In Which I Continue A Horrible habit

I feel like I’ve been developing from Borepatch’s stuff too often recently.  To make up for that, I’m going to do it again.  He posted this as an example of a guy with lots of testicular fortitude and some seriously solid nerves.

I quipped with a Rourke quote that goes something like

“"I could care less about those riflemen who can split a pea at 200 yards; I want to know how good you are on a charging Buffalo at twelve feet.”

But I had a serious sad when I watched the video, because I knew what was actually going on.  You see, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this guy before, and said so:

[quote] … I’m correct, I think I recognize this guy from his awesome mullet. I don’t remember his name or anything, but if he’s the guy I’m thinking of, this is his thing – he purposely wounds these dangerous animals, then walks up on them close with his double rifle and goads them into charging so that he can get amazing video footage of his near-death hunting experiences and then sell them on DVD. I’ve seen him do the same thing with elephants and hippopotami and other dangerous critters. 

You have to admire his balls, but he is an absolute asshole. I am an avid hunter, and would love to some day go to Africa and shoot a hippo and a Cape Buffalo and if possible, an elephant, but ethically with an eye towards as humane a harvest as possible. And anyone that wants to come on here and flame me for that, I’ll ask you to produce evidence that my next claim is wrong – the only reason that any wildlife exists on the African continent at this point is because hunters like me are willing to pay huge money to go over there and shoot it. Without that economic incentive, Africa would be a completely different place and they’d have killed it all off by now. So if you want to flame me, recognize what you’re asking for as an alternative to me shooting these animals. 

That all being said, this guy needs to be hung by his ballsack. Anyone who purposely wounds an animal to goad it into charging him to get a thrill is a horrible human being, and in fact, many countries in Africa won’t even let him into the country anymore. Realistically, any hunter stands the risk of being charged by a cape buff if he accidentally wounds it and goes into the tall grass after it. But look at what this guy does – he’s got an obviously wounded animal on the ground, hurt, wounded, and suffering (my best guess by the way it humped up when he shot it the first time is that he gut shot it – I base that off of lots of years of shooting big animals and knowing what a gut shot animal looks like. I’d say he did that on purpose, knowing this asshole, but I have no way to prove that). Instead of just shooting it again as he obviously had ample chance to do from the original shooting spot, or from any number of additional spots along the path that he took to the final location, and even at the final location before the buff charged, he walked up to it, and obviously and purposely waited for it to charge. Watch it again with that in mind. When he’s walking up behind it, for instance, and it is obviously still alive – why not shoot it then? Any reasonable, ethical hunter would have. He wanted the charge. He baited it into it. Goaded it. I wish the thing had gotten to him and stomped a mudhole in him and then walked it dry. 
You have to admire his balls, but he is an absolute asshole. I am an avid hunter, and would love to some day go to Africa and shoot a hippo and a Cape Buffalo and if possible, an elephant, but ethically with an eye towards as humane a harvest as possible. And anyone that wants to come on here and flame me for that, I’ll ask you to produce evidence that my next claim is wrong – the only reason that any wildlife exists on the African continent at this point is because hunters like me are willing to pay huge money to go over there and shoot it. Without that economic incentive, Africa would be a completely different place and they’d have killed it all off by now. So if you want to flame me, recognize what you’re asking for as an alternative to me shooting these animals. 
That all being said, this guy needs to be hung by his ballsack. Anyone who purposely wounds an animal to goad it into charging him to get a thrill is a horrible human being, and in fact, many countries in Africa won’t even let him into the country anymore. Realistically, any hunter stands the risk of being charged by a cape buff if he accidentally wounds it and goes into the tall grass after it. But look at what this guy does – he’s got an obviously wounded animal on the ground, hurt, wounded, and suffering (my best guess by the way it humped up when he shot it the first time is that he gut shot it – I base that off of lots of years of shooting big animals and knowing what a gut shot animal looks like. I’d say he did that on purpose, knowing this asshole, but I have no way to prove that). Instead of just shooting it again as he obviously had ample chance to do from the original shooting spot, or from any number of additional spots along the path that he took to the final location, and even at the final location before the buff charged, he walked up to it, and obviously and purposely waited for it to charge. Watch it again with that in mind. When he’s walking up behind it, for instance, and it is obviously still alive – why not shoot it then? Any reasonable, ethical hunter would have. He wanted the charge. He baited it into it. Goaded it. I wish the thing had gotten to him and stomped a mudhole in him and then walked it dry. So I guess my point from all that above is that, as impressive as this may look, it is really a shitty thing once you know what is going on. 

He gut shot it (I would suggest on purpose), and instead of shooting it again to kill it, let it suffer while he swaggered up to it until he got close enough to get it to charge, all so he could stoke his own ego and line his pocketbook with DVD sales 

  

I hated to do it, because they seemed to be enjoying the clip over there.