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Well, pretty much everything I will be hunting in May this year has been shown, or I have seen plenty of pictures.


Lets see and hear snipets of your blue wildebeest hunts! Rifle, bullet etc

I killed probably the biggest-bodied black wildebeest I've ever seen in 2007. He had one horn broken off at the curve, the reason he'd grown so big. The rifle was my 7x57 Serengeti, with a handload pushing the 156 Norma Oryx at 2700 fps. He was quartering very stroingly toward me, in fact almost directly facing. at 250 yards. The bullet landed just inside his near shoulder and he ran off about 60-75 yards and keeled over.

I shot one in '95, but have neither the mount or a pic.

They are nowwhere near as hard to kill as their Blue cousins...7mm-08 and up will drop them.

.303s work on them too......



Ingwe

Your header says black, and your post says blue, so, I'll bore you with both!

Rifle was a No.1 9.3x74R shooting 286gr Nosler's.

Blue was in the lowveld, quartering on, at about 60-80 yards. Hit him at the neck/shoulder junction, and he went down in spectacular fashion, in a cloud of dust. DRT. Probably the coolest shot of the whole trip. Bullet was later found in the opposite ham.

Black was in the highveld, broadside, at a lasered 212 yards. A pass through of both lungs, was followed by a couple of donuts, and then he tipped over. The larvae, that come out of their nostrils after death, were pretty interesting! It's no wonder they shake their heads and snort all the time. It must drive them nuts! A beautiful animal IMO.

Jeff

Jeff, you are correct about my error... I will be hunting BLACK wildebeest

Good beast, and a beautiful rifle there, ingwe! I dig that gun.

Jeff

Must be an Alaskan thing..Steelhead says it "haunts" him....

I take it as a compliment!

Thanks,

Ingwe

'cous,

You'll enjoy the black wildebeast. Really neat animals, and the highveld(I'm assuming you're going to the RSA?) is pretty cool country. Kinda looks like you're in central MT or some such. When they hang your bull to skin it, go watch. These really big larvae will start dropping out of it's snot locker! I don't know how they can stand it.....they have no choice obviously. With you hunting in May, I don't know if they'll be present. We were there in Sept. I'm not up on the life cycle of these larvae, so you may or may not see them. Perhaps someone who knows what their talking about, will chime in, and clue me in.

Good luck! I'm jealous.....we just booked to go back next Apr/May, and I already have ants in my pants!

Jeff

It is a compliment. Scott obviously has excellent taste in rifle as well....McSwirley's not withstanding!

Jeff

Yep...I think Scott knows his stuff....he knows enough to talk me into a .223AI...

I forget the story on those larvae, its a brand of botfly, and sometimes in Blue wildebeest the larvae will go the wrong way, into the brain and cause a "whirling disease" of sorts...the animal characteristically spins in circles, until it dies....otherwise I guess the larvae hatch out at the end of their life cycle...pretty disgusting stuff...

Ingwe

Dig that rig more and more every time I see it. Hard to believe a guy like you owned it............

Blow me..

Ingwe

..pretty disgusting stuff...

In a fascinating kinda way!

Jeff

Yeah...for some reason Ive never heard of them in any other kind of animal...though youd think with the schnoz on a Hartebeest, that they would be easy pickins...so to speak...

Ingwe

would be easy pickins...so to speak...

Nothing like some good booger humor!

Jeff

That's not like any of the 303's I ever shot

A Blue Wildebeest taken with a Thompson/Center Encore rifle in 375 H&H Magnum (yea, I know, a crappy gun).

A Black Wildebeest taken with a Thompson/Center Contender handgun in 357 Herrett. Yea, I know; another crappy gun. When will people ever learn. If you're going to spend all that money to go to Africa, at least take a good gun.

Who told you the T/C is a crappy gun????

I'm not a fan personally, but the accuracy, quality, and portability cannot be denied....they are good stuff!!

Looks like they work, too....

It just takes those TV guys a looooong time to cock the hammer back on one.......

Ingwe

Yea, but it doesn't seem to take any longer than it takes the other TV guys to take the safety off their bolt action rifle.