This is something I shot last week in RSA

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30 June 2005, 02:24

Cunningham

This is something I shot last week in RSA

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.
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30 June 2005, 04:26

surestrike

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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30 June 2005, 05:36

Michael Robinson

That's a pale-sided, white-schnozzled Fillintheblankbok if I've ever seen one.

Just kidding, or trying to.

It's a blesbok, definitely.

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30 June 2005, 05:42

odie

quote:
Originally posted by surestrike:
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.

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.

30 June 2005, 06:02

eric 98

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)

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30 June 2005, 12:08

trapmonkey

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

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30 June 2005, 16:58

Sunshine

This is a Hartebeest / Blesbok hybrid.
Happens when there are not enough females of one species.

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30 June 2005, 18:49

Aspen Hill Adventures

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?

30 June 2005, 19:28

Terry Blauwkamp

We called them Hartiboks...

Shot a couple 3 years ago a farmer wanted out of his herd. Big body with Blesbok horns.

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30 June 2005, 19:46

Dago Red

monkey, the resulting cross between the black and blue wildebeast, if it happens will you call it a bruised wildebeast?

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