Hunting in the rainforest of Cameroon

The forest is beautiful. It is heavenly in boumba north. Big deep valleys with a carpet of 200 foot trees covers everythign escept the red soil of the roads opened by logging companies. Then the morning is aslo very cold and has clouds all over everything. It is wonderful. But then noon comes and it gets bloody hot and moucheron (flies) attack you like crazy. You just have to keep moving until evening comes. The rainforest is difficult but I am getting used to it. I am young so I can bend and get under the bush easily. Yesterday we chased a gian forest hog a higly sought after species but rarely gotten. We were crawlingon hands and knees for hours. It was as big as a small buffalo. SO HUGE. And it can tears dogs to pieces. Dogs can cathc them but the pigmies begged Guy to not use dogs cuz we still have many more hunts and the dogs won’t live after hunting the hog. This animal can crack its skull smashing into other giant forest hogs. It is tough. It charges as well. I am glad I have a 460 weatherby magnum to keep me safe. I don’t look forward to using it though. It is deafening 160db. And the recoil is likeno other gun. The heaviest gun available. It can shoot straight through an elephants skull head on and into the thrid vertebrae. Don’t mess with it. The cannon. But I know that with it, I can stop a charging elephant. I jst need to hold on and aim at the head. Even if I miss the brain (the size of a loaf of breat or football) the impact shocks it and brings it down to its knees and this gives me time to get away from the elephant and reload to blast it again. It is like war here with the wildlfie cuz they all charge. Gorillas, buffaloes, elpehants, hogs: giant forest and red riverhogs. One time we were walking and a gorilla charged throughteh bush and it was so terrifying. I saw the pigymes GONE. The client GONE. I only saw Guy and I could hear the goirlla coming straight towards us and the bush shaking and the LOUD LOUD yelling of this beast that could rip you from limb to limb. Guy pulls his double barrell 500 off his shoulder and blasts a shot off from the hip. BOOM like a cannon and it left. Retreated away. It must have been only 5 meters from us. One of the pigmies has a scar on his leg from a gorilla grabbign him. One time a gorilla caught the dogs when they were going after a wounded yellow backed duiker. The gorilla backed up to a tree as they normally do and one by one grabbed each barking dog by the snout and just twist with their massive hands and turn their faces into hanging cartilage and kill each dog. One dog had two deep holes in its neck and the gorilla just squeezed with one hand. They have long finger nails and it juste puncterd the dogs neck so deep. I think that dog died as well. The dogs do not have a good life here. They get fed a lot of meat but usually they are starved the day before the hunt to make them bloodthristy for wild meat.