270Buck
AH senior member
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2015
- Messages
- 65
- Reaction score
- 58
- Location
- England
- Media
- 29
- Member of
- BASC
- Hunted
- England, Scotland & Wales - Muntjac, Chinese Water Deer, Roe, Fallow, Sika Red, Goat, Soay Sheep, Wild Boar, Holland - Wild Boar, Germany - Wild Boar, Czech Republic - Mouflon, Spain - Ibex, South Africa - Various PG, France - Chamois, Majorca - Balearean Boc, Kyrgyzstan - Mid Asian Ibex
My first kill in SA to christen my 7mm Rem Mag. A cull impala, the shot was taken off a bipod at 270 yards. I am going to get a flat skin to put on my trophy room wall or ceiling.
This is one of the 5 extractions we did for female impala culls. My trackers KB and Albert carried out most of them, but I insisted on helping for some of them. The shots were between 100 and 387 yards.
Albert and me with one of the female impala culls.
Me and my PH Sirk with the mornings bag.
I wanted a kudu as a flat skin and the camp wanted some good meat. We got to within 80 yards of 4 cows and calves, I could only see their heads and was confident with the shot.
My first trophy animal of the trip, this will be shoulder mounted. My girlfriend also came on the hunt to share the experience with me. The shot was taken standing off sticks at 125 yards.
We stalked into 50 yards of numerous female bushbuck and young males, but there was no trophy animals amongst them. We starting heading back to the truck to get some lunch. On our way Albert spotted this male bushbuck laying under a tree at 304 yards. Sirk took one look at him and said to shoot him, the bushbuck must have known something was up. He slowly stood up and starting making his way back into thicker cover. He was quartering away from me, as the ram was moving I put the crosshairs on the very front of his chest and squeezed the trigger, the bullet entered 4" behind the shoulder and exited right on the shoulder, his tail flicked up he did a circle and fell no more than 5 yards from where he was couched down!!
This was the number 1 animal on my list, I am soooooo proud of it. One of the most beautiful cape bushbuck I have ever seen from hundreds of photos I have looked at. Even the PH's back at camp said it is very rare to shoot a cape bushbuck with 6 spots on its flanks. I really wanted to get a full mount done, but my girlfriend would not have been happy!!! So a shoulder mount and a back skin is what I will be having!! I am now hooked on bushbuck, the one on the list for next time is the chobe!!
The following day it poured with rain!! They had 5" of rainfall in just over 24 hours. The springbok were still out feeding however. I managed to shoot this ram at just under 200 yards, standing off sticks. My girlfriend videoed the shot, when I have time I will also upload the video.
The next morning I was back out looking for a cull warthog. The warthog in this area I was told do not tend to get massive tusks, as the soil is very stony and rocky they grind their tusks down as quick as they grow. So my next trip to Africa a trophy warthog will be at the very top of the list.
For the remaining one and a half days I was wanting a trophy common/grey duiker. We sat and glassed an area that was know to have duiker, we spotted one moving through the bush. We tracked him for a few hundred yards, he then popped out from behind a bush at 150 yards. I did not deploy my sticks quick enough before he disappeared as quickly as he appeared!!! We tried again the next morning, but did not see any moving as it was quite a hot sunny day. I decided that my last afternoon relaxing by the pool with a few drinks would be a good way to end the trip.
On the way back to camp there was a tortoise on the road. I got out to move it, it was at least 50lb in weight. When I picked it up it hissed. When I got close to take photos it hissed and chomped its mouth!!
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