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I'm not sure what that cow is above, but it certainly is not a full blood or anywhere near it, Watusi. It looks like a longhorn to me, or some kind of longhorn cross, since I own a few hundred of them, I kind of know the look.

Lotta hamburger there, I doubt the steaks will be chewable.


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Lotta hamburger there, I doubt the steaks will be chewable.



Good point. Big Grin

They are supposed to look like this:

 
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Here's a photo of the oryx.



Unfortunately, I won't have a photo of the buck until I get the antlers sent to me, likely this week or next.

I hit the buck too high just before dark on Sun., and he ran off into the thick cedars. We tracked him for a couple hours that night, then came back the next morning again. We eventually lost any blood trail and gave up since I had to leave for home and the ranch manager had to go to his other job.

He went back to the area the next day and found the buck dead. He was lying about 20 feet from a water hole. So he recovered the antlers, and will be shipping them to me. Now I'll have to get a cape somewhere.


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Looks like you were in some thick stuff for sure. Sorry the buck got lost for a bit.
 
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Since the subject came up, does anyone raise watusi, I'm in need of a young bull????? and I agree with others, that is not a watusi in the picture but one helluva Heinz 57!!!!
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Looks like a longhorn cross with some age on it to me.....I'd rather eat the rifle sling.
 
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Thanks for clearing up what we did "not" hunt. bewildered

I didn't even know that something like a Watuzi existed until I got to that ranch... There were animals resembling those in Charles Helm's pictures and Texas Long Horns all walking together on the ranch though so I guess I got confused. Confused Sorry about that...

Either way; "hunting" these "cows" was almost as challenging as hunting a milk cow in the paddock... but we had fun. Met some great people, enjoyed good food and had a very different experience stomping through the mud and sludge on that ranch.


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Not as exotic as a Scimitar but this is what I ended up hunting with my Dallas Agent and a client in September this year...



Apparently it is called a "Watoozi" (spelling?) - some kind of "wild" African cow...


I don't think the picture above is a Watusi! It may be a cross with something else! Charles_Helm's picture in his post is a full blood Watusi. What rifle is that in the picture?


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Wow, great Oryx Tony!!! MUCH nicer than mine. Great horns! congratulations. jorge


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I knew I had to hear from some Texans that I could wholeheartedly agree with! (I always seem to find myself, as an Eastern "tenderfoot" or "damyankee" in a fight with Texans and Westerners. I really can't control the politics of my state - I vote but I'm outnumbered! Smiler Fact. You raised a point - Does the property community tax apply to all properties in Texas regardless of acreage? Frankly, what I have in mind is that,in Texas, when a man tells me he owns a "ranch", I am thinking of 640 acres, one section, -at least -and multiplied. Everything else is a farm. As an Easterner, I am always awed by the sheer size of the West. Make "exotics" live long enough for some trigger happy "hunter" determined to have a "trophy" on his wall to shoot one? I have no objection to what my fellow Americans do as a legal business (despite my personal opinion to the "business". I'm just glad that Texans as yourself feel otherwise. (I don't hunt anymore but it's nice to read that there are still hunters out there)
 
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I don't think the picture above is a Watusi! It may be a cross with something else! Charles_Helm's picture in his post is a full blood Watusi. What rifle is that in the picture?


Thanks Mac and yes; as I've discovered since Mr. Helm posted his picture that is not a Watuzi in mine... my mistake... Thank goodness I don't guide on Watuzis back here in Africa! Wink... the dairy farmers will kill me holycow

The rifle is a Merkel in 9.3. This was however not the rifle that the animal was shot with. As I recall the client used a 7mm Rem Mag (can't remember the make).


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