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Originally posted by Big Sky:
Please nobody take offense I just find the similarity very funny.

Here's a photo of the lead singer to Queen Freddie Mercury.

Now here's a photo of Mark Sullivan

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Big Sky

Do you know Freddie Mercury was born on the island of Zanzibar which is part of Tanzania. And Mark Sullivan hunts in Tanzania.

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Originally posted by Bwanamich:
From Mark Sullivan's website;

another quote form his site:

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...What could possibly be more ethical or moral than to give the wounded beast a fighting chance, knowing full well that if I do not stop his charge, I will die? What more can I do to show my respect than to offer my life in return? This is a serious matter, because if I fail to kill him, I assure you, he will kill me. Death is certain to become one of us.

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Hang on a minute. Who is the hunter, the client or the PH? Is it not the client who is supposed to be doing the shooting including the dispatch of a wounded buffalo? Perhaps MS does the shooting after asking the client to deliberately gut-shoot the buff

Enough said!

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I think it is called marketing and his usual hype. If you read what Allen Day said he expects to shoot all his own animals and also if Sullivan markets he can produce buffalo charges for the client as someone once said, he is hardly going to shoot it for them.

Also if most buffalo do not go down quickly on the first shot it is hardly necessary to "gut-shoot" them to get a charge. I would think (from my limited experience - perhaps someone can comment) that not firing additional shots from afar but instead approaching the buffalo from the front and perhaps upwind into its "danger zone" might provoke a charge.

My one and only buffalo was shot solidly through the chest. I shot it again after maybe a minute. It still took a number of minutes to die. I would think approaching it during this time and especially before the second bullet could result in a charge. We just sat by quietly waiting for it to die and I consider it a very ethical hunt. Why would it be less ethical to provoke a charge to finish it off with a brain shot during a charge ????

I think the people that blaze away shooting off a dozen shots up the arse of a fleeing buff might be the ones who produce more suffering for the beast.

I think the production of the videos where the main purpose is to get action for the videos which is what everyone sees and the actual client/PH hunts which no one else sees might be different and the difference confusing some people.

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Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
Allen you are not alone here.
First the videos:
In Mark I see a person who loves the hunt and honors the game taken. [...] What amazies me is... he is criticized for standing firm and successfully stopping many charges...

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Originally posted by jcbarth:
Did anyone see what happened this year at SCI?

There was a big stink over the SCI "video ethics" policies. There was a big hoopla over what could and could not be shown at the convention. They settled their dispute by making MS put butcher paper over his TV sets. People had to lift the paper to see what was playing. I think they actually helped him sell videos by doing this.

Sincerely,
John Barth

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Gary Bogner, the SCI President, caught somebody looking under the paper to watch the video. He evidently went into a screaming frenzy and even managed to stop the Amazon Dancers in the next booth with his show. One of the people witnessing this said his face was so red that he thought he was going to have a heart attack.


Lead by example, that's what I always say.

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Scott,

You might wish to ask him how many buffalo he had to kill - illegally - to film one charge.

The rate I hear is 1 in 24!

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