HUNTING Wildebeest

[bluey]

Welcome to AH huntress
Nice shot on the black wb
Welcomr to the left hand club

 

[Diamondhitch]

Nice Wildebeest, they are such neat animals.

Welcome to AH huntress
Nice shot on the black wb
Welcomr to the left hand club

It would take a leftie to notice which hand was holding the club lol.

 

[woods1126]

Here's my Black from 2013.

 

[jeff]

That looks like a monster, I hope I get a crack at one this July!

 

[Huntress10]

If you don't Jeff, there's more where mine came from

That looks like a monster, I hope I get a crack at one this July!

 

[bluey]

Nice Wildebeest, they are such neat animals.



It would take a leftie to notice which hand was holding the club lol.

spoken like a true right hander , hitch
bet you had to go back and double check .....

 

[G Skinner]

spoken like a true right hander , hitch
bet you had to go back and double check .....

Know I did bluey ....great observation LOL !
Glen

 

[Diamondhitch]

spoken like a true right hander , hitch
bet you had to go back and double check .....

Actually I took your word for it but ya I would have had to lol.

 

[woods1126]

Thanks Jeff. I wasn't even interested in taking one of these guys. We happened upon a good size herd on the 8th day of my 10 day hunt. The owner who was also my PH, explained over dinner that evening how the Black Wildebeest was at the brink of extinction a few decades previous. He told me he started with 3 mating pairs, about ten years before I arrived in 2013 and now had about 40-50 running around. He said he only took 2-3 of the older males a year. Needless to say, the next day, we went Black Wildebeest hunting! . I was truly blessed. Kevin

 

[siml]

Free State.

 

[bassasdaindia]

@TMS fantastic Black WB , Congrats

 

[siml]

Client thought I was nuts, because I didn't pick up my binoculars!!!! For that BW I didn't need to...

 

[G Skinner]

WOW ! Horn porn ?
Glen

 

[AfricaHunting.com]

WOW ! Horn porn ?
Glen

Exactly!

 

[first safari]

Free State.

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how far away was the shot?.....I'm headed to RSA in less than a month for my first safari and BW is near the top of my list. Sooooo....excited.

 

[first safari]

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Here's my Black from 2013.

What great "bosses".......congrats!!

 

[siml]

The shot wasn't so far, about 140 yards. If you are hunting in the Free State it's open grasslands with some drift, they look easy to hunt just standing out there in the open, but don't be fooled, BW might be called clowns of the grasslands, but getting close is another story. Be prepared for anything up to 250 yards.

 

[RichelleJamieson]

I went to South Africa with my Dad last year very keen to hunt a blue wildebeest. When I got there and saw the black wildebeest I was set on trying for one of those as well. After a lot of searching on our last day in the Kalahari I got my trophy bull. I'm so happy with him I can't wait to get the taxidermy back. Then after moving to the next hunting area on the Botswana border we hunted for days trying to get close enough to the blue and finally the only shot that presented itself was a front on shot so I took the shot with my Kimber .308 180grain Woodley projectiles. He ran for quite a while before we caught up with him and finished him off. My bullet had busted his shoulder and lodged perfectly mushroomed against the shoulder, I kept the projectile.

 

[bluey]

any returned projectile is just like a bonus trophy,
and , welcome to AH..........
always great to have a girl hunter, on the site......

 

[RichelleJamieson]

There is clean bullet hole straight through the Blue Wildebeests ear and a chunk taken out underneath the horn from where someone had shot at him years ago. I'm hoping the taxidermist show that up really well, I think it makes him an even more interesting trophy.