Thread: hunting incompetence

Originally Posted by dannyb

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I really don't remember whether I was making a sound -- though I could have been (the pig certainly was); all I was thinking was "bacon and sausage -- bacon and sausage -- IT MUST NOT ESCAPE!!!!"

Zeko

I missed a rusa deer at 173 M last weekend.

Might as well have been standing in front of me. I had no real rest to use so tried to use my knees. Missed cleanly so there's that to console me.

I bet you ill have gotten the scope out of whack.

This goes back about 30 years, to when I was a young conservation officer in South Africa. A drunken party of meat hunters, on the last night of their trip, one one if their party hadn't shot anything. It was dark, and the group set out with a whole lot of liquor inside them, armed with a torch and their rifles. One if the party spotted a pair of eyes up high, in a tree, and for whatever reason they egged the guy to shoot it. He did. Right between the eyes. All hell seemed to break loose, and there was noise and chaos, completely out of proportion to anything that belonged in a tree. When they got closer, in the torchlight they saw a dead giraffe, with a neat hole in its forehead, cleanly dispatched. The only problem now was that you pay for what you kill, and giraffe are not exactly cheap. In fact, they got a bill (and this was back in the early 90's) for about $10k. A cheap meat hunt turned into a rather expensive weekend, all things considered!

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

This goes back about 30 years, to when I was a young conservation officer in South Africa. A drunken party of meat hunters, on the last night of their trip, one one if their party hadn't shot anything. It was dark, and the group set out with a whole lot of liquor inside them, armed with a torch and their rifles. One if the party spotted a pair of eyes up high, in a tree, and for whatever reason they egged the guy to shoot it. He did. Right between the eyes. All hell seemed to break loose, and there was noise and chaos, completely out of proportion to anything that belonged in a tree. When they got closer, in the torchlight they saw a dead giraffe, with a neat hole in its forehead, cleanly dispatched. The only problem now was that you pay for what you kill, and giraffe are not exactly cheap. In fact, they got a bill (and this was back in the early 90's) for about $10k. A cheap meat hunt turned into a rather expensive weekend, all things considered!

I would have thought that it was a leopard hah.

How much meat would you get off the giraffe?

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

I would have thought that it was a leopard hah.

How much meat would you get off the giraffe?

Haha! If only it had been a leopard! Although I have tasted leopard biltong and can't say I would be back for seconds.

A giraffe would leave a lot of meat. I'm not sure, but a bull giraffe can weigh more than 1500kg and stands about 5.5m tall.


I'd guess it would probably butcher out at near a ton of meat...

I have heard yarns of people nailing bike reflectors in pairs to trees and then sending out their unsuspecting mates to "shoot the possum over there in the trees"

The average bull can slaughter out to around 700kg to 800kg. Those big old dark, heavy bulls have been known to get up near the 1100kg mark.


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