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Biggest Gemsbok Trophies?
Biggest Gemsbok Trophies?
Where are the biggest Gemsbok trophies hunted? I had always thought that perhaps Namibia was the location with best trophies in recent years but a friend says I am wrong. So where do the best gemsbok trophies over the last few years come from?
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02 May 2006, 13:05
BwanamichMust be Namibia around the Kalahari...a lot of the big ones get captured and sent to ranches across RSA and end up getting shot there. same with springbok and red hartebeest
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02 May 2006, 13:42
ChrisTroskieNamibia is and has always been good for Gemsbok trophies. The Kalahari region of the Northern Cape is also very good.
02 May 2006, 14:05
Robert johnsonOn my last hunt in Namibia I saw the horns of a 46" male gemsbok that had died on a ranch near Okahandja. There is a picture of it in my hunt report.
Robert Johnson
Namibia. Mostly Kalahari and Namib areas, also some big heads in the more bushy centarl and northern regions (though not as good as the desert regions IMO)
Karl Stumpfe
Ndumo Hunting Safaris
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02 May 2006, 22:42
GanyanaCan personally recomend Dirk de Bot or Hannes Steyn in Namibia. The year I hunted on Hannes' ranch the smallest male taken was 40" (Mine). At one time, the third partner (partnership now disolved) "guaranteed" a 40" or better.
I know I've hunted near Kimberley RSA and there are tremendous gemsbok there. I have shot a 40" male and a (near) 42" female.
Kalahari Trophies - Hannes SteynSafaris Nambia - Dirk de Bod"At one time, the third partner (partnership now disolved) "guaranteed" a 40" or better."
Weren't they partners with Pieter Stofberg in Nimrod Safaris?
02 May 2006, 23:36
mikeh416RigbyI took a 42" Bull with Vaughan Fulton in Namibia last May.
www.fultonclassicsafaris.comI shot a 40" Gemsbok with Van Heerden Safaris east of Gobabis in Namibia last year.
03 May 2006, 11:26
GanyanaHi Terry
Yes, Piet was the third partner. Off the bottle he is a darn good man. Haven't seen him for a couple of years though
03 May 2006, 19:02
surestrikeWhite Sands New Mexico USA has some of the finest gemsbok on the planet. And they are 100% free ranging on thousands of square miles of Kalahari like terrain.
Of course they were transplanted there back in the 60's or the 70's from the Kalahari proper.
I shot a 40" bull there back in 1994.
I went to Namibia three years ago specifically to shoot a 40" Gemsbok. Hunted with Pieter Stofberg of Nimrod Safaris and, while he did not guarantee a 40" trophy, I did get one at 41.25".
04 May 2006, 04:56
AtticusLast September I took a 42.5 gemsbok in Namibia with Dirk Rohrman at Okanduka Siebe.
http://www.huntingnamibia.de/UK/UK%20index.htm
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06 May 2006, 21:43
BearhunterTry Gras in Namibia, as I did last year. I took a beautiful 41.5" Gemsbok.
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