Recent content by Norwegianwoods

The wounding percentages when bowhunting in America is for sure high and very high. If you look at the wounding percentage with bow and gun in Denmark, it shows that they are the same and much lower than the studies been done in America. In Denmark the wounding percentage is 5% both with rifle...

I agree Stocky. To me it sounds like they don't have much clue about what they are doing and their shooting skills are most like lacking a lot too.

My chronoed speed with this load is 2677 fps.

If you want to shoot one that is 58"+, the outfitter might buy a half tame one at an auction before your hunt and make a mock stalk for you to shoot it, and if he does, he will for sure not lose money on it. If those trophy prices will be the norm in South Africa in a not so distant future...

For sure! If I was to buy that hunt, I would shoot that Impala or Blesbok only, and then spend the rest of the days looking at the animals together with the PH and not even take the gun with me when doing so. Welcome to AH and good luck selling the hunt nwduckhunter, but I doubt anyone here...

Me too. We are planning on buying a new house next year, so I really can't do anything like this now, even if it is extremely tempting to use my Mastercard for this:D

Your hunt will not be during the rut then, but the bucks are busy defending their turf and eating, and you should see plenty of bucks if you hunt in a decent area. I love hunting Roe deer :)

My next hunt in Africa will most likely be in South Africa again. Most likely in either EC or Limpopo.

Welcome! :) Your setup is good. I advice against using different broadheads for different animals. Use one broadhead that works well for all. While mechanical broadheads work well for many African critters, they can bring you into a situation of a wounded/lost animal on some if you happen to...

I totally agree. And I would not accept him as my PH for the rest of my hunt.

Skull mount is the only way I want to have a baboon trophy done if I ever shoot one.

Sounds good :)

Yes, the distribution is good to avoid interbreeding, but if the density of bucks are very high in a large area, the younger bucks travel much longer and much more to find a place to settle down and this results in much higher risk of mortality. I have found that the number of young bucks in my...

I agree if your goal is to reduce the herd, then removing females is the most efficient method and I don't buy any claims of reducing the male population as a management tool to reduce the population when trophy hunting is your main goal. I don't know enough about whitetails to say anything for...

Well explained gizmo. From a pure conservation point of view when it comes to deer, it doesn't matter if you shoot some young bucks as it normally is more than enough bucks to breed the does. You might kill a future high scoring trophy, but that doesn't really matter from a conservation point of...