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Glad you had a great trip JG

4 weeks left for my wife and I

What kind of binocular apparatus is that you are wearing? I like it.

Very cool report. Congrats!!

Very cool, thanks for posting. I never understood the appeal of hunting zebra until I did it on my only trip to date in 2009. Hartmans are an amazing hunting experience.

Good luck with the search for kudu.

JG,

Unfortunately, I can no longer read and enjoy your posts. This type of behavior of posting photos and reports of your Namibian safari, is just unacceptable!

So until, you repent for your sins, I will only say, "YOU SUCK!"






On a serious note, glad you had a great time! When you going back?

Thanks for sharing!!!!

Awesome report so far. Thank you for sharing. Kevin

Wonderful JG!

Tell us more!

JG, Great hunt. You'll be back, for sure :-)

Can't wait to read more! One day, lord willing, that will be me.

Oh my, JG, you DO suck!
Can't wait to read the rest of it.

Ha! Thanks for the support guys! Sometimes I'm glad to suck......and this is one of them! Anyway I'm gonna throw something at you guys, and you mega experienced guys please check this out......

One day we're after a blue wildebeest, and the usual spot from the truck, plan the stalk, make the mile long stalk drill applies here as well. However, as you guys know there is lots of stopping along the way to monitor animal position, behavior, attentiveness, etc, and that's what we were doing. We hear this funny scratching sound in the short brush we were in and it got our attention. Shortly this prehistoric creature appears about 15 feet away.....

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I had not the first clue what this creature was, but it kept creeping closer, closer, and closer, until finally it was literally at my feet, sniffing of my pants legs, boots, and snatching the little bugs off of me, and then he moved very slightly and did the same thing to the PH (green pants guy).......

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Turns out it was a pangolin....the owner had only seen 3 of them in 24 years of owning the property. What a cool deal it was to get so up close and personal. He stuck around about 3-4 minutes then just slowly walked away.

Anyway, we finished the stalk on this wildebeest and once again I was able to anchor him with one shot, quartering to. He whirled and fell over within 75 yards and was stone cold dead when we walked up to him.

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That afternoon we were able to complete another successful stalk on another blue wildebeest. We had about an hour and a half to try to find a big kudu bull but had no luck.

HEY INGWE........I remember last year giving you a ration of crap over your comments on how delicious zebra steaks were (according to you). Lo and behold, for dinner that night we were served up this..........some absolutely outstandingly delicious zebra filets, washed down with cold WH lagers of course! Once again....the Poobah spoke, and was 100% correct.

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Thanks for sharing the photos and the experience, I've been watching for your next post and it keeps getting better!

Great write up!!! Super glad you are enjoying it. One of the good guys around here and having a great hunt!

I still can't get warmed up to hunting Africa, though I guess I'd like to see it once. But I"m glad that a lot of y'all seem to have a great time over there!

Do love seeing the pictures. Keep that up if you can.

Jeff

And I've never seen an African Armadillo until now. Thats way cool.

If you pick up the pangolin, it rolls itself into a ball to protect itself. Also, the local lore is that touching a pangolin is suppose to bring good luck!

Really cool, as you saw a critter most don't see. And to have it come up to you and eat bugs off your pants, awesome!

JG,
Looks like a great trip! Thanks for sharing the story and pics...

And was there ever any doubt?


And odd that you mentioned the pangolin. One of the dogs in my program showed an enormous talent for scent work so I contacted friends at Working Dogs for Conservation, they snapped him up and he is training in anti-poaching efforts in Zambia. Getting trained on ivory, rhino horn, spotted cat hides, and�..pangolin. Seems the little fellows are in trouble cause the chinese like to grind them up for 'medicine'...

Didn't Capstick say that his favorite African meat was young bull giraffe and zebra was a close second?

The next few days were filled with trying to find a big kudu bull, shooting another springbuck, a really nice oryx bull

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...a couple of nice red hartebeest like this one

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...and a few jackals. I was also able to kill a couple of broken horned impala rams that he wanted to cull out of the herd. Those impala are one sleek animal and really fun to hunt. I do not, for some unknown reason, have any impala pics. The tracker was taking the pics so I'll blame it on him.

We went over to the neighbor's place one day to try and find another oryx to cull. Most of you know that oryx are not jumpers, they choose to go under the fences instead. There were quite a few oryx on this place, and I found it quite odd that the landowner had built numerous "alleyways" into his slick wire fences to allow the oryx and hartebeest an easier time getting through(under actually) the fence.....

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Thanks for taking us along on your hunt and success!!

Great pics and animals.

May there be many more!!

God Bless,
David B.

Congrats on a great hunt.I still cannot believe you killed all that stuff with a 7mag