sestoppelman
AH ambassador
I thought it might be interesting for some to name their most important and valued trophy based primarily on desire, cost, and difficulty. Where and when did you hunt it? Can one still hunt it there? Can it be hunted anywhere in Africa now? I will start.
The trophy I hold in highest esteem is the Zambezi sitatunga I took in the Okavango of Botswana in 1990 with Vira Safaris and the late Willie Englebrecht as my PH. Two weeks in the delta hunting from a dry camp and a wet camp. Hunting from native dugout canoes called a makoro. Out on the water for several days, just me and two polers. Saw only a few sitatunga and only one shooter, the one I got. It was a fairly difficult hunt, part of the reason I rate it so high. Fantastic hunt I will never likely repeat especially in Botswana as it closed sitatunga hunting not long after I got mine, and of course recently stopped all but private land hunting at least for now, in favor of eco-tourism. Sitatunga can be hunted in other countries, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, western sitatunga in some parts of West Africa, and no doubt other places as well.
It was a costly hunt at the time as it was also a lion, and buffalo hunt. By todays standards it was cheap! You can read a more comprehensive story about this hunt in my articles on my profile I believe. Looking forward to hearing from others.
The trophy I hold in highest esteem is the Zambezi sitatunga I took in the Okavango of Botswana in 1990 with Vira Safaris and the late Willie Englebrecht as my PH. Two weeks in the delta hunting from a dry camp and a wet camp. Hunting from native dugout canoes called a makoro. Out on the water for several days, just me and two polers. Saw only a few sitatunga and only one shooter, the one I got. It was a fairly difficult hunt, part of the reason I rate it so high. Fantastic hunt I will never likely repeat especially in Botswana as it closed sitatunga hunting not long after I got mine, and of course recently stopped all but private land hunting at least for now, in favor of eco-tourism. Sitatunga can be hunted in other countries, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, western sitatunga in some parts of West Africa, and no doubt other places as well.
It was a costly hunt at the time as it was also a lion, and buffalo hunt. By todays standards it was cheap! You can read a more comprehensive story about this hunt in my articles on my profile I believe. Looking forward to hearing from others.