Devin Twitty
AH veteran
So I just got back from my hunt with boss safari. We hunted in the northwest territory. Had 5 days to hunt and took 11 animals. 3 impala, 1 blesbuck, 1 warthog, 5 zebra, and a jackel. First two days we hunted blinds mostly to try and get a big impala.
First day I spent in a blind and shot a zebra. 5 zebra came in around 3:00pm and it was a waiting game to get a clear shot. I pull my bow up draw and get a slight quartering toward shot and my arrow hit it's mark from 20 yards almost a complete pass thurs but the Fletch held on offside and the arrow fell free right as the zebra hit the trees. We hard it crash and got out of the blind to find the arrow only to spot the zebra laying maybe 50 yards from where it was hit. The arrow broke two ribs both lungs and the top of the heart.
Day two started in a new blind where we had saw some nice blesbuck the night before. We where in the blind a hr and looked out to see a white blesbuck had slipped on and layed down 20 yards away. Got the bow ready and here came a bukkie(truck) and the blesbuck walked in to the brush. We stayed put with not much moving tell about 11 and a big impala ram came in. I grabbed my bow again but dropped my quiver making a loud noise and amazingly the impala didn't care. I got my arrow nocked got my bow back and the ram turns to give me a good shot at 17 yards. Once again the arrow finds it mark and the impala bolts out of view. We waited 20 min get out find the arrow laying 30 yards passed and it's covered in good blood but as we searched we found no blood trail and had no idea which we the impala went after leaving our sight. We call in the land cruiser to get a higher view point and drove all over the thick under brush. We turned around and headed back to the blind to rethink the shot and look at the video when I see the impala laying in a dead snag not 50 yards from the hit.
We decided to try spot and stalk on the blesbuck. We set out after luck on day two to find a bless buck only to be busted time and time again. The wind just would not settle. So the day ended with 7 stalks and no shot.
Day three started with us out after the blesbuck again. We spot a old white ram 40 yards off the trail. So we back up and get out into the brush only to run into impala and get busted. So we go back to the bukkie and drive to a open area by water and see a big common and white ram. We grab the bow and start out to ambush them. After going 100 yards in the brush we see the white ram walk out and lay down 52 yards away facing us of course. So we work the shadows but he caught me moving and a water buck winded us and we where busted again.
So on we go to look for another group with the same outcome all day. Impala water buck, warthog, other blesbuck all catching us and off they ram goes.
We saw a zebra herd on the way back to dinner and manage at 32 yard shot or so we thought. I shoot and the arrow goes low and cuts the front leg. Now it was time to get the rifle so we could put the zebra down fast. And sure enough with in 15 min we had the zebra at 80 yards and the 3006 spoke down it went.
Day four starts with us going out for blesbuck. We set out and see our white friends and get busted yet again by a impala in the brush. So we run down the road to look for a nice common blesbuck ram. And find him we get out seek in to 60 yards and here comes a sable bull running full steam through the blesbuck herd sending them every direction. We sit there trying to figure out what to do and decide to keep moving down to the water hole. We just get in to some heavy thorns and I see a common standing not 50 yards away in a small clear area. So we start a stalk and a steenbuck jumps out 20 yards away. Luck for us it made us look an see a ram 42 yards away. After look him over I decided he was decent enough to shot after 2 days of hard hunting. The ram puts it's head down I step clear of the Bush the ph ranged him 42 yards I pull down on him put my 40 pin the sweet spot then stop and think these are fast so I put the pin at his lower body line and the release goes off. The blesbuck sure as the sun ducked ending in my arrow hitting the from leg bone breaking it and going right through the heart like I had thought. He spins with the arrow sticking 3/4s out the other side and goes maybe 10 yards and falls.
More to come.
First day I spent in a blind and shot a zebra. 5 zebra came in around 3:00pm and it was a waiting game to get a clear shot. I pull my bow up draw and get a slight quartering toward shot and my arrow hit it's mark from 20 yards almost a complete pass thurs but the Fletch held on offside and the arrow fell free right as the zebra hit the trees. We hard it crash and got out of the blind to find the arrow only to spot the zebra laying maybe 50 yards from where it was hit. The arrow broke two ribs both lungs and the top of the heart.
Day two started in a new blind where we had saw some nice blesbuck the night before. We where in the blind a hr and looked out to see a white blesbuck had slipped on and layed down 20 yards away. Got the bow ready and here came a bukkie(truck) and the blesbuck walked in to the brush. We stayed put with not much moving tell about 11 and a big impala ram came in. I grabbed my bow again but dropped my quiver making a loud noise and amazingly the impala didn't care. I got my arrow nocked got my bow back and the ram turns to give me a good shot at 17 yards. Once again the arrow finds it mark and the impala bolts out of view. We waited 20 min get out find the arrow laying 30 yards passed and it's covered in good blood but as we searched we found no blood trail and had no idea which we the impala went after leaving our sight. We call in the land cruiser to get a higher view point and drove all over the thick under brush. We turned around and headed back to the blind to rethink the shot and look at the video when I see the impala laying in a dead snag not 50 yards from the hit.
We decided to try spot and stalk on the blesbuck. We set out after luck on day two to find a bless buck only to be busted time and time again. The wind just would not settle. So the day ended with 7 stalks and no shot.
Day three started with us out after the blesbuck again. We spot a old white ram 40 yards off the trail. So we back up and get out into the brush only to run into impala and get busted. So we go back to the bukkie and drive to a open area by water and see a big common and white ram. We grab the bow and start out to ambush them. After going 100 yards in the brush we see the white ram walk out and lay down 52 yards away facing us of course. So we work the shadows but he caught me moving and a water buck winded us and we where busted again.
So on we go to look for another group with the same outcome all day. Impala water buck, warthog, other blesbuck all catching us and off they ram goes.
We saw a zebra herd on the way back to dinner and manage at 32 yard shot or so we thought. I shoot and the arrow goes low and cuts the front leg. Now it was time to get the rifle so we could put the zebra down fast. And sure enough with in 15 min we had the zebra at 80 yards and the 3006 spoke down it went.
Day four starts with us going out for blesbuck. We set out and see our white friends and get busted yet again by a impala in the brush. So we run down the road to look for a nice common blesbuck ram. And find him we get out seek in to 60 yards and here comes a sable bull running full steam through the blesbuck herd sending them every direction. We sit there trying to figure out what to do and decide to keep moving down to the water hole. We just get in to some heavy thorns and I see a common standing not 50 yards away in a small clear area. So we start a stalk and a steenbuck jumps out 20 yards away. Luck for us it made us look an see a ram 42 yards away. After look him over I decided he was decent enough to shot after 2 days of hard hunting. The ram puts it's head down I step clear of the Bush the ph ranged him 42 yards I pull down on him put my 40 pin the sweet spot then stop and think these are fast so I put the pin at his lower body line and the release goes off. The blesbuck sure as the sun ducked ending in my arrow hitting the from leg bone breaking it and going right through the heart like I had thought. He spins with the arrow sticking 3/4s out the other side and goes maybe 10 yards and falls.
More to come.
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