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Where are the biggest waterbuck coming from? Who are the best outfitters? What else can be hunted with them with waterbuck as the game of choice? ___________________________________________________________________________________________ | ||
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You're gonna get lots of different answers to this one! Of the areas we hunt in, the best places I know of for big waterbuck are Tuli Block Botswana & Selous Reserve Tanzania.... you'll find a list of other species that are available in the areas we hunt by clicking here:- http://www.kuduland.com/african_hunting_destinations.htm Then click on the individual country... | |||
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Try Bushman Safaris He has very good Waterbuck on his area in the Matetsi. Large herds of big mature animals. Good Sable also Buffalo and Elephant. bushman@netconnect.co.zw SCI Life Member NRA Patron Life Member DRSS | |||
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In Zimbabwe, I'd recommend Humani in the Save Conservancy, Roger Whittal has some great waterbuck along the river. South Africa's Limpopo region also produces some whoppers. Try Numzaan Safaris and/or Brad Rolston who posts here. I'm sure there are others who have large properties to hunt where fair chase is not a problem. Kwan who posts here may have some areas also. I've hunted with all of these folks and can recommend them. On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Try Saaiman Safaris at shsafari@mweb.co.za in Mozambique They opened up an area previously unhunted south of the Zambezi river and close to the Indian ocean. I saw acres of water buck with four taken during their time there all over 31 " including my 32.5 incher. Jim | |||
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We work with Barry Duckworth on the Save Conservancy in Zimbabwe and as bwanarm said there are excellent waterbuck there. We also work with Garry Kelly in RSA and he has access to some properties in the Northern Province that can produce some very big waterbuck. I'm actually hunting up there with him this year and a big waterbuck is on the menu. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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I collected a 30-incher with Johan Schoonbee Safaris with my bow. We saw 13 bulls at the waterhole that evening! I'd highly recommend Schoonbee Safaris to anyone ... top notch. www.johanschoonbeesafaris.com BTW Waterbuck are probably the most underrated game in Africa ... those things make fabulous trophies. "If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too." – Robert Chester Ruark | |||
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Jeez, when I said, "You're gonna get lots of different answers to this one!" - I wasn't kidding.....  I forgot to say in my previous post, FWIW, I've never taken a waterbuck in Tuli Block Botswana that was less than 30 inches.  | |||
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The main camp overlooks a dam and there were always 30+ there every morning. SCI Life Member NRA Patron Life Member DRSS | |||
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I shot a 31 inch waterbuck on Roger Whittall's Humani portion of the SAVE CONSERVANCY, Zimbabwe. | |||
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Speaking of Waterbucks, I've had ample opportunity to take them, but have always balked. The 1500 dollar trophy fee just seems all out of proportion to the rather bland looks (in my view only folks) when a kudu costs about half. jorge USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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I also took a 31" waterbuck at Roger Whittall's Humani in the Save Conservancy in Zim. JPK  Free 500grains | |||
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I took a nice one on the Madzungwe in Lemco (Zim) with HHK.  The bull buck with Dix, Bornface (skinner) and the Ngali Game Scout  | |||
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Jorge, With regards to waterbuck, Ruark said "There's no more ruggedly handsome animal in Africa." I look at mine every day and have to agree. DPhiliips, I know waterbucks and that is one doozy! Congrats! "If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too." – Robert Chester Ruark | |||
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I have to agree. Maybe not one of the glamour animals but certainly a nice trophy. They always look like they have an attitude to me. If you have ever seen one looking at you in the bush you know what I mean. Happiness is a warm gun | |||
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Stagman: He'll probably be on my trophy list for my next safari. After Sable of course....jorge USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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Jorge, I look at mine everyday as I leave the house. He is 30 inches but his tips are worn down. He gets this position because not only is he impressive but I had to chase after him through the thorns after making a less than optimal shot. I was bloodied but happy when I caught up to him and took him. It was also my first animal taken in Africa so I worked out a bad case of nerves in the process. I will always remember this one. Happiness is a warm gun | |||
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Jorge, I'd go to Africa just for the sable ... taking a waterbuck on the same trip would be cool as grits ... hope that happens for you! In "Out of Africa" there's a big waterbuck hanging in the gentlemen's club ... I always pause it there for a look. "If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too." – Robert Chester Ruark | |||
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While my Waterbuck was only 28", I will always remember the 100 yd low crawl to get the shot.  Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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Here's a pic of one that went 28 1/2 from Zim from two years ago. [URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/Hughiam/waterbuck1.jpg] Pro Staff for: In Natures Image Taxidermy | |||
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 lemme try that again Pro Staff for: In Natures Image Taxidermy | |||
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Here's a 29 1/2" East African Defassa Waterbuck taken in the hills above the Gojeb River in Ethiopia in 1985. This is back when mustaches were black instead of white. I shot a Lion the next day. BTW, the Waterbuck is still #46 in the SCI Bible.Rich Elliott  Rich Elliott Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris | |||
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Rich, For a minute, I thought that was a leech or worm or something under your nose. Were you part of the Grateful Dead at one time?  | |||
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No, but Grateful to be Alive..... Most of the time  Rich Elliott Rich Elliott Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris | |||
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Thanks everyone. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ | |||
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I think he said this because he shot a real big one (as described in Horn of the Hunter) When you take an outstanding animal they grow on you to the point where you have a real fondness for them. They are really neat animals. | |||
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At first I thought that was a young Mark Sullivan  | |||
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Here's the one I killed 2 weeks ago with a gasp! 45-70!   I hunt, not to kill, but in order not to have played golf.... DRSS | |||
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NO, RBHunt, I didn't tease him into charging!  Rich Elliott Rich Elliott Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris | |||
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My waterbuck is my favorite trophy.  It's no record book maker (at least I don't think it is) as it is only 29 and a half inches, taken in the Limpopo province in October 2005, which is nice and mature for the common waterbuck. That's Jaco Human on the right. The fit little 60 year old in the middle is Elias. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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ok, ok, I'll shoot one! However, I'll use THIS INSTEAD:Custom Model 70 sorry, couldn't resist..... USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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COme on Jorge, put one on your short list.  We saw bigger ones but I couldn't get close enough for a shot. THis guy fell to a 380grNF from my .404j @ about 120yds. Northern province of RSA near Kruger border/Hoedsprutt. LIFE IS NOT A SPECTATOR'S SPORT! | |||
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Jorge, where do you get Kudu for $750? ****************************************************************** 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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Roscoe: I shot one in Namibia for $750USD. Van Heerden Safaries. | |||
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Actually, I payed 650 I think back in 01. Now they go for 850 in Zim. jorge USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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I have paid it, but I agree with you 100%. I have been with Bushman Safaris and there are some nice ones there. Turned a 2nd one down that was availalbe at season end because of the $1500 fee | |||
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Alf, The one taken on your ranch really has a lot of contrasting colors on his face. Many Defassa's are like that. Of course, they don't have that circle on thier ass. That one must have made a beautiful mount.Rich Elliott Rich Elliott Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris | |||
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Alf, The one taken in Zambia...Crayshaw's? Rich Elliott Rich Elliott Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris | |||
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Here's my little guy from my very first safari. Though not real long in the horn (28") he has some nice mass. I'd hunt another one someday or go for a different species like the Defassa.  ~Ann   | |||
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