looks like bringing a stool along is a good idea.

I've seen film of the bulls jumping into the stands .The people scatter just like cartoon figures !
Of course there are cases where cape buffalo have tossed people into the bush ,saving them , as the buffalo can't then find them.

Just as a matter of interest, If I remember it was last year that Christo Gomes PH and Outfitter in South Africa was charged and stomped by buffalo

A friend that guides for him, Tinus shot the buffalo after Christo was taken too hospital and he claimed it was only due too Christo's athletic capabilities , i.e he was a very good athlete as a youngster, in high jump etc. that saved his life, he also jumped into the air when his 375 misfired three times on faulty ammo,

the buff hit his legs instead of chest and he lives too tell the tale.

Now me , I believe White Men ca'nt jump , also due too a extending back bone also known as a belly

What to do when you get charged by a buffalo?

My first instinct is to shoot the bastard!

could we please see walter trying that??

How about we find out when and where this is and all meet there next year for an "official" AR meeting and enjoy the show.

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Originally posted by Cunningham:
How about we find out when and where this is and all meet there next year for an "official" AR meeting and enjoy the show.

+1

There's a great story about this at www.huntingreport.com under E-mail Extra Bulletins that can be read for free. It just happened a couple weeks ago in Tanzania. Leon Lamprecht and his lady client got a little dinged up.
It's good reading and fortunately nobody got too hurt. That makes several buffalo charges and one leopard attack since last November.
PH Austin Wienand got banged up in Tanzania when a wounded buffalo got to him. I spoke with him a few months later and he dismissed it like it was no big deal. The fact was he had broken ribs and they had to use his tattered clothing to make pressure bandages to staunch the bleeding from hoof cuts to his legs.
PH Martin Nel of Legendary Adventures had a buffalo push him around a termite mound and bruise him up pretty good. And PH Doug Scandrol got bitten by a wounded leopard in Zambia this past July. Fortunately all these people survived. But it's a reminder that there's a reason it's called dangerous game.

These guys are good!

I was charged by a bull once when I was a teenager. Not a buffalo. A bull in a pasture. I still believe I ran the world record 50 yard dash in making my escape.

Luckily, I got to the fence and made it over before the bull got me. I remember being scared half to death by that stomping, snorting, slobbering monster.

These guys have nerves of steel.

The ancient Minoan Civilization was big into this sport. Wonder if this is the first time its been practised since then?

Looks like another skill they need add to the PH tests.

There is a local bullfighter (they used to be called rodeo clowns but whose real primary mission is protecting the riders, not entertainment) Donnie Sparks, who jumps over the rodeo bulls as one of his signature moves. The rodeo bulls are usually quite a bit bigger than the Spanish fighting bulls in the video but not quite as serious.

Well these guys are good but however i had a similar experience, except it was the bull that jumped over me . Clear the fence and me, I guess it wanted to get me that bad.

Yeah, that's pretty cool Saeed, but as the old adage goes, 'sometimes you get the bull, and sometimes the bull gets you'. Alternately, the expression 'you mess with the bull, eventually you're gonna' get the horns' comes to mind.

Those pointy bits can be a real bugger.

If those guys were carrying 2x4s, they would be gored boardless.

Personally I had rather face the bull, standing very still, and holding my 450 No2.

Like Ziegfried and Roy with their cats,

sooner or later you're gonna get nailed...

What is it with the Spanish and cattle?