https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45LHAIds5n8

You may of seen this before. I just saw in on another site.

Thanks for posting, great video.

Steve

I noticed he had a sidearm on him in the photos of him being treed.

it is quite easy to tell if a buff is going to charge. he pulls out his Mastercard or Visa.

What if he pulls out an AMEX card?

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Originally posted by zimbabwe:
What if he pulls out an AMEX card?

do what everybody else does - decline it.

I wondered how long before someone made the credit card crack.

He will look at you like he has exceeded his credit limit and you owe him money.

i never pass up an opportunity for a slam dunk...

This video is scary. The reason one pays 5 times the rate of a photo safari is for a professional PH.

Amateurs playing professional or the local village boy handed a rifle and told to be a professional hunter ends badly.

I am going to stick with hiring real professionals. The extra money is well spent.

Mike

Don Heaths states earlier in the video, that the guy using 7.62 Nato is using an unsuitable and illegal calibre.

Later in the video Mr.Heath then tells us he himself use 7.62 Nato to drop that wounded buff.

so why is it titled "How to tell..." when the video did not tell?

Mmnnhh! Ron Thomson used a 7.62 Nato SLR to cull whole herds of jumbo???

Remember the Am Ex TV commercial from years ago- How do you stop a rhino from charging?...take away his American Express card.

Phil

How you tell?
When he comes, credit card or not :-)

When he blasts out of the long grass from 30 feet obviously very pissed.

Sometimes they don't know themselves.

Tracking a lone bull in the Selous, several klicks in, we found blood and determined that the bull had been wounded. Long story short; early season; high grass; we circled high grass and worked wind. Ultimately came up with bull, who proved to be far too young.

PH and I went into the grass behind trackers side by side. The bull grunted and stood up. The trackers split me exiting the grass (thank you, I'm now the focus). He was too young. I drew a mental line at about 12 yards and he broke off at 15-18. We were all good.

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Originally posted by lavaca:
Sometimes they don't know themselves.

Tracking a lone bull in the Selous, several klicks in, we found blood and determined that the bull had been wounded. Long story short; early season; high grass; we circled high grass and worked wind. Ultimately came up with bull, who proved to be far too young.

PH and I went into the grass behind trackers side by side. The bull grunted and stood up. The trackers split me exiting the grass (thank you, I'm now the focus). He was too young. I drew a mental line at about 12 yards and he broke off at 15-18. We were all good.

Your cologne perhaps?

Can't come across a dumber video.

“How to tell if a buffalo is going to charge”?? I saw nothing it that clip that gave any indication that a buffalo was going to charge that would indicate the title of this thread!

The study of body language of a cape buffalo for signs that he is ready to charge are best found in Mark Sullivan’s “DEATH” films. Because there are so many charges in those films they give the viewer a large amount of study material for learning what to look far. In that respect those films are valuable beyond simple entertainment.

A buffalo will rarely just charge you but will choose to run if not wounded unless you surprise him at close quarters.

In my experience when you move close to a WOUNDED buffalo, the tip offs are he will usually face you and shake his head side to side a couple of times and snorting! That is a warning that you shouldn’t go closer, and to simply shoot him where he stands, which is the prudent thing to do IMO. If he then tips his nose up, level with his eyes and looks at you and grunts he’s about to come! He may do this a couple of times, but if you take one step closer he is very likely to charge you, and if he does your next shot better be dead on target hitting the CNS because he will, in my experience, not stop till he hits you or is put down! Of course nothing is written in stone, he alone will decide. A Cape buffalo will not charge without provocation, but remember the buffalo is the one who decides what constitutes provocation!
..........................Opinions vary, however!

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Originally posted by MacD37:
“How to tell if a buffalo is going to charge”?? I saw nothing it that clip that gave any indication that a buffalo was going to charge that would indicate the title of this thread!

The study of body language of a cape buffalo for signs that he is ready to charge are best found in Mark Sullivan’s “DEATH” films. Because there are so many charges in those films they give the viewer a large amount of study material for learning what to look far. In that respect those films are valuable beyond simple entertainment.

A buffalo will rarely just charge you but will choose to run if not wounded unless you surprise him at close quarters.

In my experience when you move close to a WOUNDED buffalo, the tip offs are he will usually face you and shake his head side to side a couple of times and snorting! That is a warning that you shouldn’t go closer, and to simply shoot him where he stands, which is the prudent thing to do IMO. If he then tips his nose up, level with his eyes and looks at you and grunts he’s about to come! He may do this a couple of times, but if you take one step closer he is very likely to charge you, and if he does your next shot better be dead on target hitting the CNS because he will, in my experience, not stop till he hits you or is put down! Of course nothing is written in stone, he alone will decide. A Cape buffalo will not charge without provocation, but remember the buffalo is the one who decides what constitutes provocation!
..........................Opinions vary, however!

Really Mac? A bit too much Sullivan

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Originally posted by Steve Ahrenberg:

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Originally posted by MacD37:
“How to tell if a buffalo is going to charge”?? I saw nothing it that clip that gave any indication that a buffalo was going to charge that would indicate the title of this thread!

The study of body language of a cape buffalo for signs that he is ready to charge are best found in Mark Sullivan’s “DEATH” films. Because there are so many charges in those films they give the viewer a large amount of study material for learning what to look far. In that respect those films are valuable beyond simple entertainment.

A buffalo will rarely just charge you but will choose to run if not wounded unless you surprise him at close quarters.

In my experience when you move close to a WOUNDED buffalo, the tip offs are he will usually face you and shake his head side to side a couple of times and snorting! That is a warning that you shouldn’t go closer, and to simply shoot him where he stands, which is the prudent thing to do IMO. If he then tips his nose up, level with his eyes and looks at you and grunts he’s about to come! He may do this a couple of times, but if you take one step closer he is very likely to charge you, and if he does your next shot better be dead on target hitting the CNS because he will, in my experience, not stop till he hits you or is put down! Of course nothing is written in stone, he alone will decide. A Cape buffalo will not charge without provocation, but remember the buffalo is the one who decides what constitutes provocation!
..........................Opinions vary, however!

Really Mac? A bit too much Sullivan

I don't see anywhere in my post where I recommended kicking dirt in his face to make him decide!

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