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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 4456 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #30 - Jun 1^st, 2026 at 12:39am	Print Post
	Yippy, no one goes just once. We've been 11 times and have spent more than a year all over southern Africa hunting with cameras. I figure I've taken 30 or 40 thousand pictures and have driven more than 25,000 miles in South Africa alone. There's nothing like it.


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bullshop Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 350 Joined: Sep 14^th, 2017	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #31 - Jun 1^st, 2026 at 9:27am	Print Post
	I guess you have never been in the middle of a caribou migration.


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 4456 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #32 - Jun 1^st, 2026 at 12:40pm	Print Post
	Kalahari Park Ranger - better to have more than one shot available...


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YippyKiYay Junior Member Online Posts: 59 Location: Wichita Falls Texas Joined: Apr 4^th, 2026	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #33 - Jun 1^st, 2026 at 9:07pm	Print Post
	bullshop wrote on Jun 1^st, 2026 at 9:27am: I guess you have never been in the middle of a caribou migration. No, but a good friend invited me to hunt Alaska this September. I'm trying to make it happen.

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bullshop Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 350 Joined: Sep 14^th, 2017	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #34 - Jun 1^st, 2026 at 9:22pm	Print Post
	I have been engulfed buy herds to vast to count. I woke from a nap one day on the north slope of the Alaska range engulfed by a huge herd. The clicking sound of their hooves when they walk woke me. Caribou graze at about seven miles per hour. When they walk their hooves splay out working as flotation and when they raise the foot the hooves click back together. The hundreds of clickity clicks woke me and when I peeked out my tent I was surrounded by hundreds of caribou. I was a guide in the Mulchatna river area near the west coast. Saw many large herds there too.


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YippyKiYay Junior Member Online Posts: 59 Location: Wichita Falls Texas Joined: Apr 4^th, 2026	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #35 - yesterday at 1:21am	Print Post
	oneatatime wrote on Jun 1^st, 2026 at 12:40pm: Kalahari Park Ranger - better to have more than one shot available... Will this do? 500NE

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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 4456 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #36 - yesterday at 12:58pm	Print Post
	That ought to do it. I'm sure you've seen this video where a wounded lion in the bush when caught up with does this to the hunter who wounded him: (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)


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YippyKiYay Junior Member Online Posts: 59 Location: Wichita Falls Texas Joined: Apr 4^th, 2026	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #37 - yesterday at 4:04pm	Print Post
	I did. I'm not wealthy enough to hunt lion. But you should always carry enough gun with you to take any dangerous game animal you may meet. A PH was recently killed while guiding for Waterbuck (I think) and ran afoul of a herd of elephant. That's why I took only my 416 for Zebra and Kudu.

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Sure shot Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1164 Location: East central Iowa Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2020	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #38 - yesterday at 4:59pm	Print Post
	Tsavo lions 1898. The Ghost and the Darkness staring Michael Douglas, OK movie.


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 4456 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #39 - yesterday at 8:02pm	Print Post
	And actually largely based on real life. The British engineer, Col Patterson, played in the movie by Val Kilmer eventually killed both lions. He wrote a book The Man-eaters of Tsavo in 1907 recounting his experiences leading the construction of a railway bridge in Kenya, where two man-eating lions terrorized and killed his workers in 1898. The book details his hunt to kill the lions, the challenges of the railway project, and includes his observations on colonial life, local tribes, and wildlife, becoming a bestseller and inspiring several films, including The Ghost and the Darkness. The skulls and skins of the 2 lions were sold to the Field Museum in Chicago where they are on display.


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YippyKiYay Junior Member Online Posts: 59 Location: Wichita Falls Texas Joined: Apr 4^th, 2026	Re: strength of Encore 45-70 Reply #40 - Today at 12:47am	Print Post
	Col. Patterson, by his own admission, was a poor shot. After reading the book how he didn't end up as lion poop I'll never know. I'd not recommend his book on how to hunt lion. But he did it and saved the government lots of money. No one cared about the natives being aaten other than from a manpower perspective.

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