Cameroon Hunting feedback

[Ravensview]

Congratulation, that seems like a great conclusion to his journey, thank you for telling the tales

 

[Spear Safaris]

Thank you all for the feedback and comments. makes it a pleasure to write.
Some more Photos of the Bull.

 

[Mekaniks]

What an amazing bull. Thank You for sharing

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

That is a very fine bull. What happens to the meat in Cameroon, do they have a community programme that would hel to solidify the future?

 

[Spear Safaris]

That is a very fine bull. What happens to the meat in Cameroon, do they have a community programme that would hel to solidify the future?

All the meat was salvaged, and mainly utilised in Camp, but all the Camp staff carried bundles of meat to their families at their respective Families.

 

[Spear Safaris]

By the time we had Him down it was getting quite Hot, so in order to try preserve the trophy and meat as best we could, we covered him in Green leaves until we could get more help to us, remember we already had one Waterbuck in the truck.
Once another Truck with extra help arrived, we man handled him into the back of the truck bed. The once again covered him in Green leaves to keep the sun off.

 

[Rickmt]

Great hunt . congratulations to you and your hunter! What beautiful animals . Both of them . So, what did you do for the next nine days?

 

[Pheroze]

Thank you all for the feedback and comments. makes it a pleasure to write.
Some more Photos of the Bull.
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What a beautiful bull.

 

[Spear Safaris]

Great hunt . congratulations to you and your hunter! What beautiful animals . Both of them . So, what did you do for the next nine days?

Rick we hunted hard. LOL. I'll keep posting as time goes.

 

[Spear Safaris]

That afternoon we relaxed, had some nice Lunch and watched the sunset from the Camp look out, while the skinners were hard at work.

 

[AZDAVE]

What a beautiful bull. When the hunting gods smile on you life is good!

 

[7mmFan]

great report and thanks for sharing!

 

[Spear Safaris]

Next on the menu was basically anything that presented, with Buffalo and Roan High up on the list.
The area is not known for lots of Buffalo, but they are there. Roan are quite numerous, but as it goes with Roan, they can be skittish and getting a shot at one can be quite a trick. So I decided to only go after Roan if I thought it was a slam dunk, but concentrate on Buffalo.
Lots Of Cob around does make it hard to stay on your path, so the next to fall was a great looking cob.
PS. The Termite Mounds here are very particular.

 

[Flipper Dude]

Great job Ernest! One day………….

 

[375Fox]

Great job Ernest! One day………….

Don’t wait for one day, go now. The hunting opportunities in Cameroon will not last forever if the rest of west and central Africa is any indicator.

 

[buck wild]

YIKES quite a bull !! Congrats Sir

 

[DLSJR]

Congratulations Ernest. What an excellent LDE! Some hunts just turn out excellent and it looks like this was one of them. Looking forward to the rest of your report.

 

[Spear Safaris]

Hope nobody is too bored with me yet, so here we go again.

Since the Cob we had 2 dry days of tracking Buffalo, we found a few loose herds with no mature Bulls. We did spook 2 dagga boys late one afternoon, and followed up the next morning, but a 5 hour tracking job ended up with Lost tracks...........A bit frustrating but that's the way it goes.
So we decided to leave early one morning to check out an area well south of camp. This trip produced an old Hartebeest Bull , which we could not pass up.

We did also see a really good Roan, but as we got onto the sticks he took off.

I can be a bit of the Stickler when it comes to Trophy care, those of you that know me, will know that one of my First visits when I get to a new camp, is the skinning shed, to check the quality of the salt and the preparations. In this case I am very satisfied and have high hopes of none, to little slip on the Eland Full mount skin. We hope to be able to display him at DSC in 2 years time.

 

[Spear Safaris]

Did I mention that we had great desserts, healthy deserts.

 

[375Fox]

Hope nobody is too bored with me yet, so here we go again.

Since the Cob we had 2 dry days of tracking Buffalo, we found a few loose herds with no mature Bulls. We did spook 2 dagga boys late one afternoon, and followed up the next morning, but a 5 hour tracking job ended up with Lost tracks...........A bit frustrating but that's the way it goes.
So we decided to leave early one morning to check out an area well south of camp. This trip produced an old Hartebeest Bull , which we could not pass up.

We did also see a really good Roan, but as we got onto the sticks he took off.

I can be a bit of the Stickler when it comes to Trophy care, those of you that know me, will know that one of my First visits when I get to a new camp, is the skinning shed, to check the quality of the salt and the preparations. In this case I am very satisfied and have high hopes of none, to little slip on the Eland Full mount skin. We hope to be able to display him at DSC in 2 years time.

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That will make a great full body mount. The coloration on that eland is beautiful.