Kayaker, Right you are. Grey, red and and plain old reed buck. I dont get the nomenclature of rooi for the mountain since IMO they are just a smaller version of the common with only subtle differences. The only major difference is size and habitat. A lot of the Afrikaans confuses me at times but Im learning. Thanks for the lesson.

For me the hardest thing on my trip last year was zebra. They were really shy, and ran as soon as they spotted us.

White Owl,

The Springbok and Impala will give you all the sport you ever wanted and then some. Any of the herd animals are hard to stalk because there are so many eyes. In addition, they frequently have joint herds, some with great ears and others with great eyes. And then there are the birds that pick pests off of them who spook. Believe me, you will have your work cut out for you.

I'd practice shooting 2000 yds shots and both animals are about 2/3's as deep as a deer. It is easy to shoot under them holding 1/3 up the body. You need good range data and you need to know what your rifle/load is doing between 200 and 300 yds.

Also remember that if it is cold relative to the temperature at which you developed your load, you are going to loose velocity. You don't have to loose much to amount to about 25yds distance. Be sure to factor that in your ranging. Been there done that and shot clean under the spingbok! Kudude

For me it was Eland. Took all day to get a shot, and we ended up stalking 3 different herds over the course of the day.

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I'd practice shooting 2000 yds shots

Huh!!! Has to be a misprint!

I saw that too but knew it had to be a typo. I would even question 200 to 300 yard shots in northern limpopo. In the thick stuff up there you are lucky to shoot 100 yards tops. Not to say it isnt important to know what your rifle will do at 100, 200 and 300 yards etc. I just dont think most of the shots will be that far in the thorny stuff kudu like or in the thick riverine stuff bushbuck like. I guess it depends where in Limpopo you are as the province varies widely in the habitat it offers.

It is a toss up between the Kudu and the Blue Wildebeast. It was tough stalking close to either animal. We chased my wildebeast for six hours all through thorns and thick cover before it presented a shot right at dark and 150 yards out. The Kudu stalk lasted an hour, it knew we were there, but stopped out in the open 300 yards out.

I got my blesbok with a minimum of stalking but did I ever have to work for the zebra and kudu!

A lot has to do with how lucky you are -sometimes they´re just standing there!

Those damn big eared Eland. You just walk and walk trying to catch up it is probably the closest to Buffalo hunting you can get with plains game.

If they have been subject to a lot of hunting pressure most can be pretty tough. I have heard that the Lord Derby eland is very wary but I'll stick to those species I have hunted and my vote goes with out any doubt to the Vaal rhebok. If you haven't hunted a trully large buck your in for a real surprise at how wary they can be. They don't get big by being stupid.

465H&H

Kudu have been giving me fits. Been to SA two times in the last three years and have yet to get a mature old bull in my cross hairs. To date I have walked some 70 miles over the course of two weeks and still don't have one hanging in my basement. To make me even crazier, three of my buddies all got a kudu on their first hunt.

Hutty, you will appreciate yours much more than they do. It took me a couple of trips to be sucessful and when it happened oh man what a rush. He wasn't wide but he was long 56 1/2" and 56".

Recency always magnifies an incident in one's memory. Just Saturday, I shot a Kudu bull, two and a half hours after first spotting him.

Another all-time S-O-B is a lone Zebra stallion who has teamed up with a herd of Blue Wildebeest. I've been hunting him for 3 years now, and he still eludes me. I guess it's the Wildebeest's sense of smell and hearing, added to the Zebra's eyesight. There just ain't no approaching that lot!

hutty easiest way of getting kudu is go in august kudu love oranges bait him with oranges u might lucky to get one big old bull.

Damn the kudu is what I say (LOL). As many said it will be worth it if and when I connect with one. I took my good friend over this season for his first hunt in Africa and he tips over a 60" kudu with scars on the belly and torn ears. Kudu are my waterloo I fear.

I've been following this thread with great interest and I think the best answer is the one that was toughest for you! For example, I found kudu to be fairly easy to stalk up to and hunt. I shot mine at 125 yards after passing up over twenty of them and it was a good one.

My friend took almost five days of hard hunting before he got his on the last evening of the last day of the hunt. To him, unquestionably it was the kudu.

For me it was the eland. It took a long, ardous three hour stalk and I had to take a 175 yard shot. The little "shit" bushbuck took three days of dedicated patterning until I finally got him. So, fascinating and very subjective "subject" jorge

One name! SITATUNGA!

How many of you guys have one in your trophy room?