Massive African hunting thread...

[H&Hhunter]

White tailed Gnu (Black Wildebeest) Iron sighted .470NE double rifle @218 yards. "I'll bet you can't hit that wildebeest with your double rifle from here" he said with a grin.........

Cape buffalo, Tanzania .458 Lott, 500 gr Woodleigh soft points and solids.

Cape buffalo, Tanzania .458 lott 500 Gr WLSP and WLS.

Cape buffalo, Zimbabwe .470 NE double rifle 500 Gr Barnes X and solids


Tuskless cow elephant cull, Zimbabwe .470 NE double rifle 500 Gr Barnes solids.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Warthog Zimbabwe, .375H&H 270 gr Barnes TSX.

Land Cruiser FJ 70 Zimbabwe, quick sand.

White Tailed Gnu, South Africa .375H&H 270 gr Barnes X.

Kudu South Africa Matthews Q2, 125 Gr Montec.

Zebra Stallion South Africa, Matthews Q2, 125 Gr Monotech


Kudu, South Africa, Matthews Q2, 125 gr Montech.


Cape Buffalo, Zimbabwe, .375H&H 300 gr Barnes TSX.

Massive Cape Buffalo bull, South Africa for your viewing pleasure.

Cull Oryx, South Africa, .375H&H 300 Gr Rhino Solid Shank.


The guy you don't want to run into if you are a poacher in Zimbabwe.


Elephant bull, Zambia on the banks of the Zambezi River.


My best buddies buffalo bull, Zimbabwe, .458 lott 500 Gr WLSP and WLS.


I'll stop there before I bore you guys to death.... But these are some good memories for me!

 

[Rob96]

Awesome!

 

[hq]

Wow! A very nice collection! I'll have to check my photo archives and see if I could counter that with a (far) less comprehensive one. Or at least try to catch up a bit next June in Namibia, during the peak of cheetah season...

 

[Grumulkin]

A klippie from about 180 yards with a 460 S&W Magnum.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Grumiulkin,

Very nice and excellent shooting!

 

[Robert]

How very British of you old boy.

You sir have been there and done that and I have seen the heads on your wall to prove it. You have lived a life that is right out of a Kipling poem.

 

[BigG]

Great shooting! I always appreciate seeing your success, H&H Hunter and others!

 

[ironworkerwill]

Robert beat me to it! You must have a British accent?

 

[H&Hhunter]

You must have a British accent?

Not in the slightest ol boy......

On my fathers side we, a petulant horde of horse thieving Celts, left (forcibly deported by the king actually) England in 1632 and set foot that same year in the American colonies and have never left.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Robert,

You have lived a life that is right out of a Kipling poem.

Here you go....

http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/elephant.htm

 

[wankerjake]

Awesome. Cape buffalo is something I may want to do someday.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Cape buffalo is something I may want to do someday.

I highly recommend it! Warning however, it is very difficult to hunt just one cape buffalo. Once you get the taste it can become a dangerous addiction.....Once you take that first puff off the cape buffalo crack pipe it can be very hard to just say no!

 

[wankerjake]

Yeah, I believe it

 

[627PCFan]

Just curious, does all the meat get donated to the locals? I'm assuming you cant export it.

 

[hq]

Just curious, does all the meat get donated to the locals? I'm assuming you cant export it.

Usually it is. If there's a butcher nearby with all appropriate paperwork, it's possible to ship meat home, but mainly we just grab fillets for camp meat and have the rest transported to the nearest village that needs it the most.

Of course there can be limitations what you actually want to eat. Giraffe was a bit too exotic for my taste and I donated the whole 2000lbs+ without even thinking about it. They made traditional sausages out of it and, frankly, they're an acquired taste.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Just curious, does all the meat get donated to the locals? I'm assuming you cant export it.

You are correct in that you can not import it. A lot of the meat goes to the locals who collectively own the hunting concession that your are hunting on. A lot of it goes to feed your hunting camp. In South Africa which is far more 1st world that say Zimbabwe or Zambia. A lot of the meat goes to market where it is sold commercially.

NOTE,

hq and I posted at the same time.

You can not import wild meat in the USA. Apparently you can to some other countries.

 

[Sol]

Did the natives bestow upon you a cool nickname?

 

[ironworkerwill]

"Equinsu ocha"

 

[H&Hhunter]

Did the natives bestow upon you a cool nickname?

Maybe....But I ain't saying but I ain't saying what it is.

But it definitely is not "Equina ocha" (White Devil)..

 

[bikerdoc]

Great photos.

Ill get some pics up of my bosses trophy heads hanging in the shop. He does South Africa every year.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Not in the slightest ol boy......

On my fathers side we, a petulant horde of horse thieving Celts, left (forcibly deported by the king actually) England in 1632 and set foot that same year in the American colonies and have never left.

Well...except to do some big game hunting in Africa, evidently...



Nice pics!

 

[Grumulkin]

A Vaal Rhebok taken with a 460 S&W Magnum handgun.



A European Fallow Deer taken in South Africa with an Encore 460 S&W Magnum handgun.



My varmint gun for one trip was a Blaser R 93 in 375 H&H Magnum. A Hornady 300 gr. FMJ RN worked well on this Black Back Jackal which now is a full body mount in my living room. In fact, it's the only mount my wife allows, yea even likes, in the living room.



A Steenbok taken with a 460 S&W Magnum.



A Burchel's Zebra taken with a 460 S&W Magnum handgun.



A Blue Wildebeest taken with an Encore rifle in 375 H&H Magnum. The rifle was a bit dangerous in that you had to be VERY careful to avoid a scope bite. The Encore stock isn't the best for shooting a heavy recoiling rifle but when I shot it I thought, 'what a hammer.' It worked very well.



No, it didn't die of a heart attack. Another animal taken with the 375 H&H Magnum.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Grumulkin,

Thanks for posting those. Where did you get your Vaal Rhebok? That is one little critter that I am very interested in pursuing.

It is not lost on me that you got yours with a hand gun either. That is quite an accomplishment as they are considered to be Africa's "riflemen's" game species. Nice shooting my friend!

 

[Joea132]

I've always wanted to hunt Africa but it's way out of my price range. I'm going to live it through this thread instead. Thanks for the pictures and stories, I love em!