Hunting Lions can be hazardous to your Health!

[Skybird]

hunting for eating is one thing. But I would love to hunt trophy hunters.

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

hunting for eating is one thing. But I would love to hunt trophy hunters.

I'm sure they'd love to hunt you too Skybird...

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by August

I'm sure they'd love to hunt you too Skybird...

Might be difficult. I use a bow. When I strike them, they even will not know I am near

[Marcantilan]

Yep, I was with the lion too...

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR KITTY (OR SIMBA OR WHATEVER YOU ARE CALLED): Next time, aim lower...

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Might be difficult. I use a bow. When I strike them, they even will not know I am near

Maybe, but if you use a bow you've been within rifle range for a mile or so already. Also unless you're a middle earth elf a bow is pretty much a single shot weapon. Like the lion in that video you may have gotten one of them but the others would have blasted you.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by August

Maybe, but if you use a bow you've been within rifle range for a mile or so already. Also unless you're a middle earth elf a bow is pretty much a single shot weapon. Like the lion in that video you may have gotten one of them but the others would have blasted you.

That's when the Ninja-parts comes into play. And at close range, skilled usage of a sword beats a hunting rifle hands down - it simply is much faster to handle (not talking of claymores or something like that).

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

have you ever looked into the eyes of the big cat as it bore down on you...

swords, guns, or atomic bombs would'nt help some people...

and ninjas scream as loud as the next guy when the jaws of death clamp down around
their behinds...

--Mike

[TteFAboB]

He who spots first, and gains the advantage of possibly attacking first, wins.

All the rest is accessory.

I have a 30 round clip, I have ninja poisoned throwing stars, I have a Tazer, I have nun-chakus, I have an infra-red scope, I have booby-traps set-up, I have a flamethrower, I have Jedi Mind Trick.

Carry on to infinity.

See first, hit first, win.

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

That's when the Ninja-parts comes into play. And at close range, skilled usage of a sword beats a hunting rifle hands down - it simply is much faster to handle (not talking of claymores or something like that).

Yeah that's why swords are the popular weapon of choice ever since the invention of firearms.

But i thought we were talking about Bow and arrows?

[aaken]

have you ever looked into the eyes of the big cat as it bore down on you...

swords, guns, or atomic bombs would'nt help some people...

Never had the chance (or the guts) to hunt lions but once, on a hunting trip in central-north Nigeria, we got charged by an elephant. One experience I'll never forget.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by August

Yeah that's why swords are the popular weapon of choice ever since the invention of firearms.

But i thought we were talking about Bow and arrows?

An arrow is a sword with wings! The airforce of what usually hacks and stabs.

Originally Posted by Subman

Skybirds fantasy land. Lets see if you can get me or someone with that bow!

If you come closer than let's say 100-120m, than in earlier years, when I practiced regularly, you would have been mine with most shots, promised. I haven't done that for years now. I used a special Korean compound bow, a handmade special work of which only some 40 had been built by the master who created it. Buying it made me a poor man back then. It did acchieve a somewhat very good compromise between the small size of a mongolian bow with the enormous compression-power (don't know if that is the ro crrect english word) of British Longbows and Japanese warbows (does not mean it is as stgorng as these). Depending on the weight of the arrow and the pulling power of the shooter, that beast has a precision-shot-range of around 250m. For comparison, sporting events are done at varying distances of 40-90m, and mediaval English Longbows were built with more than 100lb pulling strength and a range of 350m, roughly. An non-shooter could not pull the string of such a monster. Archers were trained in ancient times sicne their childhood to build the needed muscles for that. I couldn't shoot precisely that far, but was able to pull it to acchieve a 200m-range. Precision shooting for me ended somewhere around the 100-120m mark. That means I am not strong enough to use this bow to it's full potential. I can use around 60-70% of it. the strongest bows that are built in the present have a pulling strength of around 200lb maximum. Shooters able to use them are very rare.

If you think a good bow is inferior to a hunting gun, then you are totally wrong, believe me

Consider a shooter using such a weapon against you, and he is trying to hide and give you no target and uses sniper tactics of moving and approaching - then you have an extremely serious problem with that guy, no matter if you have long range hunting rifles or automatic weapons for yourself or not. If that guy also has a sword and is skilled in using it, then you are almost dead if you ever manage to approach his hidden position to be withion sword-striking range.

I trained archery and sword fighting and Martial Arts, and seriously so, but no Ninja-stuff and camouflage games. I have that Korean special compound bow (decinstructable into three parts (without metal, airport security would hate it), another ordinary sport bow, two wooden Katanas, one industrially-manufactured Katana, and an original ancient Katana (late 16th century). If I would sell that stuff, I would be able to buy myself a luxury car, a bigger appartment, or even a small house. :rotfl:

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Skybird

That's when the Ninja-parts comes into play. And at close range, skilled usage of a sword beats a hunting rifle hands down - it simply is much faster to handle (not talking of claymores or something like that).

Skybirds fantasy land. Lets see if you can get me or someone with that bow! You'll never hear the first round hit you from any rifle since if you hear it - it already missed!

-S

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Skybird

hunting for eating is one thing. But I would love to hunt trophy hunters.

Psssst! I can get you a scalped ticket for next year's Oscars.

[snowsub]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

Psssst! I can get you a scalped ticket for next year's Oscars.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Must admit though I was rooting for the Lion in that vid, like during the bullfighting recently and the bull jumped up into the crowd