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I say, "You can't ride them so you might as well get a nice rug and eat them." | ||
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When I went to RSA the first time, I went with the preconception that Zebra were just striped horses. Had a number hunts busted by Zebra who made enough commotion to scare away what we were hunting. Very alert! One of the PHs brought in a Lion skull that he's taken during a problem animal hunt a couple of years earlier. Skull showed a dramatic injury that was healing at the time of the lion's death. Theory was that he's been kicked either by a Zebra or a giraffe. The injury had caused the animal to take easy pickins ... which put local livestock at significant risk. Gave me much more respect for the Zebra as a game animal ... they darned sure are not helpless and they darned sure weren't being helpful! Toward the end of the trip I'd taken the things on my list and had some time left, so I decided to hunt Zebra at the PH's suggestion. He described it as a challenging hunt. He was certainly right! Took three days of spot and stalk to get one. Was an outstanding hunt! Damn they have great teeth for fighting. Mike -------------- DRSS, Womper's Club, NRA Life Member/Charter Member NRA Golden Eagles ... Knifemaker, http://www.mstarling.com | |||
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Big Guy,  .395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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I've shot 2 and don't regret it a bit. They are beautiful and a challenge to hunt. | |||
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Why? To find out what is black and white and red all over.  | |||
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Never had anyone tell me Zebra was good eating but I suppose it's possible. People eat stranger things. As mentioned, they are a wiley animal and tough! I saw a gang of men along side the highway once...they were all wearing Zebra pajama's. Must have been to Africa before  LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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They make good Lion/Leopard bait and rugs Our last PH's wife would not let any part of a Zebra in the house. She said they stunk to much and were not fit to eat! | |||
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I had not planned on hunting a zebra in September but my wife talked me in to adding it to my license. I guess I will do what makes her happy. Good women, she wants a zebra rug. | |||
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Maybe because in aparience; is the most closed animal that look like a ex-wife  Mine was the most difficult and smartest animal to shot (470 yards shot) in a open savana. "Every ignored reallity prepares its revenge!" | |||
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Hartmann's Mountain Zebra are highly alert and always on the move. I found them the most difficult animal to stalk within shooting range of all the animals on my plainsgame hunt in Namibia. When you spot a herd out on a desert plain, they look like they're just milling about, but they are actually moving faster than you can walk. You can be as clever as you like while stalking, and they will simply walk away from you. It took me five days to get my Zebra, and when I did, I ended up with two of them. I will treasure the rugs, but I don't think I will ever shoot another one. Anything that can survive in that environment, and can outsmart and elude me for that long doesn't need to be bothered by me any longer. | |||
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Zebra venison is delicious when properly butchered and cooked. And zebra hides do make the best rugs!  Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Agreed! | |||
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Wish my wife was like that! 577NitroExpress Double Rifle Shooters Society Francotte .470 Nitro Express  If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... | |||
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The only trophies I have are a pair of Elephant tusks and 2 Zebra rugs. My PH said they were good eating and challenged me to try some. The cook stuffed a couple of choice cuts with cheese and ham and breaded and fried and I haven't really had better even good veal. They were really good and. I regreted passing up on them in the past and definitely won't again if offered the chance. I'm sitting here as I type this and looking at my tusks in their mount on the coffee table with the full Zebra rug in front and remembering Zimbabwe with much longing. SCI Life Member NRA Patron Life Member DRSS | |||
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This may sound strange, however, i have always wanted to shoot several and have a sofa in zebra skins. I just think it would be neat in a trophy room. | |||
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I have heard that horse is very tasty but you won't find it on the menu here in the US. I guess it is eaten pretty much everywhere else though. I don't see why Zebra would taste to different. | |||
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Zebra is one of my favorite game meats. I was very surprised at the taste. | |||
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Rugs baby Rugs- and he is like a Hyena or a Lion .Africa would not be the same without them!! | |||
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I would shoot a zebra just the kind of trophy it represents.... Aside of how difficult or easy its hunt might turn out to be, the truth is that whenever I see a zebra rug, my perception is that that rug is "shouting" AFRICA in a quite unique way Don't know why, but it is one of the few african animals of whom I have that strange feeling ... ------------------------------------------  Μολὼν λάβε Duc, sequere, aut de via decede. | |||
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The first animal I shot in Namibia was a Mountain Zebra. The PH didn't care to eat it just because he still saw it as eating a horse. We did have it for dinner that night as Schnitzle, aka Chicken Fried Steak. Given the chance I'll shoot another just to eat it again. I do think he is going to make an awsome looking mount in that Knights of Chess pose. Yes it's cocked, and it has bullets too!!! | |||
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Everyone seems to be focused on Zebra rugs. I do have one but the real trophy is the one I shot for Leopard bait that we made into a pedastal mount (my wifes idea) it is the most fantastic mount and looks like a chess piece. If you have never seen one read your SCI magazine or go to an SCI convention and you will surely want one. | |||
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Dr. Mike H, I have one of each, and the pedestal mount is the most talked about mount in my trophy room. "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Change wife to step-daughter in my case. Caleb | |||
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My wife sent me to Namibia to get her one of these. This one is going to be a shoulder mount. I had the skinners save the rest of the hide so that I can have an ottoman made from it. Also I got two of the hooves but I don't know what I'll do with them.  As far as eating them, I've had 'em broiled and they taste great to me. Zebra Hunt, Namibia, March 2008 Namibiahunter  . | |||
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My zebra was the hardest animal we stalked in Namibia. The final stalk on the third day was three hours. .....and yes, they make a nice rug! Bob   There is room for all of God's creatures....right next to the mashed potatoes. http://texaspredatorposse.ipbhost.com/   | |||
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Shot one the first day of my first safari in 2004 in South Africa. Shot my second 6 months ago in Zimbabwe. Will shoot my third when I return to Zim next May. Two rugs and the next will be a pedestal mount. Love the animals, love to hunt them, and they actually are rather tasty (prepared as "schnitzel"...breaded and fried)........ | |||
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I thought Zebra was delicious . . . and I mean the African Horse-like varieties, not the sort that inhabitat 100 yard fields in the US and carry little yellow flags LOL Troy | |||
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I've shot two of them as well and have one as a pedestal in our trophy room and the other is a full rug in our foyer just in front of the full body mounted lion. Very dramatic for those coming to our home. | |||
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Hummmm, I have also shot two Zebras for lion bait and have done exactly the same  . UEG, I also confess that I am very impressed with your hippo mount and I am getting my hippo done similar to yours, it should be ready next month.Ahmed Sultan | |||
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Two with a bow (2003 & 2005) in South Africa. Two daughters and each wanted a Zebra Rug. They are wary. | |||
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I agree with Wooly ESS that Mountain Zebra are the most difficult of PG to hunt. Except perhaps for a big kudu bull? The one I took in Namibia in 2006 was a bloody long shot, 386 yards with a 300 RUM. Standing on the edge of a 20 foot ledge, the stallion dropped to the shot.........180TSX did the job perfectly. I shot another one in the Northern Cape in 95 and two common zebra in the Eastern Cape as well as one in Zim and another in the Northern Transvaal. So I have a few rugs and a shoulder mount. Gave one felted rug to a girlfriend, who had seen a plain skin rug in a high end decorating shop in Sydney-price was $4000AUS.....I find Zebra a nice challenge to hunt and relaxing as regards trophy judging  I have shot them with 7mmSTW, 300 Wby, 300RUM and a 257 Wby.Watching the worms come out of the Hartmanns Zebra, there is NO way I'd eat one of the buggers though............ Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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I have taken 4 thus far - 3 Mt and 1 Plains. The first time I had Zebra was at Joes Beer House in Windhouk and it was very sweet which I was not to keen for, but last year they had prebaited for my Leopard and saved the back strap from the Zebra which we had fixed like chicken fried steak and they served a wedge of lemon with it and the PH said squeeze a bit of juice on the meat and man it was great. My guess the acid custs the sweetness. I have 1 rug and 2 pedistal mts and the other was F*cked up some where in the process (no one accepts the responsbility - whats new) and I am using the pieces for hat bands etc. | |||
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When I went to RSA the first time, Zebra was high on my list. I've always wanted a Zebra Rug. Before going I figured "It's a horse, how hard can hunting a horse be????" After four days of trying to stalk them my tune changed to "Holy Crap, how can a horse be so hard to hunt!" Colin | |||
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The zebra has become my arch nemesis. My last two hunts that have given me the slip on every occasion. They are a wary animal and more often then not travel with a posse of other animals. As far as eating them, thought they were tasty. Hoping to finally put the smack down on one in Zim in 09. The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense | |||
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Zebras also make some of the very finest leopard baits in all of Africa! | |||
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I like the Zebra rugs, especially the tanzania zebra as he has more strips..As to eating them I have eaten them many times and don't dislike it, but to say they are prime African eating tells me some of you are out to lunch!  I will take Eland, Impala and Kudu in that order and those yellow fatted horses are way down on my desire list of great food!I love to hunt Zebra and they don't remind me of a horse, to start with they bark instead of Whinny. They can be really elusive and very hard to hunt, then you have the added problem of identifying a stallion in the tall grass and thats an added difficulty, and I like the challange. A great game animal. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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I took a Hartmann's in 2007, and want a plains in 2009 to go with it. Had the skin tanned in Namibia and they did a first class job at a fraction of the price in the U.S. BTW: I just received my Hartmann's tanned hide and have it draped over the couch in my study while trying to figure out a permanent location for it. When used as a "rug", are the hides actually tough enough to bear foot traffic without quickly showing signs of damage? Are they tough enough to actually sit on if used as an upholstry cover? | |||
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Zebra are high on my list for my first PG safari with the thought of a rug that I have always thought of as classic Africa trophy. However I saw a stunning pedestal mount at the eastern sports and outdoor show in and even my wfie was moved. She originally thought ill of me hunting Zebra but changed her tune when she saw how gorgeous the pedestal was....I too will ottoman the remaining skin. | |||
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