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[ Wisdom of the Hunt, 2013 - Chapter II ]
Guaranteed shot: kills from wild boar to rhinoceros.
Africa is the hunter's paradise, with plenty of big and dangerous game: lions, rhinoceros, buffaloes, etc. And all of them are not games you miss twice. As we say: you got one shot and it better works and it better works fast.
Therefore, to hunt these big animals, the hunters arm themselves with a weapon with a strong caliber of a violent strike. For example, using a thin caliber, under 0.30 inch, which will pierce the animal and go right through it, is rarely the correct choice. An impactful caliber is better, anything over 0.30 inch, so that you can pierce the game and knock it down.
One of the calibers recommended for this type of hunting is the .416 Rigby, an extremely strong and impactful caliber, specially invented for hunting large and dangerous animals in Africa. This caliber is so strong that if you are hunting a lion and do not hit the ideal spot, but close, it is guaranteed that the animal will go to the ground already dead just because of the shock of the bullet.
I want you to Understand that this applies to dangerous animals that pose a danger to the hunter, when he is hunting by foot. None needs one of these calibers to hunt a deer or an elk that we normally hunt on a stand.
In life there are also some serious problems, which pose danger to us and to other people (whether spiritual, social or even physical).
These problems are big and situations where you should not try half solutions. Problems where you should apply .416 Rigby approach.
Let's take an extreme example. Your husband has become an alcoholic, and when he drinks he yells at you or worse, he has already raised his hand at you or forced you to have sex. I know that the relationship is a bond, especially a father of your children, but cases like these almost always require a strong solution that does not allow for any reaction. If it was just raising your voice, especially after a conversation with him in which you said that if he did it again you would take action, take action: call his parents, friends, and confront the person in such a way that he has no way of reacting. “My son, we heard the nonsense that you are drinking and yelling at the mother of your children. We'll keep an eye on you now, so find a destination other than the bar.” Then, if addiction is set, and many times it is, the solution might be that you agree upon a fixed amount of drinking for a fixed time of the day and that’s the more you can give and you go, like the Russians said in WWII, not a step back.
In a less extreme, but equally valid example. Imagine that you are in a relationship that is already lasting much longer than normal, but that has not taken the next step: marriage. A teenage boyfriending you for two, three years is fine, it’s something that can be understood because of context. A young man boyfriending you for four years it’s fine, he might be getting mature about a man’s proper duties. But an adult, with a fixed job, both of you, and it got to the fourth year and no preparation of “If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it”, you know he’s bullshinting you.
And maybe that’s a cause for the mighty 416 Rigby. Call him, sit down to talk decisively and go “Look, we dated for four years, not four months. I was your caring and helpful girlfriend for all this time. I invested in this relationship, and I never hid it from you that I wanted the papers signed. If you need a house, let's work together for one, if you need a better income, let's combine our two and if it's missing, we'll face the lack of it and go after more money together, and don't even fuck me with that ‘I need more time to be sure’ because if the time we've been together wasn’t enough that, I need find someone who decides faster, because I'm not going to be one of those women you men leave after years of boyfriending to marry without any problem a year-long-date younger blondie”.
Note that in the two examples we gave, not solving it right away is a risk. You risk allowing your boyfriend to find yet another excuse to buy more time, such as “we get married after we find a house for us” and in the end the process of finding that house takes a year because “he wants the perfect house ”. You risk, by not taking action with an abusive drunk husband, getting a worse beating.
The Rigby shot, as difficult as it may seem to pull that trigger, is often the only proper solution. Make it fast, make it hurt less. One more year to get married?! You do not deserve it. Surely there's someone special out there who won't love you. Get spanked again by that motherfucker?! You do not deserve it. Surely there is someone special out there who will kiss your body like something sacred.
A buffalo hunt in Africa is not a bird hunt in grandpa's yard. It's a serious hunt. With consequences if you miss your shot. Likewise some things in life. Not every single one of them, I know. But some things are very serious. It's not like the dilemma of choosing between pants or a skirt for that Sunday dinner at your parents' house. Your future can remain bad, change for the worse or stop changing for the better if you don't make a firm decision.
Of course, analyze, think twice about advice people you trust the most give to you, do not listen only to a single informant, but try to confirm when it comes and it’s gotta be that .416 rigby?
