SOUTH AFRICA: MOZAMBIQUE: Off To Southern Africa With KMG & TMS & PPS

The pictures are not too bad, but I wish I had the big gun for some higher quality.

On one hand it is a pack unto itself and to carry it up here is a little too much.
 
Me thinks the blush on those two boys has much more to do with the amount of wine consumed before I ever showed up. I did not have a bottle count on them.

My two drinks and bed can not compete in this company.
Two drinks ?
How bigs the glass ?
 
Pictures look just like where I was at for the Vaal! I can't imagine trying for them with a bow! Your a better man than me Wayne! Wishing you the best of luck buddy!
 
Pictures look just like where I was at for the Vaal! I can't imagine trying for them with a bow! Your a better man than me Wayne! Wishing you the best of luck buddy!

Just crazier, not better. Thanks for the wishes.
 
Reading this is a fantastic education for those of us less experienced. Thanks a lot! Wonderful pictures and story.
 
Great pics Wayne. Photos never seem to be able to give the perception of how steep the mtn's really are. Not sure if it is just the scale of the photo or only 2 D and not 3D for our perception. Any time you see cliffs, then you start seeing the slopes below for what they really are. Your area reminds me some of where I got myTahr in NZ. Much steeper than it looks at first. Hope the vertigo goes away. Kiss of death trying to hunt those mins. Good luck. Bruce
 
Great pics Wayne. Photos never seem to be able to give the perception of how steep the mtn's really are.

Yip. I agree fully Bruce. I've hunted those mountains, and they are as hardcore as it comes.
 
Got warm under an electric blanket, got rehydrated and hit the slopes again this afternoon.
You can't keep a good man down or is it; You can not lock up the dim witted for long. :)

On the way up.
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Pinned down 214 yards Ahhhhhhh!
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Waited and waited and decided not to spook them and withdrew in our old footsteps. Another day.
Sat on the ground long enough to thaw the water out of the soil and soak my butt.


On the way down you have to watch your step.
Everything in the country is BIG. Twenty foot deep drainage channel.

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The scarier one was only 12 feet deep, but 24 inches across the top.
Ouch, if you fell in.

Ran into some Fuzzybok. Dropping twins everywhere.
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Time for bed. Tomorrow is another day and the Ghillie may be making an appearance in the morning!
I have been looking at the grass closely and the maker was spot on. It is going to be perfect.
 
Great pics Wayne. Photos never seem to be able to give the perception of how steep the men's really are. Not sure if it is just the scale of the photo or only 2 D and not 3D for our perception. Any time you see cliffs, then you start seeing the slopes below for what they really are. Your area reminds me some of where I got myTahr in NZ. Much steeper than it looks at first. Hope the vertigo goes away. Kiss of death trying to hunt those mins. Good luck. Bruce


Here's some 3D from Google

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Started the stroll at A and ended at A. Clockwise route.


This photo is taken backward toward A from 3/4 of the way to B. The little white dot on the horizon is the Bakkie. Note what appears to be a slight slope. That return trip up that slope took me 25 minutes. o_O
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This one is taken from B looking straight east to Jakarta.
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This one is taken midway between B and C on the outbound route.
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When I got to C I had about enough for the morning. Did not feel like being dizzy on the top of even steeper crap than I was already on. Climbed straight up the slope to head back on the return route.

Sure does not look like much on Google earth. This is BIG COUNTRY.
 
Yip. I agree fully Bruce. I've hunted those mountains, and they are as hardcore as it comes.

Had to steal this picture from KMG's website.
The proof he has been there and done that.
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Up in the dark and off to spot critters.

It did not take long.

Mountain Reedbuck we just walked by. No chance of getting close enough with the bow.
Rifle 224 yards.
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Then something interesting. A Bachelor Vaalie. Only one set of eyes watching you. It would be a nice change of pace.
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Left him for a later attempt with the Ghillie on and the chance of a surprise attack. :)


After scaring enough herds go reedbuck and Vaalies to load a transport truck (all in rifle range and a couple at extreme bow range) we came upon these fellows. Fallow Deer, a new kind of "Falli". :)

We actually saw him at first light but there were more important matters to attend to.
Picture taken at about 152 yards.

I got to within 105, but they made me with zero cover and no Ghillie on.
Awesome stalking experience on a totally weird trophy animal up here in the Mountains.
They run wild and free up here cruising over fences with abandon.
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Went for a walk down low up a river and looked at the mountain where I did my third Mtn Reedbuck stalk. Crawled through those steps. looks worse from below. Well, maybe not.

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Found that cats run around up here to.

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For the evening hunt I decided to sit where I thought that Bachelor might head down the Mountain toward a farm - rye.

The Shepherds decided to gather the sheep in my camp shortly after I was set. Oh, for the luck.
They use a whip. Some type of leather about five feet long on the end of a two foot stick.
It sounds almost exactly like a rifle shot. Made me duck when I heard the echo.

The Vaalie started down my drainage and made several attempts to get down but the shepherds persisted until almost dark.
The PH said he could not see me from his vantage point further up the mountain. Good news.

I spotted a few reedbuck between me and the Baakie so it was time to try the Ghillie on for size and see if it was worth the money.
Fooling a human eye, is one thing.

I move up into a basin ever so slowly. Not really stalking just a slow stroll.
The head cover was not on. Too hot, even in the cold.
I came into the small basin in the wide open, no crouching nothing. Walked right in.

There were two females and this young guy.
They stood and watched me.
I moved closer, took out the camera. Took pictures. Then took out the range finder, noted the distance. Put it away. Moved a little closer and took this picture.
Less than 48 yards. Too small to draw on him.

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Considering every Reedbuck, save one herd, left at pace when they spotted us. Anywhere between 240 and 530 yards they spooked and ran.

This Ghillie is like an invisible cloak.
WORTH EVERY LAST PENNY and the sweat and weight packing it.

What a way to end the day.... Damn that was fun.

The Ghillie at work.
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Well it looks like you are combining cardio work and hunting, damn I should have went and lost some weight
 
Your a better man than me sir. No way I'm going up the sides of those mountains.
 
Well it looks like you are combining cardio work and hunting, damn I should have went and lost some weight

You will add some belt notches if you stay up here I tell you.
 
Your a better man than me sir. No way I'm going up the sides of those mountains.


One more time today.
Going as high as we can go today. Where the big guys hide.
Here's hoping.

It's 0540. Rooster is crowing in the dark. This one is an idiot. He crows at 0200 as well. Almost became KFC the other night.
 
Morning! You are up quite early!
 
May the hunting gods be with you today!
 
Come Wayne, make us proud today!! We will fatten you up on some good sable fillets.
 
I hope today you find success!
 
Brickburn, I hope the weather is a little better your side of the hill, northern side the wind is howling, major chill factor, any vaalie with brains (normally huge brains) will be nicely bedded down seeking cover. Could be perfect for approach.
 

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