I'm reading "Trophy Hunter in Africa" by Elgin T. Gates (A former Weatherby Big GameTrophy winner). In it, he writes that he and PH Jack Blacklaws played chicken with each other with a couple of buffs.

It seems that they got them to charge (shades of MS?) and the first person that fired his gun was chicken. Gates lost the first time and the second time was a draw at at 10 feet! They got most of it on film too.

What do you think?

Jeff

What a great idea! You could beat everyone by just refusing to shoot ...



analog_peninsula

I read that as well. Weren't they culling buff with rinderpest? Seems if I remember right, the rinderpest buff were ill dispositioned and prone to charging without further enticement. None of the buff were wounded into charging, just the men would position themselves so the buff could get a good look at them and charge.

At least that is how I remember the story going.

Seems like a good way to end up as "road kill"!

Sounds like a couple of Texas Aggie hunters...

Now wait a minute ..... !!!!

Oh, that's right - they shot and HIT the buffalo. Must have been Aggie Hunters indeed!

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Originally posted by analog_peninsula:
What a great idea! You could beat everyone by just refusing to shoot ...



analog_peninsula

If they both "won" too, everyone else would have won too.

I think this is appropriate for the book's passage =

PS They used .45/70 Marlins too.