BarnBuster
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"When buffs are supposed to be dead, they ain’t. And even when you approach one thinking that it’s all over, that they are down and out, never, ever, let your guard down. Veteran PHs (old PHs, like old airplanes that have stood the test of time are good PHs) will tell you, 'It’s the dead ones that will kill you'. Death by buffalo can occur in one of several different and spectacularly eviscerating ways. Those thoughts swirled through my mind like a swarm of stinging bees. With each daunting image, my hands gripped the big rifle even more tightly....Then there he was, only thirty-five yards away... He was big, black and terrible in his rage, in his intentions."
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Deadly Botswana Cape Buffalo - Sporting Classics Daily
The most rarefied air on Earth is the painfully thin atmosphere between you and the malignant stare of a wounded Cape buffalo. The tiny bit of oxygen on the top of Mt. Everest must seem like molasses by comparison. You are connected in a wild, primordial way, as he peers savagely into your eyes...

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