Sending your 15 year old son into finish off wounded Buffalo is not ideal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRDA6XdBcwQ

No Courtney hunting boots for this lad, just flip flops! Was he shooting a .243? I found it a bit sickening, but that is probably just me. Shot way too far back.
Peter.

Isn't the proverb, "never send a boy to do a man's job"?

I just dont know what to say..... Im speechless at the moment....ummmm....yes...well...

No it wasnt a 243 - the cameraman said "you wanted to use a 243" or similar...

whatever it was ... it was done very, very badly.

Thats some nasty looking bush too.

It diden't look like he was very well prepared for that type of hunting. Lucky someone diden't get hurt!

Take the kid to the local pub and have another Foster's. Nobody was ready (nor equipped) for that hunt (shoot?).

The grown man who let that kid walk in on that buffalo should be put in a pin with a pissed off lion and a BB gun!

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Pretty bad. Obviously a game ranch buff and not a free range buff up on the Coberg Peninsula.

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Originally posted by MacD37:
The grown man who let that kid walk in on that buffalo should be put in a pin with a pissed off lion and a BB gun!

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+1

what a tosser!!!!!

Father and son had better hope that Mum never gets to see that video because if she does, she'll probably amputate Dad's nuts without an anesthetic and forbid the kid to ever pick up a rifle again!

As Aubs said, what a tosser!

Good thing it was one of those water buffalos.
If it was a wounded cape buffalo, I would imagine it would have charged that kid, being so close to it!

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Good thing it was one of those water buffalos.
If it was a wounded cape buffalo, I would imagine it would have charged that kid, being so close to it!

Absolutely.

Gives the antis a lot of ammo right there ..we all need to look carefully and closely at what we put out in public.

amangqhundu, the whole damn lot of them.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Good thing it was one of those water buffalos.
If it was a wounded cape buffalo, I would imagine it would have charged that kid, being so close to it!

Correct me if Im wrong but I think it did try to get him, as the guy drops the camera angle down... then you see the bull isnt quite on his feet. That was my initial thought when I saw it - that the kid actually did get charged and his second shot knocked it back onto its knees... bit hard to tell exactly though..

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Originally posted by ivan carter:
Gives the antis a lot of ammo right there ..we all need to look carefully and closely at what we put out in public.

Bloody right. YouTube and the people who post inappropriate hunting videos will be the death of hunting!

Pathetic parenting and/or PH work!

"Attention Wal-Mart shoppers, buffalo sale in sporting goods"...

...These guys looked like they were a bit un- prepared for this outing! (to say the least).

Glad the boy didn't get hooked!

JW

That could have gotten really ugly...

Jeff

Scope wasn't much use at 10 feet. He looks like he was try to use it early on and was aiming over its head. Then at the end he approached the head end - bad move even if the buff was very sick.

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Originally posted by ivan carter:
Gives the antis a lot of ammo right there ..we all need to look carefully and closely at what we put out in public.

Totally agree -- some of the crap I see on u-tube and even on the hunting channels is very pathetic to say the least.

I think that Saeed has cautioned us all. (I hasten to say that I was a one time Cape buffalo hunter) It's a water buffalo - an entirely different kind of animal from our Cape buffalo ( Five year olds in the Philippines ride them out to the rice paddies ) I suppose that in Australia, the breed is different - but I have never noticed that the Aussies (a pretty tough lot in my experience) have ever really claimed that their breed is as fearsome as the familiar Cape buffalo. Having said all that (as a longwinded Irishman) I now want to say that if that was a 15 year old boy -he is a good son of his Australian ancestors who fought at Gallipoli in WW1 and at New Guinea in WW2. Frankly, from what I watched on my laptop, the boy responded bravely. I didn't see him running away - he stepped back and got his bearings -if he were my son, I would be quite peoud of him. (yes, I do agree with the poster who noted that you never walk up on a downed animal from head first (because, as my father told me, the deer will see you and the jolt of adrenalin will,maybe,put him on his feet) The young man acted bravely in accordance with his blood.

funny, the buff does not move around much. Reckon this might have been staged? Still stupid!

Rich

you only ever see the buffalo on it's front knees in the clip...

Reminds me of what an old friend of mine used to say about cape buff... they wake up in the morning feeling really shitty but the more you shoot 'em the better they feel!

A terrible example of a father there.

That was really bad!!! I'm speachless!!

bwanamrm:

You made me spill some perfectly good Canadian Club when I read your post. I never read a better argument for "make that first shot count!"

Gentlemen,please be in no doubt these bloody things will kill you with their LAST BREATH

Very pathetic at best...

All be damn! I didn't know inbreeding was so common down under.

I hope they do a follow-up "how to" video with pointers on field dressing water buffalo with a dull spoon while wearing flip flops.

He would not try his LUCK with a cape buff...he would still be running...

Wombat:

No, you can't convince me that Australia has anything like the African Cape buffalo! I think it is simply that you Aussies, being a rather timid lot, and not accustomed to danger, just don't know how to put down your local cattle. (I love insulting Aussies from half a world away from the anonymity of the internet!) On a serious note - I remember the Aussies from WW2 -and have read history of what Aussies did at Gallipoli in WW1 - so take my comments as kidding you.Fact.

The only trouble with Aussies is that they can't make decent beer...... other than that, they're the dog's doo dahs!

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Originally posted by shakari:
The only trouble with Aussies is that they can't make decent beer...... other than that, they're the dog's doo dahs!

you obviously havent had the very many breeds of 'good stuff' here... we have quite the selction.

What is this?? Hang-shit on Aussies day???

Only pulling your leg mate...... but I thought all Aussie beer was that fizzy, near frozen yellow stuff, rather than proper bitter served at room temperature.

At least, that's all I could ever buy when I was over there.

That dad is an idiot!