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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: Slider on May 11, 2009, 06:24:54 PM

Title: Women in Africa?
Post by: Slider on May 11, 2009, 06:24:54 PM: Women hunting DG in Africa? What are your thoughts? Watch the video as this Buff takes 1500 grains of lead!!! :yike: :yike: :yike:
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: rasbo on May 11, 2009, 06:31:07 PM: why not..she held her ground and got the job done.That gun sure kicked the crap outta her..I think its great
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: Slider on May 11, 2009, 06:57:12 PM: Here is another one.

NR=1
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: Slider on May 11, 2009, 07:04:31 PM: Yet another.

NR=1
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: batch on May 11, 2009, 08:44:34 PM: i think we need all the support as a community in whole
wish i could get my wife to go with me ten maybe she wouldnt give me a hard time for being gone so much
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: deaddog on May 12, 2009, 10:32:13 AM: Why not? There are plenty of female P.H.s in africa now that have proven them selfs to be very good hunters.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: jackelope on May 12, 2009, 10:36:23 AM: i agree...why not?
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on May 12, 2009, 12:20:15 PM: Since triggers are pulled with fingers, not testicles ...
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: jackelope on May 12, 2009, 12:21:31 PM: Quote from: DOUBLELUNG on May 12, 2009, 12:20:15 PM
Since triggers are pulled with fingers, not testicles ...

laugin out loud right now.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: EastWaViking on May 12, 2009, 12:25:38 PM: no one else notice her lack of gun safety? I hate when hunting shows include bad gun handling.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: WDFW-SUX on May 12, 2009, 12:31:47 PM: Quote from: EastWaViking on May 12, 2009, 12:25:38 PM
no one else notice her lack of gun safety? I hate when hunting shows include bad gun handling.

African shows are by far the worse with regards to firearm safety.... :bdid:

I've never met a woman that I would trust with my back when the *censored* really hits the fan........go ahead flame away but thats my opinion.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: deaddog on May 12, 2009, 01:06:37 PM: Quote from: DOUBLELUNG on May 12, 2009, 12:20:15 PM
Since triggers are pulled with fingers, not testicles ...
Now that right there is funny. :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: BobW on May 12, 2009, 02:02:09 PM: It's a common way of carry over there. However you are suppose to point the muzzle to the side somewhat.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: MichaelJ on May 12, 2009, 02:20:09 PM: Quote from: BobW on May 12, 2009, 02:02:09 PM
It's a common way of carry over there. However you are suppose to point the muzzle to the side somewhat.

And have the action 'broke'...
Also the announcer said her shot took the bull in the lungs, but it looked like when she shot the bull was quarter too her and imho it was a poor shot to take...

Sweet vid none the less!

Michael
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: jackelope on May 12, 2009, 02:23:07 PM: Quote
And have the action 'broke'...

i'm going out on a limb here to say i don't think it's common practice to carry in africa with the action broke, on the shoulder, on a sling, wherever etc. seems everyone's always locked and loaded.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: EastWaViking on May 12, 2009, 02:29:57 PM: Quote from: jackelope on May 12, 2009, 02:23:07 PM
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And have the action 'broke'...

i'm going out on a limb here to say i don't think it's common practice to carry in africa with the action broke, on the shoulder, on a sling, wherever etc. seems everyone's always locked and loaded.

and pointed at the guy in front of her! >:(
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: woodswalker on May 12, 2009, 02:30:58 PM: Quote from: Slider on May 11, 2009, 06:57:12 PM
Here is another one.

NR=1
why does she unshoulder to run the bolt?
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: BobW on May 13, 2009, 06:46:00 AM: It is a common carry in Africa because everything there has thorns (really BIG ones). You need to be able to move your rifle around a lot to get through the thick stuff. It's also faster to get ready to shoot. I know of no one that carry's with a double broke open.

As she is not in the front, the muzzle should be pointed off the her right some. People need to realize that everyone around the world doesn't do things or see things the same as we do in this country. When in Rome ...........
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: EastWaViking on May 13, 2009, 06:47:28 AM: Quote from: BobW on May 13, 2009, 06:46:00 AM
It is a common carry in Africa because everything there has thorns (really BIG ones). You need to be able to move your rifle around a lot to get through the thick stuff. It's also faster to get ready to shoot. I know of no one that carry's with a double broke open.

As she is not in the front, the muzzle should be pointed off the her right some. People need to realize that everyone around the world doesn't do things or see things the same as we do in this country. When in Rome ...........

......potentially shoot your guide?
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: BobW on May 13, 2009, 07:15:32 AM: Starting to think this isn't the place for me. I believe I wrote something to the effect that the muzzle should be pointed off to the right a bit. Until you try stomping through some that the stuff they have over there with the rifle on your shoulder (I did) it's kind of hard to understand why in their case it's probably the best way. :bash:
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: EastWaViking on May 13, 2009, 07:22:01 AM: No, this is the place for you! I understand what you are saying.... carry it the way that works best in the conditions, and the way they do it down there. Pointed off to the side a bit is MUCH better than pointed right at the guide. My complaint is they should NEVER show unsafe gun handling on videos even if it is a moment of the gun pointing at somebody. There is never a reason, ever, to even for a split second, have the barrel of a gun pointed at a person be it here or Mars.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: Intruder on May 13, 2009, 08:25:46 AM: Quote from: jackelope on May 12, 2009, 10:36:23 AM
i agree...why not?

:yeah:
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: BobW on May 13, 2009, 11:52:28 AM: Can't argue with that.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: EastWaViking on May 13, 2009, 12:52:04 PM: by the way, welcome to the site BobW.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: BobW on May 13, 2009, 02:06:56 PM: Thanks, I keep thinking I should put something in the introductions but haven't gotten around to it.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: joebear on May 25, 2009, 11:12:13 PM: come on guys this is crazy. I can not believe this crap. We should stand behind any women or anybody for that
matter that's is even willing to hunt let alone hunt dangerous game. I haven't been on this sight for long but I am
beginning to notice allot of nit picking on stupid crap. I think women have every right to hunt as you and I do.
I have guide many women on brown bear hunts and they did great hunting and shooting. so give them a break
and help them out don't knock them down!!
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on May 26, 2009, 06:35:43 AM: Man, I am hiding this topic for a little bit. One because I am ashamed that a question like this even got asked, and secondly because if my wife sees this one you are not SAFE. As far as having my back when the poop hits the fan there is no one I would trust more than her. We have been on a lot of hunts together, no not africa but grizzly hunting was about our most extreme and she was with me the entire way. Bad thread to start :twocents:
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: Huntbear on May 26, 2009, 09:52:52 AM: I have no problem with a woman having my back in the woods, especially if she is as good a shot as my mom was in her day. As for Dangerous Game, let em at em. No buff or lion or elephant is a match for a woman when she has made up her mind.... ask any man... :chuckle:

Secondly, until WE MEN, get off our testosterone based high horses, women will never be a large number in our group. Personally, I like women in hunting camp, they make good cooks!!!!! :chuckle: :chuckle: :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL: (I AM KIDDING)!!!!
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: runamuk on May 28, 2009, 01:51:18 PM: Quote from: Huntbear on May 26, 2009, 09:52:52 AM
Personally, I like women in hunting camp, they make good cooks!!!!! :chuckle: :chuckle: :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL: (I AM KIDDING)!!!!

Yeah and we look a lot better than your other hunting buddies ;)
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: goosegetter79 on May 29, 2009, 03:26:57 PM: I'm for women who can and will do it, but when they start pointing the gun at me whether loaded or not (male or female) I really don't want them around me.
Title: Re: Women in Africa?
Post by: GoldTip on May 29, 2009, 03:55:05 PM: For my money, since I can not see the end of the barrel, the picture is taken from her left, it appears to me that the gun may be pointed to the left of the PH.

As far as trusting someone to get my back, it can be man, woman or the green chick that Wm. Shatner nails in the old Star Trek show, but I aint trusting anyone to cover my back that hasn't already showed me they would in a situation in which I needed my back covered. I've been in lots of situations where people reacted totally differently than most people would have guessed. Some positively and some negatively. But it's happened both ways with both men and women, so I aint judging based on gender. I'm better off believing I gotta cover my own back, until I look back and see someone else covering it, as opposed to believing they are there. People will cut and run that you would never believe would have.