Cape Eland & Livingstone Eland Pictures

Eastern Cape 2024

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I hope to post a picture this Jun, I'll be hunting the Eastern Cape, and I've been seriously thinking of taking an Eland.
 
In August I put this old warrior out of his misery. He had been gored twice some time ago and badly infected. Screw-worms had eaten away his left ear. His teeth were gone and he was covered with ticks. Note the ribs sticking out and spine protruding.
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First shot with 404 at 196 meters exited his right shoulder. He still absorbed two more in the boiler room with entry wounds almost on top of each other before finally toppling.
 
Ontario Hunter said:
In August I put this old warrior out of his misery. He had been gored twice some time ago and badly infected. Screw-worms had eaten away his left ear. His teeth were gone and he was covered with ticks. Note the ribs sticking out and spine protruding.
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First shot with 404 at 196 meters exited his right shoulder. He still absorbed two more in the boiler room with entry wounds almost on top of each other before finally toppling.
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Well done in taking an old warrior. True conservation(ist) at work!
 
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In a conversation with my PH in Namibia I had mentioned I had never hunted an eland. He stops the Landcruiser and tells me to get the .300. I get out put my ear pros on, load the gun and follow him for about 50 yards. He puts the sticks up and tells me take this dark one, it is a good one and 200 yards out.

I aim and fire. It takes off. A hundred yards further we find it, dead with copious amounts of blood that have come out of its mouth.

Yes, it was a good one.

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This was not my finest shooting moment. He was about 200 yards and partially obscured. First shot from the .300WM sounded like a ricochet but I think it was the barnes bullet hitting his side and exiting and the petals making a whirling sound (anyone ever had that happen?). He was at a big quartering angle but I plumb missed the shot. Second shot went in behind the shoulder at the proper angle. Third shot I hit him back a bit while he was on a dead run. 4th shot when he was 3/4 turned away grazed his left side, taking hair off but no hide. 5th shot dropped him (neck into the head). I think the second would have killed him but he was still upright so I kept shooting. All shots 100-200 yards. It wasn't pretty sadly. He was/is a stud.

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ftrovato said:
Well done in taking an old warrior. True conservation(ist) at work!
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Thanks. I also took a nyala and warthog that were not long for this world. Warthog had no front teeth and nyala only one. Warthog was actually still not in too bad condition but with a dry summer projected it was almost surely doomed. The nyala was already in tough shape and missing most of its fur, especially on the right side. I also shot an old impala ram but he was still strong enough to maintain a harem. However, he'd been on that property too long. Time to move him along for herd integrity. Otherwise he'll start breeding his progeny. Shortly after loading up the nyala we saw a herd of I'm guessing 60-70 impala on the bluff in the background of this photo.
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A bachelor group of half dozen was on the fringe and among them was one ram that was absolutely incredible. The old impala ram I had already harvested was very respectable but that one blew it away! "We already have a full load with buffalo and nyala in the back. He will be waiting for you next year, Pat." Those guys think I'm made of money! :D I will have four impala skulls on the wall when this latest arrives. How does one arrange tasteful interior decor around five impala skulls without being redundant? Still, it is a temptation. However, finding that particular ram again on 167K acres is probably slim odds.

Anyway, at the lodge they were calling me the "grim reaper" by the time this safari finished.
 
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We were sitting near a waterhole hoping for a zebra when this eland came in to about 100 yards. I had traded guns with my friend. He took my 375 to go for buffalo and I had his 7PRC. I asked my PH Francois if a 7PRC would kill and Eland and he said I think so. It worked fine; he only went about 50 yards.
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I love eland hunting.
Here are some of my bulls hunted over years in Namibia with different rifles :
Blaser R93 in .300 Winchester magnum and Nosler Partition 220 gr.
Blaser R93 in .375 Holland & Holland magnum with Hornady Interlock 300 gr and Degol Starkmantel 300 gr.
Blaser R8 in .458 Lott with Hornady DGX bonded 500 gr and Degol Starkmantel 500 gr.
Tracking them through the thick bush and hearing the famous "click" is something so special.
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One of each. Both with borrowed 30-06’s

Cape eland rifle had a can on it. No way in hell I was letting that thing in the picture. :cool:

Livingstone eland taken in Mozambique
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Cape eland taken in Botswana

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