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22 Days until I leave for Namibia. Going nuts..... Need a fix. ______________________ I don't shoot elk at 600 yards for the same reasons I don't shoot ducks on the water, or turkeys from their roosts. If this confuses you then you're not welcome in my hunting camp. | ||
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Here is a little fella (16 5/8") I shot in Namibia in '04  | |||
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That's what I'm looking for! Did you shoot that one at Vaughan's old concession? ______________________ I don't shoot elk at 600 yards for the same reasons I don't shoot ducks on the water, or turkeys from their roosts. If this confuses you then you're not welcome in my hunting camp. | |||
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Wendell, That's a beauty! | |||
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Fine Springbok! I love it, they are really neat animals.  | |||
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I just love it when Wendell or Butchloc come around posting their enormous trophies and they make the rest of us look like pikers. I just don't want to admit out loud that Wendell is my hero.  _______________________________  | |||
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Another from Classic Safari's old concession....  | |||
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Another 16+ incher from Vaughan's.  "...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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Wyattd, that's a FREAK! Congrats. Makes me want to take mine out of the trophy room! | |||
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 Okanduka Seibe, Namibia, 2006 (Green 17") | |||
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WyattD's has some serious hooks. I'm impressed. Looks like one of the old springbok that Kai-Uwe Denker talks about in Bushmanland. I'll be in Vaughan's conservancy next year. How about some photos from there too. _______________________________ | |||
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Mine's certainly no Kalahari Springbok, but for the Eastern Cape of RSA, my 14.5 incher ranks SCI Gold and makes Roland Ward. Roland Ward groups all species as "Springbok" and does not classify Kalahari from Common Springbok. They do not recognize the genetically altered white, black, copper, purple, green or striped Springbok   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 is a dandy, probably still running around in Etosha:   | |||
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Here is one from Vaughan's new Conservancy. This is one of our members, but I don't know his member name, only his real name.  | |||
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That will work. _______________________________ | |||
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Had pretty good luck on Erindi, and shot this 16 1/2" with massive bases. I think it is still #14 SCI.  | |||
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Not necessarily a monster, but here's mine from Namibia  Caleb | |||
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Here is mine a nice one not a monster but CChunter shot a bigger one when hunting with KarlS last year August.  Sorry, I reread the heading of the post my springbuck shouldnt feature here, its not a monster. But anyway I like the picture too much to take it off. Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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Well, since all the Ehi-Rovipuka springbok are coming out, I'll post a couple more. Here's the "small" one I shot (15"):  Here's my dad's (just slightly over 15"):  And here's my best African trophy, a 16 7/8 incher. He doesn't have the bases of Wendell's, but he's got the length.  _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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Here is mine from Gras in Namibia, 2005 Wendell, was your first photo at Graas?  Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum | |||
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Originally posted by hikerbum: Wendell, was your first photo at Graas? No, this Springbuck has a bit of interesting history. It was the first animal legally hunted by a foreign hunter in the Omatadenka Conservancy. Vaughan had just received the concession the day before we left for the area. I am sure Namibians had hunted it, and the locals as well. But, this was the first time the concession had been tendered to a safari company. We made a exploritory run through the area and found these Springbuck as we entered the area. Vaughan was hesitant to let me shoot it. He thought there might be better ones in the area. Turns out ... there were. He shot the new #2 Springbuck with one of his clients the next year. | |||
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I am new to posting pictures on this forum. If there is no springbok picture below this text, then my picture posting performance is truly a reflection of my training and experience. I am almost hesitant to mess up a long line of beautiful springbok pictures with a possible empty box with a red X in it. But here goes . . .  | |||
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From a pan in the Kalahari. You can perhaps see another herd of them on the horizon. They stayed out in the open because of all the lions and cheetahs in the area.  ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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Here's two other good ones.   | |||
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Not a giant but my son's first springbok.  Taken March, 2008 with Etemba Hunt and Safaris as originally posted in Hunting Reports -Africa 11 year old springbok hunt, Namibia 2008 Namibiahunter  . | |||
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Here are a couple we took over on the SA side of the Kalahari. Rooiport 2004 At that time the upper one would have ranked 17th overall SCI both sides were 16 5/8 x 5 7/8  Mike O | |||
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Here are a few from southern Namibia.    | |||
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Great looking mount Mike. I love the concept! David 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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Thanks guys! There are some real beauties in there. Hope I run into a nice one on my trip. ______________________ I don't shoot elk at 600 yards for the same reasons I don't shoot ducks on the water, or turkeys from their roosts. If this confuses you then you're not welcome in my hunting camp. | |||
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A few more from last year     A few Namibian black ones  And lastly, not a huge one, but the one that made me the proudest, my son's first common springbok (June 2007)  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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Here's mine from Namibia.  | |||
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Here is a beauty taken with Mike Kibble in the Kalahari during 2006. Shot with a 257 WBy and 100TSX  Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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KarlS, What are those blacks worth in Namibia? Regards, Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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My 16.5" springbok from Okanduka Seibe in 2005.  "I speak of Africa and golden joys; the joy of wandering through lonely lands; the joy of hunting the mighty and terrible lords of the wilderness, the cunning, the wary and the grim." Theodore Roosevelt, Khartoum, March 15, 1910 | |||
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Blair, if we are hunting in the Kalahari, which is close to where I have some on quota, or if a hunter is on a "non-packaged" hunt, I sell them for US$ 700. 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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Here is a 16.5-inch springbok I shot last June on Vaughan's new concession. I also shot a 15.2 inch springbok as well.  | |||
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Well now I can see why Vaughan sounded so disappointed when I told him I really wasn't interested in shooting another springbok when I hunted with him last year. I guess that gives me yet another reason to go back soon! Have a great hunt, DC! | |||
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Karl, That sounds like a very reasonable price mate. Thanks for the prompt reply. Regards, Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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 Another nice ram, taken on the same concession with Mike Kibble in 2006. Rifle is a M70 in 25-06. Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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