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My zebra pedestal mount is coming along nicely!

very nice....my zebra was the first animal I took in Africa.....will never forget.....

Mine also. 301 yards in Namibia.

Mine was my third African animal, at 18 yards with a bow. The second zebra was abou my 12th animal, bow at 30 yards.
They are an awesome and tough animal.

My Zebra taken in Namibia was of the Hartmann's Mountain variety- hunting these animals in the arid, hot, rocky mountains of Namibia was a great hunting experience.

I don't know who this skinny young sprout of a boy is, but he is one handsome devil! Posing with his first zebra, a Hartmanns, in 1987...





Notice the scope.....oh, to have young eyes again!

They had color film back then...??

It was colorized on photoshop.


Didn't think it would matter cause the zebra was in black and white.

Mine, in Namib also. Played cat and mouse with a small herd led by this old mare; it was a very challenging stalk.

BTW, that is a 24HCF ball cap.

Great pics. My Hartman's hunt was one I will never forget, a real ballbuster on my first day of my first Namibian hunt. 8 hours, 8-10 miles later I finally put one down.

It is a must hunt for those visiting Namibia IMO. As a bonus, as Ingwe told me before I went (and I didn't really believe him, honestly)the steaks off this zebra were magnificent eating......some of the best.


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Some very nice disco donkey's!

I absolutely love hunting zebra, one of my favorite animals.

I have several rugs and also have a pedestal mount in the works like Mr. Dan.

Cool stuff, guys.

Those zebra steaks have my mouth watering JGRaider!

Chris, thats a BIG 10-4 on the steaks.....definitely a favorite and Zebra hamburgers are the BEST!

Seems like for plains game, next to kudu, zebra offer the most interesting hunt.

Tell me if you've noticed, or think Im off my rocker.

Burchells zebra tend to rely on their buddies senses a lot. Often see them running with Eland, giraffe, or other 'alert' species.
Hartmanns rely on their own senses....doesnt make them easier to sneak on!

Have hunted them in Namibia, RSA, and Zim.
Probably my favorite trophy to have in my home. I have a couple of rugs.
Yes, as a trophy in my home, even better than sheep or big kudu.
Great eating if yellow fat removed before cooking. Yum.

My first African animal was a zebra as well. I was there for buff first, kudu and eland second, and didn't care if I shot anything particular after that, but my PH want to see me shoot some kind of game before he'd cut me loose on buff, understandably. So I had my choice of wildebeest or zebra, and as I have no interest in hanging a gnu on my wall, I chose zebra.

We spotted a large mixed herd from the hunting car and then stalked in on foot half a mile or so. I was surprised at how much fun it was. I shot my stallion dead at about 150 yards, and we skinned him out for a rug.

The Redhead is really looking forward to getting that rug, as am I. But when I went down to the taxidermy shop to see my heads/skins when they came in last month, I saw several zebra shoulder mounts that were absolutely beautiful. Now I have another animal I need to go back to Africa for... I gots to have a zebra shoulder mount in my study, and probably another zebra rug for the den, since the first rug is going in the bedroom...

I enjoy hunting zebra with my clients. It's the one animal the Foreign hunters can track alone. All the cloven hooves tend to look the same or too similar for the hunters to make sense of most of the time.

However, once on the zebra track I can let them go in front of me and track themselves. Zebra are often quite chatty as well, adding to the foreplay of getting closer. Sometimes after tracking for an hour or so we hear them 200-400 meters away and know we are closing in.

I think the American Hunters tracking and hunting this way enjoy this hunt at least as much as anything else we go after. For those who tell me that they just cannot shoot a zebra because it's like a horse, Well the decision is theirs, however I know they miss out on one of the true stalking adventures they can do all by themselves and make this a true hunt on there own. I'm just along for moral support when tracking and hunting zebra!

It's also not possible to sex them 100% so I don't even care which one they shoot. Anyone is as good as another. If you're going to try and explain to me the way to sex them...... well I welcome the entertaining opinions but it's simply not possible to do 100% of the time.

That's a dandy Dan, congrats buddy.

JJ, perhaps you can confirm something for me. My PH/rancher said to shoot the leading mare, an older, presumably dry animal. He told me they are the preferred animal over a herd stallion for two reasons.

The first was, he said, stallions are usually scarred up from biting, kicking, and general fighting amongst themselves. But more importantly, he claimed that when you down a stallion, the next one off the bench in their social order would kill all the dead stallion's foals impacting the herd all the more.

Anyway, it was probably the plains game hunt I enjoyed the most as they were very wary and even with all the bush it took several hours to get the shot.

When I went to SA--the zebra was the one animal I wanted the most. To me it says "Africa".

I took Zebra $$$ to RSA in 2014

But couldn't pass up this brute

Much as I have about zero Africa desire, I do think zebras are cool.

They have them around here off and on, some ranches, always neat to see them.