My Favourite Buffalo

[Anbessa Gedai]

ZERO hesitation . . . if they were standing side by side at 30 yards my sights settle on the scrumcap.

 

[Buffalo1]

The second bull would be more interesting to talk with sitting around the camp fire !

 

[hoytcanon]

I will beg to differ with the consensus... I don't care about trophy measurements or mounts, and have never registered any trophy for a book... however, I hunt for the experience and I like to harvest a representative adult male of the species, purely for my own esthetic enjoyment of the animal... so I would choose the first classically pretty bull every time over the old worn out warrior. Having said that, I can appreciate the attributes of an old cagey bull. The caveat to this would be, in the details of the hunt... if I were being asked to shoot the pretty bull off the crossbars on the Rangerover, I would decline and would prefer an all day arduous, cat & mouse stalk in the brush and a shot at the old worn out bull. The details of the hunt are more important than the animal taken.
Both are nice animals, congrats on having experienced those hunts.

 

[358 Norma]

I wanted my first Buffalo to have the Classic shape and be over 40 inches. Thankfully I was blessed with just such a Bull, now I don't know.

I guess I will just have to see what Africa provides!