Day 4 "The Miss"
Well the title tells just part of the story. Today we went straight away after Blesbok. Lloyd,Flex and Rigby held down the toyota as Marius and myself started out on foot.Almost immediately Blesbok were spotted and the Stalk was on.Lets get straight to it Marius got me on a nice Blesbok at 84 yds for me to shoot over his back,one word shit!!! I believe my PH was a little perturbed and I was a little pissed off, how in the hell did I miss that shot 84 yds,broadside?? We noticed while sighting in I was a little high so we cranked her down and headed to the lodge for lunch. No excuses from my end just a little disappointed and that feeling when you miss...you all know that feeling like a little bug gnawing your gut.
Redemption comes at strange times and certain measures and this is one.. Marius and I headed back out after lunch after the same herd we knew right where they were. We got the wind right and headed up hill toward them when Marius turned and asked If I was OK and my response was "yes this is punishment" one word response "good". With some work and eagle eye Marius had me on the sticks only to be busted again,SHOOTS. After a bit of a tither Marius with the sticks and myself with some head shaking and voices in my head we were off again. About 15 minutes later we were on em again up come the sticks and binos and suddenly Marius says "see the blood on the shoulder that is the Ram you shot at this morning". I had hit him high and creased the top of his shoulder. We had to hurry he was getting a bit nervous, I was shooting at him quartering away and uphill I pulled the crosshairs into his arm pit trying to hit him in the heart. I steadied got tight in there and squeezed. We followed up to his location and there was a blood trail easy to see. Now my PH is going to tighten the screws, I think he is jaw shot looks like jaw blood dont go anywhere we need the dogs to track him. Now as you can imagine Im just about ready to spin myself into the ground. Jaw shot my aching ass there is blood everywhere?? Here come the troops, Flex does not even follow the blood but goes less than 50 yds to a very dead heart shot,broken shoulder blesbok!! I look at Marius and not a word was spoken but his smile said it all,I gotcha!! Now this sure could have been a whole lot easier if I had done my part this morning. Grace comes at strange times in a persons life and this certainly was one of them,finishing what I started this morning without killing another Ram. Today was a lessen learned day and Im Thankful for the lessen.. What another great day with KMG!!