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By Dan Bolek
He plays cat and mouse with a hippo in the Luangwa River. He takes aim at a croc from an unbelievable distance and the shot he executes on a leopard is simply one you won`t want to miss.
It seems like every time I think Marc Watts, "The One Shot Guy," can`t possibly top his last video, he proves me wrong. His latest offering, "Double Down: Zambia`s Perfectly Shot Dangerous & Plainsgame," covers a 14-day safari that has as many twists and turns as the Luangwa River.
Watts` new video not only proves that he`s back and better than ever, but it proves that Zambia is once again a premier destination for serious safari hunters.
The former network newsman, now turned marksman, picks up in the "new Zambia" right where he left off in South Africa a year ago, in his onslaught of African game. This time around Watts doubles up on five species, including cape buffalo, hippo, lechwe and puku.
And Watts` shooting is even more impressive in this video. There`s a hippo brain shot from 90 yards, a kudu from 200 yards, and a crocodile kill shot from 140 yards away. (Yes, 140 yards.) There`s also two lechwes, killed from 200 and 275 yards away. And in all of these kills, the animals are eliminated with one precision shot. In fact of the 19 kills that I saw, 17 are made with one dead-on shot, and all but one make the record book.
On this ground-breaking safari Watts is guided by famed professional hunter Peter Chipman, who survived a lion attack in 1999. Chipman`s specialty is big cats so it`s no surprise the video`s climax is a leopard hunt. And as you`ll see, for awhile there it didn`t look like it was going to happen.
When the big cat does arrive, there isn`t any mystery about what will happen when Watts gets the green light from Chipman to "take him?" As the "One-Shot Guy" describes it on the video, "failure at this moment is not an option."
And then, just when you think the drama is over Watts pulls a shot out of his gun bag of tricks on a buffalo that even stuns Chipman! Without watching "Double Down" this guide wouldn`t have believed the story of how Watts killed the buffalo. But I did see it. And I even hit the rewind button to make sure my eyes weren`t deceiving me. But it`s there, all in real time, which has become a trademark of Sable Trail`s videos. No re-creations and no staging.
With no pun intended, "Double Down: Zambia`s Perfectly Shot Dangerous and Plainsgame" is a can`t-miss, surefire hit. It`s a video the Zambian government should be especially proud of and one that any safari hunter will enjoy. No doubt it`s a release that will go down as a classic for many years to come.
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