Cape Eland & Livingstone Eland Pictures

[Trogon]

Cape Eland, Winterberg Mountains, Eastern Cape, South Africa, July 2023.
After hunting eland, I think I'll make hunting eland again a priority, more so free range. They really are huge, beautiful antelope.

 

[Tally-Ho HUNTING SAFARIS]

A bus this year at tallyho

 

[Tally-Ho HUNTING SAFARIS]

A big okd cow from this season

 

[Tally-Ho HUNTING SAFARIS]

Another bus last week

 

[Altitude sickness]

I was never interested in hunting Eland. Until I saw a proper sized, mature bull. It was like a different species.
Then it was on. Of course once I targeted mature Eland. I could never get into bow range.

May of 23 that changed and I finally got my Eland. Bushman Xyphose recurve. Valkyrie Reign arrows and broad head. I got a good quartering away shot that buried in the off shoulder.

He went about 80 yards into more thick trees and I snuck into 28 yards for a second shot. He was facing me on the second shot. But he was pretty sick, and most likely to go down soon. I got a second insurance shot. The second one was off the mark and only made him run a little more and fall over.

Then I trailed Livingstone for much of the remainder of my hunt. But could never seal the deal. A mature Livingstone is still on my dream list.

 

[Fatback]

2011, Namibia.

 

[KAROO WILD Safaris]

3 big bulls taken by our clients this past week. Horn length is hardly ever a priority with eland - age, colour and dewlap is almost always more important. This first eland had it all with longest horn measuring 40 1/2 ". SCI was 104". Next two were up there to at 38" and 36". We hunt a lot of eland and I'm always intrigued at some bulls that hardly wear their horns down and then other bulls in the same area, wear them down significantly.

 

[Backyardsniper]

June 2023 with Dalton&York in Nyakasanga, Zimbabwe.

 

[Wathe208]

Our tracker spotted this bull bedded in deep brush up in the mountains out in the East Cape. He's a bushman and it took 5 minutes for my PH and I just to find him in our glass. My first - I was amazed at how muscled up and scarred up he was. I'm hooked!

 

[nhunt003]

My Livingstone from this past summer in Limpopo.