gillettehunter
AH ambassador
Once again no action but here’s the details. Christophe had determined a machan to go to for the night. On the way we found fresh buffalo tracks and dung on the road. Christophe changed the machan hoping they would come to where we waited. No go.
The jungle during the day has a significant amount of background noise from birds and insects. At night, well multiply that by 10. Downright noisey. Then there are the mosquitoes dive bombing you. Rarely do you get good sleep. Christophe sets up motion detectors when we arrive. If something comes in he gets a signal that wakes him up.
He has a thermal monocular to look at the animal in the dark. He also puts a thermal adapter on the rifle scope for shooting. Nothing came in overnight.
This morning we went and checked several game cameras and cleared some roads every day there is something on the road somewhere. Sometimes a big tree. Under 10 inches and they usually use their machete. Bigger then they break out the chain saw.
Last night and today lots of elephant sign. Tracks/trails/dung in various places. They pushed a tree over on one of the roads. We cleared it out. Close enough that the trackers could hear them eating……
Nothing had been back to out primary salt lick for the Yellow Back Duiker. With the new machan there it could be a few days. Still have time. 8 more days? My flight out is July 1. Plenty of time for a secondary animal or two if Lady Luck is on my side.
Bruce
The jungle during the day has a significant amount of background noise from birds and insects. At night, well multiply that by 10. Downright noisey. Then there are the mosquitoes dive bombing you. Rarely do you get good sleep. Christophe sets up motion detectors when we arrive. If something comes in he gets a signal that wakes him up.
He has a thermal monocular to look at the animal in the dark. He also puts a thermal adapter on the rifle scope for shooting. Nothing came in overnight.
This morning we went and checked several game cameras and cleared some roads every day there is something on the road somewhere. Sometimes a big tree. Under 10 inches and they usually use their machete. Bigger then they break out the chain saw.
Last night and today lots of elephant sign. Tracks/trails/dung in various places. They pushed a tree over on one of the roads. We cleared it out. Close enough that the trackers could hear them eating……
Nothing had been back to out primary salt lick for the Yellow Back Duiker. With the new machan there it could be a few days. Still have time. 8 more days? My flight out is July 1. Plenty of time for a secondary animal or two if Lady Luck is on my side.
Bruce
