How many client hunters have been charged, and how many have been hurt or wounded while on Safari?

[towserthemouser]

I think that's right. Most exciting thing I ever did! After tge last shot the PH said "Oh this is just bloody great!" I asked him what he meant. He said, "Now you'll have to go back to the states and tell your mates how you had to save your professionals ass! (Pronounced " oss"). I asked if that's what I did. He smiled and said, "He was pretty broken up, I might have been able to stay away from him long enough to get my rifle working. But I'm awfully glad I didn't have to. I just love you Yanks that can shoot!

I'd say you can legitimately claim some credit for helping to save his oss.

 

[steve white]

I was charged in thick cover in Zimbabwe on my first buff hunt. The buffalo had retreated to it after I put one in the boiler room, then became a spectator and forgot to keep shooting. The thing was, it's friend got upset and charged with him. We had forgotten his buddy because it had entered the bush well ahead of the shot. The PH could only see their legs as they ran, it was that thick. They turned of their own accord and did not press all the way through with the charge. It is a claustrophobic feeling to hear them cracking brush and not be able to see them.

 

[Ruraldoc]

I experienced a charge by an unwounded cape buffalo bull. It’s in the hunt report that I posted.

 

[Scott CWO]

Charged by a client’s gut shot 6x7 bull elk at close range. Luckily I got a quick shot into it just a few yards away and then I jumped to the side. It fell right where I had been standing. I also was charged by a client’s wounded brown bear on the Alaskan Peninsula last May and put it down at about 15 yards. Nothing in Africa so far.

 

[TTundra]

Driving back to camp at the conclusion of the hunt in the Save in Zim we passed a watering hole. An Elephant herd had been there and took to the trees as soon as we came into sight. While passing, a large Cow with what may have been a dependent calf came back out trumpeting. We were more than 40 yards driving passed and she pursued us.

We took off faster down the road and she followed. She turned back into the trees and we slowed down to watch at a distance. She then came back out to the road extremely close to us and we took off again and she kept pursuing. She played this cat and mouse game for hundreds of yards. The trackers and game scout in the back were visible nervous.

Thankfully we were in the truck, but had been in a blind at that watering hole the day before.

The sound that cow made while charging us lives on in my head. Like nothing I had heard before around other elephants or on any television program featuring them before. A both eerie and incredible experience.

 

[C.W. Richter]

Most of our accounts have been charged quite a bit!! Make that first shot count and those are the only charges you will experience sans cow elephants with calves immature bulls and hippos on or close to land.

 

[Andrew62]

In 1989, hunting the Alaskan peninsula, my guide and I crossed paths with a female brown bear and a cub. At 17 yards she stood up to get a look at us, I said to my guide, ‘Will she charge us?’, his reply, ‘no, she’ll f*** off!’ Here I was, 17 yards from an angry brown bear, my guide doesn’t have a round in his chamber and his scope was covered up, she drops and comes straight at us. It was at that exact moment I knew without a doubt there is a God, as I raised my rifle and shot her in the mouth causing her to roll down the steep embankment and drown in the stream. There’s not a snowballs chance I could ever make that shot on my own. Sincerely, God saved my life that day.