OLN- "Dangerous Game"

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Hunting in Africa is an addiction and you are really hooked if you hunt dangerous game. I was so pumped up with adrenalin while hunting Cape buffalo that it was a full 24 hours after my buffalo was down before I reacted to the tsetse fly bites. I know some of the bites were over 5 days old. On the drive from the buffalo area to the plains game area I could watch the welts just start to rise as I relaxed.

Zebra surprised me on how skittish they were and they would stop in the shadow of the brush and the stripes made it difficult picking up the vital triangle to place the shot. It is not like going out to a pasture and shooting a pony.

The other thing that surprised me was how well a elephant can hide 35 yards away from you. With all the brush getting into position to place the 1 shot kill is often down to 15 to 20 yards. If you don't do it right the first time the reaction time of an elephant or you have more than 1 elephant could make things real interesting.