one of the craziest vids youll ever see!!

[dlonno]

I bet they all sharted.

[owtcast]

I know most will probably disagree with me but, that trophy hunting sux. They kill that majestic animal just so they can have him stuffed and put in their house as a conversation piece. Hunting, in it's true nature, for food is awesome. I can even see shooting that lion if it is a known threat to your family/community. But, hunting that animal down because you're rich and need something different for stimulus to get your rush because you've done everything else money can buy is BS. There is no sport in hiring someone to lead you straight to where the animal lives so you can kill it with a 7mm mag. I say if you want sport then do like the natives do and grab a spear and knife, go track his butt down, and hope you see him first. Ok, I'm off the

[rajharley]

Originally Posted by gonestrokn

Those are some plum stupid hunters! Not only are they lucky that lion didn't rip them apart, but how did they not shoot each other in a cross fire? Guns a blazin in the panic of the moment, somebody coulda been killed beside the lion. I agree with rajharley, whole thing coulda been avoided, those morons give hunting a bad name.

Yep I noticed that cross fire thing. In the Marines we call it geometry of fires. Well if you slow down the video you can see more than one shot being fired near or in the direction of the other hunters. Yep, definitely an unsafe crowd to be around. I only hunt with people I know really well. Most of the time I have shot with them on the range while practicing or sighting in a scope. That's when you can see how a person handles their weapons and if they have awareness of what the heck they are doing with it. It would be a shame to dodge a bunch of bullets in Iraq just to go hunting and get smoke shecked by a fellow hunter.

ohh and owtcast...I agree with you 100%. Hunting an animal that you do not intend on eating is BS. However if I see a rattlesnake in my yard then he is getting smoked. Sorry I just hate the snakes.

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[kingchip]

And now for the rest of the story. The guy on the right is a guide that was hired by the gov't. to kill this lion that was killing villagers. He happened to be guiding the shooter on the left at the time, the hunter bought the opportunity to kill the maneater(literally). The professional hunter didn't like the idea, but stood to lose a moneyed client. The hunters mistake was blowing a 50 yd. broadside shot. All except him are professional hunters that confront those situations every day.

[rajharley]

Originally Posted by kingchip

The hunters mistake was blowing a 50 yd. broadside shot. All except him are professional hunters that confront those situations every day.

You can say that again. He blew that shot. Prolly nervous. I am no professional hunter but those guys really f-ed up IMO. They obviously did not brief this guy on certain things that can happen and had no plan in place. And they got waaaaay too close IMO. Especially if they knew that this lion was killing people in the area. I would have had someone take that shot with a barret .50 cal from about 1000 yards out. done deal. no one attacked.

[gonestrokn]

Originally Posted by kingchip

The professional hunter didn't like the idea, but stood to lose a moneyed client. The hunters mistake was blowing a 50 yd. broadside shot. All except him are professional hunters that confront those situations every day.

Even so, being professional hunters and all they darn near shot their "moneyed client". I sure wouldn't be hunting with any of the likes of them. A professional hunter backing up a client on a hunt like that should have been able to drop that cat in its tracks and the whole thing would never have gotten so far.

[willypscustoms]

that video sucks man that lion should have eaten them. its prolly in south Africa you can hunt anything there. i have a friend from their and he says that their are very very wealthy people who pay like 150k-300k to go out on african hunts and kill like elephants/lions/zebra pretty much every animal that lives their endangered or not.

[kingchip]

The hunter is an acquaintence of mine. We scuba dived together out of Port Aransas. He lives in Corpus. Pure kamikazi(sp) adrenaline junkee. He conned the guide into letting him take it. Tried with a bow first. Can you say STUPID?
But as for the unnecessary kill factor, it wasn't. All government sanctioned and on preserve land. See the game fence?

Then there is the self preservation shooting. You don't have to outrun the lion, just the guide or one gun bearer.

[Blue01F250]

Hrmm... wonder why that lion was killing people?? Geesh - no matter what that lion shouldn't have been killed... maybe caught and released somewhere else - but not killed... just goes to show you the way governments who don't value life just ignore it and "sanction" a hunting party...

I was happy to see that lion attack...those guys didn't get nearly what they deserved...