This Sat morning on ESPN2 at 8AM eastern time on Pro Hunter Journal (also Sunday at 6am)there will be 2 Cape buff hunts from Zim. One will be a blackpowder hunt with Gregg Ritz, and the second is a rifle hunt I did last August in Charisa. I haven't seen the show yet and have no idea how it will all look, but I thought I would post it since almost everyone gets ESPN.

I will try to shake my bones out of bed in time to see it.

I have always wished for Saeed to quit his day job and, using his photographer skills and footage of prior safaris, he could put together an outstanding one hour special on real hunting in Africa. All the whispering, etcetera could be eliminated and just have a deep voiced male narrate the various hunting scenes, bullet impacts and all.

That's a very good idea.

Tim,

Congratulations, the show was done very well.
George Hallamore will be guiding Dr. C (who posts here on AR) on an archery buffalo hunt next month.

Thanks Kathi - I guess George is the man. He guided Tom Miranda to a bow kill elephant at 11 yards a year or so ago...

Good show Tim. Did you say in another post that there was a more open buffalo taken? Regardless, that was a nice show and i sure wish i had been along.

Thanks SilentT,

Yes, that was the 2nd buff of the trip. The other was in much more open terrain. You could see the whole bull broadside. I am sure they will use it inanother show or next season. In about 3 weeks, my kudu will run on there, and it is the best piece of footage I have ever been involved in. Leopard, kudu and Cape buff and in one sequence.

I'll have to DVR the next one as well. What caliber were you shooting?

I shot .375H&H . It is funy, I took a .416 Rigby for buff. My luggage was lost in Jburg, so I got to camp with 2 rifles, the clothes on my back and a spare set that was in my carry on. There was camp .375 ammo, so I resighted my gun with camp ammmo, and went out and killed my first buff before my luggage (clothes and ammo) showed up on day 4. I had already killed 1 buff with the .375, so when the opportunity came to kill another, I just carried the .375 so I could shoot plainsgame with it as well (had a more powerful scope). I never even got the .416 out of the case. I did leave all the ammo with one of the asst. PH's who was in need of it badly.

Killed 2 buff, kudu, bushbuck, bait impala and hippo with the .375 on that trip, and all were 1 shot kills (though I did miss a couple of shots).