African Werewolf

[mackem 27,109]

3 minutes ago, bell said:

Yes !...I read a book of an English chap who’s life work was to hunt elephant....his staple diet was whisky and rubbed cooking oil into his skin to protect him from the African sun .....brilliant snippet of a time now passed but what a life he lived !

I would pass on the whisky, but the rest sounds fascinating, was it Karamojo Bell? 

[bell 3,606]

5 minutes ago, mackem said:

I would pass on the whisky, but the rest sounds fascinating, was it Karamojo Bell? 

No, not Bell...will dig it out and let you know....great read. 

[mackem 27,109]

1 minute ago, bell said:

No, not Bell...will dig it out and let you know....great read. 

Please do, I used to read books like that at a sitting, a different era. 

[bell 3,606]

Just now, mackem said:

Please do, I used to read books like that at a sitting, a different era. 

James H Sutherland 

[mackem 27,109]

2 minutes ago, bell said:

James H Sutherland 

I read his elephant hunting book years ago, got it in storage I think

[bell 3,606]

1 minute ago, mackem said:

I read his elephant hunting book years ago, got it in storage I think

An age when chaps were chaps !

[mackem 27,109]

3 minutes ago, bell said:

An age when chaps were chaps !

Venturing into the white man's grave to earn a precarious living hunting tusks, I read one account of a bloke seeing elephants from a train, pulled the emergency cord to hop off and shoot a couple, I am sure he left a couple of natives there to cut out the tusks and arranged for them to be collected on the return journey. 

[bell 3,606]

6 minutes ago, mackem said:

Venturing into the white man's grave to earn a precarious living hunting tusks, I read one account of a bloke seeing elephants from a train, pulled the emergency cord to hop off and shoot a couple, I am sure he left a couple of natives there to cut out the tusks and arranged for them to be collected on the return journey. 

Excellent work !.....what else was he supposed to do given the opportunity!!!

[Elchapo 3,167]

Never realy liked the idea of canned hunting but I wouldn’t judge a man for doing it , after all teach to there own and each person should be able to choose what he does , however I wouldn’t do it , as it’s just not something  I’d be interested in, however I’m i was in Africa and there was a man eating hyena or lion and I was offered to hunt it , ( not in a pen ) then I would in a heart beat , hunting something that’s hunting you …..dout your going get that feeling lamping a rabbit 

 

 

[king 11,984]

There's some size on that hyena..its good to see a size comparison against a man..when you see male lions tackling them they look a lot smaller than the lion. The lions must look huge against man..

And to think the maasai community use to encourage solo lion hunting..to become a maasai warrior..I wouldn't fancy tackling a lion with a spear myself lol..

 

[mackem 27,109]

 

[mushroom 13,196]

5 hours ago, Wolfdog91 said:

I'm just curious, seriously, how many of you have went after animal that could kill you?

I have, wild boar. 

[WILF 47,360]

27 minutes ago, mushroom said:

I have, wild boar. 

What about a wherewolf ? Lol  

[Tyla 3,179]

1 hour ago, king said:

There's some size on that hyena..its good to see a size comparison against a man..when you see male lions tackling them they look a lot smaller than the lion. The lions must look huge against man..

And to think the maasai community use to encourage solo lion hunting..to become a maasai warrior..I wouldn't fancy tackling a lion with a spear myself lol..

 

Met a masaii out in Tanzania who had been mauled by a lioness while he tried to protect his cattle. She bit his foot off but he stabbed her to death with his simi while she did it. He then crawled to the road and got a bus to hospital. He was still herding cattle when i met him. He was the only masaii i met wearing trainers so he could hide his prosthetic foot. Tough people

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

9 minutes ago, Tyla said:

He was the only masaii i met wearing trainers

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