Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Teresa Heilevang on May 12, 2009, 01:47:25 AM
Title: Persistence hunting
Post by: Teresa Heilevang on May 12, 2009, 01:47:25 AM
This video gives you a look into the past. It follows a group of African tribesmen in the Kalahari Desert. Their hunting practices date back to our earliest ancestors.
It’s called persistence hunting. It doesn’t rely on traps or weapons. It simply pits man’s endurance against that of his prey. The hunter chases the animal until it cannot run any further.
This takes incredible tracking skills. And the hunters must be deeply in tune with their prey. It’s a skill that almost no one possesses today. It’s amazing to watch.
Title: Re: Persistence hunting
Post by: True_Texan on May 12, 2009, 02:13:07 AM
This video gives you a look into the past. It follows a group of African tribesmen in the Kalahari Desert. Their hunting practices date back to our earliest ancestors.
It’s called persistence hunting. It doesn’t rely on traps or weapons. It simply pits man’s endurance against that of his prey. The hunter chases the animal until it cannot run any further.
This takes incredible tracking skills. And the hunters must be deeply in tune with their prey. It’s a skill that almost no one possesses today. It’s amazing to watch.
That is truly amazing but I have seen it done before but in a more comical way.
My friend and I stumbled upon a small group of farrell piglets. We were able to quickly catch most of them but one got away. My friend who was determined to get them all went chasing after the thing. It ran into an open field with grass that was over a foot tall. For whatever reason, the piglet just started running in a circle. It was a NASCAR "circle", always to the left. So my buddy just chased and chased the thing until finally he caught up with it because the thing was worn out. He was too but stubbornness prevailed.
Now, I know this is in no where close to the endurance of that tribe, but he did run after it for a full 5 minutes at least. I wasn't able to help him chase the thing as I was too busy laughing to the point I almost passed out. Because you have to picture this: Him running at full speed in a left hand circle, leaning inward to keep his speed up, running after something you could not see from a distance. It looked like he had absolutely lost his mind. Running around and around in this invisible chase. I wish to this very day that I had a video camera.
Note: There was a lot of beer involved since we were camping there for the night and right now it is really too late for me to be posting any kind of sensible posts.
Title: Re: Persistence hunting
Post by: Texas_Bryan on May 12, 2009, 02:28:17 AM
Thank God for guns. ;D
Title: Re: Persistence hunting
Post by: Green Mountain Gringo on May 12, 2009, 03:47:09 AM
And butcher shops. ;D
Title: Re: Persistence hunting
Post by: tombogan03884 on May 12, 2009, 09:39:20 AM
There is a story I heard that during the last years of the "Kings African Rifles" in Uganda, a Sgt ran down a gazzelle and snapped its neck (witnessed by the British officer who wrote the story) The Sgt's name was Idi Amin.
Title: Re: Persistence hunting
Post by: fightingquaker13 on May 12, 2009, 01:06:15 PM
There is a story I heard that during the last years of the "Kings African Rifles" in Uganda, a Sgt ran down a gazzelle and snapped its neck (witnessed by the British officer who wrote the story) The Sgt's name was Idi Amin.
Sure it wasn't one of his neighbors? FQ13
Title: Re: Persistence hunting
Post by: PegLeg45 on May 12, 2009, 02:07:07 PM
I'd starve. :(
Title: Re: Persistence hunting
Post by: SwoopSJ on May 12, 2009, 02:40:58 PM
This could be the start of a new diet revolution. I, for one, am lucky to run down a cheeseburger. :( And then, only if its been wounded. ;D