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JG,
Please let me add my thanks for sharing what had to be a wonderful hunt and the experience of a lifetime! The story, the detail, the pictures just couldn't have been any better.
I'm within 90 days of heading to RSA and man, have you got me jacked up!
Congrats once again.
Last edited by Akbob5; 05/11/14.
Bob
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Congrats on what must be a wonderful adventure. Great hunt and report. Those animals look outstanding.
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Congrats JG. great photos and story.
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Damn thats awesome! Those 160 Accubonds look damn sexy!
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Outstanding JG. Your Kudu is a awesome trophy. Looks like those Accubonds performed exactly as intended. Congrats on a great hunt. 163bc
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Great job nice trophies and photos,Congrats!
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Excellent JGR! superb trophies, the Oryx and Kudu are magnificent! Also, thanks very much for the bullet report, just the ticket for all us rifle kooks! 
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WOW! Just Wow!
What a great adventure, not to mention the terrific report.
Thanks for sharing.
My wife and I are scheduled to go back in 2015 and this stuff is the reason why.
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Congratulations on your pangolin encounter. I consider them to be the coolest critter in all of Africa...
We had a couple of briefings on local critters before my first trip to what was then Zaire, a few years back. Not being any particular threat, the pangolin was never mentioned. We saw 2 in three weeks.
On subsequent trips that included forays into Zambia, Angola, and SWA, we never encountered another. But we looked!!!
I have never had the bug to hunt Africa, but threads like this one do hold my interest, and do somewhat tempt me...
Awesome Hunt!!!
Excellent thread!!!
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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'... yep they are damn near extinct across much of Asia cause of the damn Chinese so they are starting to go after them in Africa just like they did with the asian rhinos......very cool critter.....as much as i want to go to Africa to hunt being able to check out all the critters on the side like the pangolin you ran across interests me almost as much.....
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Yep, the "extra" critter sightings are way cool to me as well. Forgot to mention the kori bustard, the largest flying bird in the world. We saw probably 10 of these birds, and when they take off they sound like a piper cub..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kori_Bustard
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[img:left] ![[Linked Image]](http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t32/JGrimes_2007/photo2_zps9d762f19.jpg) [/img] Turns out it was a pangolin....the owner had only seen 3 of them in 24 years of owning the property. Never heard of such. Very cool.
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Ah, the scaly anteater. Heard of that, but never have seen one. Great story.
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Just think if you'd have run TTSX instead of the accubonds... you wouldn't have caught a bullet to report on. Grins.
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Thanks for the write up and pics. I hope to suck in one month!
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Great report and damn fine kudu. They make a beautiful pedestal mount.
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Beautiful animals. Great story. Thanks
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Very cool thanks for posting
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JG,
I know you're a Loony and study stuff thoroughly.
Give us your thinking on your choice of caliber and NAB's.
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Congratulations!
Can't beat Zebra steaks!
Can't wait to get back again to Namibia,
hopefully me and my son next year!
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