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Of these, most fun to hunt?
(Given that they all make great trophies)
If you could do it again, which one?

Lechwe
Black Wildebeest
Water buck
Nyala
 
Depends. Are you talking native free range (black wildebeest excluded) or a game ranch environment? A Nyala from behind a fence at a waterhole or during a drive about is a target. In their native free-range habitat in Mozambique a good bull is an extremely challenging game animal. Waterbuck will often seem to stand around on dry arid game farms, but can be very challenging in the savannas, marshes, and forests of their native range. Which lechwe? A red Lechwe taken after a couple of days wading around the Caprivi can be a spectacular achievement. The black, hunted in Zambia, can be the purpose of a single safari, and of course, the Kafue Flats Lechwe is a very specialized hunt. The red is stocked on some South African game farms, but I am unsure of the quality of such a hunt.

The Black Wildebeest is a creature of the game farm environment and can be very frustrating and challenging on a large property. If we are talking a game ranch, it has my vote, if free range then a 28"-30" nyala or mature red lechwe bull.
 
For me it would be waterbuck and a nyala.
 
Black Wildebeest is not easy, they never stop moving around, always in groups, and very skittish.

Hard to pick out a good one from the herd, shoot him when there is not another one behind it, and usually from a distance.
 
I son and I hunted Lechwe in the East Cape. There were some moving around some low fence properties. They had been hunted a bit and they were very spooky. I wound up taking mine at another area. He is a beautiful animal, but not nearly as spooky. Just hadn't been hunted as much.
The BW would probably have my vote.
Bruce
 
Probably black wildebeest. They are so damned ugly they are almost pretty. Kind of look like they were put together by committee and flighty as hell. We chased mine for the good part of the day before they stopped long enough to get a shot. Open ground with some low hills and they used it all. When they did stop it was always just out of range, 300-400 yards, with a good wind blowing. We finally took cover behind a tree and the bakkie circled and kind of herded them our way.
Mine is a skinny old bull that a hunter took the left front leg out from under a couple days before and never found. He stopped about 80 yards from us and looked back at the bakkie. Wrong move, I planted him right there. He had hardly any teeth left and every rib was showing, more than a few battle scars and a chipped horn. Not very big horns but he has character and gave us a merry chase.
 
Of these, most fun to hunt?
(Given that they all make great trophies)
If you could do it again, which one?

Lechwe
Black Wildebeest
Water buck
Nyala

first time I ever saw a Waterbuck it was free range on the other side if the Elands river from the lodge I was hunting from. I smelled him before I saw him. Would love to hunt one next to a river.
 
Black Wildebeest, "joker of the plains" gets my vote.

@Newboomer, I'm in love with the horns.
Can't wait to hang a rifle across them for a picture.

I took a Blue Wildebeest at about 150 yards with no problem.
We stalked Black Wildebeest about 4 times with no success.
Never got closer than 200 yards and that was on a game farm.
 
Of these, most fun to hunt?
(Given that they all make great trophies)
If you could do it again, which one?

Lechwe
Black Wildebeest
Water buck
Nyala
dmyers
Black wildebeest they are a strange looking animal head and mane of a zebra, horns of a buffalo short back legs compared to the the front.
One crazy mixed up animal.
Challenging to stalk and reportedly Hartman to kill.
Mine didn't argue when hit with a 225gn accubonds out of my 35 Whelen. I would also love a blue wildebeest but that means another hunt
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My black wildebeest
 
Probably Nyala for me. Even though it was on a 7000 acre block on the Limpopo River in SA, there was plenty of cover in the thick bush near the river and my PH and I stalked him, me carrying my 375 H&H double. From about 80 yards, I knocked him down with the first shot and we were walking to get him when he got up and took off running through the bush and I missed with the left barrel. I reloaded and we pursued and I hit him on the shoulder with another round from the 375 and he turned to run and I immediately hit him again quartering away and he went down. My PH simply said, "That's why I love double rifles!" Next to cape buffalo (which is the most fun to hunt) I would like to do another Nyala hunt like that one. It was fun handling the double in close quarters.
 
From the options givenit would be waterbuck for me, for 2 reasons:
1) those upward swept horns just look so damn good, and,
2) I haven't got one on my wall yet - but it's high up on my to-do list!
 

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