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The forum is getting boring again, so I'll stir it up with a question. Please answer and provide the reason, that makes for some discussion. Feel free to add some experiences to justify your choice. The intention is to start some interesting discussion. As for me, while a tough choice, because I dearly love hunting cats, I think I'd have to choose buffalo. | ||
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I think tracking Buffalo in the wild and following up wounded Buff can be hairy. A bullet in the chest of a cat will put it down but rarely on Buffalo. If the conditions are right, you can track Lion, which is rare but very exciting. ROYAL KAFUE LTD Email - kafueroyal@gmail.com Tel/Whatsapp (00260) 975315144 Instagram - kafueroyal | |||
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Elephant Good Hunting Carl Frederik | |||
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I have filmed a few Leopard hunts but never hunted one myself so it's Mr Spots for me. With kind regards Mike Mike Taylor Sporting Hunting, Fishing & Photographic Safaris Worldwide +44 7930 524 097 mtaylorsporting@gmail.com Instagram - miketaylorsporting | |||
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One doesn’t normally hunt leopards. One shoots them! | |||
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Buffalo for me without doubt. | |||
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True about leopards. Either the tom comes to the bait during shooting hours or he does not. If he comes, you shoot him. My most exciting hunts have been lion and elephant hunts. They are big and dangerous animals and can easily kill you. That will focus your mind. In today’s world, however, I will probably not hunt either lion or elephant again. So, that leaves the buffalo - also a big and dangerous animal. Yes. It would have to be the buffalo. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Elephant But Buff are fun | |||
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Buffalo. I am addicted to them. | |||
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Ele in the thick stuff | |||
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I have been asked “why do like to shoot cows?” Meaning buffalo! My answer is always “they are black and big and very hard to miss!”  | |||
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Lord Derby Eland. Hunting.... it's not everything, it's the only thing. | |||
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Second for Lord Derby's Eland. It was, by a large margin the purest of true tracking hunts. I hunted with Mike Fell. I was suppose to hunt with Christophe Mario, but some hunt length issues and other clients made it make more sense to change. Mike was fine, but I really wanted to track LDE with Christophe. He's a Central Africa icon. We would track the entire day and we normally caught them around dusk. With no shot opportunity, we had to go back to the Cruiser, drive 2-3 hours back to camp and start it all again in the morning. We followed the same herd for 5 days (IIRC) and they finally made a mid-day error. Fantastic hunt!!! Formerly "Nganga" | |||
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. I am going to be the odd one out here as for me it would have to be sandgrouse with a classic shotgun in the early morning! Champagne wingshooting! Birds are animals too right ? . "Up the ladders and down the snakes!" | |||
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Another vote for Lord Derby's Eland. 8 and 3/4 days of tracking and hiking the Sahel in 110 degrees. The "polar" opposite of the Polar Bear hunt. | |||
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Big Cape Buffalo for me. Guns and hunting | |||
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Buffalo all the time if I could afford it, otherwise it's pigs all over the world  | |||
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Folks, I've been lucky to hunt quite a bit of Africa and to me the lion is the one I would continue to hunt if I could. It's a magical experience being around and among them. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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In Africa, buffalo. In the World, Roe bucks, although I no longer shoot them, just see how close I can get! | |||
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This is kind of like who is your favorite child… If time and money are infinite, elephant. Realistically, I’d probably say ducks. There is nothing that I have hunted that I would not be willing to hunt again. I’m also a buffalo addict. | |||
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America: Pronghorn Antelope. I enjoy the hunt, and I like the meat. This is the perfect animal to hunt with my 25-06 that I love. Africa: Definitely Buffalo. I’ve taken Leopard, Lion, Hippo and Buffalo. Unlike Saeed, I’ve not taken hundreds of Buff, only seven, but I enjoy the hunt, and I enjoy using my large bore rifles (9.3x66, 375H&H, 404 Jeffery & 458 Lott), and African Big Game is about the only place that justifies their use. | |||
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I killed a Pronghorn here in Arizona last year. I also used my 25-06, which I love. I carried it for Desert Mule deer in November, but was unsuccessful. I immensely enjoyed my Antelope hunt. Hunted by myself for 8 days before finding the right buck. Antelope in the heavy timber is a unique hunt. Formerly "Nganga" | |||
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Buffalo is the only one I'm contemplating hunting again, so far (beyond whitetail), so buffalo it is. Old, broken down, scrum cap this time, please. | |||
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Mule Deer! There is nothing like it! | |||
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Elephant…. Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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I am torn between elephant and buffalo. When I was younger elephant got the edge. Now, maybe buffalo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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Interesting comments. I have a full bag this year with lion, leopard, elephant and buffalo X4 on ticket, as well as croc, hippo and all plains game. Elephant is a long shot and not the focus. Cats always are and I agree with whoever said being up close and personal with a lion is something special. I've only shot one, but I've tracked them and walked up on them, but have never hunted them out of a blind. Hope that continues. The number of buffalo I asked for on license says how I feel about buffalo. As to plains game, I understand the guys who love LDE. While I've never hunted LDE, I dearly love hunting common eland. It is indeed a pure tracking hunt. A lot like buffalo. This year, I'm really looking for a roan, an animal that has jinxed me for years. Also really want an East African greater kudu -- I have Southerns, but not a kudu from East Africa, and a topi. And I'll never turn down a zebra, especially if I'm hunting cats. But buffalo are at the top for me. I think. | |||
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I really want to hunt elephant and lion again. But once or twice for each will be enough. I do agree that tracking lions on foot is a fantastic experience. I’ve done that in both Zim and Botswana and killed my only lion that way, after about four miles tracking on foot. But…. I don’t want to hunt only a few more times and I could hunt Buffalo many more times. Plus, it’s all my son obsesses over hunting and I really enjoy hunting with him so I’m another who would take buffalo over all others. Interesting, Charles, that you said ducks. That’s what I’m doing right now and what I’ve hunted more than anything for the last 57 years. I’ve probably spent 1,600-1,800 days in duck blinds. It’s something I’ll never tire of. | |||
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Don't get me wrong, ele with either a double or bow is just as much fun, but, dunno, just ain't nothin like it..........told Butch right after: "this is all I want to do for the rest of my life is hunt buff with a bow." There are two types of people in the world: those that get things done and those who make excuses. There are no others. | |||
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Tracking the big bull elephant in the Nyae Nyae. There is nothing to compare getting within 20 yards of a bull that stands 10' at the shoulder. | |||
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Elephant will be a real long shot in Ugalla. | |||
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Every roan I have shot was just before sunset!! | |||
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imagine where you hunted LDE hunting heavy tusker elephants like in the day .... a shame it will never happen again. | |||
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Ive been addicted to Buffalo for 40 years give or take, and going into the high grass for a wounded buff is a rare but super charge of adrenalin x 2.5 times.. Plainsgame of course would be the Kudu or Eland. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Our group was staying at Erik Mararv's parent home the night before we heading into the bush. His father was showing us pictures of ivory from "back in the day". Outright amazing. On my safari, we heard occasional bursts of gunfire that Mike figured to be Sudanese Elephants poachers. The day we moved from Kocho camp for LDE to Bongo camp, about an 8 hour trip, we came face t face with a group of Sudanese guys on donkeys. They were sitting on blankets with AK's under their legs. They were the fiercest looking men I'd ever seen. I simply nodded to one as we made eye contact and harmlessly passed by each other. I told Mike id of loved to gotten their photos. He said they probably would have allowed it had we asked. ' Unbelievable place it was. Nothing less than a Garden of Eden. Formerly "Nganga" | |||
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Elephant, and what would be great is to hunt them in different areas from the Rain forest to the dry Koakaveld. Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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My choice will be a little odd for most. Pigs, of any sort. I got no rush of any sort, hunting buff. Nothing gets the adrenalin going like hunting armed men as I did for a number of years. So the expense of dangerous game is not worth it. Pigs are various and in many, many places, and typically not seen as a resource | |||
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I get those that say elephant and I definitely want to hunt another one, but it will probably be my last. Agree with Ray that following a wounded buffalo into the long grass is a rush and a kick you in the ass moment because it shouldn't have happened unless you blew the first shot. Been there done that. Not in tall grass, but a bull I shot at last light that we couldn't wait on and had to do a quick follow up. He sort of wanted to charge, but kept changing his mind. I will say that the loudest sound you can possibly hear in a buffalo follow up is a click when your rifle goes empty. Thankfully, right before he died, while I was reloading. | |||
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