Got an email this morning from fellow AR member Wink he is in Dar for work purposes...What a bummer so close but so far..
My good friend and Ph Ian Dodds of Hunter's Africa was hit by chui..Both arms chewed up pretty good, but will be heading back into the bush for next safari soon...
Will post more when I get first hand account..

Just got short burst of chui attack..bit tracker then on to Ian..He threw it to the ground after having fingers broke by bites and used his knife to kill it...

Mike

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Originally posted by retreever:

Just got short burst of chui attack..bit tracker then on to Ian..He threw it to the ground after having fingers broke by bites and used his knife to kill it...

Mike

But, Mike! 500Grains said we don't need no knife!
Dave

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Originally posted by almostacowboy:

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Originally posted by retreever:

Just got short burst of chui attack..bit tracker then on to Ian..He threw it to the ground after having fingers broke by bites and used his knife to kill it...

Mike

But, Mike! 500Grains said we don't need no knife!
Dave

I do believe that there is a little fu fu poodle yapping at me again.

Killed a leopard with a knife. That guy has pluck!!

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Originally posted by Tembo:
Killed a leopard with a knife. That guy has pluck!!

I'd say he had no other choice at the time!

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Originally posted by 500grains:

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Originally posted by almostacowboy:

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Originally posted by retreever:

Just got short burst of chui attack..bit tracker then on to Ian..He threw it to the ground after having fingers broke by bites and used his knife to kill it...

Mike

But, Mike! 500Grains said we don't need no knife!
Dave

I do believe that there is a little fu fu poodle yapping at me again.

Some people just can't seem to avoid jumping all over you every chance they get.

Killing a leopard with a knife!

Better him than me.

Maybe I will carry a knife on my next safari after all. Those apples do need peeling from time to time.

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Originally posted by Tembo:
Killed a leopard with a knife. That guy has pluck!!

That's probably what he said when he saw what was going to happen.

Oh Pluck!!!



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All Right

My kind of guy

Now there is a guy who's got a story to tell!

What kind of mouth breathing, long stem eye donor, doesn't carry a knife in Africa?

I always help out with the cleaning chores in the field.

Doesn't everybody?

Plus you never know when you're going to have to knife your way out of a cat mauling...

Now was that knife a CRF or PF knife and was it tempered with 4570 stainless?

There is a saying where I come from:
Big knife - small hunter
Small knife - no hunter...

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Now was that knife a CRF or PF knife and was it tempered with 4570 stainless?

sofa

If you hadn't said, I was going to...

GS

Now I wonder whether it was a sheath knife or a folder.

I have been told the folder are useless on leopards.

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Originally posted by NitroX:
Now I wonder whether it was a sheath knife or a folder.

I have been told the folder are useless on leopards.

Nitrox,

If it is a CRF folder and tempered in 4570 stainless and thrust at very slow velocity it'll penetrate much deeper than a previously proven DG knife or even a spear.

Of course if it is a single stack PF folder it is even better.

If I remember, Charles Cottar once killed a leopard with a knife. In India, tigers have been killed with choppers (like machetes) - Bagha Jatin, one of India's freedom fighters gained renown killing a tiger in the Sunderbans with one when he was a young man.

I guess when someone is desperate they fight hard and that may have caused these very rare occurrences of big cats killed with large knives.

Come on now he may chew you up a little but if you put a knife through his vitals he's going to die.

Now though I think his attacker used Leopard Fu.

There are documented cases of individuals killing cats with knives...Even one of our ARmembers uncle used spears on jaguars in S. America Sasha Siemel..The other I believe his name was Wotters (sp) he killed a lion with a knive..There are a few more but cannot remember their names..

Mike

A good knife can save the day but I never could see how any man might "fight off" anything but a very small or very sick leopard. Those that have got lucky, in some way, shape or form. Cat muscle tissue is said to be the strongest in the animal kingdom (insects not included).

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Originally posted by Nickudu:
A good knife can save the day but I never could see how any man might "fight off" anything but a very small or very sick leopard. Those that have got lucky, in some way, shape or form. Cat muscle tissue is said to be the strongest in the animal kingdom (insects not included).

Cat tissue may be the strongest, but do you really think it will stop a sharp knife.
Come on people think sometimes.

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Originally posted by NitroX:
Killing a leopard with a knife!

Better him than me.

Maybe I will carry a knife on my next safari after all. Those apples do need peeling from time to time.

But, Grains said.........
Dave

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Come on now he may chew you up a little but if you put a knife through his vitals he's going to die.

No doubt, I think it is just a timing issue on if the chewing or the knife works first.

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Originally posted by dbltap:

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Come on now he may chew you up a little but if you put a knife through his vitals he's going to die.

No doubt, I think it is just a timing issue on if the chewing or the knife works first.

Very true

Thanks. I just bought myself a nice Boker fixed blade hunting knife that I'll be taking when hunting leopard in '06. Just in case. . . .