For me it’d have to be the spiral horns, kudu, eland, Nyala & bushbuck. I really enjoy hunting all of them. I’m leaving in a couple weeks for a buffalo hunt on the Savé Valley conservancy. It’s a buffalo only hunt but if I see a special bushbuck or huge kudu I may add them.
After this hunt, my next 3 hunts are all focused on spiral horns, albeit some are more specialized than others. This October in Zambia for Sitatunga. May of next year for Bongo & Forest Sitatunga in the Congo, then September next year for kudu, eland, Nyala & bushbuck plus a couple buffalo in Mozambique.
About bushbuck…. I was visiting an elderly friend (Dr. William Pritchard) prior to Covid who’d done more African hunting than 99.9% of all hunters who’ve hunted Africa. Over more than half a century, Bill had hunted Africa more than 65 separate times in pretty much every country that could be hunted, with a good number of 30+ day hunts under his belt. He started hunting Africa in the 1950’s and was still hunting there till around 2018. He’d shot pretty much everything at one time or another. We were sitting in his study among a small collection of exceptional animals discussing African hunting and I asked him what his favorite African game was to hunt. Without hesitation Bill said ‘Bushbuck’. He only had a few dozen animals mounted in his study, but 9 of them were bushbuck. I ‘get it’, as bushbuck are very neat animals. Fun to hunt, beautiful, challenging and 9 different subspecies.
