He might have balls of steel and resolve, but ego leads to these situations. I said it earlier in this thread but I’d rather choose a PH that uses his knowledge to avoid a charge situation than create it. There are a number of zim PHs with great charges on camera. Ego doesn’t appear a factor.
Yea, I wouldn’t hunt with him…
Balls of steel or brains of sawdust?
Every hot rodder knows double humps were the fastest back in the day.........
And I’m assuming you are the brains of sawdust? Seeing as your experience with dangerous game is nothing but dust others have kicked up in the field…
I have shot a couple of Cape buffalo. Never provoked them to charge, though. Over the last sixty years I've endured many close calls in the field and may yet live to endure a few more. But none were ever engineered to be close calls. That's the stuff of sawdust.
I don’t think you have even come close to “close calls”!
You know nothing about me but you know everything. Pffft!
Petzal is definitely a social hunter. Seems every year he was writing on their website (before it died) about card playing forays in his annual Maine deer hunting camp. I tried the camp scene ... and hated it. Always someone who declares himself king. Or the cook who can burn water. I once stayed on the track of a bleeding moose overnight (shot, presumably, by persons unknown). No worries. It was not terribly cold and I was prepared. But not possible if someone was waiting back at the tent. Petzal would have a panic attack spending the night in a wall tent alone fifty miles from anything. He wouldn't make it to midnight. I have read enough of his stuff to know he doesn't have the right stuff for that kind of hunting. I don't have to listen to anyone snore or swear or fart. I can go where I want, when I want, for as long as I want. In town, on the road, or at work I have to follow the rules. Out there, there are no rules. You should try it. Can be a bit eery the first night, but after that it's fine. Just keep reminding yourself of the regimented pandamonium you have to return to at the end of the hunt. My wife was always waiting at home but she was a former wilderness canoe ranger so she understood the lure of being wild, truly wild. I'm sure Petzal thinks rock climbers are all nuts. I used to think so too till I got to know some when working Yosemite. They have the right skills and equipment to enjoy something unique and, to them, precious. Not for me but that's okay. When hunting alone I have the right skills and equipment to keep myself out of trouble or get out of trouble if it finds me.I remember one article in Field and Stream by Dave Petzal. Basically he said, hunters who get lost and never return, are mostly hunters who hunt solo. This is bad habit.
But nevertheless, a CV worth noting.
There's a huge difference between encountering a close call and in provoking a close call.
@buffybr - I think I’m following your point - One is a random Unexpected dangerous encounter and the other is deliberately provoked “into” a Dangerous situation. However - aside from what “started” the Dangerous encounter, don’t you think the End Result is almost identical? IE: a wounded animal, likely charging or attacking and capable of killing/injuring people Unless shot & killed at very close range and while it is charging or attacking…..possibly with people in or near the Line-of-Fire.
I have been charged by a lion, rhino and elephant…the speed when they come will shock you even when you are ready meaning you have imagined it in your mind and of course you did not want it but it comes none the less
