Thank you
@One Day... , you are quite right that I would sometimes gloss over a multi page thread if it is quite old, however in this case I had not done so and read through everything. Indeed
@Red Leg 's response was a very complete one.
My question and reason for opening this topic again was two fold. First to talk about a specific case in the roles of PH/Client, namely the immediate back-up shot on game by the PH. Not necessarily the follow-up in brush and high grass. And secondly to hear more opinions, views and ideas expressed on this sensitive topic.
It is my belief that on complicated and touchy subjects it is better to hear from many different people than from only a few.
From my short time on AH, I have come to greatly appreciate the replies, messages and ideas expressed by both yourself
@One Day... and
@Red Leg . So I definitely did not want to insult either of you by re-opening this topic that is perhaps 'case closed' for you. This was not my intention. Only to have more discussion on a specific type of case, as I described above and what I have seen happening on quite a few videos online.
My experience hunting in Africa is zip, zero, nothing. I still need to leave for my first Safari, planned in June. My mayor experience in hunting is six hunting trips in the past 7 years in Schotland, on red and fallow deer. In all the game I have taken I have always put matters at rest with just one trigger pull, except for the last time I went, where I had made on the last stalk of the week a less than perfect shot, whereby the animal just stayed put on its legs, unmoving, after which the stalker (PH) took the rifle from me and gave a shot himself. The feeling after this happening was not fun. I was seriously shook for a few days. I am glad however that I experienced once, what happens on a bad shot, as I was perhaps becoming a bit 'cocky'. But the fact that the stalker did the follow up instead of me... not very appreciated.
Anyway, unless someone else wants to chime in, we can put the topic at rest.
V.