For African Hunters- please vote!

[BigBuckMaster]

how many species have you taken in Africa, and have you taken the Big Five (or Big Seven- add the hippo and croc)

i have taken the big five, Greater and Lesser Kudu, Roan, Waterbuck, Bongo, Bushbuck, Reedbuck, Eland, Gemsbok, Giant Eland, Warthog, Tomsons Gazelle, Impala, Sitatunga, Grants Gazelle, Sable, Cheetah, Nyala, Hartbeest, 5 species of Duiker, 4 species of Dik-Dik, Wild cat, Carical, Cerval, Golden Cat, Burchell's Zebra, Hartman's Zebra, Addax, Steenbok, Giraffe, 2 species of Jackel, Scimitar horned Oryx, Blue Wildebeest, Civit, Fringe Eared Oryx, Cookson's Wildebeest, Klispringer, and about five more i cant remember off the top of my head

Edit-
I am gonna turn 70 on the 6th (and hoping to retire soon; my wife just retired two yrs ago. she was a doc), so i was able to hunt Africa before some species were wiped out. (you may be wondering how i have a 9 yr old son... i adopted him from russia 8 yrs ago. also, to clear up my post about having a .300 Win Mag for 11 yrs and changing the barrel only once, i have each one re-bored a few times)

i killed the Lesser Kudu in Tanzania years ago,
the Addax and Scimitar Horned Oryx on a game ranch in Texas right when introducing animals in America came 'into fashion',
Killed the Bongo in Liberia,
killed the Hartmans Zebra in Namibia.

i know you guy wont be satisfied with this but i dont care.

H&Hhunter- not all of those pics were my trophies, hence difference of legs and arms

if i am typing a offical document, i make sure to use my dictionary and/or spellcheck. here at THR i am just speeding through, getting info out, and asking questions.

floppy d- i have no experience with soft air guns. i wanted my screen name here on THR to be DeerSlayer, but it was taken. whoever is posting that crap on a soft air guns has worst spelling than a 8th grader and has no clue about REAL guns.

my father was a medic in the navy and my mother was just a good ole Cajun gal. i have one brother who was a construction foreman.

moosehunt- there are 17 species of Duiker. the five species of Duiker i took were the Blue, Bush, peater's, Red-flanked, and Zebra.

odd job- love you story man. kinda wish my birth story was that cool, but eh...

if you dont believe me, thats fine with me.

 

[bang_bang]

Wish I could afford a trip over there....

Or even one of those fancy double rifle jobs, and have enough money left over for a box of shells.

 

[janobles14]

ill carry your bags next trip!

 

[moosehunt]

First off, I think you are a poppy-cock fraud! In what country did you take a lesser Kudu? Unless you are an ancient guy, i.e. over 90, you never hunted, let alone shot an Addax or Scimitar Horned Oryx in Africa. You include "Bushbuck", yet aren't knowledgeable enough to mention which of the many species, though you claim 5 species of Duiker (which ones?). Hartebeest? Which spicie? Sitatunga? I suppose that must be the very difficult forest sititunga, since you claim Bongo, but none of the typical Zambian game associated with the more common (though VERY difficult) swamp Sitatunga. Oh, your poll? I have about 20. I'd bet you've never been close to Africa!

 

[H&Hhunter]

BBM,

i have taken the big five, Greater and Lesser Kudu, Roan, Waterbuck, Bongo, Bushbuck, Reedbuck, Eland, Gemsbok, Giant Eland, Warthog, Tomsons Gazelle, Impala, Sitatunga, Grants Gazelle, Sable, Cheetah, Nyala, Hartbeest, 5 species of Duiker, 4 species of Dik-Dik, Wild cat, Carical, Cerval, Golden Cat, Burchell's Zebra, Hartman's Zebra, Addax, Steenbok, Giraffe, 2 species of Jackel, Scimitar horned Oryx, Blue Wildebeest, Civit, Fringe Eared Oryx, Cookson's Wildebeest, Klispringer, and about five more i cant remember off the top of my head

Where did you shoot Addax and Scimitar Horned Oryx? When did you shoot them? Where did you shoot your bongo? Where did you shoot a Hartmans Zebra?

I've hunted Africa 6 times I've taken buffalo x4 elephant x1 and numerous plains game species. I agree with moosehunter and also find your claims to be beyond recognizable truth.

Please post pictures of your rifles, please describe the make and model of each because I am not buying that one either, in pictures you sent me there are at least 5 if not 6 different rifles including at least three different doubles. All of your pictures look to have been scanned out of magazines or hunting brochures and you have the faces blacked out claiming fear of retribution from anti hunters however the legs and arms don't match either.

I've been polite to you because I am guessing that you are a child simply trying to impress us with your stories. But it is time for you to either produce some proof or leave this site.

PS

If you are a lawyer I am a space shuttle commander named Sally.....lawyers can write, lawyers can spell, and lawyers know about basic grammar. You don't.

You have proclaimed to have done millions of dollars worth of hunting yet you don't have one single picture of yourself with a trophy animal. I am not buying it!

Good day sir.....

PSS

I have an excuse for my spelling. I am just a dumb old big game hunting airline captain who at the moment(02:08) in morning is using a computer with no spell checker installed.

 

[oregonhunter]

I too am calling BS and not just on this topic, but on everything bigbuckmaster has said. He can't spell but can afford many trips to Africa and H&H rifles.

You must have pictures of some of these hunts as well as some pics of your rifles????

 

[Floppy_D]

I'm sticking around 'cause I wanna see some pics. Not because I am knowledgeable enough to contest your claims, but because I wanna see some pics of these critters.

 

[Shawnee]

It's a wee bit amusing to know BBM has, for 114 posts, thought the THR people were taking him seriously.

Tsk. Tsk.

 

[RyanM]

He can't spell but can afford many trips to Africa and H&H rifles.

A lot of rich business owners have atrocious spelling and grammar. There's a reason they hire secretaries. Okay, several reasons.

Remember, in administrative fields, it all comes down to who you know, not what you know. A retarded, alcoholic chimpanzee could get a master's degree in a business field without breaking a sweat. Judging from my college days, many have! Can you tell I'm an engineering major?

But yeah, I took as many business type classes as I could for my gen ed requirements. Really makes things easier, if your college's requirements let you. Go to class 1 day out of the week (if that!), don't study for tests, just BS for 3 pages for essays... did wonders for my GPA.

 

[CSA 357]

My money is on this being b s! :d

 

[gvnwst]

This would cost a fortune! BS, IMO

 

[H&Hhunter]

A lot of rich business owners have atrocious spelling and grammar. There's a reason they hire secretaries. Okay, several reasons.

Remember, in administrative fields, it all comes down to who you know, not what you know. A retarded, alcoholic chimpanzee could get a master's degree in a business field without breaking a sweat. Judging from my college days, many have! Can you tell I'm an engineering major?

Most lawyers are smart enough to know how to use a spell checker. I still want to know how Mr BBM hunted his addax and scimitar horned Oryx in Africa in modern times.

 

[MDMadrid]

This is interesting...he posted a pic in another thread of him killing a boar...but the pic cut off his head so we can't see his face...makes one wonder...

 

[Johnnypi45]

Jeeeeeze....didn't you guys read his signature line????.......DON'T DOUBT HIM.......cough cough.....

Petey

 

[RyanM]

Most lawyers are smart enough to know how to use a spell checker. I still want to know how Mr BBM hunted his addax and scimitar horned Oryx in Africa in modern times.

Wait, has he claimed to be a lawyer?

Then yeah, someone who made it through law school should be able to spell better than that.

 

[LionHunter]

Your list of trophies leads to serious doubt about your claim(s). Your profile is also questionable. As noted by other replies, you must provide additional information if you wish to be taken at your word. This is the internet and anyone can claim anything without substantiated proof. How many of your trophies have you entered in the record book? Which book? Who measured them? What African hunting organizations do you belong to? Which countries have you hunted, for how many days and how many times each? What years? What handgun did you use to take the Big 5? Got pics?

I am an official certified measurer for two different African record books. I have entered approximately 50 African animals in the record book. I have taken the African Big 5 and Hippo and Croc. I have records with rifle and handgun, including what were at the time three #1 world records taken with a handgun along with other Top 10 records. My Lion is either the largest or second largest ever taken in Zambia, depending on whose documentation you believe.

Taking my animals was physically demanding and frequently dangerous and was done under less than ideal conditions with 120 degree temperatures, snakes, Tetse flys, poachers, malaria and too many others to name. People like you really irritate the hell out of me.

 

[bang_bang]

Well, I want to see some man-eating game with a happy hunter beside them. LionHunter, care to share some pics with us.

I'm not being a smart-ass, I would really love to see your pics of some game you've taken.

 

[Wheeler44]

Well now, you fellers wouldn't be so quick to judge if'n ya seen the squirrell he bagged down in LA (that's Louisiana fer you foreigners)

Look here; http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=5085259#post5085259

Now tell me how ya really feel.

Wheeler444 (we can all exaggerate a little)

 

[JohnKSa]

BBM,

How many of those animals did you shoot with your "Browning Hi-Power 10mm"?

 

[Floppy_D]

Hmm... for fun,

"a good long range tack driver. i would have bought a M700 in .300 Win Mag, but... oh, wait, i did. my bad."

Oh snap!!!

"my brother just got one, and when i shot it, i nearly blowed off my sholder. i have shot the .470 before (and the .375 H&H, .416 rigby, and the .500 NE), and it didnt kick that hard. i asked him and he said the recoil pad that came with it dont do nothing. my .470 had one on it already, it it works very good, so i have zip experance on buying a recoil pad for a big bore rifle. any suggestions."

"Zip experance" on recoil pads for big bores? Blowed shoulder? 500NE didn't kick that hard?

naw, i love africa. but i did shoot a nutria with a .375 H&H. exit wound was about the size of a dinner plate.

Nutria get big enough for dinner plate exit wounds?

Dear BigBuckHunter,
With my peers at THR as my witness, if you can provide conclusive evidence that you have successfully hunted the game that you claim you have, and proof of your passing the bar exam, I will mail you a check for $100.00 USD.

Patiently awaiting your PM,
Pat

 

[Floppy_D]

So another BigBuckMaster from LA writes:
"my father is a marine, my 2 of big brothers r in the marines (and 1 in delta force), and my mom was in the air force. my grandfather and his 4 brothers joined the the servace, 2 in the marines, 1 (my grandfather)was a navy medic, and 1 was a airforce pilot. ALL of them said that M4's DO have folding stocks. i have shot a folding stock M16."

http://www.shortyusa.com/airsoft.html?http://www.shortyusa.com/cart/viewitem.html?II=1267&UID=1228284871-70.160.95.247&CA=&RID=

You writing reviews for airsoft guns while hunting in Africa? Busy guy! How's your brother in Delta Force doing? How's that spelling coming along?

 

[LionHunter]

OK, so this BBM character is some kind of internet retard who posts his fantasies on this and other boards, thereby gaining some kind of self actualization.

In reply to bang-bang, this mentally challenged keyboard ranger (BBM) is why I do not post pics. I don't want to see them photoshopped or disfigured or claimed by some idiot as their own. If you look in the SCI record books you will find pics of a number of my Top 10 animals.

 

[oregonhunter]

A score hunter from silicon valley, what a surprise.

 

[Brian Dale]

A score hunter from silicon valley, what a surprise.

I don't think that it's illegal, immoral or fattening; we've all got our own preferences.

 

[Odd Job]

Actually, all of you are ticking me off. You're really ignoring the true pro here, and that's me. I was born in Africa, OK?
When my mother was heavily pregnant with me, she used to live out near the mouth of the Storm river in Tzaneen, on the rocky coast of South Africa. My father had left Africa a long time back, as he had a Sangoma's curse on him for killing some rabid dogs that had come onto the property. He had to leave Africa because since the curse, any time he set foot on African soil, he broke out in hives and had tremors.

Anyway, my mother was pregnant and she was snorkelling for mussels in the Storm river mouth, when she got attacked. Now what makes this especially interesting is that she was simultaneously attacked by a Zambezi fresh water shark and a huge crocodile. These two actually worked as a team, trying to get my mother. Now there are some experts that say it was mistaken identity because my mother was pregnant after all and her shape was king of bulbous, but there are others (such as myself) who believe in the natural aura of some beings and that I the unborn baby was the actual target.

Well it was quite a fight, there was thrashing this way and that way, my mother had nothing but a small knife, but she kicked and gouged at the shark's eye and he decided he would rather not mess with her anymore.
Next thing that happened, the crocodile bit my mother's stomach and a tooth broke off in her womb and pierced my arm. This really infuriated my mother and she got that crocodile by the snout and pulled his lower jaw down also, and dislocated that. They say that a woman in distress has superhuman strength, and I believe that to be the case, the evidence is there. She had that crocodile mounted once it washed up on the shore.

Anyway, that crocodile bite and the stress of the encounter made my mother give birth to me right there on the bank of the Storm river. One of the locals found us there a short while later and got some friends to get both of us to hospital. Both of us almost died that day, my friends. That was rally close. But the funny thing about crocodile bite was that it never got infected. My mother healed up just fine, but they never could get that crocodile tooth out of my arm. You can still see it on the X-ray today.

By the time I got to the age of 10 I knew that my natural aura was quite strong. What I mean is that I had an affinity, or 'way' around certain animals. I could be sitting out on the porch in Amanzimtoti and an owl would swoop down in broad daylight and sit on my knee. Nobody believes me, but it is true. I could never touch the owl with my hand (he would fly away) but he would stare at me, sometimes it would be quite chilling.
Then another time I was out under the stars in the Drakensberg and I heard some rustling next to me, and I saw two rinkhals snakes rearing up trying to touch their noses on my arm (the same one that got bitten) They weren't trying to bite me, but when they saw me looking, they disappeared.

Then I went to sound engineering and people's music school. I was out of the picture until I was 21. I was mainly doing music gigs for the rap and hip hop community.

When I turned 21 a friend invited me hunting and that was when the real fun started!
I got a lucky shot with a .22 through a springbuck's eye and he was dead right there. Nobody ever saw that before and we all agreed it was a fluke. Then the next day the same thing happened with a warthog. It wasn't my warthog, my fiend shot it first with a .300 Win Mag and it deflected off the skull. The hog charged him and would surely have gored him to death because he dropped the Ruger No.1 while fumbling for bullets. It was just a reaction on my part, I lifted the .22 with one hand and fired off a shot that went in the warthogs eye into his brain. And he was dead right there.
That's when I got my nickname 'the Eye.' If you do some searching in the proper places you can see that I am well known in Africa.
I've taken just about every animal there is, all with a .22 (and I never needed anything bigger). Folks are amazed at this, but I know the real truth. It is that embedded crocodile tooth that gives me the skill.
An orthopaedic surgeon wanted to remove the tooth because he saw on X-ray it was quite a rare species of crocodile, but I said no.
The next day while I was trying to sneak up on an eland at a watering hole near Kimberly, I got ambushed by a leopard. I don't remember much, except for a blur of spots, claws and teeth and I got the wind knocked out of me. The thing must have been spying on me from up a tree for hours. Well I thought that was my last day under the great African sun, but the next thing I knew, not one but two massive crocodiles came out of the water, all grunting and hissing and they attacked the leopard and got him off me! One of them bit down on the leopard's paw and it had to make a run for it, limping as it went.
No crocodile has ever bothered me since then. I can walk right up to them, even touch them and they don't bat an eyelid. The only time I have to be careful is if there are baby crocs around. I then get grunted at and I know I can't touch.

But definitely what I am trying to tell you, is it is all about upbringing and experience. A guy like me who shouldn't be a great hunter, suddenly gets a lucky break from a crocodile tooth. I'm not saying I don't have to practice with the .22 or that the .22 is an ideal hunting round. I know it isn't for ordinary folks. But for me it works because of the natural aura I have.
So don't be too harsh to judge others, you never know their background and what they went through. Some of us in Africa have had hard times and have developed into special people under the great African winds.