yarettlopez
AH member
I have a lion safari in a few months and I was wondering how dangerous a dangerous hunt really is, are there any statistics or proportion of people injured or killed per year?
The wife? Frank decided to man up a bit late in the day, don't you think?Too paraphrase Ivan Carter - "We are the ones with the guns."
I think @Hank2211 pretty well sums it up. Unless the client makes a mistake and wounds an animal, a dangerous game hunt simply will carry lots of unrealized potential danger. Place that first shot poorly, and all that potential becomes real.
Even then, it is the PH who will carry most of the burden of that mistake. His job is to sort out such errors. I do not know when I last read of a client being killed or injured (I do not count that Macomber fellow - besides the wife did it), but seemingly every year we lose another PH - usually to buffalo or elephant.
That was indeed the problem. He actually chose to go by Francis.The wife? Frank decided to man up a bit late in the day, don't you think?
I must be missing out on some aspects of hunting if one looks at the comments above - "the wife did it " and "jealous husbands" . Might be some interesting stories to be heard .
As in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."Francis McComber
These hunts are still legal, so if you want to take this hunt, take it and don't worry with what others think. I took this very same hunt 10 years ago. It is pretty straight forward, you go out in the morning and start looking for tracks, when you find tracks, you follow the tracks until you find a lion. I shot my lion at 42 yards, 2 shots from my .375 H&H with 300 grain Barnes bullets. I had two PH's with me, you probably will too. So long as you make a good shot, you will have nothing to worry about. The only other thing I would say to you is this, KEEP YOUR SCOPE ON THE LOWEST POWER!!!!I think several are very right, and as clients if we do our part the hunt will go smoothly, I am very excited about my first trip to Africa and I am preparing the best I can.
I know that many do not agree with the lion hunt in SA but it is what I can pay at this time and if in the future my finances allow me I want a 100% wild lion, but with the increasingly strict laws I do not want lose the opportunity to hunt a lion.
Only if you miss while they are coming to you to be fed in RSA.