Post two of your favorite African hunting pictures

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The kudu was taken June 2023 on my first ever Africa trip. NKWE Safaris in Botswana was very special. The nyala was the first animal I shot in South Africa, September 2025, while hunting with Bushman's Quiver. This was also a very memorable, enjoyable hunt. It's hard to pick only 2.
 

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Not necessarily my 2 favourites but rather two great hunt memories!

We were looking for bushbuck in some forestry & literally walked into this nyala bull at 15 meters. He never saw us & was walking slowly in the opposite direction. I took him free hand w/o sticks & he folded on the spot. A fantastic old bull with teeth down to the gums. I do not think I will hunt another after this one!!

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This one was the opposite of a quiet stalk! This big tom caracal had killed a sheep the day before & dropping the hounds at the carcass they picked up the scent after a few minutes & the hunt began! Half an hour later the cat was treed & I was able to drop him out of the tree. Great hounds, great hounds-men & a big old tom caracal. That was a fun hunt! Plus we rid the farmer of a sheep killing cat!

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My very first African animal, my buffalo on my very first day hunting in Africa. Mozambique 2014
My toughest hunt in Africa. Up and down mountains in RSA on the Botswana border, a representative klipspringer. 2021
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Can I add more?! Recent trip makes new memories

My first Cape buffalo. Followed by the second a few days later. And finally, a last day, last hour kudu, after a long stalk, after we’d been searching for days.

Zimbabwe. 2026

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Not necessarily my 2 favourites but rather two great hunt memories!

We were looking for bushbuck in some forestry & literally walked into this nyala bull at 15 meters. He never saw us & was walking slowly in the opposite direction. I took him free hand w/o sticks & he folded on the spot. A fantastic old bull with teeth down to the gums. I do not think I will hunt another after this one!!

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This one was the opposite of a quiet stalk! This big tom caracal had killed a sheep the day before & dropping the hounds at the carcass they picked up the scent after a few minutes & the hunt began! Half an hour later the cat was treed & I was able to drop him out of the tree. Great hounds, great hounds-men & a big old tom caracal. That was a fun hunt! Plus we rid the farmer of a sheep killing cat!

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That nyala is outstanding!
 
Guess I never particapated in this one before - don't have access to the device that has most of our African hunting pictures - not necessarily my favorites, but I'll share a couple from the device that's with me right now
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#1 - Always enjoyed hunting with friends and especially family - the three safaris with my daughters were special - apic from one of them

#2 - something a little different - a situational photo opp. Gotta be ready and organized for them
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Processing my oldest son's Gemsbok, and PH had to take one of the testes and show use the "face of Africa"...

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Tracking lioness on foot with John Sharp in the BVC Zimbabwe

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Forgive me, but I'm going to cheat and post 3.

The first two: I could share photos of so many of the animals I took on my two trips, and I am very proud of all of them. But the two I am going to share have more than the animals - they have the two men who made it possible: owner/PH Wikus Coetzee and PH Don Laaks. I can't say enough about either man, as a hunter, PH, or person, and I hope to hunt with both men again. Every quality you could want in someone guiding you on a hunt they possess, in abundance. The specifics: Wik, 2021, a management kudu on my last night as the sun went down. .338 Marlin Express, 150 yards down a steep bluff. I had to literally sprint a couple hundred yards to catch up, Wik setting up the sticks as I huffed and puffed my way across the space between us. The other was also a sunset kudu, in really, really thick cover. Savage 99 in .300 Savage, 210 yards. We waited for him to move into an opening to give me a shot. I owe my 2 successful hunts to these two men, and every time I read about a bad experience on here I am SO thankful my first forays to Africa were entrusted to Wik and Don.

Third photo: the morning of my first buffalo hunt, 2021. Sunrise. I had been up since before 4 AM - my daughters had a HS choir concert back in Alaska and I got up to watch remotely online. As I left the chalet and saw that morning sunrise, while feeling proud of my daughters, I wondered if life could possibly be any better.

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Your wife/GF Tina looks like a carbon copy of my cousin from Houston. Strange. Below are two pics from Limpopo.

  • Limpopo Kudu measured 50". Taken with 375HH custom P14 rifle using 300g TSX
  • PG rifle used on last Safari - FF CT Edge Titanium/Carbon rifle in 7mm/08. I background are the Waterberg Mtns


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@Huntforever thank you for reviving this thread. Hadn't seen it before.
Good stuff
 
Favorite pics

From our wedding.

My favorite PG.

Sunset over the NAM desert.
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