The film you've just seen, has been around for some time, and is well known to African hunters!
It was a Republic of South Africa, lion hunt, and by law in RSA all land that contains dangerous game has to be behind electrified fencing, as this was! The lion was against the electric fence, that looks almost like fish net,with very thin poles, when the first shot was fired, and he and couldn't get farther away from the shooters. The only shot that was simply POOR SHOOTING was the first one off the sticks, by the client hunter. The shots at the chargeing lion were about as good as it gets with a lion in full charge!
An African lion is about the hardest thing to stop on this planet, in a charge. He can cover 50 yds in 3.5 seconds,from a standing start. Top that off by the fact that, once he cahrges, the only shot that will nail him for good is a CNS (cernteral Nerveous System) shot, and that is not likely with a bright orange ball of fire coming at you like a fast ball from Nolin Ryan!
The next thing to take into consideration is, the average man standing with rifle at shoulder hight is starting a bullet from 2 feet above the hight of the lion, and the angle is changeing all the time for the lead that must be taken to hit the lion. The bad thing is you have to aim at the ground in front of the lion, to hit him if he is charging you. This is hard to do when looking at a lion at the same time, and trying not to crap your pants! None of the shots at the charge were lead properly, as all shots from these guys were all late, hitting behind the lion! The only shots that hit this lion was the first one, and the last two from the PH, when the lion was running away, and the last one from the client, after he was down. All others missed. Someone said there was a double rifle in the hands of the PH, and that is not the case, these guys were all armed with bolt rifles. If you will view thw film again you will see there were only three shots fired while the lion was on his way in, one from each of three people! For all parctical purposes, these guys may as well have been shooting single shot during the charge, because they only got one shot each! Lions are fast, and bolt actions are slow! 3.5 seconds doesn't give you time to do a lot of shooting.
Eventhough these RSA lion hunts are behind fence, the fence is not between the shooter and the lion, and a zoo lion will kill you just as dead as a wild lion, and most of these places in RSA are, in the thousands of acres, some as many as 1,000,000 acres! That's a pretty big CAN! Still the lions killed in RSA cannot be placed in the record books, because of the proliferation of canned lion hunts there!
