The Bastardization Of The Term Dagga Boy

[grand veneur]

You state only single bulls can be dagga boys which quite frankly is uninforned cluelessness....rather simple.....

Using your login only single buffalo tracks are worthy of following?

Wrote I that somewhere ?

 

[Rafiki]

What about this guy? would this be considered an authentic and truly dagga-boy?

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Look at that face, He seems to be thinking "oh God that f**k'n bird is back"

 

[IvW]

In my opinion not in the past. An old buffalo was not a Dagga-boy if it walk with a group of other buffaloes or a herd.

 

[VINOYASADO]

Look at that face, He seems to be thinking "oh God that f**k'n bird is back"

Not sure if the bird is included in the trophy fee!!

 

[WyoBull]

What about this guy? would this be considered an authentic and truly dagga-boy?

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Could not possibly be a Dagha Boy, he has way too much hair! LOL Awesome Bull!

 

[grand veneur]

I wrote:

In my opinion not in the past. An old buffalo was not a Dagga-boy if it walk with a group of other buffaloes or a herd.

Definition in some articles:

Dagga boys’ is a term used to describe old and usually solitary buffalo bulls who have been forced out of the herd by young virile bulls, or have fallen behind the herd due to their need for softer vegetation.

My answer based on what was written above:

According to this definition, anyone who wants to shoot a Dagga-boy would only have to follow the tracks of solitary buffaloes, but the discussion was mainly about a definition and not about hunting. It is certain that if you stick to the above definition, few hunters will shoot a Dagga-boy, which could certainly harm the business and the advertising for it. For this reason, continues to denote Dagga-boy what looks more or less from far or near like something like this.

 

[IvW]

I wrote:


Definition in some articles:

Dagga boys’ is a term used to describe old and usually solitary buffalo bulls who have been forced out of the herd by young virile bulls, or have fallen behind the herd due to their need for softer vegetation.

My answer is based on what was written above:

According to this definition, anyone who wants to shoot a Dagga-boy would only have to follow the tracks of solitary buffaloes, but the discussion was mainly about a definition and not about hunting. It is certain that if you stick to the above definition, few hunters will shoot a Dagga-boy, which could certainly harm the business and the advertising for it. For this reason, continues to denote Dagga-boy what looks more or less from far or near like something like this.

Now you need to quote definitions from books???? Who wrote this articles? Professional people in the buffalo hunting industry??
Please man....wake up to reality.....

 

[KMG Hunting Safaris]

What about this guy? would this be considered an authentic and truly dagga-boy?

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Depends if he's alone or not...
(Tongue in cheek)

 

[grand veneur]

Now you need to quote definitions from books???? Who wrote this articles? Professional people in the buffalo hunting industry??
Please man....wake up to reality.....

This discussion and the dispute that is slowly emerging are ridiculous. I don't know what you are trying to demonstrate. Strange conduct for a PH, if you really are one.

 

[Puddle]

I just sidestep the whole labeling thing by answering the PH with "Old. Really old. The older, the better."

Easy button.

 

[375Fox]

Now you need to quote definitions from books???? Who wrote this articles? Professional people in the buffalo hunting industry??
Please man....wake up to reality.....

I’ve really got to laugh at this one coming from the PH persona. I think you have a buffalo hunting article to finish . . . The one you started to remind everyone you are a PH . . .

 

[Hunt anything]

My first buffalo was in the Zambezi delta of Mozambique. We had stalked into a herd of about 200, we studied them for maybe an hour and found no mature bulls except for a couples of helmet heads. This being my first buff I wanted a more typical configuration. My PH said if we had time at the end of my safari we may go back and try to find the same herd and hunt one of the helmet heads on the community quota.
When we were about to walk away a tracker looked towards a huge papyrus swamp and saw a single bull coming out towards the herd. He was around 2,000 yards away. As the bull closed with the herd my PH said he was a good mature hard bossed bull but no mention of him being a dahga boy. He ended up being my very first African trophy and will always be cherished.
Later in the hunt we were still hunting nyala and came across a small herd of bulls, we watched them for a while and my PH declared a couple of dahga boys were in there. You could definitely tell a difference between the bulls when looking at this small bunch of bulls. No hair, huge necks and dew laps, gray faces and smooth bosses.
If I ever go hunt another buffalo I wouldn’t hesitate to shoot one of those old helmet heads. Although if he was standing next to a 40+” old worn down bull I would shoot the 40+”er. I’ve always wanted one
Just my somewhat rambling 2 cents.