Elaine and Cornie Coetzee just had an American client take the potential new #1 impala. The picture is at www.turrentine.com/mike.htm
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Strange looking Impala!! Looks almost like he's crossed up with a Lechwe.

It may be a new record but I guess like alot of the high scoring trophies it sure ain't pretty.

I was thinking the same thing....

Glad somebody else agrees!
I was going to post a "congratulations" message....but then I saw the beast.

Big it may be....but it wouldn't go on my wall.

Personally I like the squirrelly looking trophies. I'd have shot it in a heart beat and been very proud of it.

Mark

Mark,
Didn't say I wouldn't harvest it, just not pretty. I am looking for a Gemsbok with a curled horn.

If the PH turns round ad says to me shoot that Impala, it's the world record, I have to be honest and say that even if it was as ugly as the girl I met in Ayia Napa once that I woke up next to after my beer goggles had worn off, but with big horns then the Impala would cop for it big style!!!

After paying the $250 trophy fee I'd be straight onto the fellas at barnes to see what the story was worth to them given I'd used their TSX's... It has to be worth a few days in Tanzania with some big critters...

Given that the opportunity didn't come my way, I'll agree that it is ugly and screw my nose up at it....

UK Hunter,

The reason it wouldn't go on your wall is because you wouldn't be allowed to put it there!!



Rgds,
K

Huge impala - weird pose.

I assume that is a black faced Impala...really nice one for sure.

Tanzania has produced some 30" plus Impala over the years as did Kenya I am told, but they are the regular common Impala.

I like it. Nice trophy

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
I assume that is a black faced Impala...really nice one for sure.

Tanzania has produced some 30" plus Impala over the years as did Kenya I am told, but they are the regular common Impala.

I don't think it's a Black-Faced Impala...........there's no black on his face. I think it's a Southern African Impala, whereas those in northern Tanzania and Kenya are East African Impala, which I believe are the biggest. Am I right or wrong?

They are Southern African Impala. Strange looking but huge.

Doesn't Roland Ward measures just the longest horn???

Do they do non-typicals???


Mike

The hunter, Jim Ricke, a long-time friend of the Coetzees, came to bow-hunt for leopard and to bring Cornie a rifle, while I was there. Jim hunted with Elaine at Okahandja while Cornie and I went to the southern border of Etosha to look for lion. Jim's luck with cats, while I was there, wasn't any better than mine--lots of leopards, but they were having too much fun taking the young oryx and kudu to feed on our baits. Cornie and Elaine, along with Jim, dropped me off at the airport and were headed to a new area to hunt impala. Looks like its a good area!

I'm sorry I read Namibia and assumed it was a black faced Impala, my mistake..

One thing for sure its a darn nice trophy, congratulations and well deserved I am sure.

It could also be that it will be #1 for Namibia for Southern Impala as I recall there has been impala shot over 30" in South Africa as well.
As they have their own list and rankings.

Due to SCI rank if both the horns are 29 1/2 inch the circumference only needs to be 5 1/2 inch each to be the new #1, that will give 70 points and current #1 is 69 6/8.

To be the new #1 due to NAPHA (Namibia Professional Hunting Association) it needs a circumference of only 3 1/2 inch on each horn.

And finally it will not be the new #1 to Rowland Ward since the current #1 scores for the longest horn 30 7/8 inches.

East African #1 at Rowland ward has the longest horn measured at 36 1/8 inches.

Sources

SCI, NAPHA and Rowland Ward websites

Thank you Christer to clear matters up.

its an awesome impala, no doubt about it well done on a magnificent trophy ... it would be interesting tosee a photo where the photographer was the same level, possibly wouldnt look so deformed ..

this one was 27 1/2 , very typical , the biggest any of my hunting guests have taken ... it was in the eastern cape ...some great genetics there ...as always , rather be lucky than good !!

Southern Impala.

NATURAL distribution. Northern and eastern parts of Southern Africa.

The only natural distribution of Southern Impala in Namibia is in the far north of the country. They are not heavily populated like in the lowveld bushveldt areas of Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa.

Current record shot this year in South Africa is 33 3/8 inches. Waiting to be registered, but it is already official.

My personal best, shot 12 years ago, is 27", but I have measured 4 animals over 29" inches in the last 15 years.

ALL Impala in the EASTERN Cape was introduced from other parts of South Africa. That is why you will not find any Impala in ADDO national park. It is not their natural distribution.

Biggest Impala comes from Thabazimbi and the Springbok flats north of PTA. Bandolierskop area have very nice Impala as well.

I know these things as I have an intense interest in the histroy and distribution of these great hunting antelope.

East African Impala is a totaly different sub species.

What measurement is that nr. 1 , SCI / RW ???

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Originally posted by infinito:
Southern Impala.

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Current record shot this year in South Africa is 33 3/8 inches. Waiting to be registered, but it is already official.

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What measurement is that nr. 1 , SCI / RW ???

With a circumference of 5 1/2 inches on both horns it gives 76 6/8 points and will be SCI # 1 by far (if no other bigger are shot) and since current RW # 1 is 30 7/8 inches on longest horns it beats that to.