11-2 SS Black Death
Bringing a Cape Buffalo to a dead stop. I’ve introduced you to him before. Mike Babcock is a gold-medal winning and Stanley Cup winning hockey coach who presently leads the Detroit Red Wings. The other side of Mike is that he is an avid hunter who learned from his dad. This adventure takes him to Tanzania where he is after something known as black death… the Cape buffalo: These Cape buffalo, they are something else, we were hunting Cape buffalo, we were on our way and we spotted one from the truck and I was just getting off trying to climb down and one of the guys yelled it’s coming, it’s coming. In the meantime I am scrambling to get a rifle, I would have loved to use my double, my 470, but the 375 was on top and so I jammed a shell in it, and the buffalo was getting closer and closer and I was lucky enough to make a good shot out of it and I stopped him about 2 feet from the truck. It is unbelievable that a thing like that would charge. I was scared to death. If it had hit the truck, it would have knocked me out of the truck and I probably would have been trampled to death. That’s why they call them black death. But I drilled it right in the head and stoned it there. It knocked it down, it got up, and we finished the job. The 1st shot was not the kill shot but it got up and we smoked it. It was exhilarating to say the least.
