[tcuoohjohn]

Not gonna work... Big Game Hunters ain't got the balls for it. Most big game hunters like the illusion of danger but not the reality. To use a dart gun requires that you get very close. Under 60 yards. Screw it up and the distinction between the hunter and the hunted gets reversed.

Our very distant ancestors knew what hunting really was. They went after big game with spears and rocks. It was no game to them wearing fru-fru hats and using high velocity rifles. For them the prize was life not ego. Failure didn't mean low self esteem it mean't death.

[Centurion2000]

Not gonna work... Big Game Hunters ain't got the balls for it. Most big game hunters like the illusion of danger but not the reality. To use a dart gun requires that you get very close. Under 60 yards. Screw it up and the distinction between the hunter and the hunted gets reversed.

Try hunting an elephant with a pistol. No balls ? You pait with too broad a brush there slick.

[Prodigal Son]

Most big game hunters like the illusion of danger but not the reality.

And you know this how? How many big game hunters do you actually know?

[giant sable]

Most cape buffalos, elephants and leopards (that's three of the big five, and I suspect it is also true for rhinos as well) are shot at less than 60 yards -- because of the trajectories of the big calibre guns, the nature of the hunts, and most of all because of the need to make sure such very dangerous animals are really dead. As I've written here before, I shot a cape buffalo at less than forty yards -- in the heart, and he still ran a long ways (luckily, the other way) and still almost managed a charge when I got up to him. For that reason, I suspect most darting of really dangerous big game is done from blinds or trucks. In the case of rhinos, who are almost blind, stealh is everything. Walk up and dart a cape buff at 50 yards and, if he sees you, he will kill you -- or die from the massive dose you need to drop him in his tracks.
As for calling big game hunters cowards, I'll leave you to your opinion. I will note, however, that our ancestors were just as happy to poison big game, drive it off cliffs, or worry it to death with a dozen hunters as to face it down alone with a spear.