That Look!
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From: Ken Moody Safaris
05-Nov-21
The look that says “you’re going to need both barrels.” Cape Buffalo Package $10,950.
From: drycreek
05-Nov-21
That’s it ! Even though I’ve never faced a Cape Buffalo, you don’t have to to know what that means. It’s like hearing your first rattle snake rattle, nobody has to tell you….
From: Pat Lefemine
05-Nov-21
They are just bad ass. I know first hand. There's nothing like bowhunting a cape buffalo. My best hunting experience was being 20 yards from 2000 pounds from 'holy crap' !
From: drycreek
05-Nov-21
Ken, wouldn’t that be the best angle ? Slide that arrow right into the heart ? Educate me !
From: t-roy
05-Nov-21
He’s got that “You voted for BIDEN??!!” look, to me.
From: Ken Moody Safaris
05-Nov-21
Tough angle for a bow shot. Quartering on is best or broadside. Quartering away is not a good shot angle. This angle has the massive ribs protecting the lungs and leg in front of the heart which is low in the chest. Pass on this shot with a bow.
From: Grey Ghost
05-Nov-21
My wife has that look down pat. I call it the "stink eye". She even pins her ears down, too. ;-)
Matt
From: sundowner
05-Nov-21
I think it was an old Africa hunter/writer named Craig Boddington once said, " A Cape looks at you like you owe him money."
From: Ken Moody Safaris
05-Nov-21
Robert Ruark said it.
From: Bou'bound
06-Nov-21
That is the “you like a lot of guys may start me with an arrow but you’re going to need a bullet to finish me” look
From: DanaC
06-Nov-21
And just like that shooting a 45-70 doesn't make me feel good any more ;-)
From: Ken Moody Safaris
06-Nov-21
From: sundowner
06-Nov-21
You're right Ken. Robert Ruark. Boddington probably quoted Ruark.
From: Ken Moody Safaris
06-Nov-21
He had some good quotes…
From: drycreek
06-Nov-21
Y’all are right on the quote of course, but Craig Boddington has killed over thirty buffalo so he knows a thing or two about them also. I can’t imagine why he’s killed that many, but I’m certain he does. ;-)
From: Altitude Sickness
06-Nov-21
Dry creek if I could afford it. I would be over there for months going from one country to the next hunting Buffalo everywhere they are. Thirty doesn’t sound like too many to me over many years of hunting them.
