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I love that stuff!
It makes a great coffee creamer. Ingwe, where you been? I though you'd died.
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Just not posting much. Had the flu last week, and got tired and disgusted with some of the drama here. Heading your way in a week! Tell the pigs that I'm coming, and hell is coming with me! 
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Texas is the new Africa for those who don't want to get Ebola or pay $1500 for a plane ticket--and want to bring the meat home.
Sorry to hear about your flu. We've been lucky so far, but a few of our other friends haven't. Charlie Sisk got it at the SHOT Show and was in bed for a week.
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Will be heading back to the Eastern Cape of RSA in mid April 2016. Tops on my list this time are Kudu and Bushbuck. I'm also looking into hunting the Limpopo area in either 2017 or 2018.
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Just not posting much. Had the flu last week, and got tired and disgusted with some of the drama here. Heading your way in a week! Tell the pigs that I'm coming, and hell is coming with me! Glad to know you're on the green side of the sod. I hope we have good weather while you're here. This past Friday some of us were at camp setting up for our parish men's outing on Saturday. The wind was whipping out of the north at about 25 mph, and with the temp at about 62 degrees and damp, the windchill was flat cold. Even the pigs stayed in bed! Glad you're over the flu, though. This time of year the yankees still wage war on us by bringing down their northern bugs. 
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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John, think we can get some leopards started?
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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Texas is the new Africa for those who don't want to get Ebola or pay $1500 for a plane ticket--and want to bring the meat home.
Sorry to hear about your flu. We've been lucky so far, but a few of our other friends haven't. Charlie Sisk got it at the SHOT Show and was in bed for a week. Mr MD, or anyone else with experience for that matter.......have any of you guys eaten scimitar oryx? I'm wanting to kill one to eat if it's anywhere near as good as a gemsbok???????
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I have shot and eaten both. SHO tastes exactly like Gemsbok to my palate. Good stuff!!
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+1
Ive eaten both..so similar it would be hard to pick who is who.
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Texas is the new Africa for those who don't want to get Ebola or pay $1500 for a plane ticket--and want to bring the meat home.
Sorry to hear about your flu. We've been lucky so far, but a few of our other friends haven't. Charlie Sisk got it at the SHOT Show and was in bed for a week. Have been to Namibia in '07 and enjoyed it immensely but at present have no plans for going back. Those blue bulls in Texas do interest me though. If going back to Africa, I'd like buff and eland where I could reasonably combine those two. A good eland bull evaded me the first time.
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Ive eaten both..so similar it would be hard to pick who is who. A man your size knows a lot about food  ..........Thanks for the intel!
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Thinking about going back to TX for another Nilgai- man are they good eating!
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Ive eaten both..so similar it would be hard to pick who is who. A man your size knows a lot about food ..........Thanks for the intel! I love to cook, and you should NEVER trust a skinny cook....
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Since scimitar-horns and gemsbok will successfully interbreed, it's no wonder they taste similar. In fact one of the ranches I've hunted in Texas had a male crossbreed running around. Nobody was allowed to shoot him....
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Very little of Africa actually has Ebola risk, but many hunters are canceling nonetheless.
Somehow I just can't go to TX to shoot African species, and the plane ticket to Africa isn't much more these days!
I'm planning to return to Namibia soon.
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I've left enough meat in Africa that a trip to Afritex seems my right move. I'd like to fill a freezer with cow eland.
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Yeah, shooting "girls" is a good way to fill a freezer! I have plenty of trophy heads from Africa on the wall already, and some of the Asian animals available in Texas taste pretty darn good too....
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Scimitar horned oryx and axis deer top my list of Texas edibles, with the caveat that I haven't yet shot a nilgai. I have a tough time deciding which is best, but I lean toward the oryx. The last oryx I shot, while testing the Wby Back Country rifle, was this weird, deformed-horn fellow who the rancher wanted out of the herd. This was one of the fattest bulls I've seen, and a most-welcome addition to my freezer. If you can find a cull hunt for oryx, which is a bit like winning the lottery, jump on it! ![[Linked Image]](http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv283/Kentucky_Windage/ScimitarHornedOryx0355-cx.jpg) This oryx is the one I put on the wall, posed looking back over a shoulder so the horns are parallel to the wall. It's a beautiful mount. ![[Linked Image]](http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv283/Kentucky_Windage/Oryx-1.jpg) Axis rank high on my list for both trophy and tasty qualities. It is well worth the small expense of having hides from does tanned. The hides are beautiful additions to any game room. ![[Linked Image]](http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv283/Kentucky_Windage/Axis078-8x10-cx-1.jpg)
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Looking at possible eastern cape but thinking Zambia for some unique species.
I though of Texas for a Scimtar Horned Oryx and a few other species you can't get in Africa.
Texas seems expensive for the African species.
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I'd like to see more African plains animals imported to S. Texas. Especially threatened/endangered ones. BTW...how about Siberian Tigers in the northern Rockies?
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