Mark Young, your Mozam is an absolute beaut.

Scriptus,

Thanks. That was the heaviest horned bushbuck I had ever seen. Litte bugger kept me on the sticks for over an hour waiting for him to move out of the cover he was in. Great hunt!

Sadie is a beaut too. She's as nuts about Africa as I am.

That's quite a collection of bushbuck you have there yourself.

Mark

Great thread.
My favorite is bushbuck as well but my son is nuts about eland. He just loves the chase.

I have only taken on really big bushbuck but is a lot of fun.

This poor bugger got caught in the fence when he tried coming into camp te eat the green lawn.

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Originally posted by ALF:
This poor bugger got caught in the fence when he tried coming into camp te eat the green lawn.

I like how the staff get the pointy side of the fence

Mark,I am lucky in that I normally manage to bag between three and five per year. They end up in my freezers as roasts, steaks, fry's, stews, mince,soup meat and sausage. Friends and family also share.
Alf, they are normally so grateful, they just want to ventilate you with those needle sharp horns. His ridge/back mane was standing, so he was a little agitated and ready to show his gratitude.

I too have an infatuation with the spiral horns. Because most of my hunting has been in Namibia, I don't have a lot of experience with bushbuck (not even in the Caprivi). I did take one below Durban last year and would like to hunt them some more as their territorial nature is interesting (I shot mine within 100 yards of where we had blown a stalk on him a few hours earlier). I can see where they can become addicting.

My favorites of my spiral horns are my kudu and eland. The kudu because, well it's a kudu and the hunt consumed most of my first safari before I connected.



Hunting eland is tops on my list and am deeply envious of most all LDE hunts report posted here (and all other well earned eland hunts for that matter). After listening to stories about tracking eland during my first trip in 2005, I knew I would have to go back and give it a try and booked not long after returning home. Vaughan Fulton and I tracked eland for 7 days before I connected with this one.



I would like to hunt LDE one day but sadly don't see mountain nyala in my future. I do foresee more eland and bushbuck, maybe another nyala, wouldn't pass up a good kudu, and possibly a sitatunga.

George

Okay, you guys have got me going now. Mine aren't in the same caliber of some here...especially Mark Young's...but here they are:

1996 Okavango Delta Botswana--Kudu


2001 Eland--Tanzania at the Uganda Rwanda border Ibanda Camp


2001 Busbuck--Tanzania at the Uganda/Rwanda border Ibanda Camp


2005 Bushbuck Mozambique Mahimba CampThis was my best one


I forgot to add my nyala to this list. This is my nyala with the Infinito guys 2009



Nyala-Mozambique Coutada 11 2010

Nice trophies, everyone! Darin, love your kudu, that's a great photo!

Thanks Ann....I can't believe I took that Kudu 15 years ago. Seems like yesterday!

Best regards, Darin

All this talk of the spiral horns and I'm surprised that even on page 2 there hasn't been one picture posted of a nyala, which I consider the most beautiful of all the spiral horns. Though the kudu may be the most sought after, the bushbuck the most variant, the eland the biggest, the LDE, Bongo and Mountain nyala the most dreamt about, the sitatunga the most shy, the nyala is the most beautiful!!!

Here is my nyala I took in KZN in 2004. Not the biggest running around the bush, but we spent the majority of the hunt looking for a specific ram going over 30". The last day of the hunt, we settled on this guy.



Eastern Cape Kudu taken last year.



The bushbuck eluded me on both trips over, so next trip, it will be closer to the top of the "wish list".

They ALL are very pretty! You, of course, do not age Ma'am, not even in 15 years!

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Originally posted by D. Nelson:
Thanks Ann....I can't believe I took that Kudu 15 years ago. Seems like yesterday!

Best regards, Darin

Agree Charl.

The Nyala is a striking spiral and maybe I will could do a deal with you and I swap it for something you like in Zambia?

Never seen a Nyala.