Lion attack video

wanafish · 03-25-2006, 12:28 PM

I was sent a video clip of a lion charging some hunters. You guys may have seen it already but I hadn't. It came to me as an attachment so I don't know how to forward it to here. ??? I can forward to someone if you know how to post it.

jokester · 03-25-2006, 01:35 PM

Is this the one you're talking about??

LION ATTACK VIDEO

(Disclaimer: Don't flame me if there's anything or any links that might be offensive to you on this webpage. I just did a search and this is the 1st site it came up with. Don't shoot the messanger.

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-jokester

pugetplunker · 03-25-2006, 02:12 PM

those guys are idiots and they cant shoot. not a good combination

lentz · 03-25-2006, 03:19 PM

I had that one e-mailed to me awhile back. Kinda crazy. Not my idea of big game hunting, i'll stick with the N. American speices.

wanafish · 03-25-2006, 03:24 PM

jokester, yep that is the one I was sent(without the garbage on the webpage) Lucky all that guy got was scratched!

juniper · 03-25-2006, 05:04 PM

Looked like a canned hunt. Noticed a lot of posts. They probably hand fed it the day before the hunt. I was rooting for the lion.....

gottafish · 03-25-2006, 05:21 PM

Not a canned hunt, Infact its not a hunt!! They responded to a call that a roag lion had killed a small child in a village. The hunter was asked if he would shoot it and he agreed. I read the whole story about this lion a few years ago on a reloading fourm and the actual guy that shot was part of the disscution. He said his first shot was bad and he thinks he missed it every time since the first shot. Thats The jist I got

RoscoeP · 03-25-2006, 08:06 PM

I would like to see any of us stay calm and hit that beast charging as fast as he was.

Canned hunt or not, those guys had some serious stones in my book. I watched it in slow motion. Unreal how lucky they were to hit him at the last possible second. VERY lucky no one was hurt other than a scratch.

bullslayer · 03-25-2006, 08:37 PM

I'm thinking a semi-auto shotgun with "00" buck would have been really handy to have in this instance. Man that cat could move :shocked:. Very lucky dudes!! Kris.

Just Fish · 03-26-2006, 10:09 PM

Canned hunt :whazzup:It was all over the internet 2 years ago.2nd hand lion :grin:

BW · 03-27-2006, 05:39 AM

Shotgun is not legel for dangerous game in any African country. Min is 375 H&H in most countries. Some PH's will us a shotgun to follow up on leperd. But there are others that think a shotgun has no place in the field in Africa except for birds. Not real sure why.

Radke · 03-27-2006, 07:38 AM

It really would have been cool had they been shooting black powder, with a flint!!

Amahnee · 03-27-2006, 03:30 PM

I kinda woulda liked to see the lion score one. I don't know why anyone would want to shoot one of those great cats? The other day I saw a show on OLN and they were hunting elephants, another one I don't get? It seemed pointless and kind of sad.

Lucky one · 03-27-2006, 05:07 PM

There are lots of places in the world where elephants are very dangerous and cause major havoc to farmers. Occaisionaly governments will give out damage control type tags for specific elephants, quite often young bulls. I watched a special on national geographic channel about it. It was very informational and well done. They even talked about one elephant that would knock on peoples doors and when they opened up he would grab them and maul them.

Super Fluke · 03-27-2006, 05:16 PM

What an idiot