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Article: Leopard's Revenge! A WOUNDED CAT TAKES DOWN TWO MEN IN A FIGHT TO THE DEATH.(Features)
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- Outdoor Life
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Byline: John B. Snow
In the fading light of the last day of a two-week safari, Doug Hidden figured that he and his client were finally about to catch a break. They had spent the better part of the hunt trying to tempt a leopard into gun range without success. The haunches of waterbuck and kudu that had been hung in various trees to ripen in the strong African sun had attracted plenty of attention, but from the wrong kind of cat. Lions had been worrying the baits, and with the big cats around, the leopards, reclusive by nature, had become extremely skittish.
For three evenings Doug and his hunter had sat in this particular blind overlooking the flat ...