First Safari Hunt Report - Bubye Valley

[Fzj80]

Great hunt! Congratulations on some beautiful trophies. To be able to share it with your father is extremely special. I am headed over in a little over two weeks for my first trip and am blessed to have both my sons hunting with me. Father's Day this year will be quite different and very special.

Thank you! Yes sir it was very special, I hope you guys have a great time and make it back to our great state with the best memories!

 

[etsonaut]

Thank you! Yes sir it was very special, I hope you guys have a great time and make it back to our great state with the best memories!

I missed that you were in the Tri Cities are in TN. I grew up in Kingsport and went to school in JC.

 

[Fzj80]

Charity and I waiting on the land cruiser to make it into the kill site

 

[Cotton King]

Sounds like a memorable hunt and adventure with you Dad. Great buffalo as well! Congrats.

 

[Fzj80]

I missed that you were in the Tri Cities are in TN. I grew up in Kingsport and went to school in JC.

That’s awesome!

 

[Mark Biggerstaff]

Congrats on a great buff. Glad you had an awesome trip!

 

[Fzj80]

Sounds like a memorable hunt and adventure with you Dad. Great buffalo as well! Congrats.

Thank you!

 

[Fzj80]

Congrats on a great buff. Glad you had an awesome trip!

Thank you!

 

[BryceM]

Great buff. On the ground, up close it's pretty darn intense!

 

[Fzj80]

Great buff. On the ground, up close it's pretty darn intense!

Thank you. Yes for sure!

 

[Muntjacer23]

Congrats! Incredible buffalo!

 

[Hedge774]

I missed that you were in the Tri Cities are in TN. I grew up in Kingsport and went to school in JC.

Me too! Go ETSU BUCS!!

 

[Fzj80]

Congrats! Incredible buffalo!

Thank you!

 

[Fzj80]

The A-frames performed exactly how you’d expect.

According to Jeremiah our waiter, these baboons were flinging poo around the dining hall area before breakfast each morning. We had to put a stop to that…

 

[Monski]

Congrats, great Buffalo! It probably won't be your last Most don't start with a 416 at first but that part is very cool! My Dad went with me on my 1st 2 safaris, special!

 

[tarbe]

You had an awesome trip. And to be able to do that with your dad? Priceless.

Thanks for sharing with us. Really makes me want to go back to the BVC.

 

[Rem280]

Awesome trophies and pics. Congrats

 

[Hedge774]

Can't have poo be flung around. Robs the moments of grandeur!

 

[Adam Stevens]

Day 4 felt different, even as we all loaded onto the Land Cruiser success was just in the air. We covered quite a bit of ground that morning, spotting countless game as we drove, we made our way to a small rock hill that we would climb to view elephants and smaller game from for about 45 minutes. Once we’d had our fill of that we climbed back down and were on our way.
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About 30 minutes after driving away from the hill, we were slowly driving on an elephant destroyed road when Dube spotted a lone buffalo bull about 500 yds to our right side. After a quick glance in the binos I knew this is what we had been waiting on. Quickly jumping from the truck with guns and shooting sticks we start making our way after this buffalo. He is strolling across this open area, and we are walking as fast as we can through the thick grass and it is unclear if we are even closing the distance on him. After about 10 minutes of this he begins to walk in more of an S pattern which works to our advantage and we close some serious ground. Alerted to our presence he doesn’t spool, by gradually heads in the direction on a huge group of mopani thickets. As he approaches this, we flank his right side and end up setting the sticks up at 20 yds. As soon as I get set up he briefly stops and gives me a perfect, unfettered broadside shot. As soon as the first shot rang he begins to move into the thicket and luckily I had reloaded, and fired again off the sticks before he entered it (I barely remember doing this). Once in the thicket it was clear that he had only walked maybe 20 ft into it as we could see a mopani shaking. There was zero visibility to shoot him again unless he were to come at us. After a few minutes of the tree shaking we hear a few consecutive death bellows, and Charity looks at me with a mile-wide grin and says “he will not be coming this way now”
Even though we were all confident he was dead, it was hair raising entering that thicket due to the low visibility. Once we finally found where he was laying, it was a chilling realization that we had been that close and couldn’t see him at all.
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My life’s hunting dream had been fulfilled in this moment, thankful is the only word I know for it. This is right where he fell
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Of all the nice pics we would take, I think this is my favorite.

its funny you mention the day felt different.

similar to my day 4-5 I had on safari, tracking dugga boys every day but the right moment never presented itself. but I noticed the videographer was filming MORE then normal, and then after tracking and taking my bull. He said that he felt today was the day and he was right.

great hunt report and very special you got to expierence with you dad

 

[Pablo]

Helluva trip with your Dad. Congrats on some very nice animals. Your pics are great too. I’m sure a lot of us here, myself included, wish we could still hunt with our Dads.