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2025-08-07 -Obits-

Texas Millionaire Dies in Buffalo Attack / X

[X] Asher Watkins, a 52-year-old Texas millionaire, died after being gored by a Cape buffalo during a hunting safari in South Africa's Limpopo Province. The incident occurred on a 50,000-acre reserve where Watkins was tracking the animal, known for its size and speed. Authorities confirmed the death as accidental, with no foul play involved.

More from the New York Post, with the usual photos, courtesy of Besoeker:

A millionaire Texas ranch realtor was gored to death by a massive buffalo that he was stalking while on a hunting trip in South Africa, according to reports.

Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3-ton Cape buffalo in Limpopo on Sunday when the beast charged at him, killing him instantly, Coenraad and Vermaak Safari, which organized the trip, told multiple outlets.

The buffalo was not wounded, the safari said.

"It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we confirm the tragic death of our client and friend Asher Watkins from the USA," Coenraad and Vermaak Safari said in a statement to Metro.

Posted by Fred 2025-08-07 01:03|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [226 views ] Top

#1 "Hunting" a cow?
I don't get it.
Sometimes you get the cow, and sometimes the cow gets you.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-08-07 02:50|| 2025-08-07 02:50|| Front Page || Comments Top

#2 No mention of the Coenraad and Vermaak's PH (Professional Hunter) back-up shooter. Perhaps Watkins decided to go it alone.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-08-07 06:03|| 2025-08-07 06:03|| Front Page || Comments Top

#3 I believe he's the one who attacked the buffalo.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-08-07 09:07|| 2025-08-07 09:07|| Front Page || Comments Top

#4 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The cow wasn't playin'.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-08-07 10:52|| 2025-08-07 10:52|| Front Page || Comments Top

#5 Didn't Ruark consider the Cape Buffalo the most dangerous big game hunt?

Travel in herds, wildly unpredictable, hang out in vision limiting vegetation, and very difficult to take down cleanly.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-07 11:26|| 2025-08-07 11:26|| Front Page || Comments Top

#6 Sometimes you get the cow, and sometimes the cow gets you.

Sounds like Saturday night, 'last call'.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-07 13:18|| 2025-08-07 13:18|| Front Page || Comments Top

#7 Millionaire won the toss and elected to receive.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-08-07 13:24|| 2025-08-07 13:24|| Front Page || Comments Top

#8 I just woke up. I figured this would be about the city in New York.

Africa: a continent with lions, leopards, hyenas, cobras, and crocodiles. But statistically, the hippopotamus kills more people than all of those, right?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-08-07 13:27|| 2025-08-07 13:27|| Front Page || Comments Top

#9 The buffalo was not wounded, the safari said.

Don't mess with ~~Texas~~ Limpopo.

Posted by Melancholic 2025-08-07 14:48|| 2025-08-07 14:48|| Front Page || Comments Top

#10 In Death In The Long Grass, Capstick said that he thought the Cape Buffalo was the most dangerous animal in Africa. It's blood is naturally hyper oxygenated; you can shoot it through the heart, and it can still run thirty yards to administer the 'ol "stick and stir."

Sometimes you eat the steak. Sometimes the steak eats you.

Posted by Secret Master 2025-08-07 15:14|| 2025-08-07 15:14|| Front Page || Comments Top

#11 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
-Hemingway-

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-07 18:40|| 2025-08-07 18:40|| Front Page || Comments Top

#12 "Cows! Why is it always cows?"
-- Neville Flynn, Cows on a Plane"

Posted by SteveS 2025-08-07 18:50|| 2025-08-07 18:50|| Front Page || Comments Top

#13 "I'm tired of these MF'n cows, on this MF'n plain!'
/Samuel Jackson

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-07 20:06|| 2025-08-07 20:06|| Front Page || Comments Top

#14 In my limited experience (2 big game hunts - SA and Namibia), the PH guides all said the Cape Buffalo was the most dangerous of the Big 5. Those animals are massive and will actually stalk humans by backtracking or setting an L-shaped ambush. Takes 5 shots on average to bring 1 down.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2025-08-07 20:17|| 2025-08-07 20:17|| Front Page || Comments Top

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