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Please help identify this animal. I took the photo in a very old eastern Free State farmhouse. There are a whole bunch of such horns, most of which I could identify and tell the farm owner something about the trophy value. For example the photo also show a young impala and a very good gemsbuck. The "corkscrew" horns are most definately "horns" and not some hoax. I pulled the black cloth a bit sideways and could clearly see that the "corkscrew things" are without any doubt true horns attached to a skull bone. There is absolutely no sign of any "ridge" as in the normal spiral horn antelope: The whole horn is quite round and smooth, but the "spiral" or corckscrew shape is quite evident, even if my photo was just snapped with a small digital camera..  Does anyone know what animal the hrons belonged to? If no-one knows, who wants to take a guess? The farmer had a few nature conservation guys there recently (to inspect, measure and weigh his rhino horn in the same display and compare it to the particulars in his permit) and they could not ID the animal at all.  Well, neither could I!  Help! Andrew McLaren Andrew McLaren Professional Hunter and Hunting Outfitter since 1974. http://www.mclarensafaris.com The home page to go to for custom planning of ethical and affordable hunting of plains game in South Africa! Enquire about any South African hunting directly from andrew@mclarensafaris.com After a few years of participation on forums, I have learned that: One can cure: Lack of knowledge – by instruction. Lack of skills – by practice. Lack of experience – by time doing it. One cannot cure: Stupidity – nothing helps! Anti hunting sentiments – nothing helps! Put-‘n-Take Outfitters – money rules! My very long ago ancestors needed and loved to eat meat. Today I still hunt! | ||
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a shed reindeer horn from rudolph when he was little  | |||
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My best guess would be that it is a set of deformed cattle horns. Most likely from a Sanga/Nguni beast. | |||
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That would be my guess as well! Cattle horns! ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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+2 for some kind of cattle | |||
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What about a bongo that has been sanded down. The old people loved doing this.I have seen Same colour horns in Kudu and Eland.Sanded down and varnished it looses its "ridge" | |||
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Not Bongo, thats a bushbuck from the Eastern cape, they get huge here ha ha!  | |||
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It looks as though it might be the unfortunate by-product of a chance meeting between a bovine and a kudu! | |||
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Hell-Boy III | |||
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Cattle. Those look like one hell of a big set of bovine horns. | |||
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Another vote for cow horns. | |||
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screwy Watusi | |||
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I have to agree with something bovine | |||
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Is there a possibility the skull has been sectioned or the horns rotated to bring the tips closer together in an inverted "omega"? If the tips were further apart in a "W" they would look more like cattle horns. Longhorn and Watusi cross-  | |||
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Andrew, Can you see what happens with to much 'BOSKOS' on Springbuck... Dream it...Discover it...Experience it... Patrick Reynecke Outfitter and Professional Hunter Bushwack Safaris Box 1736 Rustenburg 0300 North West Province South Africa www.bushwacksafaris.co.za Cell: +27 82 773 4099 Email: bushwacksafaris@vodamail.co.za | |||
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There is a tribe someplace in Africa that form the horns of their cattle by tieing them as they grow to shape them to in odd shapes. I can't remember where I saw it but I think on a National Geographic show, and It seems to me they were someplace in a North African country! Anyway the only horns I have ever seen with a surface like that mount were from cattle. ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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I'm thinking it may be the old 4,000 lb Hartebeast of legend. Perhaps I'll buy them, and hang them in the study next to my Irish Elk !!!!!!!!! Merry Christmas, all! Biebs | |||
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