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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MillCreek on April 17, 2018, 10:57:59 AM
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/17/baboons-use-barrel-to-escape-texas-research-facility-officials-say.html
The article says they were captured by a highly-trained team. Inquiring minds want to know how one captures a baboon. Nets, tranquilizer guns, Jif chunky smeared on a banana?
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Peter Capstick wrote an article for American Hunter in the 1970s about dealing with a troop of baboons that had started causing big problems for villagers. It finally came to a head when the troop killed a woman and her child.
So, instead of sniping them with his .375 H&H as he had been doing, he and his trackers laid a trap around their nesting area. IIRC it involved a trench with burning oil and gasoline to move them in the direction he wanted, a bunch of flash bangs, and a Mac 10 submachine guns he bought from a former rebel.
He wiped out about a quarter of the troop, which induced it to find a new nesting area away from the villages they were harassing.
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From the video, all I can say is those guys chasing the one on the street are lucky it didn't feel inclined to turn on them.
The baboon would have torn them apart.
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In his short story The Killer Baboons of Vlackfontein (https://books.google.com/books?id=WmYVreh66foC&pg=PA325&lpg=PA325&dq=the+killer+baboons+of+vlackfontein&source=bl&ots=ll2KjmpDSx&sig=ZBRj2ZMj-vKclDdq5P7j_13KCig&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT84ShysHaAhVkhq0KHXwqAZgQ6AEwAnoECAAQNg#v=onepage&q=the%20killer%20baboons%20of%20vlackfontein&f=false) the late Peter Hathaway Capstick used various calibers on baboons, finally using a 9mm SMG. I used a .30/06 which was more gun than needed.
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Peter Capstick wrote an article for American Hunter in the 1970s about dealing with a troop of baboons that had started causing big problems for villagers. It finally came to a head when the troop killed a woman and her child.
So, instead of sniping them with his .375 H&H as he had been doing, he and his trackers laid a trap around their nesting area. IIRC it involved a trench with burning oil and gasoline to move them in the direction he wanted, a bunch of flash bangs, and a Mac 10 submachine guns he bought from a former rebel.
He wiped out about a quarter of the troop, which induced it to find a new nesting area away from the villages they were harassing.
Man, can you imagine that being done today? It would be Hurambi x100.
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LOVE this line...
When they try to bite you, you can't make them too dead.
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LOVE this line...
When they try to bite you, you can't make them too dead.
That applies to pretty much everything that has reached maturity. (And some that haven't.)
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That's why I love it.
Capstick may have been an arrogant ass but boy could he write a story.
I met him a couple of times when I was on staff at NRA publications.
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Wasn't this how THE PLANET OF THE APES got started? [tinfoil]
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.30-Ape Special
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Man, can you imagine that being done today? It would be Hurambi x100.
Not enough dicks for that tribute....
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That's why I love it.
Capstick may have been an arrogant ass but boy could he write a story.
I met him a couple of times when I was on staff at NRA publications.
I met him at an SCI convention - first very briefly at the A-Square rifle booth, and then then next day we sat and chatted a while over coffee for about a half hour. He seemed very personable, and gave me some good advice for my next safari.
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It was reading Capstick's stories in American Hunter that really got me interested in cartridge collecting. The way he described rounds like the .416 Rigby, .458 Winchester, .404 Jeffrey, and his .470 Nitro really lit my interest in cartridges. Up to that time (late 1970s) I'd not thought much beyond the .22 Long Rifle or .30-06, or the incredibly interesting history of the metallic cartridge and its influence on history.