Here is a "slightly" non-typical gemsbok from Namibia.

Jim

My nontypical 6 tusk warthog:



Another view of it:

I was just wondering how many of the hunters here have taken non-typical animals while hunting in Africa. On my trip in Zim in October I took my first non-typical animal ever, it was in the Shangani camp. I took the impala on the last day of the hunt and it is defenitly the highlight of the trip for me.

At the same camp they also had a femal eland skull that had one horn bending back then down. how common are these types of animals and do you see them often?

Congratulations on a nice and special impala!
I don`t want to ruin your experience, but I think it`s quit normal to see non-typicals.
I saw a shoulder-mounted kudu in Namibia this year, with hornshape like a barbary-sheep. We also saw a couple of oryx, with bended horns.
In Etosha I took photos of a pretty good Damara Dik-Dik. The left horn went more out to the side of the head than backwards..
When it comes to horned animals I like symmetri and normal horn shape, but antlered game is almost more interesting when non-typical.

We saw a similiar eland in RSA two years ago...possible even a bit more severely bent. We asked if the owner wanted to cull it, and were told he was saving it for some Germans since "the Germans are crazy for these kinds of animals and I can charge a premium"

For what it's worth.

I would be interested in knowing if the Europeans among us consider non-typicals to be better trophies.

jeff

According to my PH in Namibia, most Europeans are quite fond of the non-typicals (especially Gemsbok) whereas Americans typically want good representative specimens with "matching" horns.

That said, the most common nontypical I have noticed in American trophy rooms are usually Hartebeest.

DC300

last june I took a baboon in Zimbabwe, it had upper fangs over 2 1/2 inches long, which are huge!(big ones are 1 1/2 inches). but the kicker was another set growing inside those! they were almost 2 inches long. I'm trying to locate photo's of the skull, will post later..........................

Well, it wasn't in Africa, but my wife shot this non-typical oryx in New Mexico a few years ago. They are relatively common here.

Waterbuck shot in South Africa





Rhino seen on on the beach in California