The teeth-puncture marks on his torso/thorax are impressive...
That's what I noticed! I wonder how the infection was... YIKES!
Cheers
Jay
Wounded leopard pwns hunter before being killed
- Thread starter vpsalin
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That's what I noticed! I wonder how the infection was... YIKES!
Cheers
Jay
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
What makes you think you wouldn't? A large male often has females with him.
bearkilr
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Nowhere, ......just past the middle
Hunting leopard with hounds is being offered in Namibia and Zimbabwe, currently my dream hunt but one I may very well never be able to afford.
As much as I'd love to take a leapard over hounds I'd be worried about the dogs myself. That cat looked wounded badly coming out of the grass. He's lucky to have backed up as to not gets the back claws in his chest. Yes indeed an impressive bite I give the guy credit for takin it like a champ
Invariably if you are hunting lion, you are hunting a male. Male lions are not part of the pride, unless they are juveniles (or the pride leader) and haven't been banished yet.
Sometimes the banished males form packs. So it is unlikely that you will stumble upon a pride.
There's quite a difference between "hunting" and "cleaning up a mess." Do you really think that half a dozen people are wandering around takeing multiple shots at a healthy leopard?
Suka
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I'm with you Otokiak, were I to be offered, "The" dream hunt, for me it'd be lion and elephant. I'd have to be offered it, as if you've never looked it up, well, I did, and if I were given the cash for that dream hunt I'd buy a 1/2 section of land instead.
You mean you can hunt africa carrying something besides a double rifle?
You mean you can hunt africa carrying something besides a double rifle?
Sorry boys, call me a wimp or a sissy if you want but I don't see the point of a hunt like this. If the cat was eating people or livestock okay kill it, but otherwise some animals are better left alone. Do they eat the cats? or are they just trophy hunts? I guess I miss the point.
Riflesmith
CGN Regular
- Location
- On The Line
One thing is for certain and that is all here on this board are hunters and we need not divide ourselves!!! Like the hunt or not we cannot start this kind of ####. There are enough people out there trying to stop our passion we need not give them any wedge for their cause.
As for the hunter getting mauled and guys saying it serves him right I just don't follow that either. The guy shooting the leopard is no different than anyone here. He set out to kill an animal he wanted. It went bad for whatever reason. Things happen when hunting and sometimes things go wrong. But for someone to say he is not a hunter and he got what he had coming is sickening to me. Remember gentlemen when you walk up to your "dead" moose and it awakens and gores you with its antlers should we say you had it coming?
As for the hunter getting mauled and guys saying it serves him right I just don't follow that either. The guy shooting the leopard is no different than anyone here. He set out to kill an animal he wanted. It went bad for whatever reason. Things happen when hunting and sometimes things go wrong. But for someone to say he is not a hunter and he got what he had coming is sickening to me. Remember gentlemen when you walk up to your "dead" moose and it awakens and gores you with its antlers should we say you had it coming?
I agree hunt trouble predators only. I find predator hunting very unnatural, and the point of my hunting is to get closer to nature.
As for trophy hunting, I'm more the sort to want to shoot the ''lesser'' trophy, and let the big ones go to reproduce another day. It's unnatural to hunt the strongest animal of the pack, the weaker animals should be hunted which in the end actually strengthens the herd.
I'm with you Otokiak, were I to be offered, "The" dream hunt, for me it'd be lion and elephant. I'd have to be offered it, as if you've never looked it up, well, I did, and if I were given the cash for that dream hunt I'd buy a 1/2 section of land instead.
Where can you find a 1/2 section for <$30k (elephant) or <$60k (lion)? Still big money, but an order of magnitude less than even a bare quarter section.
I still love hunting birds, but there is nothing like DG!
Dean
bearkilr
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Nowhere, ......just past the middle
Somehow you don't strike me as the type who'd go after man eating leopards.......
Maybe feral cats that are eating tweety birds, aka "trouble predators".
That's why they call it hunting "Dangerous Game," 'cause they hunter can become prey pretty damn fast. I bear the cat no ill will, it did its best to defend itself, the hunter must take his lumps too. If he didn't want to risk getting hurt/killed, he should've stayed home or learned to shoot better under pressure.
Trophy hunting in Africa is a net benefit to African game and serves a critical CONSERVATION function. The trophy fee paid by hunters for these game animals goes to compensate local villagers, provide anti-poaching patrols and scientic game management. Each cat, elephant, buffalo, etc...has a monetary value. Local tribesmen, who used to poach, now protect the same animal populations, because it is in their financial self-interest.
Trophy hunters pay the cost. This simple fact is something that animal rights nutjobs and militant vegans simply cannot grasp. If there were no trophy hunting in Africa today, most animal populations would be in the toilet. Killed by farmers protecting their goats and cattle, or poor villagers poaching to feed their families and to sell hides and ivory for pennies on the dollar.
Trophy hunting in Africa is a net benefit to African game and serves a critical CONSERVATION function. The trophy fee paid by hunters for these game animals goes to compensate local villagers, provide anti-poaching patrols and scientic game management. Each cat, elephant, buffalo, etc...has a monetary value. Local tribesmen, who used to poach, now protect the same animal populations, because it is in their financial self-interest.
Trophy hunters pay the cost. This simple fact is something that animal rights nutjobs and militant vegans simply cannot grasp. If there were no trophy hunting in Africa today, most animal populations would be in the toilet. Killed by farmers protecting their goats and cattle, or poor villagers poaching to feed their families and to sell hides and ivory for pennies on the dollar.
