bashaw
AH enthusiast
- Joined
- Nov 29, 2009
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- 261
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- Location
- Oregon most of the time
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- Member of
- SCI, NRA,Oregon Hunters Assoc.
- Hunted
- USA, Zimbabwe x2 , Australia, Mozambique, Namibia, Canada & South Africa
My wife and I left for South Africa on our 4th Safari together May 17 landed in Joburg went to Sun City and Pilanesburg NP to get acclimated to the 9 hour time change, the 23rd we headed for @HUNTSHOEK HUNTING SAFARIS and for the real fun to begin. My 3 animals on my list 1 Buffalo 2 Bushbuck 3 Red Lechwe. Hendrik Slabbert from main lodge & Stephanus from the Huntshoek Rockdell Lodge were both PH'ing the first 3 days, we glassed for Bushbuck the eve we got there & next morning seen some young Rams but no trophy Rams. Headed to Rockdell that afternoon to start the Buffalo Hunt. 2nd full day we started the morning glassing from Ridge tops and Rimrocks across valleys, we left one of the guys to glass an area and we went to another area to glass within minutes we spotted a lone Bull feeding in the bottom he bedded down with thick brush at his back and the wind blowing into his face, smart old Dugga Boy. Then the guy glassing the other area found a group of 4 Bulls with a dandy in the group he had been rolling in the mud and was reddish brown compared to the normal black, it was mid morning by now so we had to hustle up and try a stalk before they got to the THICK Brush, we spotted one of the 4 weren't sure where he was in group first last or in the middle. We were squatting down glassing the Bull, when this noise "snorting and barking" was coming from our right all of a sudden I had a full speed Impala heading right for me and Stephanus at the last second the Impala veered a bit and missed us I about fell over backward trying to avoid a Bad Wreck, we continued but never seen the muddy Bull agin before he got into the thickets. To be continued
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