Hungry Hungry Hippos

[CAJUNLAWYER]

So many questions.
Why gun do you use to hunt Hippos?
How do you hunt them-decoys or pass shooting-night or day-on water or on land?
Is is hippopotamuses or hippopotami?
How do you sterilize these suckers without making then mad?
How do you cook them?
What do they taste like?


Pablo Escobar'''s hippos have invaded Colombia'''s waterways and need to be culled, study says

[Rustyt1953]

I always wanted one for Christmas.

[vt_shooter]

Originally Posted by Rustyt1953

I always wanted one for Christmas.

They're so cute and cuddly ...

[muddocktor]

According to this page, the taste is "It is my personal opinion that hippo meat is one of the finest of game foods … The taste is mild, less than lamb and more than beef, slightly more marbled than usual venison. It tastes exactly like, well, hippo.”

[S42N8]

Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

So many questions.
Why gun do you use to hunt Hippos?
How do you hunt them-decoys or pass shooting-night or day-on water or on land?
Is is hippopotamuses or hippopotami?
How do you sterilize these suckers without making then mad?
How do you cook them?
What do they taste like?


Pablo Escobar'''s hippos have invaded Colombia'''s waterways and need to be culled, study says

1. Anything rifle caliber that ends in Rigby, ‘tho the .275 may be a wee bit light for the application.
2. Go where the hippopotami are. Also where the hippopotamuses are. (Or the wild things...)
3. See #2.
4. 😂😭. Wikipedia says it’s $50K per hippo. Seems like a lowball figure to me.
>>>>>>>rimshot<<<<<<<<
5. First, build a really big fire...
6. 🐔

You’re welcome!

And all this for the “cocaine” hippos Pablo imported? Rep. Broussard would approve.....

[Xfuzz]

"Taste just like Chicken"...

[SAFireman]

Well.....put an advertisement in the weekly Cajun rag.


Tell 'em dey taste jus like gator, no license required, 22 is OK, and jus choot'em

[ditrina]

WHY??? WHY do I get these posts

[steelslaver]

Read Capsticks description of the sporting method to shoot hippos. Basically he recommends using a big bore rifle, coming up as close as possible in shallow water until the herd bull charges you at about 25-40 yards. Then as it approaches like a freight train with its mouth gaping open and those 4 huge tusks showing, carefully shoot it right in the adenoids and break its spine before it reaches you. Sounds like fun. Don't miss.

[Salty RI]

Originally Posted by Xfuzz

"Taste just like Chicken"...

I was going to say that.

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[Bugkiller99]

Originally Posted by ditrina

WHY??? WHY do I get these posts

Cuz ya just darn lovable! And lucky!

[Sevens]

Originally Posted by Rustyt1953

I always wanted one for Christmas.

Whenever friends gathered and we played, we carefully removed the chomping hippo heads. This left each player with a neck and a hole in the board. It became four-way battle hockey. Each swipe with a hippo neck (well timed) would rocket a marble in a random direction at high speed.

The goal was to get as many in to other players’ ummmm hole

The only pitfall in game play was that keeping your hippo neck extended meant your goal could never be breached, so it was half honor system and half screaming at the cheater who was blocking his own hole.

Fun times!

[RobertJ.]

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool opatamus?

In memory of Mitch Hedburg.

[soFlaNative]

What would happen if the hippos, rhinos and elephants began cross breeding?
Helefino.

[soFlaNative]

Originally Posted by bushmaster1313

You could drop this one with a Zippo lighter and recover the meat already cooked

By the way, what's the difference between a hippo and a Zippo?
One's big and heavy and the other's a little lighter.

[s&wchad]

What does it taste like?

Elephino....

A cross between an elephant and a rhino!

[JcMack]

HLM .. Hippo Lives Matter

[Engineer1911]

I believe they shop at Wal Mart, almost always in the center of the aisle.

[swsig]

I once shot a hippo in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know.

[LoadedRound]

Originally Posted by vt_shooter

They're so cute and cuddly ...

Until they fart

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Originally Posted by mtgianni

Explain the problem to PETA and have them castrate the males and sterilize the females. Let them all hold hand, sing cumbyya and live in peace.

IIRC, they are some of the deadliest animals to man in Africa.

You don't want to mess with them in Walmart either

[gregintenn]

I wonder if their leather would make a serviceable pair of boots.



I once had a pair of elephant hide boots. Had them resoled two or three times. I finally got tired of looking at them. The uppers still looked like new.

[walkin jack]

When walking your hippo in public are you required to keep them on a leash and pick up after them?

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Originally Posted by ditrina

WHY??? WHY do I get these posts

Well YOU wanted to be a moderator......

[steelslaver]

Years ago the Fish and Game in Montana was holding public meetings about coyote control. Poison, shooting from airplanes and trapping were all discussed, when a woman stood up and asked why they didn't just sterilize them all. One old crusty rancher stood up and said,"Lady they are eating our sheep and calves not (having sex with) them to death."

[mod34]

Originally Posted by steelslaver

Read Capsticks description of the sporting method to shoot hippos. Basically he recommends using a big bore rifle, coming up as close as possible in shallow water until the herd bull charges you at about 25-40 yards. Then as it approaches like a freight train with its mouth gaping open and those 4 huge tusks showing, carefully shoot it right in the adenoids and break its spine before it reaches you. Sounds like fun. Don't miss.

...actually, at that point, if one does miss, I expect that they'll never know that they did!

[roguegamma]

Originally Posted by soFlaNative

What would happen if the hippos, rhinos and elephants began cross breeding?
Helefino.

Reminds me of a time years ago when someone released crocodiles along the coast during abalone spawning season. Scientists were baffled when the hybrid crockabalones started showing up.

[JcMack]

Originally Posted by gregintenn

I wonder if their leather would make a serviceable pair of boots.



I once had a pair of elephant hide boots. Had them resoled two or three times. I finally got tired of looking at them. The uppers still looked like new.

40yrs ago there was a Tony Llama store in the area. I must have bought 20 pairs there, most were seconds. The only ones I have left are the Elephant.

[Farmer17]

The sporting way to hunt hippos is to get between them and water then use a spear.

[crazyphil]

I crossed my hippo with a parrot. I don't know what it is, but when
it talks you better listen.

[Igiveup]

The ones I have eaten taste somewhere between a spotted owl and a bald eagle.

[Bugkiller99]

Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

So many questions.
Why gun do you use to hunt Hippos?
How do you hunt them-decoys or pass shooting-night or day-on water or on land?
Is is hippopotamuses or hippopotami?
How do you sterilize these suckers without making then mad?
How do you cook them?
What do they taste like?


Pablo Escobar'''s hippos have invaded Colombia'''s waterways and need to be culled, study says

I’m disappointed. I expected a new and improved update of Badger Badger Badger.

[dave1918a2]

Had one once. Divorced it.

[dave1918a2]

Originally Posted by Farmer17

The sporting way to hunt hippos is to get between them and water then use a spear.

Most dangerous place in Africa. Only if You are brain damaged and have a death wish.

[Bill Bates]

All joking aside; the hippopotamus is the world most dangerous and deadliest land mammal. According to some source they kill on average 500 people per year in Africa. Other source site they kill as many as 3000 people annually.

As an invasive species they are likely to become a real problem in South and Central America.

So maybe we need to start having a gun and cartridge for hippo protection thread. I'm wanting something bigger than a handgun, much bigger.

I think my Ruger M77 Hawkeye African 9.3x62mm with a Norma 275 grain solids might be about the minimum when hiking in Hippo territory.

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[Ugly Hombre]

"In 1910 an extraordinary conversation took place at the House of Representatives, when Congressman Robert F. Broussard of Louisiana opened up discussion of H.R. 23261, or to give it a more familiar title, the “Hippo Bill.”

The bill was designed to address a make or break issue for the future of America, namely the “Meat Question.” With a burgeoning population, the U.S. had eaten its way through the national beef supply.

The days of the cow seemed to be numbered, and hippopotami were being eyed as the next item on the menu.

There was a slight problem, however, in that they weren’t on the same continent as hungry Americans."

When hippos nearly saved America

The Hippos almost saved America..

To bad it did not come to be- watching Swamp People on TV catching Hippos would have been great.

And who knows how tasty Hippo would be when the Cajuns cooked um'?

[quikdraw67]

I think that I was hunting hippos that a Barrett M82A1 .50BMG would be my weapon of choice.

[Model52guy]

Surely the ladies in Franklin or St. Martinsville have a recipe for HippoGumbo???? If you can make gumbo with mud ducks,, Hippo’s shouldn’t be a problem.

[Golddollar]

Originally Posted by Bill Bates

All joking aside; the hippopotamus is the world most dangerous and deadliest land mammal. According to some source they kill on average 500 people per year in Africa. Other source site they kill as many as 3000 people annually.

As an invasive species they are likely to become a real problem in South and Central America.

So maybe we need to start having a gun and cartridge for hippo protection thread. I'm wanting something bigger than a handgun, much bigger.

I think my Ruger M77 Hawkeye African 9.3x62mm with a Norma 275 grain solids might be about the minimum when hiking in Hippo territory.

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Only 275 grain bullets? I think I would want my 45-70 Marlin with 500 grain solids.

[raisedin99]

When preparing to wash before cooking for goodness sakes stay away from their back ends...

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