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Late in the hunt my ph asked me if I would shoot a cow kudu to be sent to the butchery. We got on a herd of old and young kudu and as they crested a ridge in light brush he told me to take one of the lead cows. 380 yards and they were onto us! No time to set up and talk about it or lean on...

Either bullet will be outstanding. Far more important than the projectile is where you put that bullet in the first place. The other guy in my camp was shooting the eldx from a .300 wm and his son a 150 gr hot core from a .270. They both loved what they were slinging but they also made their...

Skinners kept the bullet for me but I didn’t get to see the damage-only that it broke a rib on the way in. -It retained 108 grains

Bushbuck often also have a white spot on their faces and that white chevron as well. My bushbuck has a very subdued yellow chevron. Not sure if that is from age, but it does seem to vary from animal to animal

We drove from Kramburg and the north camp back to the main lodge in about four hours. It was cold and the wind was miserable and we figured there was little hope in hunting, but that is why we were here. . . Most the game was of course in sheltered pockets, but we saw plenty and were having a...

Nyala cows share the nightly fire with us

Have spent a couple days hunting bushbuck in the mountains that surround this area. Game4Africa owns a chunk of rolling steep slopes and valleys covered in speckboom and other life giving plants. The plan is to get to a high vantage point and glass until we find one then stalk to the opposite...

some guys from Australia in camp-he also took a great bull and is doing some fine shooting. I’m on day six or seven-have lost track entirely but have completed my list and then more. Some outstanding animals. Had opportunities to hunt in a working sheep farm as he had excess ostrich and a...

not a woman-We have hunted buffalo for a couple days in a couple places. Tried to track an old bull but got messed up by a herd of zebra one morning. Stalked a couple bulls in a thick steep canyon. Borderline shooter and we decided to wave off and let him age-most things finer with age! One...

One of the Damaliscus tribe of antelopes if that helps🤣. I had killed a red hartebeest on my first trip and was going to try another one. My ph told me they had a new concession with lots of red hartebeest as well as Tsessebe. I decided to hunt something different and picked them over big...

After our quick morning with the Tsessebee, we were able to drop him off and go back out looking for impala or mtn reedbuck. We found female reedbuck but no rams. Somehow spotted a group of impala rams-all shooters and several of them were very big. Played cat and mouse in the thick brush...

We moved from the main lodge to a somewhat new property they have been working on. Farther north and higher in elevation-in the kramburg mtns on the border of Free State. All plains game here but lots of variety and some real old males. This is flat and grassy valleys with lots of water to...

Never Been there in November but I suspect it to be hot. I’m sure you’ve worked out all the specifics with your ph. This morning we saw sable, lots of eland and a single roan bull-as well as most of the common plains game. No buffalo on the property we are currently hunting-

Redemption you say!?

I read a fair amount. Often check used book stores for random hunting related books. This one was a good find!

I didn’t go to the skinning shed as I sometimes do to see how a bullet performs as they remove the organs. Organs are kept here to sell to the butchery for food. So I didn’t get to see what the bullet actually struck. But we did get it on film which I understand will be in my possession around...

An early start as we are hunting buffalo today. Fried eggs, the good bacon, toast juice and the regular accompaniment. Everyone here runs on coffee except me, and I like the orange juice. Took my .375 wby with 300gr A Frames, leupold 1-6 with an illuminated dot in the center of the...

5 a.m. in the east cape and I am wide awake. I struggle with jet lag every trip. I was glad to have my second rifle. Any good ph should have a loaner/renter in camp to borrow just in case your ammo gets lost in transit or your stock gets broken or catastrophic scope failure or whatever. The...

First morning of hunting in South Africa. I’m in the eastern cape with Game4Africa Safaris. I’ve hunted here before several times and was lured back again with a cape buffalo package which included a kudu and an impala and a nicely discounted rate. I added some animals to that original...