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If you want it bad enough, nothing is unreasonable.

Of the stuff I have taken...
1. Buff
2. Leopard
3. Eland

Of the stuff I will hunt in 2008...
1. Buff
2. Hippo
3. Croc

Of the plainsgame stuff I will always hunt if I get a chance...
1. Zebra
2. Kudu

Of the stuff I want to hunt...
1. Lion
2. Elephant (probably in 2010).
3. Sable
4. Sitatunga

1. More kuda
2. more bushbuck
3. more impala

Sorry, McCray,your ballot is full of hanging chads. You omly get to pick three, not 12.

Cape buffalo now still two in the lead, despite three Jim in Idaho. Only one of his kudu votes counts.

You two can lodge a protest, but it will do no good. I know the election committee very well, and he is one arbitrary SOB.

JB

A mix of done it and want to.......hard to pick three:

1. Gemsbok (tough & beautiful)
2. Zebra (my favorite if we're just going by taste)
3. Bushbuck (haven't hunted yet but need to)

elkjaeger

1. Bushbuck
2. Greater Kudu
3. Blue Wildebeest

I've killed Rowland Ward (not the silly SCI) trophys of each, but doing it all over again would be marvy. In my opinion, the bushbuck, especially HUGE ones, is a fabulous game animal. They really turn my crank.

Steve

My top 3 were leopard, sable and buffalo and now that I've taken them and if I could afford Tanzania the trophy that I'd like to have would be Grant's Gazelle and a couple of big buffalo from Masialand.

Kudu
warthog
impala

Gambels Quail
Scaled Quail
Mearns Quail
In Arizona as I shall probably never be able to afford Africa again, but it's been fun.

1-Kudu

2-Bushbuck

3-Impala

JB,
when savings allows:
roan
eland
buff

John,

Thanks! So you smitten by those roan with the "E.T. Ears"?

The coun now reads buffalo 28, kudu 26.

Bushbuck are alone in 3rd place, with 11. Go, bushbuck! Also our old buddy warthog is tied for 4th with eland.

JB

John,

Thanks! So you were smitten by those roan with the "E.T. Ears"?

The count now reads buffalo 28, kudu 26.

Bushbuck are alone in 3rd place, with 11. Go, bushbuck! Also our old buddy warthog is tied for 4th with eland.

JB

Okay, okay. I was hoping this might be a Chicago style election. You know, vote early, vote often.

I haven't been there yet, but the top of my PG wish list is:

Gemsbok
Eland
Kudu

Jeff

Would you believe I was just trying to give you the opportunity to spin the results however you choose?

I think it's safe to say that MORE african game stories, regardless of species focus, is better.

John,

My favorites of those I have taken are:
Cape buff
gemsbok
impala

Animals still on my list:
sable
roan
elephant
lion

Cape buff offer terrific excitement, I think once you take one you are going to keep going back to that well.

jim

McCray,

Unfortunately, I am a reasonably honest pollster. But I admire your intentions!

Buffalo 29, kudu 27. Bushbuck a distant 3rd with 11, eland alone in 4th with 10. I like this, as they are some of my personal favorites. It is also heartening to see warthog and impala with 9, and gemsbok and nyala tied with 7.

JB

John,

On our first Africa hunt in Namibia I told the folks that asked me what I was hunting for that I was after "kudugemsbok", as I had those two at the top of the list for that plains game hunt. Kudu are the more glamorous of the two I think, but gemsbok are studly dudes and I think way more difficult (fun) to hunt.

I have done three leopard hunts, and it is a different sort of hunt. Taking the second shift in a leopard blind from three to midnight will show you an Africa you might not expect. I remember the night a bushbaby dropped indto the blind, and another hunt when approaching elephant ran us out of that blind. And September spiders jumping around the blind foliage another time. They are big, but the intense quiet in the blind amplifies the "jump factor".

jim

Jim,

I know what you mean about gemsbok. I have taken several kudu and gemsbok now, and rate the "giant oryx" right up there with the "gray ghost." Have hunted them in several different kinds of habitat now--including thornbush, "sagebrush" hills, wide-open spaces--and think they should be ranked far higher than they are.

But I love kudu too....

JB

I am prone to go with test1328 on his second list: leopard, sable, nyala.