this is a very sensitive question and it might touch a few egos luckily its a poll and we cant see who voted.

Question:
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ANIMALS HAVE YOU WOUNDED

Choices:
Blue wildebeest
kudu
eland
impala
warthog
gemsbok
waterbuck
hartebeeest
other

Question:
HOW MANY ANIMALS HAVE YOU WOUNDED

Choices:
0
1
2
3
4
MORE THAN 4

 

I assume that you mean wounded and not recovered. So far, only one and it was an Columbia Blacktail deer. I can not answer the poll because I have not wounded any on the list.

I made the same assumption and answered as best possible.

Zebra,Bushpig

It is nothing to be ashamed of when you wound and lose,upset yes, ashamed no. Provided you hunted to the best of your ability and within your skill set and learned from your mistake, you emerge a better and wiser hunter. The reality is that if you have hunted enough then unfortunately you will have wounded and lost something at some stage during your years as a hunter. Anyone that says they have never ever wounded and lost an animal (1) Hasn't hunted much (2)Is liar (3) Is one of those exceptionally skilled marksmen/hunters that has yet to wound. It will be interesting to know how many category 3's there are out there?

I've wounded most of the list, but it was more of a killing than a wounding. I'm 100% in Africa, and I hope to stay that way as long as possible. Now, in the US, I've shot a couple whitetails only to find them when the buzzards did, and I've drawn blood on another two. It's never a good feeling, but it happens to all hunters in time.

I also assumed that the survey meant wounded and not retrieved. That is why I put only one. There is no category for "I messed up the first shot but redemed myself by following up and finishing the job".

BTW I could not agree with Scott 450 more. I am a litte suspect about the 3 rd listing. If you have never wounded you will if you hunt very much.

Mark

I "winged" a grysbuck in Zim last year, that we tracked for 3 hours - which is a heck of a feat in the dry leaves. In the end, we saw one sprint through an opening, and I'm certain it was the same one. A bit sore in the front of the rear leg, but survived nonetheless. Still got tagged for the trophy fee, which is always expected in those situtations.

If you pick 0 to the second question how do you answer the first question? The poll won't let you record anything unless you answer both questions.

All the animals I shot were wounded but none got away.

I have only lost one animal and it was this last trip. I screwed up on a mountain zebra. I have wounded a couple over the years but was always able to follow up on them. I have to admit it was a very bad feeling.

.375, With my piss poor shooting you may not beleive this but exactly zero, I guess if you shoot enough your bound to hit one. As you guys say over there, If there's lead in the air there's hope.
Chipolopolo

I lost a Quebec Lab caribou, archery in 2001

My brother lost a warthog and a blue wildebeest on one trip (bow hunting). I was getting into bow hunting but after watching him pay for both of those animals, I bought a bigger gun.

If you hunt long enough, you will missand wound and loose animals.

Anyone who claims otherwise, is a liar.

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Anyone who claims otherwise, is a lier.

Or a beginner...

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Originally posted by Saeed:
If you hunt long enough, you will missand wound and loose animals.

Anyone who claims otherwise, is a liar.

Yep, lost 1 on my trip last summer. It was a gemsbok, and I rushed the shot. Operator error. That little brain fart cost me $925. i redeemed myself the next day, and bang/flopped one.

Mad Dog

the only thing i've wounded was a zebra that i shot when it was to far away for my gun. it was recovered about 2 hrs latter by lions

Well, I guess I have not hunted long enough, or maybe used enough gun when I did. Count me in for "none".

Rich
Buff Killer

Bad wind doping job on my part...springbok was over 300 yards and wind was howling sideways. I aimed a foot in front of his brisket, yet gut shot him anyway. It was part of a biltong cull operation and when he entered the 1000+ strong herd my PH said forget him, we'll never be able to find his spoor. To this day I regret pulling the trigger on him.

Two bait impala for me. One was shot through the shoulder and dropped "dead" in his tracks. I walked back to the truck to get my camera, when I heard the PH yelling at me to come quickly. The ram had gone down, and the trackers had been standing over it waiting for me to arrive, when it suddenly jumped up and ran off. We tracked it and never saw it again. The other bait impala was shot at through very heavy brush, the bullet fragmented, and blew off one of his horns near the base. We never saw the one horned ram again either.

So far my failures have not included wounding and loosing any african species, but I am sure it is my destiny. I have missed cleanly which is technically worse shooting, a limpopo bushbuck and a Lord Derby Eland.

I agree completely with Saeed's statement. I would add that in my travels I have never met anyone who was as good a shot as they thought they were.

I wounded a warthog, which seemed to be very well shot, lots of blood on the track, totally confident PH and tracker that we would find him within 30 yards. We tracked and searched for four hours, convinced that he was dead and we just weren't finding him. We never did.

One Blue Wildebeast I did not recover. Never did figure it out. I shot it in the chest with a 300 grain Hornady with a 378WB. It when down like sack of grain and never quivered. I started walking up on it and looked down to reload my rifle and when I looked up it was on it's feet and running full tilt across my front at about 100 plus yards.

Shot 3 times and never hit it and it ran into the Kafue Park.

I talked a Game Scout into looking the next day and he said Lions had pulled it down and eaten it so no info on what really happened.

I suspect the bullet blew up on the breast but don't know.

I also shot and lost a nice Muley Buck when I was a kid. It was the biggest Buck I had ever seen and I got Buck Fever and waited to long to shoot and put a .270 up the Ass end. We looked for two days and never found it after the blood trail ran out.

It's funny how you remember the animals and the fish you lost clearer than the ones you got.

I would respond to your poll, but I am superstitious about these things, and would not want to tempt fate.

A couple of jackals, a caracal, two blue wildebeest, and an oryx. Never did recover the jackals but everything else was recovered the next day except for the oryx which the trackers recovered the day after I left to return home. I have that shoulder-mounted on my wall.

Namibiahunter

If you wound an animal and after a length of time track it down and it is being eaten by lions or other predators does one have to pay trophy fees?

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Originally posted by Pard Cummings:
If you wound an animal and after a length of time track it down and it is being eaten by lions or other predators does one have to pay trophy fees?

if there is blood you pay.

some places even let you pay even if you miss the arguement is that if you can shoot a 1 1/2" group on the range how can you miss the vitals

I've never lost a big game animal hit with a rifle. I did wound a deer with a bow but I'm pretty sure he survived the wound. I had some close calls as a kid and I'm just conservative with regards to the shots I'll take as a result.

A blue wildebeest in Zim in 98 for me. Hit him too far back and only took one lung..........

Its getting interesting

The only animal big game animal I have lost is a whitetail deer that I shot while bowhunting when I was 15. Single lunged him but couldn't find him, he was wounded then died at somepoint.

I livershot a Warty on my first shot, my second hit him in the front of the shoulder but didn't drop, we found him piled up 500 yards later.
I have had to do follow up shots on a Kudu, prob around 2 whitetails, and one or two elk, but I have been very lucky in that I only lost that one whitetail.

(Now if we get into bird hunting thats a different story)

God bless the animals and the hunter.If your worried about wounding,then just take a quick second shot.

For me one animal, an Eland. I am in the largest group in both categories, a bit surprising to me.