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Originally posted by TwoZero:
It seems that the thing to have for checking baits would be for someone to invent a wireless trailcam that can broadcast its pictures to a device connected to a laptop.

That way one could check bait before one sets out for the day (and even during the day) and save a lot of time.

Of course that type of tech is probably several years away...


To a large degree, that would probably work. At least to know if a bait was active.

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Originally posted by mboga biga bwana:

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Originally posted by TwoZero:
It seems that the thing to have for checking baits would be for someone to invent a wireless trailcam that can broadcast its pictures to a device connected to a laptop.

That way one could check bait before one sets out for the day (and even during the day) and save a lot of time.

Of course that type of tech is probably several years away...


To a large degree, that would probably work. At least to know if a bait was active.

...and you guys calling this hunting ?!

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Originally posted by Aaron Neilson:
Reading this thread has been really interesting for me, informative too. Having been in the blind to witness 19 Lion/Leopard kills, the part I found most interesting was the length of time some have spent in blinds? Wow, talk about tiring!!

Certainly I have witnessed more time spent on
some cats than others, but some it seems have
spent more time in the blind, than anywhere
else? My personal experience, plus that shared
with a couple PH's I consider good cat hunters,
and the one guy I consider the best cat hunter
I know, is just the opposite.

If you've done it right, set-up everything right, and picked the right time to sit, the cat should come. Not always, but most of the time. Night, after night, after night, of sitting in the blind? Tells me the PH is doing something wrong. If you actually sat ALL-NIGHT and the cat didn't show, why would you sit in the same blind again the next night??? I think I've witnessed 6 Leopard kills, in 3 different countries. Only once did we sit more than one time to kill the leopard, and we got that one on the 2nd morning. On the one Leopard cluster
f**k I had in Masailand in 2004, without question the PH's lack
of experience/knowledge was solely responsible for our lack of
success. Not only did he want to put the blind way too close
to the bait (23 yards), but when the leopard did show, he
thought the best thing to do was to start talking to me???
Needless to say, the leopard was out of the tree in a big
hurry.

From what I've seen, most PH's put the blind too close to the bait, IMO. But, I can tell you they do so because most of them have little confidence in the shooting ability of us, the safari hunter. Had the PH mentioned above, put the blind at
the nice 80 yard mark I had picked out, the leopard surely would have been dead. Even with his annoying talking in the
blind, at 23 yards. Fact is, I've never sat in a blind with a
PH where we killed a cat, that we didn't whisper back and forth
when the cat arrived. But I've also never seen the necessity
for blinds 25 yards from the bait? Put the blind 50 - 80 yards
away, and watch your time in the blind deminish.

I would be interested to hear from the guys who sat in the same blind, all night, for more than a single night in a row? If you sat all night, and the cat never showed, why did the PH say you should sit again in the same blind, the very next night?
If he doesn't come the very first time you sit, chances of
getting that cat drop dramatically! Usually there's a good
reason why he didn't show.