World’s most dangerous animal - easily!

Hey Guy’s,

About 3 months ago I was diagnosed with severe acute hepatitis. This means for the last 3 months and the next 6 or 7 months I will be off work. Bummer! But this also means that I have been watching a lot of the discovery channel and doing heaps of reading and I think I have discovered without a doubt what the worlds most dangerous animal is… the aussie saltwater crocodile.

This bad boy is a mutha! To get the ball rolling they reach a size of up to 20 feet long and some people think they can reach 25-30. His arsenal of weaponry includes claws, teeth, tail, speed, power, element of surprise and to top it off he’s armour plated!

Even though they are called the saltwater crocodile they will quite happily live in freshwater and can be found wandering where there is no water at all looking for bigger or better waterholes. More than a few people have been attacked while swimming in freshwater creeks and billabongs thinking they were safe. The aboriginal people are frequently attacked but these are seldom reported and don’t often make headlines. Oh and if you see one on the bank and think you can outrun it, the legs on a fully grown croc are nearly as big as a mans and they possess incredible speed at short distance. About the only thing these SOB’s cant do is fly!

After WW2 in Oz there was not much money or work, so to support their families men (with the help of their trusty cut down .303 sporter) became pro croc shooters. The skins were worth a premium and the crocs took a hiding. In a couple of decades they had become endangered. (Macca being a pro shooter would undoubtedly have more info and knowledge on this subject than I.) When the crocs became protected their numbers dramatically rose so at present they are nearly as prolific as when they were in the ‘50’s. Due to being protected the croc’s have lost their fear of man and up north are constantly invading suburbia even taking pets out of backyards.

So there you go, Oz has some of the most dangerous snakes, fish, spiders and invertebrates on earth but the saltie croc has to be the baddest of the lot. I don’t think any other animal alive is more dangerous or terrifying.

What do you guys think?

Russ.

 

klallan, Ha! Ha! Ha!

No mate just sharing info! It just spun me out when I was reading 'bout them what a bad arse they really are!

P.s You yanks know you're welcome, but the poms and Canadians...... LOL!

Russ.

Hey fellows...
A number of years ago, I think about 1986, I shot a 16'2" alligator with my bow and arrow. I had a friend that owned 700 acres of swamp land and he got 7 permits each year. He said that I could shoot one as long as he got the hide to sell.

It was actually a really tough hunt. We poled our way through the marsh in a 16' jon boat. We would try to sneak up on gators but it was pretty tough. On the last morning of the hunt, I wacked this prehistoric critter and the fight was on. I had made my own arrow out of a fixed blade broadhead, I welded one heavy barb on the ferrel. I used a cedar arrow shaft that weighed about 800-grain. The law said that you had to use a minimum of 50' of 100 lb. test line. I used 50' of parachute cord. I had a sealed 5 gallon bucket close to the end of the cord and then it was tied on to the bow of the boat.

Anyway... I wacked that monster right in it's pea brain and it went crazy. It started to roll in the water, winding the boat right up to it. It went to the bottom of the river and the boat tipped up on end. Things where getting pretty exciting because about a hundred other gators came running. I took my knife and cut him loose.

The wait began and it took about 8 hours but the bucket popped to the surface and he was right behind it deader than a hammer. We drug him to the check station and the biologist told me that he was about 75 years old. Hell, I felt like I had shot my granddad. Never went gator hunting again.

In Africa the croc are just as bad.  Hippos are the most likely to kill you if you are a native.  But the crocs are everywhere the hippos are and the hippos seem to give them a wide pass.

In Za the crocs are in the large rivers like the Zambezi and the dammed up lakes, all fresh waters.  But they are also in the small streams.  Some days you cross a pools bridge and dozens of native women are on the rocks below washing clothes, a pretty sight.  A week later you pass and there is no one at noonday.  A croc has grabbed a meal.  After a few days the ladies slowly return, no birth or death records kept.

One day in late summer one year I was hunting along a river that was like most there, seasonal.  No flow along the wide sandy riverbed.  Where the river cut thru a rock path, there were some stagnant pools between the boulders I was using as a bridge.  I started to clean the tread on my boot in a 1-inch deep puddle on the flat top of one of the boulders.  As I moved, I started to think, "How come this small puddle is here, it is hot and dry?"

Talk about stupid white man!  I then saw the water trail from the puddle to the pool.  As I moved 'briskly' away from the small pool (about 10 foot diameter) I saw the swirl of the big croc that called that stagnant pool home.  A few days later when in the area again, I revisited that pass and from about 50 yds away with binocs I would see that 7+ foot croc sunning himself on the same boulder.

Friends tell me that the crocs get stranded in the river pools in the summertime and slowly eat all the fish in the pool (mostly bottom cats).  But they get more aggressive as the food runs out.  If they get real hunger they come out and walk upstream to the next pool.  If the pool is occupied, only one croc survives.

I hate snakes, especially poisonous ones, but crocs are terrifying besides being dangerous.

I've never been down-under, but I vote with Nofx.

BEAR

 

macca,

It has slowed down my trip to Africa but not stopped it! It has set me back 'bout 9-10 months but hell it could've been worse! Thanks for your support mate - much appreciated.

Bear, I don't reckon that there would be much difference between the Oz crocs and the ones in Africa. They are both big, both fast and both eat people! And from what I've been told once they grab ya, you can hear the fat lady warming up her voice.

Russ

NOFX;

You poor innocent!  "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."  The American mountain men most feared those Indian tribes that gave the captives to the women.  I don't think you've gone through a divorce either.  Of course, neither have I, but I've watched several.  The liberal militant female divorce lawyer is a truly blood-curdling beast. 

If a female croc ever gets her law degreee from NYU & converts to Judaism, we're all dead men.

900F

I was reading a story related by a well known gun writer from Texas,,if I could remember him you would recognise him,,that while in africa he was hunting with a guy from calif. or texas or somewhere out west,,that had elephant balls,,i.e,,. he was hunting a croc that had really been raising hell with a certain villiage in the concession they were on,,and it was so wary that they could never sneak up on it so this guy gets in the watery mud that the croc hid in and from about 1/4 mile down stream,,slid thru the muck on his belly into rifle range,,a 270 on a Mauser with tape over the muzzle and plastic baggies over the scope,,then they had a villiager come not so close to the stream,,but got the croc to move enough to give his position away to the rifleman. The guy set up behind a small log and touched one off.The whole area exploded with crocs of various sizes at the shot,,,the monster croc,,4 1/2 meters long and VERY HEAVY,never moved.Afterward as he was congratulated,,the hunter said if he had know there were other crocs around he would never have done it..I dont know about you but I wouldn't care if it was only one,,I'm not going eye to eye with anything that even THINKS it's big enough to eat people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ISH-KA-BIBBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!!!!!!!for me I mean,,I didn't get this old and broke-down by puttin' my butt in the sling,well,,not too often anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BE WELL PAL.        UP THE REBELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!