Graphic Video Shows Hunter Being Hurled In The Air By Buffalo In Eastern Cape [Watch]

16 Feb 2024 by Tayla in Animals, Nature, South Africa

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Graphic footage shows the moment a massive buffalo flipped a hunter into the air and punctured his leg while another hunter took daring shots at the horned creature.

The Sun reported that the man was searching for the wounded beast when it attacked him in Eastern Cape. Videographer Martin Müller, 43, caught the near-deadly encounter incident on camera as he had been hired to film the hunting trip by an American client.

The dramatic video shows the unnamed man fleeing from a buffalo before being hurled into the air amid a barrage of bullets.

Shame, you can only imagine how terrified that poor animal must have been:

Martin, who owns a production company in Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa, said that the client had taken a bow shot:

“It definitely hit the right spot – the lungs – but it must have deflected off a bone,” he said. “It still hit the lung but it was very shallow and the buffalo ran off.”

“It was just myself, the hunter and the client. We followed the blood for four kilometres before calling the land manager. We left a 100m buffer zone from the last spot of blood we saw in case the buffalo doubled back and waited for the car.”

The buffalo had run off after being hit with an arrow, so the group asked the land manager to bring a firearm to avoid it suffering overnight.

Along with the client’s rifle, the land manager also brought two dogs to assist in tracking the wounded buffalo. All of a sudden, the buffalo was less than 20 metres away when it began chasing the lone man toward the rest of the group.

The hunter couldn’t shoot as the land manager was in his line of fire but as the animal flipped the landowner, the client took a risky shot and hit the buffalo.

Martin confirmed that they’d spoken to the client and told him that it was a risky shot but he said he was on the buffalo the whole time.

“In hindsight, you can disapprove but if you look at the angle he was at that man wasn’t even in his line of sight.

“It was still a split-second decision and it could have gone either way.”

The land manager was treated in hospital with only minor injuries.

Apparently, the incident took place in 2021 but Martin only revealed the footage after it was released by the client this month

[source:thesun]

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