Kudu - Namibia or Limpopo?

[billc]

Not sure what I backed track on but ok.

I agree no need to ruin a good post so I can be done with this disagreement. Happy hunting to you in the future.

 

[BRICKBURN]

He for sure is no 60 inch plus ..........but he is mine !
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Limpopo or Namibia???

 

[G Skinner]

Limpopo or Namibia???

NAMIBIA . And Brickburn I tried your trick with the ear ........ it works ! ?
Glen

 

[TEX84]

Limpopo or Namibia???

Thanks Brickburn. Let's get this thing back on track!

 

[BRICKBURN]

NAMIBIA . And Brickburn I tried your trick with the ear ........ it works ! ?
Glen

It gives you a pretty good reference, but it will do nothing for the curl.
That is all in the eye.

 

[JGRaider]

Not in love with the sliding scale thing anyway.

But, when I pull out a 1/4 wide steel trophy tape and measure a trophy we will have an exact number. Hands down. No arguing.
No plastic, no cloth, no carpenters tapes.

I'd say most of the time thats true, but I can almost guarantee there would be times when $1000 could be decided by fractions of an inch. Pissing match ensues.......that ain't happening for me.

I've guided well over 100 hunters here in the US. The tape measure has started lots of arguments and discontent. It's BS.

 

[JGRaider]

May 2014, central Namibia

 

[BRICKBURN]

Nice character on those horns...

 

[fairgame]

Nice character on those horns...

I might have called that 60 .

 

[enysse]

Trophy estimation is always interesting to me. Kudu make me crazy.

Could a "mistake" be made with a tape. Sure.
Plastic tape. Cloth tape, tape slipped.. ......
Out and out deception, sure.
I have seen tapes with that start with one or two inches cut off of them.
There are a lot of trophies measured in the field to only later be measured with a metal tape to be much smaller.



A friend of mine has been a taxidermist for 30 plus years. He gets animals in that are measured by the Guide in the field and when they get to his shop they magically shrink. It happens with bears all the time. Stretch a hide you can get a lot more length from it. Told by the guide "You have a seven foot bear." The hunter is thrilled. It was measured nose to rear foot. Not nose to tail.
Who gets screamed at when the 7 foot bear is "switched" for that five foot bear? The taxidermist. Why would the guide lie?
How big is the tip for a 5 foot bear vs a 7 foot bear?
Why would the taxidermist lie?

As an "official" measurer I see it happen all the time on North American species. Hunters measure it themselves and then I put the tape to it and it shrinks. NO wonder it shrinks, they don't measure it properly. The horns did not shrink, just the score.

For estimating purposes pictures are always deceiving. Angles and perspective are great manipulators.

I took the Kudu picture from earlier in the thread and copied three over lays of the same Kudu's ear (left in this case). A Kudu ear is usually pretty close to 12 inches.
In a straight line it looks like 3.5 ear lengths. Zero allowance for the curl.

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So, not to just throw that photo to the wolves. Here is a Photo of my first Kudu.

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So, which Kudu us bigger than the other one?
Mine appears to be 4 ear lengths long while the other is 3.5.
So the second was is larger right?

So, what is the perspective trick I used to make the second Kudu appear larger?
I did not change the size of the overlay or the photos relative size.
A clue: (Near objects appear larger than far objects)

By the way he measured 57 inches with a steal tape in the ridge of the longest horn.


If you are interested in inches, bring your own steal tape and measure it yourself. Honestly, it is the only solution.

I agree that kudu is not even close to 61.5.....nope not gonna happen

 

[Big5]

I agree that kudu is not even close to 61.5.....nope not gonna happen

+1

 

[alimufti]

Ive hunted some nice kudu over 3 safaris and many years. All kudu are nice to hunt. I am interested however in a 55" plus kudu and am willing to put in the days for it. Ive hunted a number of places in ZA so far. Prefer the largest possible area so fences are not a hindrance to the hunt.
Other species of interest are
bushbuck
common reedbuck
nyala 28"+
I always hunt impala/springbok and am looking for exceptional ones
Open to suggestions on what species an area is known for.

Prefer a minimum of 10 to 12 days hunting.

Cheers
Ali.

 

[BenKK]

Ive hunted some nice kudu over 3 safaris and many years. All kudu are nice to hunt. I am interested however in a 55" plus kudu and am willing to put in the days for it. Ive hunted a number of places in ZA so far. Prefer the largest possible area so fences are not a hindrance to the hunt.
Other species of interest are
bushbuck
common reedbuck
nyala 28"+
I always hunt impala/springbok and am looking for exceptional ones
Open to suggestions on what species an area is known for.

Prefer a minimum of 10 to 12 days hunting.

Cheers
Ali.

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G’day Ali,

Nice kudu!

I’m also searching for a big kudu and am going hunting with Chris Troskie in Limpopo later this year. He produces some very good results with hard work.

Regards,

Ben

 

[neckdeep]

Ali,
Coutada 9, Mozambique has all of what you are looking for (except Springbok) and you won't run out of space to hunt. They also have Buffalo, Elephant, and Lion that you will encounter. Sable, Oribi, Duiker, Warthog everywhere you look, Eland if you want to track something, Waterbuck, and other's I have most likely forgot to mention. The quality of Kudu is outstanding and with that amount of time you should find one of that size. We saw 3 or 4 in that range in one day and my brother saw one approaching 60 right after he took one. They also have large number's of Bushbuck and Reed buck are scattered everywhere, saw a extremely large Bushbuck right after taking a nice one. It truly is a plainsgame paradise, with some dangerous game mixed in.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

If I want to shoot a mature kudu in the 53-55 inch range, where are my best chances of doing that without having to pay by the inch?

2 kudu shot with Osombahe Nord safaris run and owned by Harold and Liezel in Namibia a 55 inch and a 58 inch

 

[Witold Krzyżanowski]

Nice trophy.

 

[IvW]

When judging kudu it helps a lot to only look at one horn, this will eliminate spread etc. which could make a kudu look a lot bigger than what it is. Looking at just one horn will give a much better perception of the depth of the curl wherein lies the inches needed for high measuring bulls.

Try it here with the pictures posted cover one horn with a piece of paper.

And yes none of the three animals shown will make the measurements given the BWB is not even close either...well maybe if the curls are included to the tip....but across no way....