What an evening!!! Pulled up to our water hole and we instantly see two Cape buffalo drinking with a few oryx. We had planned on sitting here and still hunting all evening as we still needed an oryx, kudu and waterbuck.
We obviously where not going to sit there with Black Death that close around as we didn't get want to get dead, lol
We see a big male oryx behind the buffalo and make a shot through the brush, all I have is a neck shot because it is super thick, I dropped him in his tracks but buffalo went 5 yards and stopped, extremely pissed. We now have a dead animal between us and the buffalo and they are not happy. Mack gets out and they instantly mock charge, two more steps and they will be coming to kill him. I have the. 9.3X64 on the buffalo ready to shoot if need be. We all get out after he takes two steps back and slowly approach the downed oryx. The buffalo are watching 40 yards that in the brush and I have yet to look at my Oryx because lives are at stake, so I keep the rifle on them, ready to deliver the kill shot as the buffalo ready to kill us it if it charges. While retrieving I am on the gun shouldered and ready, they disappear so we thing they are circling coming down wind to decide the treat level and charge if needed so I am turned watching our back. We get it retrieved without incident and take it a few miles away for safety. It's a great bull with great mass. We take photos and the skinners take him to camp to skin.
We are off to another water hole for kudu or waterbuck. We pull up and two nice waterbuck are at the hole but three hundred years away, I set up for a shot, holding a few inches over it's back and shoulder but they spook. We stalk in with no signs and set up behind a brush blind. Ten minutes later we get a call that there are two nice kudu that the scouts have found and Mack is on the way to get us. He arrives and we speed to the hole. We arrive and they are still but a long ways away, they quickly discuss which is bigger and decide the right is a monster, I set up in an awkward position with 250 yards between us, I and squeeze one off, I see it hit the ground behind it and don't hear whack so I reloaded waiting for it to stop running towards the brush, it never slows down into the brush, luckily for me they know the land so we rush to cut him off. Here he comes but is super thick which is what kudu like so it starts feeling comfortable after a few minutes but we can barely see it it so thick. I see a front leg and he stops, I Say I'm taking him, follow the leg up approximately where his shoulder blade is and squeeze on off, he falls DRT!! We take some great photos and head in early as I have had an epic day and we are ready to relax while drinking a few cocktails, crown and coke, a famous Texas wicket.
We have had a few so if my grammar is off I'm sorry, lol
Enjoying every minute, TIA BOYS (this is Africa)!!!!
