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Article: Leopard luck: Leopard hunters become the hunted during a nail-biting safari in the Okavango Delta.
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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It was a lazy afternoon in Botswana's Okavango Delta, and we were lolling in the back of the Toyota Hi-Lux. My wife, Kathy, had killed a red lechwe that morning, so we weren't really hunting--one trophy is plenty for one day. We did stop occasionally to shoot some francolin or guinea fowl, but mostly we were taking it easy in the warm African sun.
We were two kilometers from camp when one of the trackers shoved his arm between Kathy and Glen Munger, our professional hunter, pointing into the field of waving grass to our right as he spoke in rapid-fire Setswana. I assumed that he was pointing at a lion, which we were not hunting this trip, and expected to hear him ...
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