How bad is a Buff

[MacD37]

I realize this is a very old thread, and I had seen the video some time ago! It is an amazeing piece of film for sure, and does bring home the tenacity on the African Cape Buffalo! However the cape buffalo is dangerous only when close, and more so if you have punched a hole in him that did not do the trick.

There is no doubt the cape buffalo will seek revenge if you sting him, and don't put him down, especially if he is close, and sees you. When this happens, to quote PHC " when a cape buffalo puts together a consintrated charge, your options have been wounderfully simplified! You kill him, or he will kill you!"

Films like the Mark Sullivan's give the idea that every buffalo you see is looking to stick a horn up your butt, which is certainly not the case. Many PHs who have hunted cape buffalo for five times as long as Sullivan, and killed, and seen killed litterly thousands of cape buffalo, and never experienced even one charge! Does this tell you something about the charges on Mark's films? Anyone can provoke a charge if that is what you want, but I respect the animal too much to let him suffer longer than necessary for the sake of a film. IMO, hunting ethics dictate that the hunter kill his game as quickly, and with as little destress to the animal as he can. I don't see that ethic, in those films.

The sceens in the film that started this thread, however, is nature, not showmanship at the expence of either of the animals involved's expence, and diminstrates the true nature of the cape buffalo's willingness to take on an enemy when confronted with true justification, not as pawns used to inflate someone's ego, and for some expencive film.