Recent content by ThinusS

I hunt alone when I hunt myself, no tracker or backup. Obviously, when I PH, I have my client with me, but in this case, he/she is the hunter and I carry an appropriate rifle. I have never bow hunted, however, for a few years I hunted using a .357 magnum revolver with 4" barrel and open sights...

Welcome Sam. You hunt in a beautiful place.

As a PH, I offer clients, who do not bring their own rifles, a choice of 4 calibers, a 6.5 Creedmoor, a .30-06, a 9.3x62 and a .375 H&H for plains game hunting. The 6.5 CM and the .30-06 are the most popular. Both are supressed, which probably has something to do with it. If a client shoots the...

Out of the three you mentioned, I would go with the 120 CX. We run four 6.5mm Creedmoor's as camp rifles for game up to eland and including sable, amongst other calibers (.270 win, 7x57, 7x57 AI, .308, .30-06, 9.3x62 and .375 H&H). One of the 6.5CM's are fed 120gr CX and it works well. Provided...

Waterbuck has a reputation of being inedible. This is an old wife's tale. True, it needs to be skinned properly but if that is done, it is excellent. I regularly eat it, our staff regularly eat it, and we regularly serve it to clients from all over the world. On the last night of every hunt, we...

Welcome.

Congratulations, you took some excellent trophies! I shot my first buffalo in Coutada 14, back in November 2005.

Welkom Kieviet.

I have had close shaves with wounded gemsbok, warthog and nyala. A tracker of mine was treed by a wounded bushbuck. But at close range, just about any game animal can be dangerous, a vet I know was stabbed in the arm by an impala ram and I know of hunters who were injured by black wildebeest...

I have hunted two cape buffalo bulls, one each with the .375 H&H and the .416 rem mag. Both were clean one-shot kills, although both were given insurance shots. Bull shot with .416 rem mag moved less than 10 meters, bull shot with .375 H&H ran about 30 meters. So, that is the two calibers I...

I have hunted kudu successfully with the 6.5 Creedmoor, 6.5x55, 7x57, .30-06 Spr, .300 win mag, 9.3x62 and .375 H&H. Bullet construction, knowledge of kudu anatomy and shot placement are more important than caliber.

.375, 300gr Spoor Bullet Company bullet, recovered from a cape buffalo bull.

I photograped these two fighting three years ago.

We have ±200 sable in a 50 000-acre area that have a perimeter fence but no cross fencing. So, fenced in but in a rather large area. I often see two or three bulls together.

I have used mine, a Musgrave built on a VZ24 action which I bought back in 1988, to hunt duiker, steenbok, mountain reedbuck, springbok, impala, blesbuck, bushbuck, fallow deer, red hartebeest, black wildebeest, blue wildebeest, kudu, gemsbok, waterbuck, eland, warthog and a black backed jackal.