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Re: Death in the Long Grass

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29 October 2004, 06:46
Wink
Re: Death in the Long Grass
I have had the opportunity to spend a bunch of time in the bush outside of "outfitter organized safari" hunting. When you hang of few antelope up in a tree for the night which have been skinned and cleaned, it is amazing the number of animals which will visit your camp at night and most of them are intent on a getting a least a little piece of the meat. Taking a guard shift from 2 AM to 5 AM is almost gauranteed to give you a whole new perspective on predators. Especially when your flashlight batteries start to fade and you can't even light up the eyes of critters waiting just outside the range of light thrown by the fire.
30 October 2004, 13:33
hkyhunter
This is a quote from the Nov/Dec "Sporting Classics" magazine, p 232:
"Don't mourn for me when I go. I've fished some of the greatest waters and hunted some of the most magical places. I turned ink into gold through my writings and I finally found the woman I love. I'll have had a grand life."
Peter Capstick, 1996
26 October 2004, 07:52
N'gagi
Quote:

Let there be no doubt that there are still man-eating lions, infant-stealing leopards, rapacious crocs, hyenas that bite people's faces (and other tender parts) off and bad tempered members of the pachyderm tribe! The number of photo-tourists who get eaten every year is one of the best kept dirty little secrets of the Dark Continent. The number of native Africans who find themselves not on the top of the food chain is frightening. You can disappear there. I personally haven't met any PH's with a story-telling ability to compare with PHC's but a fine, stalwart bunch they are, indeed. Just keep this in mind. Do no try to go to Africa once "to get it out of my system". It won't work. Africa becomes an addiction every bit as expensive as illegal drugs. Fortunately, it isn't in any bad for you. Even in the unlikely event the beasts win a round, as they occasionally do, can you think of a better death for a hunter? Otherwise, you will become legend in your own family.



Every morning I was up at 3AM to go and visit our hyena blind. I heard all kinds of crunching and slurping sounds and lions and leopards and dogs and god knows what else while quitely sneaking into our little grass blind.

Walking by startlight, just you and your PC, not making a peep as you crawl into place, you can easily imagine the eyes looking at you as you move. I've never had a feeling like that in a deer blind!!!

The bones, the vultures, the way they tore up our bait and ripped through heavy wire to get a scrap of meat....

I asked my PH what the chances were of a man surviving the night unarmed in the Zambezi Valley, and he said, "With a fire and a big tree, 90% chance. With just a tree, 30% chance. Not good at all."