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by
MARK SULLIVAN
Professional Hunter
- Running time: 62 mins.
- Ready For Immediate Delivery
I have been a professional hunter in Tanzania, East Africa since 1990; the year I made my first documentary safari film, Africa’s Black Death. Since its introduction to the world, Black Death has become the largest selling dangerous game hunting film of all time. The events depicted in that movie, more specifically the blood-on-the-shoes buffalo charge, have forever changed me life.
The movie legends are made of, Africa’s Black Death features over 20 buffalo kills either in complete hunts or in hi-lite footage along with three magnificently maned lion. Never before have audiences been entertained with so much great footage in a single movie. Black Death is forever a part of history.
Black Death was filmed in what has become the “famous” Moyowosi Game Reserve. But, back then the Moyowosi was a little known and seldom visited hunting block. On any given day I would routinely see 500 to a thousand buffalo in a days hunting. Great maned lion of 10 years of age and older were common and every client got one. Unique to the Moyowosi, the lions there seldom fed off a bait. Instead, because game was so plentiful, these big cats simply preferred “fresh” meat to any smelly “old” bait I might have offered.
The famous Black Death buffalo charge is a charge for all time. It was the morning of August 16, 1990 when my client Roy Barnes and I drove out from camp in what was to become one the greatest days of my life.
Rather than shooting the bull in the back as he lay on the ground, I realized I had been afforded the opportunity to practice dangerous game hunting my way. I would walk up and let the wounded Cape buffalo decide how he is to die. By doing so, I knowlingly and willingly was offering my life in return. One thing is for certain, you cannot walk up to a wounded and greatly pissed-off Black Death if you are not first prepared to die yourself. You can only do what I did then and as I have done every hunting season since, if you are prepared to pay the ultimate price; your very life on this Earth.
The Black Death charge is the ultimate hunters’ thrill. Enjoy it to the max, I have.
