A proper leopard, Sir! Congratulations on one of the trickiest to get trophies in the world. It will make a beautiful mount.The day of the leopard…..
We had a bait that a large Tom was hitting every day. The trail cam photos showed him arriving about 4am and leaving just about sunrise. So we built a blind and came back at around 2am to sit him out.
Around 3am, another leopard was sawing behind us. Werner said he didn’t think it was our cat. It is sure an eerie feeling knowing an apex predator is nearby in the dark.
Like clockwork our Tom arrived at the bait at 4am and started to feed. He fed and lied down alternately for the next hour or so. He made a big mistake not leaving before legal shooting time. I was amazed how big he was. We had hung the bait about neck high. When he stood, his head was above the top of the bait. I waited for him to stand on all fours and shot him high on the scapula. He dropped to the shot.
He weighed 150 lbs on the farm scale and was 6’ 8” in length, nose to tail tip.
As you would imagine, I’m one happy hunter.
Probably could find a good beer without trying too hard.![]()
Namibia had their best rainfall in years and the grass was 2 ft tall, it made hunting the small antelopes quit a challenge. Hunted for a steenbok first and spent the day spotting their horns sticking above the grass only to have the vanish upon approach. As the sun was getting close to setting an old springbok ram step out into a clearing in front of me, the PH threw up the sticks and I quickly positioned my rifle. “Click” rather then bang was the noise my gun made, I had not chambered a round. I had just enough time to work the bolt and sent a round through the front of the brown stripe as Werner had suggested. Back in camp that night my first springbok had been named “Click.
Congratulations on a beautiful leopard.
Thanks! I’m using Coppersmith as my broker. They’ve linked me up with a CITES service called Adventure Permits International to help with that. I haven’t spoken with them yet.Doug congrats on your tom! And thank you for the write up, fantastic to read! My dad and cousin and I just returned from our first trip to Namibia where I was also fortunate enough to get a good tom on day 3 during the second sit! Who are you having do your export and import app?
Derek