Excluding the elephant, rhino, lion, leopard, cape buffalo, hippo, and crocodile, which "non-dangerous" game is the most dangerous?

In my experience, it was the warthog that charged me, and the black mamba that kept trying to strike after I had broken its back.

I dated a blonde attorney that still gives me nightmares.

I have been told stories by PH how bushbuck will try to gore someone if wounded.

Also have been told by a PH how he once had to shoot a gemsbok that had a bush man impaled on its horns.

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Originally posted by Jorge400:
I dated a blonde attorney that still gives me nightmares.

I dated a redheaded one ONCE. I'm convinced there is a special place in hell reserved for her.

Interested to see what folks say here as I am going on my first PG hunt in a few months. I've heard that gemsbuck and sable are agressive, but never seen anyone post about it.

I would give a wounded roan and sable my undivided attention. Both are aggressive when wounded or cornered.

Stupid Swede

Honey Badger !

I was told by Larry Patterson of Kalahari Game Services in Botswana that he had? or heard of? a waterbuck coming out of the escape chute, hooked the guy in the right through the chest, then the guy on the left, killing both. Take it as hear say but either way he had tremendous respect for waterbuck.

Traveling on highways and roads. What a nightmare.

Mosquitos?
Ticks?

Careless gun handler...

Mike

All of the "plains game" is going to run away from you as long as they can. Some of them might be hazardous if wounded or boxed up in some circumstance that restricts their escape. Gemsbok certainly have potentially dangerous horns, and evidence of gored predators (and other gemsbok) amply shows that you wouldn't want to mess with one that still has life in him.

I guess I would be most afraid of a troop of baboons that is all stirred up. Big males can weigh in at close to 100 pounds and their canines can kill leopards when they can gang up on one. If those buggers decided to go after you, you'd be in deep doo-doo. They're smart, too, at least compared to other game.

Snakes, in my mind.

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Originally posted by PSmith:
Mosquitos?
Ticks?

+1 kills the most people in Africa more than all the big 5 put together

Our local taxi drivers are the most dangerous, non- dangerous game

Been charged by wounded bushbuck and black wildebeest before, aswell as a bad tempered cape eland. Baboons still keep me on my toes though!

I would have to vote for the Mamma Warthog.
Murray and I were going after a big boar when a piglet came busting out of the bush and almost ran into me. Luckilly it turned and ran off and Mamma was right behind and done the same.
Or maybe the Bushbuck that speared Murray's tracking dog and had to have one leg amputated.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Settlers Safaris:
Our local taxi drivers are the most dangerous, non- dangerous game

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While I quite agree with you, I do have a problem: No taxidermist that I've put my request to has yet replied with a firm quote for a shoulder mount of a drunken taxi driver!

The original poster asked about plains game. This rules out mosquitoes and similar. In my personal case only one wounded PG animal has drawn blood: A duiker kicking with hind feet neatly slit through a bush jacket and gave a nasty bleeding, but not life-threatening - cut on my forearm!

I was determinedly charged by a wounded bushpig on two occasions. First one was mortally wounded by a .270win shot, he looked for me, saw me and started his charge, but he ran out of steam meters from me. I was waiting to give the one and only shot at almost barrel against his head distance, but he collapsed at about twice that distance from me. Second charge a few years later by a very large sow was abruptly ended with a .22LR bullet between the eyes at about 15 meters!

All the rest about which animal I consider the most dangerous is just hearsay and not based on personal experience. I do know that a wounded gemsbuck can deliver a very painful kick on the shin if, with due respect for the dangerous horns, it is approached from behind!

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren

Honey badger goes for the testicles and tries to rip them off...

There is a difference between "Dangerous" and "Lethal", your choice!

If I had to pick two mamals it would be a tie between the Bushbuck, and the Gemsbok!

PH and I were attacked by a baboon once. I shot it with the muzzle of the rifle touching it and the PH trying to hold it off with the shooting sticks. I had a warthog attack once after I had shot it. We killed it with a knife, but it was pretty much finished anyway. Then there was a honey badger that tried to bite a tracker on the leg. You never know which one will try to bite you.

Another vote for the Bushbuck and Gemsbok. All "non dangerous" animals can get dangerous real quick when wounded or cornered, but the Bushbuck when wounded best have your full attention at all times.
LDK