JimboHunter1 If it wern,t for your post I too would have thought of the hunters as total idiots. You have shed a new light on the situation. I still hate guided hunts like that though. I guess we are just used to shooting what we hunt.

Shoot.....no wait.....Shoot.....no wait. I would have gotten wary from that point on. As far as the shots are concerned, I wouldn't be caught dead in the woods with someone like that and for them to be happy about it afterwards, not a chance.

I don't think we're in Kansas anymore folks....

A wee different "ball game" when the game can turn on you and the hunter becomes the hunted, eh? No surprise that folks that are accustomed to hunting game that has no choice but to either flee or die upon the hunters advance are likely to be uncomfortable with their lack of the "god-like" power over life and death that they are accustomed to when witnessing or participating in a Dangerous Game hunt.

The guide wasn't the problem, the client was. The guide knew the importance of a good first shot, thus the "no wait, no wait". The client never did deliver a "put down" shot. Watch the guide, at the last minute he drops to a knee (classic African technique, so he can shoot under the massive head) and nails the lion just as it is about to make "lunch" out of the client --- that is why the lion misses the flat footed client and then crumples and slides on the ground due to his momentum and then retreats only to be finished as he runs away.

I thought it was kinda cool the guide tried to help the client feel good about his lousy performance and put a good a face on it as he could. Plus maybe, just maybe they were all quite joyous to all be unhurt and still alive.

Jimbohunter1, good point about having a more "global viewpoint."

EKM

I thought it was a cool video. I don't know what some of you are complaining about.

Seen that before ,I'm surprized nobody got shot in the crossfire.What a waste if you ask me.

ELKampMaster,
Yours is a valid perspective. I would be scared s...less being either the guide or the shooter in that situation though.

I will say, though, that lion hunting isn't 'for me,' the same way hunting with dogs isn't - not that I'm saying others shouldn't do it, but I'd rather avoid doing it. I've thought for a long time that a lot of African safari hunting isn't for me - there are plenty of animals that are 'safari kills' that you're not supposed to eat at all. If I were to go on an African safari, I'd specifically request hunts of the animals that are supposed to be tasty, and if put in a situation where the locals could use a 'hired gun,' I'd help out - but I wouldn't fly to Africa specifically to hunt lions, or any other animal whose death served no practical purpose to me.

Also, people who don't hunt on a regular basis and are unfamiliar with their guns, leading to bad shots, give us all a bad name.

All that said, holy crap. I don't think I'd have stopped shaking for a week.

I dont consider that hunting, there wearing kakis and some fruity short shorts and sunglasses, couple of slapdicks if you ask me.

Well bobby5 what do you consider hunting? Sitting on a platform in a tree and shooting a whitetail? That's hunting but this is not because of the clothes they wear? Frankly, any idiot can kill a whitetail, how about hunting something that hunts back?

I agree with the first part of your statement. Who are we to judge what justifies real hunting? However, it mighty ballsy for you to belittle all of those on this site who thoroughly enjoys whitetail hunting. Imagine a first time hunter reading this thread to the surprise that someone thinks he's/she's an idiot for their marginal, if any, success. I hope that your view of whitetail hunting changes. Especially, with you being on a deerhunting thread.