It has been a couple of years now that I have been longing for a Red hartebeest trophy. Even if it took me a couple of years I found the right one at the right place "NAMIBIA" and in the perfect surrounding it couldnt have been better, the Kalahari.

Man did I fall in love with the area, we hunted on a property bordering the Kalahari Gemsbok park in Botswana on the border between Namibia and Botswana. It is truly a magical place and I want to make plans to go back as soon as I can. The sunrise and sunsets are just better the campfire burns longer and time stands more still.

Anyway my search ended bagging this wonderfull Red Hartebeest bull with very impresive horns. We stalked up to the herd over the dune and luckily for me the bull was at the back of the herd the bipops were setup and I aligned the shot. Karl told me to hold more right to compensate for the wind and so I did. The shot rang out and familiar sound of a thump did not echo back to us ! "F*@k", I said what happened the shot was around 200-220 meters and I totally missed the animal. Karl told me that the shot was 2 feet infront of him. We expected that the bullet must have deflected hitting a twig or grass along the way.

The herd moved off over the next dune and we followed. Creeping over the dune we spotted the bull again this time there was no time to setup the bipods and lie down the range was closer and I settled the rifle on the shooting sticks. The herd was nervous and they would move at any moment I had to take the shot as quick as possible. My mind rushing with the missed shot I decided to end the game at once aiming high on the shoulder and dropped the bull with a shoulder spine shot.

This is my most rewarding trophy up to date beating my long search for a specific kudu bull and my 17" bushbuck.

I'm a happy man and a very happy hunter !



Me and Karl Stumpf of Ndumo safaris on the right.



Me and CChunter on the right.



Another angle view of the exceptional horns.

Weidmannsheil! The Kalahari is indeed a magic place!
- mike

Interesting horn configuration! I enjoy hunting red hartebeest. I have killed two, a cow and a bull.

Wonderfull animal, Safari Hunts, and also the horn shape.
I took mine at Innsefree resort, in Khomas area this year. It is a more conventional as trophy.



I was with the Kalahari Hunting Safaris.

I wish to meet Karl, but on Sunday, Joe's beerhaus is closed, and I did not know how to manage the contact with him.

Stefano,

I dont know when you were at Joe's but we had our last dinner in Windhoek at Joe's on Sunday night so they were open then.

The Khomas has some very nice areas especially more west towards Swakopmund when the mountains get more rough beautiful country.

Nice hartebeest as well the best place for hartebeest is no doubt Namibia.

Oh well,
I know that Joe's beerhouse one evening a week is opened only as brewery, maybe Saturday If I am not wrong... and the meeting idea was put here a pair of week before my departure, on 23th of June, but then I could not do anything because I was without my PC. More than 1.5 month ago ... a lot of time taking in consideration that I'm suffering of nostalgia... I have to get back in Namibia as soon as possible.

Great red hartebeest. Steve: I love your hat. I picked up one for me and two for my friends on the trip there this year at the airport, only mine reads "Bush Lover" instead of "Sand Lover".

Here's my red hartebeast from south central Namibia in June. This one scored 176 cm/ 69 1/4 inches SCI. I decided to save the whole hide as a rug and just do a Euro skull mount.

There must be something about the red hartebeast, as my first shot also seemed to have hit some of the very scarce brush and missed by several feet. Amazingly, the animal did not move and I was able to put my second shot -- a 225 grain .338 Partition -- square in the heart. Despite near perfect shot placement and dropping after a 40 yard run in a semi-circle, that tough old antelope refused to die until I put two finishers into it.

Safari-Hunt and Stonecreek my friends,

Your hunt and Red Hartebeest trophies have inspired me all the more!

I brought up this past post in a "search" for photos as I had just decided to add-on the Red Hartebeest for our upcoming hunt in Namibia.

Your photos and stories have inspired me tremendously and I hope to have a successful hunt!

Safari-Hunt how was your hunt with Karl S?

The next time I go back to Namibia I'll be hunting with him for sure!

Aloha!

Here's my red hartebeest from last year. I sure wish I was going back this year! It has a pretty normal set of horns. This is not the best angle, though, as the tips do turn quite a bit back out.

Most peculiar horn shape, Frederik, yet a fine old bull.

It just goes to show the range of variation.

Here is my old boy.



Vaughan Fulton, who was my PH on this hunt, told me that not many hunters put the red hartebeest high on their agendas, but like you, I did. I enjoyed stalking them. They can be hard to spot.



Hartebeest are strange looking animals - but, IMHO, they make great trophies.

MR,

You got yourself a very fine old bull with worn tips. And he wasnt in the best of conditions as well. Red Hartebeest just scream Africa to me. And what I love about them is that they adadpt everywhere, open plains, kalahari dessert and bushveld. I hunt them mostly in the bushvled with clients so the kalahrai was a unique expereince for me.

Late-Bloomer,

The hunt with Karl was super I went along as the cameraman for one of CChunter's new movies but as we have been filming together for a while now I sometimes get the chance to shoot something myself and on this trip Being my first to Namibia I just had too. Hunting with Karl in Namibia is a great experience it helps alot to hunt with someone who loves the country and the hunting.

Congrats Frederik – I didn't even know they exist and it was all about kudu and gemsbok my first time till I have seen one prior my Namibia hunt at the taxidermist in Windhoek – I knew I must get one.

I have shot mine out of the herd of ~20 – they were in the bush passing a small clearing 250 m away - right to left – it was like: cow, cow, cow…cow, bull – bang. They were walking steadily and I forgot to compensate aiming toward front so ended with a gut shot. We tracked it for couple of hundreds of meters when suddenly bull jumped out of the bush and took off – PH forced me to shoot but I wasn’t fast enough – luckily – later we found out it was another healthy animal. We caught up with the wounded one soon after – shot him from tracker's shoulder at 150m.

Great game they are.

Frederik,

That's a fantastic bull

Here is another nice one taken by a mate of mine with a 300RUM-180TSX. 2006 on Mike Kibble's farm.

They are a cool trophy. And that wacky gaite is memorable.

Namibia Last Year

Here's an old boy(hartebeest) from South Africa.

Here's my wife's Hartebeast from last summer -



When we return in 2010, I'll have some "discretional" trophy fee money set aside, and will be shooting whatever looks mature or strikes my fancy . . . odds are, it may well be a big hartebeast bull.

Troy

I just got back from RSA- and took this Exceptional dandy Red Hartebeest (April 2008)hasn't been scored, but its a very old lone bull that was kicked out of the herd, a rare find indeed...check out the grayish white hair on the forehead...older bull indeed...CK

Me and my wife, with the exceptional bull

Congrats to Safari-Hunt and everyone else on their Red Hartebeest trophies.

Here's mine from Namibia last summer


It was the longest shot of my hunt - some 225 paces. I took him with my 375H&H around 2:00pm on the last day of a 10 day hunt. Things were getting a bit tense!

Nice looking trophies, all!

I knew you were an Alaskan just by looking at your photo.

A very fine trophy bull Frederik. I really like his unique horn shape. Congrats, David