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Here's the scenario; you've come into an obscene amount of money. That uncle that your father always spoke of was an oil tycoon, a generous one.
You book 5 safaris, price unimportant. These 5 safaris are for Spiral Horned Antelopes ONLY. What would they be? and where would they be.
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Kudu: Limpopo and East Cape,SA
Bushbuck: SA
Nyala: SA or Namibia
Eland: ?
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Mountain Nyala/Menelik Bushbuck - Ethiopia, of course
Lord Derby Eland - Cameroon
Sitatunga/Lesser Kudu - Tanzania
Bongo - Liberia or Cameroon
Western Greater Kudu - Central African Republic
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Gemsbok is not one of the "spiral horned" antelope.
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Mountain Nyala/Menelik Bushbuck - Ethiopia, of course
Lord Derby Eland - Cameroon
Sitatunga/Lesser Kudu - Tanzania
Bongo - Liberia or Cameroon
Western Greater Kudu - Central African Republic Excellent choices!! Western Greater Kudu, I don't know if they are even there. I hunted CAR with Mike Fell last year and he was telling me about hunting them in Chad before it got too dangerous. Please correct me if my information is bad.
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Gemsbok is not one of the "spiral horned" antelope. oops....I knew that of course,,,,,,my bad...too much of a hurry to be first to respond to think correctly...
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Lesser Kudu, Kenya
Bongo, C.A.R.
Mountain Nyala, Ethiopia
Giant Eland
Sitatunga, Zambia
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Lord derby - CAR
Livingstone eland - Zimbabwe
Menelik bushbuck - wherever
Mountain nyala - wherever
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Lord derby - CAR
Livingstone eland - Zimbabwe
Menelik bushbuck - wherever
Mountain nyala - wherever Just four?
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Lord derby - CAR
Livingstone eland - Zimbabwe
Menelik bushbuck - wherever
Mountain nyala - wherever Just four? It's a 21 dy hunt for the L Derby. I have to take care of personal business outside the hunting and then theres a huge white tail in NA that has my name on it somewhere! That's a lot of hunting in a season and I have a young wife at home.
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I enjoy the Spiral horns. I have hunted 3 types of eland, 4 types of bushbuck, greater and Lesser Kudu plus forest sitatunga (never found a monster), and Bongo. Each was more exciting and difficult than either cape Buffalo or Elephant.
Yes there are Western Greater Kudu in CAR. Just don't be a pansy about the flying lead.
Any spiral horn is more difficult and challenging than shooting a leopard or lion from a dead rest at 50 yards.
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Hunt 1. Cameroon:
Giant Eland
Bongo
Hunt 2. Uganda:
Sititunga
Bushbuck
Hunt 3. Ethiopia:
Mountain Nyala
Lesser Kudu
Hunt 4. Mozambique:
Southern Greater Kudu
Common Eland
Common Nyala
and since this is a "Dream"...
Hunt 5. Niger:
Addax
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I enjoy the Spiral horns. I have hunted 3 types of eland, 4 types of bushbuck, greater and Lesser Kudu plus forest sitatunga (never found a monster), and Bongo. Each was more exciting and difficult than either cape Buffalo or Elephant.
Yes there are Western Greater Kudu in CAR. Just don't be a pansy about the flying lead.
Any spiral horn is more difficult and challenging than shooting a leopard or lion from a dead rest at 50 yards. I agree with you on the hunting of specific spiral horns. You must be dedicated to "hold out" for the right one. All I have left is Forest Sitatunga, Mt. Nyala, Meneliks Bushbuck and lesser kudu. A Buffalo or Elephant hunt is a great and noble hunt, just physically and mentally not very challenging.
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Hardest hunt I've ever done was Cape Buffalo in the Dande North. Finally scored on the fifth day but the terrain and bush were challenging indeed. Can't attest to the Bingo, Lord Derby as I've never hunted those, but my kudu and bushbuck were relatively easy. Both of those were in the Zim Lowveldt. jorge
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Hardest hunt I've ever done was Cape Buffalo in the Dande North. Finally scored on the fifth day but the terrain and bush were challenging indeed. Can't attest to the Bingo, Lord Derby as I've never hunted those, but my kudu and bushbuck were relatively easy. Both of those were in the Zim Lowveldt. jorge Hi Jorge, I too have had tough buffalo hunts in east and southern Africa. My LDE hunt; we picked up a large herd on day two. We tracked the herd from say....10 am and tracked them till dark (we actually did catch them), three hours in the dark back to the cruiser. Then the next morning from that point till dark again. We did this for four days straight. On day five on track of the same herd, we caught them at a muddy wallow, in the open at noon. We figure we had walked 25-30K every day. It was really not very difficult, walking on flat ground. I am a bicycle rider / racer and physically it was not too hard. But the walking combined with the heat, the mental aspect and just the long days, it weighs on you. It is nearly impossible to drink enough water as the tracking pace is brisk most of the time. Dehydration eventually comes into play as well. Secondly, CAR is a difficult place just getting into. The legendary walking ability of Lord Derby's Eland is factual, not a legend. All the Savanah animals in CAR are tracked. You see nearly zilch from the cruiser. Opportunistic animals are really not run into. Regards, Steve
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Mountain Nyala/Menelik Bushbuck - Ethiopia, of course
Lord Derby Eland - Cameroon
Sitatunga/Lesser Kudu - Tanzania
Bongo - Liberia or Cameroon
Western Greater Kudu - Central African Republic Those would work for me!!! I love the spiral horns.
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Hardest hunt I've ever done was Cape Buffalo in the Dande North. Finally scored on the fifth day but the terrain and bush were challenging indeed. Can't attest to the Bingo, Lord Derby as I've never hunted those, but my kudu and bushbuck were relatively easy. Both of those were in the Zim Lowveldt. jorge Hi Jorge, I too have had tough buffalo hunts in east and southern Africa. My LDE hunt; we picked up a large herd on day two. We tracked the herd from say....10 am and tracked them till dark (we actually did catch them), three hours in the dark back to the cruiser. Then the next morning from that point till dark again. We did this for four days straight. On day five on track of the same herd, we caught them at a muddy wallow, in the open at noon. We figure we had walked 25-30K every day. It was really not very difficult, walking on flat ground. I am a bicycle rider / racer and physically it was not too hard. But the walking combined with the heat, the mental aspect and just the long days, it weighs on you. It is nearly impossible to drink enough water as the tracking pace is brisk most of the time. Dehydration eventually comes into play as well. Secondly, CAR is a difficult place just getting into. The legendary walking ability of Lord Derby's Eland is factual, not a legend. All the Savanah animals in CAR are tracked. You see nearly zilch from the cruiser. Opportunistic animals are really not run into. Regards, Steve I can only imagine tracking Lord Derbys in the heat and Bongo as well. Up in Dande North the terrain is pretty rugged, nary a flat piece at least where we were. I was still active duty then and ran 3-5 miles daily but it was still very tough.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Hi Jorge,
The Bongo was difficult in other ways. Loooooooong days sitting in machans. 11 to be exact. I would like to try dogs in Cameroon to see what the difference is.
Steve
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I hunted elk in the high Rockies about 20 years ago when I was young man and if I had it to do over I would take a spare set of lungs as a backup, moose in Canada trudging through that water logged lichen stuff was no walk in the park either. That, along with the fact I struck out on both hunts makes me aim for the easy hunts these days.
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I have no desire for any spiral horns except for the kudu now hanging on my wall.
So instead I'd book an elephant hunt, a leopard hunt, and a lion hunt.
Two more to go? How about a second lion hunt and elephant hunt.
In Dande North you can book a Big-4 hunt. I did that and got all but the leopard. But I got a hippo and, if you want, you can probably get a 15' crocodile. Maybe I'd just book five hunts in Dande North.
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