Day 6: I told Wik that I would like to hunt mountain rhebuck and fallow deer since we still had a lot of hunting time left we headed out early and drove about 1.5 hours to a different hunting area. After hunting and glassing for a while we spotted a group of fallow deer way out on a big ridge there was a stag in the group that was pure white, very rare! Wik said that they had never taken a white one before he said that it did not have great horns but the fact that it was white made it very unique. We decided to try to put a stalk on him after lunch but we got busted by some other game in the area so we went back with out any fallow deer today.
Day 7: Since it was a very hot day we decided to go the the Aldo Elephant park and do the tourist thing, Wik had his manager Andre take us there we had a fun day checking out the animals saw a lot of elephant, eland, zebra, kudu, and even a few cape buffalo.
Day 8: We went back to the area that has fallow deer and mountain rhebuck, we put stalks on about 4 nice fallow deer stags in the morning but they kept giving us the slip, right before lunch Brandon shot a huge old warthog with no teeth but very large tusks! I was able to stalk into a mountain rhebuck ram at shot him at about 270 yards when we got to him we discovered that I had hit on of his horns! After lunch we headed back out looking for fallow deer and after glassing for awhile we spotted the same white stag we had seen two days earlier! He was laying under a tree way down in a bush choked valley so we stalked as close as we could and we were still 320 yards out. I set up on the sticks and waited but after a very long wait it was apparent the he was not going to get up so after some discussion I tried a shot while compensating for wind. I hit him and he got up and ran we moved down the ridge a ways and I got a follow up shot that also hit him but he still ran back in the bush. We sent in the trackers and the dog as soon as they let the dog go he was on the deer we could see the dog chasing the deer in thick bush but could not shoot so we headed back to the truck and drive around to try to get in for a finishing shot but before we got there one of the trackers was able to finish him with a knife! Very unique trophy and very rare!
Day 9: Last day of hunting and I told Wik that the only thing I wanted to look for was duiker as it turned out the weather was not good all day very windy, late in the day we spotted a large eland bull and Brandon decided to go after it, he got a fine trophy! The Coetzee family runs an excellent operation I must say that Wik is hands down the best PH I have hunted with on the three trips that I have taken to Africa to date. They make you feel like family, the food is second to none the equipment is top quality and the trophy quality is excellent!
