Anyone ever bow hunt a hippo?

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I hope I never find myself on a boat with these guys.

Good, I finally figured out how to post a video.
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a true bowhunting experience for hippos would mean no large caliber rifle as back up.this reminds me of a not distance incident where a bowhunter put an arrow in the heart of a male lion. he had a dog pack in attendance & commented a lion shot in heart with arrow takes 50 seconds to expire which is a long time if a hunter is charged after arrowing. a jack russel terrier jumped in the lion's face giving his own life to allow the bowhunter enough time to put more arrows in the expiring lion. i consider this hunter to be a nonhunter whom killed a poor jack russel to say his inconsiderable butt. these people give legaitimate hunters a bad name.---dennis
 
I love to bow hunt as much as the next guy, but I don't shish kabob a few under powered arrows in my deer or hog, let it run around and charge me, and then kill it with my rifle and call it bow hunting. This may be out of context since I wasnt' there, but they should have motored that boat out of the way of the charging hippo and continue to shoot it with the bow and only the bow. However, it looked like there wasn't even enough draw weight to get into the vitals.

I did see Pete Shepley shoot an elephant with a bow. Super heavy 500 gr. arrows/broadhead, 80 or 90 lb. draw weight, nice penetrating shot behind the shoulder and into the vitals. One arrow, no rifles.
 
and the point of that 'hunt' was what exactly?

gregorio said:
Is the better question how many people have lived through bow hunting a hippo?
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given the number of Mozambiquans and Zimbabweans that get munched by Hippos trying to swim across the Zambeze river into South Africa, i'd say not many.
Hippos are fiercly territorial and are probably the single most dangerous animal in Africa.

Planetcat said:
However, it looked like there wasn't even enough draw weight to get into the vitals
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i dunno about draw weight on the bow, but what kind of truly idiotic moron would be headshotting a hippo with a bow?
 
Trying to hunt an animal like a hippo with a bow just seems like a bad idea. Not a lot of power and even if you did hit the vitals it would take a while for the animal to succumb. Having to skewer the animal with a bunch of arrows just seems inhumane to me. Hunting an elephant with a bow.. well maybe I'm missing something. Luckily (for them) the guy with the backup rifle was a quick shot.

sambo. said:
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i dunno about draw weight on the bow, but what kind of truly idiotic moron would be headshotting a hippo with a bow?
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I was wondering about that as well - was he aiming at the body and hit the head instead? Surely he didn't expect to penetrate the skull.
 
That is probably the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Bowhunting a hippo? That goes straight to the top of my list of bad ideas. Hippos are ornery. And also quite large.

Notice that the arrows had no effect on that hippo, beyond making it indignant.
 
Change the title to "Stupid things hunters do!" The bow is about as effective on the hippo as trying to kill an elephant with a .22 short rifle. Just gonna piss the animal off and give PETA another example of cruelty. Plus, how do you haul a 3000 lb. hippo with that tiny boat?
 
sherlockbonez said:
Not enough penetration. As much as I love my bow, this doesn't look like something I wanna try.
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i rekon you could get an arrow into a hippo's vitals with the right shot (and a scary sharp broadhead).

but headshotting a hippo with a bow is just stupid beyond words.
 
Pathetic and cruel. I just hope some good came out of this and that the food and blubber were given to some of the locals.
 
That's sickening, i cant stand people that kill things that they aren't going to eat.

PETA would be right, thats cruelty plain and simple.
 
razorsdescent said:
That's sickening, i cant stand people that kill things that they aren't going to eat.

PETA would be right, thats cruelty plain and simple.
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I think most african games meat are all given away to local people. So you shoot a racoon that's destroying your attic, you're gonna eat it? How about the pack of yotes that's living in the bush behind your house? Dog soup anyone?
 
sherlockbonez said:
I think most african games meat are all given away to local people. So you shoot a racoon that's destroying your attic, you're gonna eat it? How about the pack of yotes that's living in the bush behind your house? Dog soup anyone?
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And the part where you start shooting game with something that cant produce a kill, that's perfectly humane? It would be like shooting a deer a couple of times with blow gun before shooting it with a 30-06, its not the same thing as what you described.
 
I don't condone shooting them with a bow, especially if it's not getting enough penetration on ^ shot in the vid. But I'm noting your comment regarding killing what you eat.

I kill lots of pigeons for farmers, but I don't eat them. I just do it as a favor for letting us hunt on his field. My buddy kills a few beavers a year out of his properties to prevent flooding, he also don't eat them. You see where I'm going with this.
 
Personally, if I went after a hippo, I'd want something with a little oomph. One of these would be my preference.
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