Post your top five biggest African animals!

[meigsbucks]

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

I only have 2, so…View attachment 524527View attachment 524528
The springbok is probably a “better” trophy, but I really enjoyed hunting gemsbok more.

I love hunting in red sand. Both the gemsbok and the springbok are very good trophies.

 

[Fatback]

I was able to take these animals last year in Namibia. Buff was 40 inches, sable was 43.5 inches, bushbuck was 16 inches and lechwe was 29 inches. Very pleased with all of them. Also killed a gemsbok, giraffe, nyala and baboon on that safari as well.

 

[375Fox]

View attachment 524584View attachment 524585View attachment 524587View attachment 524588I was able to take these animals last year in Namibia. Buff was 40 inches, sable was 43.5 inches, bushbuck was 16 inches and lechwe was 29 inches. Very pleased with all of them. Also killed a gemsbok, giraffe, nyala and baboon on that safari as well.

That’s just an unbelievable bushbuck. I’d take it over almost anything if had opportunity.

 

[Kelly G]

Dall Sheep - West Alaska 2007

Kudu 60" - Botswana 2019

Springbuck 14 1/2" - Botswana

Cape Buffalo - Zimbabwe 2022

Chobe Bushbuck - Matetsi Zimbabwe 2022

 

[Osama Mahdi]

At the last day, the last hour, at 11:00 pm. After 20 or more attempts.
I put his picture on my phone screen replacing my wife's and daughter's pictures.
She was not happy with my new love[emoji23]

 

[Osama Mahdi]

@Kelly G I sent you a message asking about your buffalo hunt.
Thanks

 

[randallhebert]

Two twelve foot and one thirteen foot alligators sept 23 on my commercial alligator tags. Taken with Limcroma aug 23, big old buff, 55 inch kudu, 36 inch gemsbok and good representation impala.

 

[Scott CWO]

Thanks guys. Really great stuff!

 

[fourfive8]

I think best 5 Africa according to RW

 

[CoElkHunter]

Eish....well done I retract my Mnt reedbuck.....

Don't retract it! Two years hunting it? "Size made no difference, only time, effort and preserverance". THAT makes it YOUR trophy! To HELL what anyone else thinks or cares! One my ONE African PG hunt, I too took a Mtn. Reedbuck. I couldn't tell you what it measured and I don't care because I worked for it.

 

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[M. Horst]

My favorite is my non typical waterbuck, but I guess these are my biggest, never put a tape on any of them except the kudu-and he was a monster cape kudu bull!View attachment 524549View attachment 524550View attachment 524552View attachment 524553View attachment 524554

That IS a monster Cape Kudu! Crazy deep curls. That’s a great Eland bull too. Well done.

 

[wesheltonj]

I only have two "biggest" African trophies.


Rowland Ward 14, Northern Cape

Rowland Ward 57, Northern Cape

 

[Trophyhunter01]

 

[CoElkHunter]

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Dall Sheep - West Alaska 2007

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Kudu 60" - Botswana 2019

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Springbuck 14 1/2" - Botswana

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Cape Buffalo - Zimbabwe 2022

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Chobe Bushbuck - Matetsi Zimbabwe 2022

Fantastic Kudu and Bushbuck!

 

[CoElkHunter]

My ONE African PG hunt:

 

[dfoster479]

46 1/2” sable

 

[Red Leg]

My best and favorite five .......

My first buffalo (almost 43") taken while wading around the Caprivi with Driese Alberts and Jamy Traut. One shot and dropped in his tracks. Always use enough gun! - 300 gr TSX from a .375 is just about perfect.

Two great Eland. The Cape Eland with Jamy on the same safari, and the Livingstone with Mashambanzou in Mozambique.

The 45"+ sable that I will never better with our own @spike.t Mike Taylor, @PeteG Peter Goneos, and Andrew Baldry at Takeri in Zambia. And the gold medal bull blue duiker taken with the same friends on the same hunt representing the culmination of a hunt for a mature bull with a rifle over 20+ days on three previous safaris in two different countries.

And a non African honorable mention. An ancient SCI gold medal Beceite Ibex from Spain, and my longest shot at a game animal.

 

[Scott CWO]

Some great animals being posted! It can be hard to decide on the top five and then how to rank them. Maybe I should have asked for the top ten! Anyway, here’s my attempt:

76 pound elephant

31” bongo

47” sable

30.5” waterbuck

15’ croc

Some others that could have made my top 5 were a puku, lesser kudu, suni and Kafue lechwe but hard to know how to rank them!?!