions would have killed one, and we might be able to get one.

Well, we came back, left Walter in the truck under a tree, and went off.

15 minutes later a number of lionesses jumped ahead of us about 20 yards away, and ran off.

A mainless male was left behind, and he just sat there on his hind legs looking at his departed friends.

Roy said I can shoot him if I wanted, so I put a bullet through his neck. He dropped down.

A few seconds later, a lioness came straight for us at full speed, growling in the process.

We had her covered, and Roy was saying "don't shoot! Don't shoot!"

Never mind what he was saying, I remember I had her in my scope, and regardless of what he was saying, as soon as her head filled my scope I was going to pull the trigger!

She stopped a few yards from us, turned and went to her fallen friend and stood by him.

Roy said I could shoot her if I wanted, as he had a license for one, so I dropped her too.

Afterwards I told him I was ready to shoot that lioness if she hadn't changed her mind.

He said he would have shot her himself if she came a couple of yards further.

That was the only time I have ever been charged by any animal, and I cannot remember either of us being scared at all.

May be because she was in full view, and we were sure of stopping her.

I just returned two weeks ago from Namibia where we spent three days working with Dr. “Flippy†of the Kunene Lion Project attempting to track down and radio collar this lion.
The attack occurred in the Skeleton Coast Park, near the Purros Conservancy and about 20 miles from the coast and west of Etosha Park. Our camp during this time was at approximately 18° 53’ S, 12° 49’ E.

The real story behind the attack is that the lion was pursued at a high rate of speed for nearly 4k by the safari vehicle full of eco-tourists until he sought refuge on the grass “islandâ€. Two more vehicles were radioed in and they surrounded the lion effectively blocking his escape. Video taken during that interval shows the lion becoming more agitated and the voices on the tapes prove that the people were aware of the situation that they had created.

The safari operators responsible for creating the situation are the only persons allowed inside the park in this area.

Knowing the circumstances, I’d root for the lion.

quote:

Originally posted by rancherjack:
I just returned two weeks ago from Namibia where we spent three days working with Dr. “Flippy†of the Kunene Lion Project attempting to track down and radio collar this lion.
The attack occurred in the Skeleton Coast Park, near the Purros Conservancy and about 20 miles from the coast and west of Etosha Park. Our camp during this time was at approximately 18° 53’ S, 12° 49’ E.

The real story behind the attack is that the lion was pursued at a high rate of speed for nearly 4k by the safari vehicle full of eco-tourists until he sought refuge on the grass “islandâ€. Two more vehicles were radioed in and they surrounded the lion effectively blocking his escape. Video taken during that interval shows the lion becoming more agitated and the voices on the tapes prove that the people were aware of the situation that they had created.

The safari operators responsible for creating the situation are the only persons allowed inside the park in this area.

Knowing the circumstances, I’d root for the lion.

Rancherjack,

Was the operator "Wilderness Safaris" by any chance? I remember several areas my wife and I wanted to drive into while heading south from Hartmanns Valley, that were off limits to everyone by Wilderness Safari tourists. I think one was around the area you mention.

Ps. Wilderness Safaris ( http://www.wilderness-safaris.com/ ) own a huge number of photo safari camps thruout southern Africa. And are very anti-hunting as far as I've understood.

Erik,
Yes, it was Wilderness Safaris.

Jack

Jack,

It's sad that this supposedly "responsible" company keeps everyone else out of large areas in Namibia, yet they behave like they did with the lion...

I have to admit that my wife and I were kind of pissed off, as we were used to driving wherever we wanted. Then in the middle of nowhere in Kaokoveld (which is as much as the middle of nowehere as you'll be able to find in Namibia), we'd come across tracks with signs that said no entry.

A couple of pictures sent to me from Rancherjack to post for him, showing where the lion charge took place:

Shakari: Was that last "photo", a photo or a painting? Looks like the painting: "Into The Red Zone", by one of the hunters/famous artists of our day who recently hunted cape buffalo on "Dangerous Game" on the Versus (old OLN) channel.

Saeed,do you leave your scope at a single magnification when hunting? What power was it adjusted to when you scoped the lion?