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NUMBER TWO:
An experienced North American Outfitter Client lost his life while hunting PLAINS GAME in a non-game ranch setting in Africa! IMHO, it is still a very different class of hunting.... Bob Fontana Killed By Buffalo The Hunting Report has just learned that Canadian outfitter Bob Fontana has been killed by a Cape buffalo in Tanzania while on safari with Luke Samaras Safaris. The fatal accident occurred yesterday in Masailand. The PH who was in the field with Fontana at the time is Paddy Curtis. “I have spoken with everyone involved by radio,” Samaras told The Hunting Report this morning. “And what I understand happened is, they were hunting lesser kudu in a fairly thick area when a buffalo charged from the side. He just came from nowhere. I’m told Paddy Curtis turned and fired at the buffalo and hit it. By that time, however, it had reached Fontana and gored him. It was too late.” Samaras said he did not have any evidence that the buffalo had been wounded previously. “Certainly, neither Fontana nor Curtis had shot it, or shot at it,” Samaras said. Fontana was a partner with the Lancaster family in the operation of Nahanni Butte Outfitters. We confirmed that this morning with Stan Lancaster, who urged hunters booked with Nahanni Butte not to panic. “No one needs to worry about his hunt,” Lancaster said. “Everything will go smooth despite this tragedy.” Lancaster described Fontana as much more than a business associate. “He was a friend of 20 years,” Lancaster said. “I’m just glad he was doing what he loved when this happened.” We will have more about the accident and about Fontana in the August issue of The Hunting Report. In the meantime, our condolences to the family and friends of Bob Fontana. – Don Causey, Editor/Publisher In My Opine, A Much More Serious Proposition By Comparison, EKM |
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WOULDN'T THIS MAKE HEADLINES OVER HERE!....... I do believe someone would be calling out the Army, Marines, the Air Force and maybe even special forces! This kind of redefines "wildlife". ;) ---------------------------- Sierra Leone Villagers Flee Deadly Elephants Thu Jul 29,12:35 PM ET Add Science - Reuters to My Yahoo! FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - Rampaging elephants have killed eight villagers in eastern Sierra Leone and chased up to 600 others from their homes, officials in the West African country said Thursday. "A search party which went to the Gola forest discovered eight decomposing bodies that had been killed by elephants," said a senior government official in the former British colony. "The forest and villages around it were quiet during the war as villagers fled to safety, so many wild animals took control of the area," he said. Traditional hunters backed up by soldiers had been drafted in to control the marauding beasts, said Filie Faboi, government minister responsible for the eastern region of Kenema. A 1937 estimate put Sierra Leone's elephant population at 500-600, but that had dwindled to 200-300 in a 1973 survey. However elephant experts say there have been reports populations recovered during Sierre Leone's 10-year civil war, which ended in 2002, as the Revolutionary United Front rebels in the region discouraged gun ownership by civilians and there was little hunting. ---------------------------- EKM |
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---------------------------- Two Men Killed By Hippo The Namibian (Windhoek) August 2, 2004 (Posted to the web August 2, 2004 ) Staff Reporter, Windhoek TWO men were killed by a hippopotamus on Tuesday at Nachisangani village in the Caprivi, the Police reported on Thursday. According to the Katima Mulilo Police, the pair was apparently crossing the river in a canoe when they were attacked. The deceased have been identified as David Likando (24) and Donald Muyunda Muyanda (37). Their bodies have not yet been recovered. --------------------------- And so it goes, EKM |
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WOW!!! :O she has my prayers.
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NUMBER FIVE: (Cape Buffalo again)
---------------------------- Additional news about Howard Hunter, the HHK PH that was hurt. From Causey's Hunting Report: Yesterday, we told you about Canadian outfitter Bob Fontana being killed by a buffalo. Well, there has been another buffalo mishap. This one is in Zimbabwe, and it involves PH Howard Hunter of HHK Safaris. Seems Hunter and an unnamed client were following up on a wounded buffalo on the Lemco Concession this past Sunday when the animal burst out of thick brush in front of them. Hunter fired and hit the buffalo, we are told, but the animal was so close Hunter had to grab it by the horns with both hands in an attempt to keep it from goring him. As he wrestled with the animal, a bullet fired either by an HHK tracker or the client penetrated the buffalo and struck Hunter in the arm. We have all this directly from Graham Hingston of HHK, who said Hunter has already had surgery on his arm and been medi-vac-ed to Johannnesburg. His chances of a full recovery are "excellent," Hingston told us today. As for the buffalo, it fell dead on the scene after the shot that injured Hunter's arm. Hingston said the mishap occurred on the last day of the client's safari. The client has already left the area at this writing and is on his way back to the States, Hingston told The Hunting Report. Hingston declined to give us the client's name. More details as they become available. - Don Causey, Editor/Publisher. --------------------------- EKM |
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NUMBER 6:
From a local PH in Zimbabwae... --------------------------- Figures for this year so far in Zimbabwe: (people killed) Elephant 5 Buffalo 3 Croc 4 Hippo 16 Lion 1 Hyaena and snakes Nill reported Don Heath did quite an extensive studdy in conjunction with Zambia and Mozambique in 1991 ---------------------------- EKM |
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From Sports Afield, "Reports Afield" --- November 2004 p.15 ================= "MAN EATERS Lions Kill Thirty-Five People In Tanzania Lions killed and ate thirty-five people between August 2002 and April 2004 near Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania. According to a study by Dr. Rolf Baldus, director of the GTZ Wildlife Program in Tanzania, the lions typically attacked by forcing their way through the wall of a hut or jumping on and through its roof. The lions have killed even more people than did the infamous Tsavo man-eaters, which killed twenty-eight construction workers along the Uganda Railway in 1899-99. Tanzania has Africa's largest lion population and has a history of man-eaters." ================= I don't think we're in Kansas anymore Todo. Not in the foothills bike paths of Los Angeles either. Scratch North America for that matter! 32 victims in 20 months! Even verified by a Ph D so that makes it official. Could you imagine what would happen if wildlife killed 32 people outside of our capital, Washington D.C. --- I do believe we'd be sic'ing the Dep't of Homeland Defense on it. Communities would be frozen in fear, unable to function. Hmmm.... If it's like that just trying to get a night's sleep in one's own "home," then I wonder what it's like trying to get some shut eye at night after a day's hunt? Don't think I'd be feeling the same way about "wall tents" as what I do in Elk Camp where my prey has no choice but to flee, let alone come "visit" me while I sleep. Yet, apparently "just another day" in the bush of Tanzania.... "Ghost In The Darkness" anyone? [:@][:o][:o][:o] or, for those who "just can't believe it".... The "Buck Attack Video" at the front banner here--- http://www.pineridgearchery.com/movi...ttack_0001.jpg :D:D:D EKM |
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Here or there if you mess with the bull you can get the horn. No supprise. If one chooses to go to the home of those critters you play thier game. I would use the 416 Rem Mag. with the 30-06 for plains game again. Hope those folks recover or found what they were looking for. Good hunting.
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RE: Lions Of Tsavo Part II/Ghost In The Darkness? [Bad News X 7]
“here or there” are vague but very operative words. Perceived low odds feel okay "here" (at home), don't feel so non-chalant when over/up "there." Certainly the vast majority of those who “go out after DG” DO indeed come back, then again some don’t and then the poo-poo talk they gave their families about it being “no big deal” before they left is likely of little comfort to their families at burial or to even themselves at the point they met their demise.
IMHO, unless one is either oblivious or a fool, when one finds himself there and “walking amongst them” one has to know that one’s life is in his own hands, in the hands of the PH, or in the hands of simple good or bad luck” (Fontana) and at that point DG hunting (or even plains hunting in DG country) has to become a whole different ballgame. ================== Just for grins, an “unrelated” story: Talked to a Alaskan guide at the Sportmans Expo here in Denver. He has a 60 foot sleep aboard boat from which he does Coastal Brown Bear hunts. The client was okay when he left home, okay when he got to Sitka, okay when he got to the boat, okay when they spotted the brownie on the shore in the early morning light, okay when they got into the launch to go to down shore for the stalk, then…. “Practically the minute he set foot on shore in the shadows of the Pacific rain forest and Brownie country, he started acting excited and erratic, and then breathing heavy, then hyperventilating, then chest pain --- Radioed the helmsman to bring the 60 footer close in, got him into the launch, out to the boat, radioed a MediVac helicopter, they took him to the hospital --- first time angina --- two days observation --- some time for the guy to reflect! He got out of the hospital --- hired another helicopter to take him back out to the boat --- GOT AHOLD OF HIMSELF in a way he had never had to do in any other hunting experience --- went ashore again --- made the stalk --- got his bear --- went home. Had to come to grips with the reality versus his poo-poo self talk once he stepped amongst them though. [His words to the guide] FWIW, I respect that client A LOT --- I bet he came back in a different .... er.... ah, um.... a somewhat different hunter!;);) IMHO, in DG hunting: Fear is real possibilty. Death is real possibility. Both can and do happen in DG hunts not just from accidental BS like plane crashes, etc, but from the game being hunted (and sometimes from the game NOT being hunted) and more than people know, and more than guiding companies want people to know. ================= Data point #7 and counting…. 6 more under "Good News X 6".... Tally: 13 EKM |
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