Non-dangerous Game?
Inexperience, negligence or unpredictable animal behaviour can lead to disaster. A common saying among hunters is, “It’s the dead ones that get up and kill you”
HUNTING DANGEROUS GAME can be rather straight forw fyoudothi ightandadheretoafewrules. Ine ience, neg nce or unpredictable animal beh ur can lea disaster. A common saying am unters is, “ the dead ones that get up and kill Thisistru allanimals,andmanyhunters forg hat all wild mals are dangerous and can ijure elesshunter.
As a young, inexperienced hunter I learned this lesson well while accompanying a then well-known South African High Court judge as his guide on a springbuck and black wildebeest hunt. The Free State farm was rather flat, so he hid amid sparse cover next to a pan while I walked in a wide circle to push a large herd of springbuck towards his position. The animals headed straight for the pan and a young female stopped in the open about 160m from him. Strangely, he managed to hit the animal low in a front and hind leg. It headed for a small cement reservoir
