Only their mother could love them.......................................



Massive 25 incher taken on Mike Kibble's ranch with a 300RUM at 240 yards..........



Only a 22.5 incher, taken with a 257 WBY and 100TSX. Bullet was found lodged in the off side hip!! Mike wanted me to look for another, as this one wasn't up to his very high standards...




Typical Hartebeest country at Mike Kibble's ranch in Namibia..............Bring a flat shooting rifle

Some people think these are native to Africa, but they are really aliens beamed down from another galaxy.

Brent

Show up at a Minnesota Vikings football game with a set of those boys mounted on top of a battle helmet. Those crowd expressions would be priceless as they say. Hmmm, I bet they would sell like....nevermind.

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Originally posted by L. David Keith:
Show up at a Minnesota Vikings football game with a set of those boys mounted on top of a battle helmet. Those crowd expressions would be priceless as they say. Hmmm, I bet they would sell like....nevermind.

Blair338/378 WBY,
That first photo is really something. Nicely done.

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Originally posted by SBT:
Blair338/378 WBY,
That first photo is really something. Nicely done.

SBT,

That was my big mate, Karl's first African trophy.............. good on him and Mike Kibble

I'm the little bastard in the second pic with the SMALL Hartebeest.

Every time I look at one, I think of Dan Ackroyd in "Coneheads"

Actually I was (quite surprised myself) to see when delving deeper that there are a very large number of HARTEBEEST specie or sub-specie ...

To name a few }

Cheers, Peter


(Red (Cape) Hartebeest)
RSA, Botswana and Namibia.


(Coke's Hartebeest)
Central Tanzania north to central Kenya.


(Western Hartebeest)
Restricted to Burkina, Northern Cameroon, Central African Republic, Northern Ghana, Northern Ivory Coast, Northern Nigeria and Senegal east.


(Lelwel Hartebeest)
Distribution restricted to Cameroon, Chad, CAR, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda.


(Kenya Highland Hartebeest)
Distribution Kenya in the Lampwe Valley, Laikipia as well as central Kenya.


(Neumann Hartebeest)
Ethiopia.


(Swayne Hartebeest)
Exterminated in most of it's range before 1930. Now in isolated populations in Ethiopia.


(Tora Hartebeest)
Distribution restricted to southern and central Blue Nile, eastern Sudan and Ethiopia.


(Lichtenstein's Hartebeest)
Distribution Malawi, Mozambique, reintroduced to north-eastern RSA, Tanzania, Zambia, south-east Zimbabwe.


[Senegal Hartebeest (Korrigum)]
Distribution CAR, Chad, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, western Sudan, Niger, Upper Volta.


(Tiang Hartebeest)
Distribution Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia.

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Originally posted by Blank:
Every time I look at one, I think of Dan Ackroyd in "Coneheads"

Nice bull Blank.

And your Springbok was a bloody bewdy too

I hope this year will be my Red Hartebeest year. I have taken a couple of people out for them and they have all been lucky and succesfull. But never taken one myself yet.

This year it will change we are going to namibia to hunt with KarlS in August to end my predicament.

This is a nice one we took July last year in the Swartwater area RSA. He was among a herd of impala and I almost mitook him for an old ram as his head was down and he was in a bit of a gully. He was very close and as soon as I saw his head I told Hans Olof to shoot and there he is. A fine looking animal one of my favorites and they really make super mounts.

They sure ain't pretty! I hunted this one with Chris Troskie from www.ct-safaris.com last year. Even though I was not really interested in trophy sizes I was very happy when I learnt that the bull measured almost 25".

Taken at last light. Namibia 2006

2006 Tanzania - Usangu Safaris - .375 H&H TBBC 150 yds.

HFNAHT,
That is a Lichtenstein Hartebeest.....and anice one too

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Originally posted by Mike300WSM:
They sure ain't pretty! I hunted this one with Chris Troskie from www.ct-safaris.com last year. Even though I was not really interested in trophy sizes I was very happy when I learnt that the bull measured almost 25".

Mike,

That thing is a MONSTER. Length and that incredible mass,

Good on you mate!!!!

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HFNAHT,
That is a Lichtenstein Hartebeest.....and anice one too

Bwanamich, thanks. My PH, Zahir Mullah, told me it was a very good one after I downed it. It measured very close to 25". He said he didn't want to say anything before I shot because he didn't want to make me nervous.

It's good to recieve verification from you that Zahir wasn't playing "customer golf".

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Originally posted by Hunter Formerly Known As Texas Hunter:

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HFNAHT,
That is a Lichtenstein Hartebeest.....and anice one too

Bwanamich, thanks. My PH, Zahir Mullah, told me it was a very good one after I downed it. It measured very close to 25". He said he didn't want to say anything before I shot because he didn't want to make me nervous.

It's good to recieve verification from you that Zahir wasn't playing "customer golf".

Your RHB is a pig. The length is impressive enough but the mass is something else.

Here's one I shot in RSA in '05. It goes almost 25"s too, but it ain't as massive as yours...



Cheers,
Canuck

Canuk, very nice. I guess the lack of black on mine (Lichtenstein's Hartebeest) differentiates it from the RHB? I don't know if there are differences in horns among the two species.

HFKATH,

Oops, in my haste I see I mixed a couple things up....I knew what I meant but forgot to type it that way!!

Yes, yours is a dandy LHB! There is a difference in horns, in that the tops are smaller on the LHB. Yours has good length and great bases. Colorwise they don't seem as red in the flanks and the faces aren't black. Here's a pic of an LHB (kongoni) that Don_G shot while we were hunting in LU5 last September...



My comments about mass though, were directed to Mike300WSMs pig of an RHB!!

Cheers,
Canuck

WOW-Mike300WSM that truly is a monster!!

Here's mine-it has 12" bases and 22" length.