Post your top five biggest African animals!

Lion taken with De Klerk Safaris in the Kalahari. Leopard taken with Thormahlen & Cochran in Namibia. Legelela Safaris put me on the last three. Serval in Mpumalanga top 20 SCI. Caracal in Freestate top 20 SCI. Aardwolf in KZN top 10 SCI.

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Lion taken with De Klerk Safaris in the Kalahari. Leopard taken with Thormahlen & Cochran in Namibia. Legelela Safaris put me on the last three. Serval in Mpumalanga top 20 SCI. Caracal in Freestate top 20 SCI. Aardwolf in KZN top 10 SCI.
Why did you pick your AH Member name? :ROFLMAO:
 
Two twelve foot and one thirteen foot alligators sept 23 on my commercial alligator tags. Taken with Limcroma aug 23, big old buff, 55 inch kudu, 36 inch gemsbok and good representation impala.

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Two twelve foot and one thirteen foot alligators sept 23 on my commercial alligator tags. Taken with Limcroma aug 23, big old buff, 55 inch kudu, 36 inch gemsbok and good representation impala.

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Sorry didn't see the had to be african. Here is my blesbok from 2016 with White Lion Safaris

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32” Warebuck from North West area fenced. Snap shot as it jumped from bed at 50 yds.
37.5 “ Livingston eland. Niassa running at 100yds.
4&3/8” Suni. Niassa. Stalking through forest. 40 yds off sticks.
Cape Bushbuck 15.75 free range Natal. Cross canyon 150 yds off tree branch.
16..25” Springbok. Namibia free range. 265 yds of sticks. My best shot off sticks thankfully. Small target.
Honorable mention!
41.25 by 39.5 with 8.5” bases. Gemsbok bull.
I can’t believe PH could let this happen! In Namibia they have a buffer zone of 20 feet or so between free range barbed wire and 10 strand low game proof fence -5 ft tall. This bull was trying to get into fenced area from free range. Anything in between fence is free. PH just pulled over- I shot from truck. 265 yds. When we pulled up to dead animal-PH that’s a 40” gemsbok!! He never looked at animal- just shoot it!!! I took pic between fences. Could have been trophy of a lifetime.

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The claw marks on my Buff were from the two male Lions that were hanging on him. My Caracal was killed at the main camp on my last hour of the hunt. All my other animals were taken on the Caprivi.

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While I'm not a big numbers guy, sometimes the tape is pulled at the skinning shed for good reasons, here are a handful that I actually remember or wrote down the numbers:

East cape Kudu 51.5

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Vaal Rhebok 8 & 7/8

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Defassa Waterbuck - 32'

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East African Impala 29-3/8

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Cape Buffalo- Selous game reserve. This one isn't super wide and didn't get a score, but love the shape and it was a dream bull in a dream area!

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I'm still working on it its just difficult to find or choose my top 5 at the moment but I am enjoying this thread very much though.

So I will just post some animals and memorable moments from hunting excursions.

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Sharing a long search for a trophy duiker with my son.

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My Beautiful wife starting to join me on hunts. This year she will join again on a session or two stalking from camp.

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Helping out friends organizing special trips and joining them, we burst out laughing on this shot my head is dropped.

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No need for a comment on this one.

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Thankfullness for what our Father gave us as blessing and respect for special animals.

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Very proud father and son with his first proper hunt, 9 years old then.

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7 Years after that first hunt on the warthog and he bagged a buffalo cow 3 days of very hard hunt spending much of it in the field from dawn to dusk.

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Teaching boys the way of life away from the city.

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My first own DG animal not guided but hunted.

I think we as hunters have far more greater life experiences than the avg. Joe we make plans and work for those goals for that next adventure experience its a drving force with a need to get away and go hunt.
 
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