Thread: Scary if these get hold of you.

We don't have these in NZ ....thankfully. The old 22 would be hard to stop them.
Watch to find out the caliber....never heard of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-pHwEzkTNY

Thanks one nasty set of teeth.

Cool watch and scary pest.
Yes, lucky we don't have it here, imagine all that gun safety rules violation.

A neighbor who did a Namibian safari 6 years ago, he got a waterbuck, kudu, and oryx plus a baboon. When the heads came home I went for a look. The baboon was just the skull and bottom jaw, they have a fearsome set of teeth allright! I had to ask how he felt about shooting one of his relatives though😀

Not too concerned about whats beyond the target...

Originally Posted by blip

Not too concerned about whats beyond the target...

probably just another Baboon.

An unfortunate sounding SA.

Scarey indeed.

Me, my wife and my sister were confronted by a very large male baboon in the kitchen of a holiday rental, in Scarborough on the Cape Peninsula. It entered the kitchen through the back door with no apparent fear, ran right up to my sister and bared those teeth in an incredibly aggressive manner. When she understandably recoiled, he grabbed a loaf off the bench then tried to pull the rubbish bin out from under the counter. I yelled and ran towards it with my best come on have a go if you’re hard enough, and the baboon pulled back to the doorway and challenged me back.

Whereupon a small African man appeared out of nowhere behind the baboon with a knobkerrie, and mullared the fucking thing right across the back of the head. The baboon was stunned, dropped the bread and staggered up the path out of sight.

The South Africans here will probably know about the Peninsula baboons, and how for years they were protected but have become utterly fearless, and a real problem. Tourists would feed them from their cars, and they became increasingly emboldened. They raided the local houses constantly, killed dogs and have attacked humans. They were informally controlled by local Africans paid for by residents, basically fighting them with sticks, but killing them was forbidden. It all got very political and I don’t know what happened to them in the end.

I’ve got another baboon story that you wouldn’t believe!

Anything that will fight a leopard gets my respect.

I mean, I wouldn't let one marry my sister, but I'd phrase the refusal carefully so as to not offend.

Adult male will have bigger canines than a lion, lost 2 good dogs to them. Do amazing damage to water tanks and pipe when it gets dry. Clever as animals though, they push a flock of sheep into a corner, then take time to rip the udders out of the lactating females, let them others go.

Very scary creatures up close. People dont always appreciate their strength, and the fact that they are able to grasp like a human. As far as their vision and intelligence goes, they are very cunning. My great uncle told us of one troop that was causing problems on a farm in the 1940s or 50s. They had no respect for women, because only men would shoot them. One farmer who had tried to cull them even donned a dress as a disguise, but the baboon troop wouldn't get close enough for him to shoot them.

My other baboon story... If you find this hard to believe, ask my wife!

1998. Me and the wife were in Chobe, Botswana, for a spot of camping whilst surrounded by things that will eat you. We elected to use the proper out there bush camps, well away from the more touristy managed camps behind the fences, like the ones in Kruger. Another group arrived and whilst setting up their tents, a troop of baboons raided their utes, with one large male ripping the lid of an Engel fridge, wrecking it completely. Cue a very angry man swearing a lot and pointlessly throwing sticks at retreating baboons. The group pushed off the next day to the managed campsite inside the wire.

We were very careful to not leave anything out while we were away from camp, but on return that evening we discovered a baboon had unzipped our tent, gone inside and consumed quite a lot of anti-malaria prophylaxis before taking a dump on my pillow.

The next morning we were up early and making coffee in the billy over the fire. As usual there were some baboons sitting in the grass, just out of reach of a well thrown stick. Watching, waiting. A couple of them ventured quite close, along the top of the bank down to the lagoon. A sudden crack, then a bang, and the baboon sitting low in the tree some 20m behind the wife was thrown back and fell with a thump to the ground. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK????!!!!

Way over the other side of the large camp clearing, a good 150m away, an African game warden stood up from cover, all white toothy grin, waving. He was carrying a rifle, open sights. He didn't even come over, he just waved again, grinned a lot and disappeared into the bush. We couldn't believe it, the trajectory of his shot couldn't have been more than 5m from where we were sitting, straight past us. The baboon was very dead, I'll give him that.

We followed up with the wardens at the posh camp. Yes, the man whose fridge had been wrecked had complained, so the warden was sent to teach the baboons a lesson. Quite normal, nothing to worry about sir. It's very hard for the wardens to get close to baboons, sir, as soon as they see an African in green fatigues carrying a rifle, they're off. He's a very good shot sir, wouldn't you agree? All discussed with a big smile...

Different times, different rules. We never were properly babooned, with the exception of the shit in my bed. Got away with it. They're a lot more worrisome than the Keas in Arthur's Pass, that's for sure.

Has anyone heard of the caliber he's using?
A 6.5 something.

damn good so what annoyed you more the close shot or the fact you were used as decoys

Shreman wasnt it? Interesting cal if you read up on it