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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And without rifles.
I agree with you completely, and I bet if you could tell him that he was going to check out this way he would have probably shrugged and just smiled.
Just like Brodie at the end of Point Break had.
Yep. The Tuscaloosa.
I hunt in New Hampshire.
I shot a whitetail buck on my property last November.
After processing I have over thirty pounds of meat
Filets, steaks,roasts, sausage and burger
There is no GMO or additives in any of the meat
It is grass, acorn, bushes, corn, bird seed, etc meat.
There were almost no ticks on this deer either.
It is much better than ANYTHING I could buy in a store.
It didn’t come from some beef processing plant in KC.
With God knows what crap to make the cow bigger.
“African elephants are the largest living mammals….”
No, they aren’t.
L
It happened to Elizabeth Taylor at the end of the movie Elephant Walk.
Right through her big fancy house in India.
Thank you.
Ignorant punks have no idea how this works.
L
Thank you, too.
L
Are the elephants going to be okay, Uncle Lar?
You are from the Chicago area….
L
Trampled by turtles
Elephants are not stupid. There is a very good chance they realized what this entitled a-hole was up to and decided to put an end to it.
Same thing could have happened at an ICE protest ... or at the Democrat Convention, for that matter.
Seems he may have gotten a taste of justice since some of those animals had no reason to be hunted except to satisfy an ego.
Wonnful nortwest side of Chicago, not just the area!
I know a lot about hunting. As in the two-legged type carrying automatic weapons.
I have a student that culls (shoots) excess deer here in Virginia each year and he gives me two for a Christmas present. After testing for disease, processing and packaging, and freezing, the cost for the two deer run around $500! It is a fine gift and much appreciated. Mostly, I get packages of burger, loin steaks, stew meat and some breakfast sausages. Sometimes, I will request some of it made into jerky. I spend the next year making pots of venison stew and curry, which I refreeze. Life is good.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Neither ignorance nor arrogance are limited to specific generations (see my post #80)...
;^)
West burbs since 1972.
The glory days of AM radio.
L
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