When heading away from the mountains with the Zebra quarters and skin in the truck, we spotted another herd of Impala. Dalton had his binos up and said, that’s a nice Ram.. a very nice Ram. We both looked at each other and he stoped and we got out, rifle handed to me and on the sticks. This large Ram was quartering away hard, and I thought I would be cute and sneak a bullet behind his shoulder, this is where I make my first major mistake. I pulled the shot to the right and with his head down feeding, I sink the bullet into his neck and out his lower jaw, breaking it. The herd takes off running but not far. Dalton pulls down the sticks and we take off running while I reload. We move 50-60 yards closer where the herd stopped, he points the wounded ram out, I send another one down and drop him. I was pretty pissed off at myself with this shot as I’ve been on point all hunt, but it was down, and a fine ram it was.
Rifle was a Winchester model 70 375 with a schmidt and bender klassik 3-12. Many would say this is too much scope but it worked perfectly for me and I didn’t have an issue with it at all. Other than the buffalo, all shots were Barnes 300 gr tsx. The buff had some hornady factory solids in it too.
That Bushbuck is impressive. Very nice. Never been much concerned about a hippo, but he looks huge. They all seem to have a lot of scars. Rough life I suppose. Nice croc! Real dandy. Good shooting on this trip.
Bruce
Congratulations. Your pictures and story brings back great memories of my first safari with them last august.I also hunted with Dalton and had my buff down 3 hours into the 1st day. Dalton & York have a great camp and crew. Absolutely loved every minute over there with them. My once in a lifetime hunt turned into being booked for 2025 5 days into the hunt. Can’t wait to go back.
Zimbabwe (Matabeleland North - Hwange & Matabeleland South - Marula/Plumtree), Namibia, South Africa (Limpopo, Free State, North West, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Gauteng)
Congrats on a great first hunt and some amazing trophies. What part of CT?
Not sure who you’re using on the taxidermy side in CT but you might want to look at Johnny with Its A Trophy Taxidermy in the Waterford area. He has a ton of experience with African animals and is a great guy. If I lived closer, he’d be doing some work for me.
Is this rifle sold? If not what is the weight of it and do you know if there is enough difference in diameter between the 35W and the 9.3 to allow for a rebore to a 9.3x62 which is what I am after?
Thanks,
Gary (Just down the road in Springfield)
Forgive me if this is the incorrect area, I signed up to this forum just now because I wanted to be on the list to purchase a copy of your autobiography. Please feel free to pass my information along to whomever is selling. Thank you so much. I look forward to it!
I like the Tillie in my picture. They are supposed to fit loose (2 fingers inside hat band), have mesh for cooling, and hold their shape after washing.
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