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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nemo on February 07, 2016, 02:01:30 PM

Title: For Our Africa Members
Post by: Nemo on February 07, 2016, 02:01:30 PM: Just a reminder, don't screw around with an elephant. Even if you are a Cape Buffalo. Elephants win.

Several more photos at link. Notice the tip of a tusk sticking out of the base of the Buffalo's neck, right side in pic.

Nemo

http://nypost.com/2016/02/01/dont-mess-with-this-elephant/ (http://nypost.com/2016/02/01/dont-mess-with-this-elephant/)

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Don’t mess with this elephant
By Beckie Strum, February 1, 2016

An angry elephant impales an African buffalo like a shish-kabob, lifting it in the air before savagely flinging it away, during a deadly tusk-to-horn face-off in the Serengeti.

The buffalo had been napping near a bush in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve when it was startled awake by the approach of the elephant and three of its family members.

Although clearly out of its weight class, the buffalo head-butted the elephant. But the impact staggered the buffalo, and the pachyderm, about six times bigger, retaliated by fatally sinking a tusk into its neck.

The lopsided clash was captured by amateur photographer Kimberly Maurer as she visited Maasai Mara with a tourist group.

“This photograph was, no doubt, a once-in-a-lifetime capture for me,” said Maurer, 56.

Noting the buffalo’s horrible fate, she said, “As you would imagine, his carcass was a meal for another animal or two.”

(http://i.imgur.com/MzIjDty.jpg)
Title: Re: For Our Africa Members
Post by: Kentactic on February 07, 2016, 04:32:40 PM: The cape buffalo is more courageous than any other. Courage doesn't necessarily imply a happy ending.

https://youtu.be/HjE6X4lbto0

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Title: Re: For Our Africa Members
Post by: crudos on February 07, 2016, 06:49:30 PM: Glancing at my available rifle calibers.... note to self, stay out of Africa, your only going to piss stuff off.
Title: Re: For Our Africa Members
Post by: Kentactic on February 07, 2016, 08:23:23 PM: Quote from: crudos on February 07, 2016, 06:49:30 PM
Glancing at my available rifle calibers.... note to self, stay out of Africa, your only going to piss stuff off.
45-90 or bust.
Title: Re: For Our Africa Members
Post by: Nemo on February 07, 2016, 08:49:26 PM: 45-90, nah, 600 nitro express, unless you can find a 700 NE. But if you cannot find those, get a barrett. At least a Barrett.

Nemo
Title: Re: For Our Africa Members
Post by: Kentactic on February 07, 2016, 10:27:39 PM: Quote from: Nemo on February 07, 2016, 08:49:26 PM
45-90, nah, 600 nitro express, unless you can find a 700 NE. But if you cannot find those, get a barrett. At least a Barrett.

Nemo
You carry around the Barrett. I'll carry the lever action.
Title: Re: For Our Africa Members
Post by: Grudgie on February 07, 2016, 11:10:59 PM: Don't African poachers kill them with 75 year old AKs?