Posted on 04/24/2026 4:54:55 AM PDT by DFG
A millionaire US big-game hunter was ambushed and killed by five elephants whilst hunting small forest antelope in central Africa.
Californian vineyard owner Ernie Dosio, 75 - who owns a vast collection of exotic animal heads in trophy rooms at home - was trampled to death.
He was being guided by a professional hunter in the thick forest of Gabon on a £30,000 stalk for a shot at the elusive yellow-backed duiker.
Over the decades he has hunted elephants, leopard, rhino, buffalo and lion across Africa and back home in the US he has hunted almost every species of wild deer.
But the highly respected hunter's luck ran out last Friday while in the Lope-Okanda rainforest when his hunt stumbled into five female elephants with a calf.
African elephants are the largest living mammals and females can stand 12ft tall at the shoulder, weigh nearly four tons and run at speeds of up to 25mph
The startled elephant herd immediately charged Mr Dosio and his professional hunter.
The elephants were so well hidden in the dense undergrowth they appeared 'as if from nowhere' and the professional with the high-powered rifle was just flung aside.
He was seriously injured and lost his gun in the thick bush as the elephants attacked the terrified hunter with just a shotgun who was then brutally trampled underfoot.
A retired game hunter in Cape Town who knows the victim said: 'Ernie has been hunting since he could hold a rifle and has many trophies from Africa and the US.
'Although many disagree with big-game hunting, all Ernie's hunts were strictly licensed and above board and were registered as conservation in culling animal numbers.
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What leftist brainwashing? Hunting has risks. He took the risk. He lost.
IIRC, elephants have taken out whole villages. They are notorious killers.
Who knew lion and elephant is good eating?
“The elephants were so well hidden in the dense undergrowth they appeared ‘as if from nowhere’ “
Live by the sword; die by the sword.
‘F’ him...glad he’s dead!
He had it coming. I am not sad.
I wonder who got credit for discovering the English botanist with short 8in horns?
Don’t get your bubble wrap too tight.
Are you kidding...The guide would lie through his teeth to protect the hand that feeds him. I don’t believe a word...
All the meat from the animals he killed on the African continent was eaten.
“IIRC, elephants have taken out whole villages. They are notorious killers.”
Happened towards the end of every Tarzan movie.
Gross.
“He had it coming.”
Did he? Why?
Sometimes you get the bear, sometime the bear gets you.
Hippos are worse. Went on safari in South Africa and the guides/trackers only carried their rifles when they thought there were hippos in the area.
“He should have hunted elephants in Alabama...”
There, the tusks are loosa.
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