The only good thing about this current situation we are in is that i get to do some hunting myself.
This past weekend i took my family to a new hunting area we wanted to scout and on the list was a Big eland for myself, as i have been looking for a good bull now for the last 4 years.
On the first afternoon we spotted some fresh tracks early on and we got off tracking them in the sand. The wind was not great and we kept on busting them.
On the second morning we looked checked the water holes and found fresh tracks of some big bulls around the water and we were on them.
Look how this spoor drawfs a 500NE round
About 2 hrs on their spoor we saw they were going to cross a road up ahead and we jumped to get ahead of them. After about 20 min 5 bulls crossed the road and gave us a chance to look them through the first bull was a tank and i was sold on getting him!!
How ever we could never close the gap on them and by lunch time we decided to leave them and go eat.
That afternoon i took out the whole family as it is a family trip and they all could see the property. Unfortunately we could never pick up fresh tracks again. Just before dark we decided to walk a certain area into a water hole and just as the light faded we busted a big herd of eland with a few bulls in there buy never had a shot.
With Saterday being the last full hunting day we were at it early on and was looking for some fresh tracks. We just had a cold front moving in and the wind was pumping. The strategy was to find a big bull and push him untill he make a mistake.
After about 2 hrs we found some fresh tracks of about 7 bulls and decided to see what is in this group.
We did not go far or we spotted them in some thickets and decided to take it easy. We were sitting down with the wind in our faces. The group were grazing but the bush was thick. We started following them sliding on our arses trying to identify what is in the group. After 2.5 hrs we did about a mile like this on our arses and a bull apraoched from our left. First i could only see his head and new if he presented a shot this is my chance.
He walked our right infront of me just 41 yards away and stoped... the problem was his head and shoulders was behind some thick stuff and i only had a stomach shot.
I shuffled to my left to try and open the angle and decided to push the 300gr Swift Aframe bullet through those brush as i could not get a better angle.
Well the 375H&H barked and the bull droped right on the spot!!!
Then it was chaos 6 other eland bulls was running in all directions and did not know where the shot came from!!!
After the dust settled i walked over to my bull and was just extatic with what just happened.
I couldn't have asked for a better hunt than this and the bull is a pretty good one as well
After radioing it in everyone came to look at daddy's success
Look at the size of the track!!!
This will be a hunt i will cherrish for ever and sure hope some of our members can experience the same type of experience with me someday!!!
The 300gr Swift bullet did well and that is the reason you bring a premium bullet to Africa!! One cant afford shooting cheap ammo at expensive animals and it just gives you that little confidence when a risk needs to be taken