SOUTH AFRICA: ZIMBABWE: Mark & Tim's Big Bull Safari With KMG Hunting Safaris

Tim Blackwell · Sep 16, 2022

Thanks all for the kind words! Very happy with the animals we hunted on this trip, and the adventures we had!

Mark R said:
I’m an ideas man. I come up with an idea and Tim says yes

What can I say...they are always good ideas! Or maybe I just have rubber arms...

Mark R · Sep 16, 2022

So as Tim said I continued to hunt with Steve arriving from Australia with his dad in tow. Here are what we took over the next 7 days while Tim and Nikki did the tourist thing in Cape Town.....

Me with Steve's hyena......

Me again this time with Steve's enormous springbuck.....

Beautiful wide Cape kudu......

Steve's buff and his Chapuis 470NE and ph's M70 in 416RM......

Me with Steve's buffalo taken @ 80m with 1 shot from his 470NE.....

Steve took this sable bull @ 35m with his 470 after a great stalk in rocky terrain....

His very first African trophy taken across a steep gully @ 280m. Not many people can say their first African animal was a barbary....

Me with my last trophy of the trip. A ripper old mountain reedbuck ram.......

My barbary taken @ 64m in Mars like terrain......

425SCHADE · Sep 16, 2022

Seriously good animals and experiences right there, congratulations again to you both.
I really think I should email Marius...

cpr0312 · Sep 16, 2022

You had a heck of a next 7 days with the new friends!

Tim Blackwell · Sep 16, 2022

Well done @Mark R
You guys did seriously well to pack a lot of hunting into that final week. To get a Barbary Sheep with essentially no knees is a pretty fair achievement! And very glad you were able to settle the score on Mountain Reedbuck

Nikki and I had a much more laid-back week at Cape Town on the waterfront. To anyone who hasn't visited, I highly recommend you do, it's a stunning place

Tim Blackwell · Sep 16, 2022

425SCHADE said:
Seriously good animals and experiences right there, congratulations again to you both.
I really think I should email Marius...

Yes you should. I promise you won't regret it. If you can dream it, Marius can make it happen

Tim Blackwell · Sep 17, 2022

I'd like to close this out by adding a few more pictures of our Bull hunts, that weren't in the individual reports, but that I quite like.

Thanks to you all for following along and for your kind comments. Good hunting!

jacques smith · Sep 17, 2022

Great hunt and report fellas Congrats to all— the goose strikes again

Mark R · Sep 17, 2022

Those pics pretty much sum it up mate

R.M.C. · Sep 17, 2022

Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing, I hope I can experience a hunt like that some day. Congratulations!!!!!

kudukid · Sep 18, 2022

Great report guys. It was an epic hunt and there is nothing better than to be there to see your best mates take their trophies of a lifetme.

Frederik · Sep 18, 2022

Awesome thanks for sharing.

TimNZ · Sep 26, 2022

Great report @Tim Blackwell and @Mark R ! It's me, Tum

. It was a pleasure meeting you guys and sharing in some of the hunts (and the drinks and stories after). I'll get my report up in the next little while.

Mark R · Sep 26, 2022

TimNZ said:
Great report @Tim Blackwell and @Mark R ! It's me, Tum . It was a pleasure meeting you guys and sharing in some of the hunts (and the drinks and stories after). I'll get my report up in the next little while.

Good to see you here mate

TimNZ · Sep 26, 2022

Mark R said:
Good to see you here mate

Had to make a new login, been lurking for years but couldn't find my old login

Mark R · Sep 26, 2022

TimNZ said:
Had to make a new login, been lurking for years but couldn't find my old login

Lurk no longer. Will be good to see the results you and your dad ended up with

CBH Australia · Oct 1, 2022

TimNZ said:
Great report @Tim Blackwell and @Mark R ! It's me, Tum . It was a pleasure meeting you guys and sharing in some of the hunts (and the drinks and stories after). I'll get my report up in the next little while.

G'day TimNZ,

Can you tell us more about the drinks, No the stories they were telling?

Ive been lucky enough to meet both of them via this forum. Good blokes and accomplished hunters.

After you load your Africa report you might be able to do some NZ stories.

Tim Blackwell · Dec 20, 2023

Well, exciting times this week as my trophy crate from this hunt finally arrived.
Capes are fully tanned for mounting, as per Australian import requirements. Skulls have been well cleaned without overboiling, and horns are not burnt and black. Very happy with the work by Universal Trophy Services.

@Mark R has his trophies home too, hopefully he will share some pics

Especially happy to have my Buffalo home. Fantastic memories!