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Perhaps better....however, notice how many shots are fired, and how the hunting party has been scattered. The third shot impacts the ground just as the lion leaps - perhaps no more then 10 feet from the hunter and guide. It looks like the guide fires it, or perhaps it comes from the guy with the rifle standing in the background (he fires at least two shots). Arm everybody with these handguns and I would be more worried about getting shot then mauled. As it is, you can see the hunter picks up his rifle and swings it dangerously across his guide.

Note to self: The hunter's scoped rifle is almost useless during the charge. While the guide does much better over iron sights. For me it would be a scoped rifle for offense, a handgun for defense, and a nice khukuri to set up the barbeque.

n2s
 
You guys are thinking too small. If a cat the size of a small horse was after me, I'd want a bazooka and a fast jeep. Or if i didn't have the jeep i'd want a slow out of shape guy with steaks stapled to his butt.

Jake
 
BruiseLeee said:
Who is Capstick? Google had a lot of folks named Capstick. There used to be Suzy Capstick who used to advertize lip balm though. I doubt she was the type to shoot lions though. :rolleyes: :)
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You're one heck of a guy!!!! ;)
Peter Heathaway Capstick.....modern day african hunter, out of bussiness because of political reasons.


"I dunno if it's THAT dangerous. Hunting them from a blind or killing them unawares is pretty straight foward. Given proper shot placement, they are pretty "soft" thin skinned animals that are especially vunerable to high velocity bullets (big cats hate hydrostatic shock) It is when they are wounded that really sucks... "

The old timers died. Good shots but a lion has a heart! God bless them, I'm on the lions side! :D
 
When you get the shot, take it.
The guys in the video wanted a charge. They had plenty of time to kill that lion straight out.
 
not2sharp said:
Either that, or they were very very very hungry.

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This is a 19th century Masai sword

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Yup, that's it; right down to the flimsy sheath!:D
 
Ben Arown-Awile said:
Might come in handy in case a lion escapes from the Tulsa zoo, if can find a "Real" Masai to use them.
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You got that right Ben.;)
I know the lions are huge, see them most every other day within 40 feet and I'm extremely happy that there's a huge dry and deep moat between them and me!!!!:eek: :D
What really impresses me are the Siberian Tigers! Now they are one HUGE Animal!!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
I truly wish Capstick were out of business only because of politics. Unfortunately he passed away in 1996.......couldn't find much in the way of a bio during a couple of quick searches, but IIRC he pitched a Wall Street career after a divorce and went to Africa to become a white-hunter around 1975-80. He was one of the best writers I've ever run across.....had the knack of putting you right ther with him......WHATEVER the situation!!!
What a loss!

Larry S.
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Yvsa said:
..I know the lions are huge, see them most every other day within 40 feet and I'm extremely happy that there's a huge dry and deep moat between them and me!!!!..
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Back in the 60's I had a house in the Northeast part of OKC, right across the street from the zoo. A big cat escaped. I don't remember what it was, some kind of leopard I think. They caught it on my neighbors roof. Caused quite a bit of excitement in the neighborhood.
 
Yvsa said:
..I know the lions are huge, see them most every other day within 40 feet and I'm extremely happy that there's a huge dry and deep moat between them and me!!!!..
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Back in the 60's I had a house in Oklahoma City right across the street from the zoo. A big cat escaped. I don't remember what it was, some kind of leopard I think. They caught it on my neighbors roof. Caused quite a bit of excitement in the neighborhood.
 
Bruise,

Peter Hathaway Capstick was a professional hunter in Africa who wrote several popular books on big game hunting in the late 20th Century.

http://www.dropbears.com/b/broughsbooks/sport/peter_capstick.htm

Not written by Capstick, but my favorite African book "The Maneaters of Tsavo" by John H. Patterson was reprinted in 1986 in the Capstick Library collection. It is really well written and I couldn't put it down - far better than the film. The real lions from that story are in the Field Museum.
 
Please set me up with a very large shark cage (with me on the inside) and nothing less than a .50 cal machine gun. I'll take my sharpest Khuk with me in case they get the cage open. I'd rather die by my own hand.

They do look so calm and regal at the zoo. The nearby Cincinnatti Zoo has several White Tigers. *So* cute and cuddly looking. Ask Siefried...or Roy...whichever it was.
 
At very close range, I'd take a good pump with 12-Ga Brennekes.

At over 50 meters, I'd take a .416 Rigby.

John
 
Ben Arown-Awile said:
Back in the 60's I had a house in Oklahoma City right across the street from the zoo. A big cat escaped. I don't remember what it was, some kind of leopard I think. They caught it on my neighbors roof. Caused quite a bit of excitement in the neighborhood.
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Our zoo is fortuante in having one of the very rare and highly endangered Himalayan Snow Leopards. They sign says they go from 50 to 90 pounds. I wouldn't want either size to be attacking me but I can see how someone quick, and scared for their life, could take one out with a khukuri like the native fellow in Nepal did that Bill has talked about.
He killed it without drawing the khuk from its scabbard!:eek:

It was kinda funny the other day as I was walking up the hill all bent over pushing my rollator. The snow leopard was actually out of its den and was watching me. The closer I got the more crouched it became and ready to nab me if it could've gotten out from behind the cage.
Funny how all the predators can recognize the old and weak.:D
One of the Siberian Tigers also recognized that a few years back when I had just started using my walking stick.
It growled its frustration at being behind the moat as I was chafing at having to finally walk with a stick or other aid.
The tiger may not be a maneater but I firmly believe that it would've became one that day if it could've reached me!:eek:
Neat at feeling similar frustrations between me and the tiger as neither of us had our total freedom anymore.:D
 
Peter Chapsitck once mentioned that he was visiting the Tampa zoo, and was over by the lion enclosure, looking at the many clueless tourist. One of them got a little too close to the cage and was subject to a full charge by an adult male. The cage bars stopped it short, and the tourist went along on his way completely oblivious to what had happened. But, Peter noted that even after a long period in captivity, a wild animal can still be dangerous.

That story seemed all too fresh in my mind during the mid 1980s. I was in Puerto Rico, taking a senic drive from Arecibo towards Ponce, when I stopped at a roadside stand for a lemonade. It was little more then a shed set up by the side of the road next to a hillside cattle pasture, and as I sat there on a stool sipping my soft drink, an adult male lion wanders over to stand about 10 yards away on the far side of the cattle wire. I incredulously asked the guy behind the counter; is that what it looks likes? Oh yeah, but don't worry about him, he is just the rancher's pet. Anhhhha, it suddenly struck me that I really needed to get back on the road right away if I was going to make it back to the hotel at a reasonable hour. Although, I never looked back, it is quite possible that I left a little cloud of dust in between the counter and the car.

People do keep pet lions. We had one escape earlier this year from a ranch in West Palm Beach.

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not2sharp said:
People do keep pet lions. We had one escape earlier this year from a ranch in West Palm Beach.

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Yep, the brother of the mother of my children bought a lion kitten many, many years ago, had to of been in the early sixtys.
Cutest little thing you ever saw and very playful. Bob kept him until he got a bit too big too handle safely, as well as costing too much too feed, and then got rid of him, wasn't ever sure who he gave him too.
When the lion got to maybe 60 pounds or so and had developed his movement skills a bit he was a lot of fun to play with.
Bob kept him in a 2 room apartment with both rooms pretty open to each other.
The back room was the kitchenette with a full cupboard with a sink across the back of it. I would go in the front door and the lion would run and jump on the cabinet top.
When I got almost to the kitchen door he would leap at me, damned near knocking me over, I was a lot stronger then, hit me in the chest as I caught him.
Then he would lick my face and ears, don't know if he was tasting me or just lovin on me but it was great fun.;)
Then we would play, with me stamping my feet and claping my hands. The lion would run all around the room and up on the cabinet making several leaps at me that I sometimes wouldn't dodge.:D
Great fun!:D Wouldn't want to do that with a full grown lion at all!!!!:eek: :rolleyes:
And I always waited until Bob had just freshly cleaned the two rooms from all the lion poop!
Lion poop doesn't at all smell good and isn't something you would want to be slipping and sliding around in.:rolleyes: :eek: :D ;)
 
Meateaters always smell bad...even human vegetarians say so. Regarding being sized up...You'll also see the same behavior in human predators. Spend any time in any city of size with your blinders off and you'll see folks being sized up all the time.
 
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