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Day 6 and 7. Both days we are hunting zebra. On the stalk of day 5, 6, and 7 we hiked 6-10 miles per day. On day 7, we spotted Zebra mixed in with wildebeest. Both animals are exceptionally skittish. After a lot of effort, we stalked a large older stallion, set up the sticks. One last time...

Day 4. We switch rifles to the 300 wsm. We spot a nice blue wildebeest in the shade of a tree and stalk to about 40 yards. Set up sticks, they were unstable for me. The wildebeest with a nice broadside facing right. I take my eye off of it to stablize the sticks and take off the safety...

Day 3. Rain is over for the rest of the week. Manla, the tracker, joins us. Conrad says, “lets go find a buffalo”. We spend a good part of the day looking by truck. Then, in at the afternoon, we see tracks leading into thick bush. The buffalo track more or less in a line. So we did a wide...

Still Day 1, still raining, heading into the afternoon when Conrad says, “there is a massive Waterbuck, do you want to shoot it?” To which I reply, “sure” which was a more of a American slang way to say yes, with some uncertainty as to what I meant, but that cleared up quickly as we got out of...

So we arrive at Mpeti about 2:30pm and go right to the range where we sight in the 416 and 300 WSM. All is good, then we go out looking for animals. There was a slight drizzle. Not much happening that afternoon, so back to the comfortable lodge where we had a great dinner and some nice brandy...

Thank you Fatback. The quality of the animals is the direct result of the high standards of Conrad Fick. He will pass on an inferior animal and put even more work in to get an animal that you can be proud of. This was my first African hunt. When I had a video conversation with him 6 months...