My true outdoor stories out of Africa....

[Observe]

[unseenone]

That Lion had a bad day, a real bad day..

[Tex]

I'm not thanking that post with the baboons. Those things freak me the *%#@ out.



Tex

[unseenone]

I was not able to get closer than 250-300 yards or so, I saw a pack of them in one location. And then I saw a couple running around near the beach, but the picture didn't turn out.

I watched some on the live game camera. It was quite hilarious, a couple climbed the tree and were looking into the lens. I didn't get that shot either..

[Observe]

Baboon....

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[Observe]

Look for my right hand with the spear and the silhouette of my head.....

[Observe]

The hunter’s horn sounds early for some, I thought, later for others. For some unfortunates, prisoned by city sidewalks and sentenced to a cement jungle more horrifying than anything to be found in Tanganyika, the horn of the hunter never winds at all. But deep in the guts of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter’s horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of their fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club, and then with spear, and then with bow, and then with gun, and finally with formulae. How meek the man is of no importance; somewhere in the pigeon chest of the clerk is still the vestigial remnant of the hunter’s heart; somewhere in his nostrils the half-forgotten smell of blood. There is no man with such impoverishment of imagination that at some time -- he has not wondered how he would handle himself if a lion broke loose from a zoo and he were forced to face him without the protection of bars or handy, climbable trees.-- Ruark.

[Observe]

We are NOT the apex predator only because of our birth or race...
sometimes someone else with an 'attitude' can do you great bodily harm!
Be careful about your perception of yourself and others --
Nature is full of life lessons,if we just want to observe and learn....

[Observe]

[Observe]

Here is my custom build orynx horn primitive bow and buffalo leather kit that I am going to use in this years hunt..

[Observe]

Taking my Oryx-horn primitive bow out for its first hunt for bushpigs out of a nicely camouflaged natural ground blind under some huge trees...

[kickstand]

Good to see you around . Was starting to wonder if one of those nasty monkeys got ya.

[W.Lynn]

No joke, plenty of dangers after a man who goes into the wilds.

[Observe]

SIZE=4]A room with a view...lol
Inside the natural ground blind waiting with my 'primitive' weapons for nightfall and some moon and hopefully the bushpigs to the left.[/SIZE]
As I expect the bushpigs to be quit near,the spear is for back-up if things go south in the dark.
[For what it's worth....]

[Observe]

The bush-pigs were so close that I could hear them and smell them in front of me !!
I could even dimly saw movement not very far from me , but its definitely NOT easy hunting with a primitive oryx-horn bow in the near darkness...
These trail-cam pictures are much more clear than the real cloudy moonlight alone.
With a shotgun or even handgun I could probably got one, but NOO , I mule-headed insisted to hunt them the primitive way with a bow...
Eish, next year.!!!