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This is a 19.5" HarteBless I shot near Lichtenburg RSA, 50 miles northwest, last week while I was over filming for the Mens Channel. I had to borrow a Ph's rifle since I had not taken mine. 257 yards, uphill. Something different and not "many" like it in Texas. http://www.hunt101.com/img/301807.JPG Global Sportsmen Outfitters, LLC Bob Cunningham 404-802-2500  | ||
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I could be wrong, but looks like a good ole commmon blesbuck to me. Are you sure? | |||
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Looks like the Blesbok I got on my wall! Nice one sir! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Yep, he shot a Blesbok... Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Sorry you old salts....But I beg to differ with you. That sure looks like a Bontebok. Just like a blessbok only white sided and much more rare. | |||
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No, it's a bald face impala. ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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Plain ole Blesbok, someone was pulling your leg. Jerry Huffaker State, National and World Champion Taxidermist | |||
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I thought it was a Curved Horn Browniebuck. | |||
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That's a pale-sided, white-schnozzled Fillintheblankbok if I've ever seen one. Just kidding, or trying to.  It's a blesbok, definitely.Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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The only way to know for sure is the Bontebok has a white rump patch around the tail. I don't think the contiguous white on the face is absolute proof. Some Blesboks have a horizontal stripe of some type breaking up the white on the face but I don't think it's an absolute. I of course could be wrong as I have seen neither in the wild but telling you what an old African hand once told me. | |||
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The gentleman is correct. It is a Hartebles. You can tell by the way the horns almost touch at the bases. It is a true cross breed, possibly artificially inseminated by highly trained vervet monkeys in a secret project now going on in RSA to rekindle hunting fever due to the Airbus/firearms permit debacles. (stay tuned for more crossbreeds) I'll quit buying guns when my wife quits buying shoes. | |||
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that is a hartebles... there is proof that they can interbreed. I have never shot one, but in the smaller farms that have hartebeest and blesbok, its quite common. We try very hard for that not to happen on the patches of land we run though. We are also checking for black and blue wildebeest crosses. hasn't happened yet for both on our patch. cheers, tm "one of the most common african animals is the common coolerbok(or coleman's coolerbok). Many have been domesticated and can be found in hunting camps, lodges and in the back of vehicles." | |||
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This is a Hartebeest / Blesbok hybrid. Happens when there are not enough females of one species. HUNTING ONE HOUR FROM CAPE TOWN http://www.kapstadt.de/lemberg | |||
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Happens all of the time here in West Texas....we need more females too!!!!  Jeff | |||
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Jeff, You've left yourself really wide open with that statement. So what are you all hybridizing with out there in West Texas???  Any photos of the resulting progeny? ~Ann   | |||
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We called them Hartiboks... Shot a couple 3 years ago a farmer wanted out of his herd. Big body with Blesbok horns. Remember, forgivness is easier to get than permission. | |||
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monkey, the resulting cross between the black and blue wildebeast, if it happens will you call it a bruised wildebeast?  Red | |||
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