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 Springbok Gras Hunting Lodge Namibia 2002 265 yard one shot kill with 160gr Barnes X 7mm Rem Mag in custom Ruger M77 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ | ||
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 Near Tarkastad, East Cape Across from one hill to the top of the next in a howling wind; held 12" high and a foot into the wind with a borrowed .300 Weatherby (no kidding). ______________________ RMEF Life Member SCI DRSS Chapuis 9,3/9,3 + 20/20 Simson 12/12/9,3 Zoli 7x57R/12 Kreighoff .470/.470 We band of 9,3ers! The Few. The Pissed. The Taxpayers. | |||
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2004 - Vaughan Fulton's Classic Safaris - 16 5/8" with 6 5/8" Bases. 375 H&H - 270 gr Barnes X  | |||
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Here's an specimen shot by a client last year in Namibia:  Here is my own "special" trophy. Unfortunately the field photos is not digital, so I took this one in my livingroom.  Karl Stumpfe Ndumo Hunting Safaris www.huntingsafaris.net karl@huntingsafaris.net P.O. Box 1667, Katima Mulilo, Namibia Cell: +264 81 1285 416 Fax: +264 61 254 328 Sat. phone: +88 163 166 9264 | |||
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Love those South African Springbok! Here's the grand slam: Black, Common, Golden and White.    | |||
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My first springbuck, Aliwal North Eastern Cape April 2001. Shot with farmer's 223.   Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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Great trophies guys, especially those colored ones - I've got to try for some of those! Here are pictures of my three. Second African trophy, a 16 7/8" shot with Vaughan Fulton in June 2004. One shot at about 110 yards with a 225 grain TSX from a .338.  Second springbok shot with Vaughan, about 15 1/2"  Camp meat for my 2005 hunt in the Free State with Andrew McLaren. One shot in the neck at 268 yards with a .223  _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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Wendell...that is a huge ram! ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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2006 Namibia My PH Reinhard Mosich  Perception is reality regardless the truth! Stupid people should not breed DRSS NRA Life Member Owner of USOC Adventure TV | |||
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Roscoe, Thanks, but Desert Ram has got me beat! | |||
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Male and mammalian pulchritude!!!   2002, RSA, 300 Win Mag, 40 yards shot Photo credit: Don Heath Perry | |||
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Here min from RSA in October 2003, my first African animal.  | |||
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Here's mine that I got with Classic Safaris as well. I believe it was 16". 300 WM, 180 gr TBBC from about 175 yards  "...Africa. I love it, and there is no reason for me to explore why. She affects some people that way, and those who feel as I do need no explanation." from The Last Safari | |||
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And a white, also from near Tarkastad. 225 yards +-, .338 WM, 210 gr Nosler Partition. Use Enough Gun is what he said!  ______________________ RMEF Life Member SCI DRSS Chapuis 9,3/9,3 + 20/20 Simson 12/12/9,3 Zoli 7x57R/12 Kreighoff .470/.470 We band of 9,3ers! The Few. The Pissed. The Taxpayers. | |||
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My first animal from RSA, East Cape. 131 yards with a Remington 700 Varmit Special. 60 grain Nosler Partition. Collapsed upon impact.  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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Namibia 2004, 16.5 inch with 7 1/4 inch bases. Was #10 when I killed it.  | |||
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They remind me a lot of hunting American pronghorns.  It was really fun to see how territorial the rams are. Kyler | |||
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As published elsewhere regarding "little ones," here is a picture of my RSA/Namibia wall with white, black, common and Kalahari springboks. I recently learned there is an Angolan too. Kudude  | |||
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Nice looking wall of horns kudude, very nice. Seeing all those great trophies secures my thoughts about my return: I will hunt Springbok! I love hunting them, they're great looking and fabulous eating. Good hunting, 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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Here's my Springbok from RSA (Free State) in July, 2005. 7mm RM with a 160 gr Accubond handload.  NRA Endowment Life Member | |||
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Wendell Nice springbok............but my wildebeest is still bigger.haha! Ray Matthews Matthews Outdoor Adventures 2808 Bainbridge Trail Mansfield, Texas 76063 | |||
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Many times the question is asked: "how far will the shots be?" Here is a reply: Posted till now: Minimum = 40 Avg = 173 Max = 268 - Note: An honest guy did not guess a very far shot! So leave out the very far and closest (40) and we have an best estimate of true avg = 196 yards. Where are the stick&string guys? In good hunting. Andrew McLaren. | |||
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 Here is one from my hunt in the Eastern Cape,RSA a couple of years ago. Taken with a 300 WSM at over 200 yards.  Black spring taken on the same trip, running at 75 yards. Did not have a really good chance for the white so still have that one for another time. Larry Sellers | |||
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Wow all I can say if you want a springbuck trophy goto
I dont know whats his secret but it works.  Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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Killed with John X Safaris, East Cape in 2003. PH was Ed Wilson. Win. M70 .264 Wmag  Tony Mandile - Author "How To Hunt Coues Deer" | |||
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My springbuck. South Africa April 2006    | |||
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 17.5 inch ram taken with Mike Kibble of Progress Safaris, last year in the Kalahari. 257WBY with 100TSX's  Almost 16 incher, found and shot in 20 minutes. Again with Mike Kibble of Progress Safaris. Rifle was a 25-06 with 100TSXs Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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Namibia 2006  "...Them, they were Giants!" J.A. Hunter describing the early explorers and settlers of East Africa hunting is not about the killing but about the chase of the hunt.... Ortega Y Gasset | |||
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I know there is a big thing about that bristled white hair on the croup of some springbocks (see photo by RM007), but can't remember exactly what is it all about - somebody help me out please? | |||
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Springboks use this as an alarm system, just like the North American Pronghorn Antelope. Our Pronghorns do not have the same physical characteristics that the Springbok have; instead they have slightly long rump hair, that when alarmed, stands more erect and looks like white flash cards. Very noticeable from long distances. Springbok may exhibit their flashing during mating or fighting; this I don't know, but when alarmed they can open their sheath and expose the long white interior hair. In their dying moments, they spay open, but when Taxidermists are trying to replicate this in a life-size mount, it appears to be a difficult if not unsuccessful venture. I imagine some of our RSA and Namibia members can expound more on the subject. Good hunting, 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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The really interesting thing about the crest of white hair is the gland it conceals. Was anybody else encouraged by their PH to smell the gland? I was a bit surprised by this suggestion, but figured "When in Rome...," so I sniffed it and was rewarded with a semi-sweet aroma very much like vanilla. Not at all unpleasant. Hold back the comments about sniffing a springboks' backside please!  _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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