Easiest hunt ever!


I thought some of you might enjoy this.

Could not have been easier, as we were on our way to a leopard blind.

In fact, you can hear Roy saying he will drop us at the blind and go back to pick the two bulls we had shot.


Just imagine, how hard one has to work at getting a decedent buffalo in Zimbabwe

Beautiful bull. Well done sir.

Congratulations!!

Congratulations

Thank you gentlemen.

This was 20 years ago in 1997 in Chete.

I got asked about the leopard.

He did come to the bait, but was too you. He actually came very early, with the sun was quite high in the sky. He just walked by the bait tree, looked around, and walked off.

It is the earliest I have ever seen a leopard come to bait in an afternoon.

Is that the biggest bull you've taken Saeed?

Atta Boy!!!!

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Originally posted by surestrike:
Is that the biggest bull you've taken Saeed?

Yes it is.

I have quite a few in the 44-46 range, and more smaller ones.

And some with broken horns.

The ones I really look for are the very old lone bulls with worn out horns.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by surestrike:
Is that the biggest bull you've taken Saeed?

Yes it is.

I have quite a few in the 44-46 range, and more smaller ones.

And some with broken horns.

The ones I really look for are the very old lone bulls with worn out horns.

Saeed,

Do you know how many buffalo you've shot? I think you must be one of the most experienced buffalo hunters alive today.

Very nice....

Filming ones hunt can sometimes be a pain, but it does allow you to look back on some special moments.

I am afraid not.

I don't keep track of anything I hunt.

Certain points seem to stick in mind - like trying like hell to shoot a kudu one year, and despite all our efforts, I missed a few in very thick bush, and I thought I must be jinxed.

The next year I think I shot 6 or 8.

The same goes for sable. When I mentioned that I have shot 6 sable in one year, one of my friends went mad! As he has been trying to get just one, and never managed to do so.

Most of my hunts have been at the end of season, and I just shoot whatever is still on quota. The camp staff absolutely love this, as they have a lot of meat to make into biltong.

We spent a few days chasing lions, and did not shoot any buffalo. Our skinners at the butchery started making fun of us. Mainly asking "where is the buffalo?"

One morning we were out, and saw 4 old bulls walking in the bush.

We went after them, and before long we had all four down within 50 yards of each other.

We loaded one onto our truck, and took it back to camp. We wanted to send the other truck and tractor to collect the others.

It was quite early for us to be at camp for lunch, so as we drove towards the butchery, the butchery staff were so happy and started running by the car after seeing the buffalo.

They were singing and dancing.

The trackers started laughing at them, as they heard them shouting "MBOGO!"

The trackers shouted back "2 MBOGO!"

The skinners did not believe it.

"3 MBOGO!" the trackers shouted.

More laughs from teh skinners, as we approached the skinning shed.

"4 MBOGO!" the trackers were shouting.

By then no one in teh skinning shed believed us.

But, a few minutes later, as Roy was giving instructions for everyone to take the tractor and other truck to get the other buffalo, the smiles disappeared off the faces of the skinners.

It was time for the trackers to laugh.

"You wanted buffalo. You got buffalo"

I think they worked until very late into the night to get everything skinned and cut up.

But, everyone was so happy to have so much meat.

We had racks and racks of biltong, which makes for a very happy hunting camp.

Was that the last year that Roy was the main PH (before Alan started hunting with you?)

It would have been interesting to see what Zim was like back in the 80's-90's compared to when I started (much less in the so called golden era!)

Last year Roy hunted was I think 2001.

I have been hunting with him since the early 80's, in several areas in Zimbabwe.

Wow! Fantastic bull!

Brett

Very impressive Saeed.

Certainly bled out well.

Damn nice bull. I have taken a hell of a lot of buff and I have not seen one with that much blood on the ground. Impressive what the right bullet in the right place will do.

Wow!! What a trophy! Nice shooting as well - good clean kill.

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Originally posted by larryshores:
Damn nice bull. I have taken a hell of a lot of buff and I have not seen one with that much blood on the ground. Impressive what the right bullet in the right place will do.

Funny you mention this Larry.

This is an aorta shot, had it many times, and Roy keeps saying it is my usual shot.

I tend to shoot a bit higher in the chest than many people, trying to hit the arteries above the heart.

Walter, on the other hand, tends to go very low!!

We were hunting in South Africa once, and saw a herd of black wildebeest across the valley.

Walter refused to shoot one, as he said they were too far.

I shot one, using my 30-404, loaded with 180 grain bullets at almost 3500 fps!

We crossed over, and the rest of the herd was not that far.

Walter fired 3-4 shots at one, hitting him every time, but never dropped him.

The bull crossed to where we were, and by that time it was too far for him.

"You go shoot it now"! He said we were laughing at him.

I fired a shot at the wildebeest, he ran a few yards and dropped. The sun was in our face, and we could see he was blowing a stream of blood from the bullet hole in his side. That must have been several feet high!

When we got to him, we found hardly any of Walter's hits penetrated the chest. Just skimming below it!

Tremendous bull

Noticed you were wearing sneakers. No doubt comfortable, but don't they pick up a lot of seeds, burrs and other stuff of the ground?

Wow!

Dave

phenomenal bull. I think we have seen photos of that one mounted in your trophy room pics...

flat out impressive--

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by larryshores:
Damn nice bull. I have taken a hell of a lot of buff and I have not seen one with that much blood on the ground. Impressive what the right bullet in the right place will do.

Funny you mention this Larry.

This is an aorta shot, had it many times, and Roy keeps saying it is my usual shot.

I tend to shoot a bit higher in the chest than many people, trying to hit the arteries above the heart.

Walter, on the other hand, tends to go very low!!

We were hunting in South Africa once, and saw a herd of black wildebeest across the valley.

Walter refused to shoot one, as he said they were too far.

I shot one, using my 30-404, loaded with 180 grain bullets at almost 3500 fps!

We crossed over, and the rest of the herd was not that far.

Walter fired 3-4 shots at one, hitting him every time, but never dropped him.

The bull crossed to where we were, and by that time it was too far for him.

"You go shoot it now"! He said we were laughing at him.

I fired a shot at the wildebeest, he ran a few yards and dropped. The sun was in our face, and we could see he was blowing a stream of blood from the bullet hole in his side. That must have been several feet high!

When we got to him, we found hardly any of Walter's hits penetrated the chest. Just skimming below it!

Interesting.

I have a friend who is a physician. He took a long bow to Cameroon to hunt bongo. They told him it was impossible.. he shot the first. It stood there momentarily then took two steps and collapsed. They were all shocked. He had to find out what happened. He cut it open. The arrow had severed the aorta.

great buffalo!

Wow, exceptional. Thanks for posting.

Great buffalo! Outstanding!

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Great Buff! Thanks for showing it.
kh

Fantastic buffalo Saeed and a classic clip!

Out of curiosity do you happen to know how big were your biggest kudu and sables and maybe elephant?

I wear sneakers because they are supposed to let you sneak onto animals without them knowing! At least that is what Walter says

I like to wear light weight shoes, and comfortable.

I have funny shaped feet, and find it hard to get the right shoe to fit right, and I normally give them to one of our trackers after the hunt.

In the past few years I have been using walking shoes from ECCO. I found a model that fits me perfectly, and boat a few - I walk quite a lot - last year almost 3,700 kilometers - and shoes do not seem to last that long.

Eventually I could not find any of that model. Luckily, the CEO of the company that imports them is a hunter and a friend of mine.

He went out of his way to find that there were a few pairs in Germany, and had them shipped over to him. He delivered them to my house, and refused to take payment!

That is what I call a good friend.

I have no idea what was the biggest kudu or sable was. Elephant I think my biggest was about 55 pounds.

I do know that one of my reedbucks would have been number one if we had entered him in the book that year.

Again, we were just out of camp early in the morning, and saw him jumping in long grass. I jumped out of the truck, and fired a shot at him one one of his jumps. Hitting him in the neck.

When we got to him we saw how big he is.

We measured him, and looked in the book. He was bigger.

Another example of how hard one has to work top get a world class trophy

These are the 4 bulls I mentioned above.

That was a great film clip! I have been looking for a bull like that one all my life, and have never come nearer than one 38 incher with a decent boss.

Congratulations Saeed no matter how easy it was! Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good!

....................................................................... congratulations Sir!

Got asked about the 4 bulls above.

We had a good friend of mine with us hunting, Gerhard. I used to call him grandad, and he called me grandson. He was from Austria, and working in Dubai as a pilot in charge of the Police Airwing.

He had a heart problem, so could not walk very far.

He wanted to shoot a buffalo, and we were wondering where we could find one for him without having to walk for miles.

As luck would have it, about mid morning we saw these 4 bulls walking not far from us while we were driving.

The wind was good, so we got ahead of them and waited.

Eventually one got clear about 50 yards from us, and Gerhard shot him. His shot was a bit too far back, and teh bull ran a few yards and stopped behind a bush.

We had to wait for quite a bit, as all of them stood there, but non was clear for a shot.

Eventually the wounded bull move a bit, and Gerhard finished him off.

He was using a 375 H&H rifle with the scope mounted so high in the European style that there is no way in hell I could hit anything with it. Roy called it an abomination!

I asked Gerhard to shoot another one, and he declined, so I tried to make sure I drop them all close by. One of them actually came charging looking for us once the shooting started, but he never actually saw us, and I dropped him with a brain shot.

WE also had a bit of fun with a giraffe Gerhard wanted to shoot with a 500 Jeffery.

We found an old bull, and told him to make sure he does not shoot too high, because of the shape of the animal.

He shot it, and the giraffe took off at full speed.

He could not run, so tried shooting it in the head as it was running, as that is the only thing we could see about the trees!

Roy and me ran after it, leaving Gerhard behind.

The giraffe was heading straight to the next concession, and only became clear as he approached the road dividing the two concessions.

I fired a shot at his hip, and he dropped right on the road!!

Finishing off my friends animals is not new to me, as I have been doing that for Walter for years.

He says it give me good practice, which I apparently need

Thanks so much for that video. The buff that was shot was pretty amazing, and the second bull didn't look to shabby either!

I know some people look down on an "inch hunter", but setting a goal for a really big buff, only adds to the intensity of the hunt IMO.

Thanks again.

BH63

Fantastic!!! Thanks for sharing!

Best regards, D. Nelson

Always glad to see that one again.

I wish I had a better quality photo than this one, scanned from a filed away paper print from the website about 1999,
when I did not know enough about computers to just save the jpeg file:



I found the above somehow when I was surfing the internet for info on cape buffalo hunting.
That was my introducrion to www.accuratereloading.com.

I am guessing the .375/404 Jeffery Saeed was developed in 1996.
Seems to have started killing cape buffalo no later than 1997.
The 49-incher was killed about then, eh?

It would be nice to pin down the year for posterity.

Riflecrank Internationale Permanente.
Incurable is spelled the same in French and English.

I wonder what that bull would have measured with an intact left horn. It must be a wonderful memory, Saeed. Thanks for putting up the clip.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
I wonder what that bull would have measured with an intact left horn. It must be a wonderful memory, Saeed. Thanks for putting up the clip.

Drinks are on me when we meet Bill.

It will be my pleasure.

Saeed,
I watched the original cut on your CD "Video Collection 4" and that hunt sequence was about 5 minutes long,
from same start to same finish, file created August 5, 2001.

As self-appointed historian, I am guessing that hunt took place in 1998 in Zimbabwe.
And you were using ".375/404 Rifle No. 1" back then.
It still had all its paint on the stock.

Great one-shot kill on the 49-incher, did not even require an insurance shot, as you were too busy chasing the second one.
But you left out about 2.5 minutes that showed a lot of jogging and three more rifle shots on the second buffalo.

Yep, 2 buffalo and 5 shots in 5 minutes.
Last shot was the insurance shot shown on the latest editing job.
Pretty easy, good shooting, but not as easy as the editing made it look on this thread.

You did not cut to the chase, you cut out the chase!
That was my punch line.

Riflecrank Internationale Permanente.
Incurable is spelled the same in French and English.

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Originally posted by RIP:
Saeed,
I watched the original cut on your CD "Video Collection 4" and that hunt sequence was about 5 minutes long,
from same start to same finish, file created August 5, 2001.

As self-appointed historian, I am guessing that hunt took place in 1998 in Zimbabwe.
And you were using ".375/404 Rifle No. 1" back then.
It still had all its paint on the stock.

Great one-shot kill on the 49-incher, did not even require an insurance shot, as you were too busy chasing the second one.
But you left out about 2.5 minutes that showed a lot of jogging and three more rifle shots on the second buffalo.

Yep, 2 buffalo and 5 shots in 5 minutes.
Last shot was the insurance shot shown on the latest editing job.
Pretty easy, good shooting, but not as easy as the editing made it look on this thread.

You did not cut to the chase, you cut out the chase!
That was my punch line.

Riflecrank Internationale Permanente.
Incurable is spelled the same in French and English.

I put this last video here concerning only the 49 inch buffalo, hence the shorter video.

Also, it makes it a lot easier for many people who are unable to download long videos.

You will be amazed at some of our members are using for computers still today!

Sometimes I imagine some of them are still living in Bedrock, right next door to Fred Flinstone!

They even complain of the 1800 pixel pictures I post as being too big!