BONGO HUNTING IN CONGO BRAZZAVILLE

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26 July 2016, 17:55

ChristopheMorio

BONGO HUNTING IN CONGO BRAZZAVILLE

Gentlemen,

I am just back from the equatorial rain forest in Congo. It is a great place to hunt bongo with the Baka pygmies by tracking.
I want to share the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bDIxW-8BPA

With CONGO FOREST SAFARIS we are offering a special deal (less than 20K) for September and October 2016.
Feel free to contact me for more details.

Best
Christophe

26 July 2016, 18:11

jeff h

Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

26 July 2016, 21:01

crshelton

Believe it or not, there are also Bongos on ranches in Texas!
I saw some a few years ago on a tour of a ranch near my deer lease, but those were not being hunted as the rancher just liked them and was building his herd. Pretty animals!

27 July 2016, 04:58

samir

Great video. Thanks for posting

27 July 2016, 15:55

bwanamrm

Nicely done video. I hope the Congo will finally get settled and hunting there more organized. It looks to be little-touched forest with good populations of game.

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27 July 2016, 16:59

bwanajay

Very well done!

27 July 2016, 19:41

fairgame

quote:
Originally posted by crshelton:
Believe it or not, there are also Bongos on ranches in Texas!
I saw some a few years ago on a tour of a ranch near my deer lease, but those were not being hunted as the rancher just liked them and was building his herd. Pretty animals!

Do they have pygmies?

27 July 2016, 20:31

BuffHunter63

Great video! I was just reading a chapter on Bongo hunting in "Last of the Few" by Tony Sanchez Arino. He thought that type of hunting one of the purest and most difficult due to the terrain and "ghosting" qualities of the bongo. He also thought a bongo to be a potentially dangerous animal and relates a story of two women attacked by a bongo apparently just because of the aggressiveness of the bull.

Great trophy!

BH63

27 July 2016, 21:33

crshelton

Fairgame-said

quote:
Do they have pygmies?

Are pygmies on license with the Bongo?

28 July 2016, 21:45

ChristopheMorio

Thank you for watching the video.
It is really an exciting hunt with the pygmies and dogs. Not really physically demanding.
I also heard that bongo can charge when wounded !!! never experience this case yet..

Best
Christophe

29 July 2016, 01:35

chuckmaxman

quote:
Originally posted by fairgame:
quote:
Originally posted by crshelton:
Believe it or not, there are also Bongos on ranches in Texas!
I saw some a few years ago on a tour of a ranch near my deer lease, but those were not being hunted as the rancher just liked them and was building his herd. Pretty animals!

Do they have pygmies?

LOL

30 July 2016, 13:01

Carl Frederik Nagell

Fantastic

Good Huting
Carl Frederik

30 July 2016, 16:35

dukxdog

Very good!

30 July 2016, 19:00

TWall

quote:
Do they have pygmies?

I am sure for an added fee a few 'little people' can be rounded up as PH's. It could be a new reality TV show!

Tom

30 July 2016, 19:38

scruffy

Now that was super cool !

30 July 2016, 20:03

Mario

a great adventure! To try one day!

31 July 2016, 01:18

Cazador humilde

Great video, thank you for posting. Beautiful trophy.

31 July 2016, 02:04

Steve Ahrenberg

This is on my short term hunt list. I really want a Forest Sitatunga and a Bongo with Pygmies would be interesting. I killed one in CAR from a Machan. Christophe was in camp with another hunter and I got to know him pretty well.

We were actually penned to hunt together, got changed last minute for good reasons.

This and another LDE tracking hunt with Christophe are high priority. Christophe is absolutely the real deal and loves West Africa like no other man I've met. His passion and work ethic are without a doubt at the pinnacle.

31 July 2016, 04:27

MAH

Ditto on Steve's remarks -- I hunted CAR with Christophe last year and couldn't have been with a better PH. Hope to hunt with him again in the near future.

Best of Hunting,
Mark Hampton

31 July 2016, 04:45

LionHunter

Only 10 months to go before I walk into the rainforest again. Bongo, etc. in Cameroon. Hope I heal from the knee surgery without issue.

Great video! Thank you.

02 August 2016, 13:54

ChristopheMorio

quote:
Originally posted by Steve Ahrenberg:
This is on my short term hunt list. I really want a Forest Sitatunga and a Bongo with Pygmies would be interesting. I killed one in CAR from a Machan. Christophe was in camp with another hunter and I got to know him pretty well.

We were actually penned to hunt together, got changed last minute for good reasons.

This and another LDE tracking hunt with Christophe are high priority. Christophe is absolutely the real deal and loves West Africa like no other man I've met. His passion and work ethic are without a doubt at the pinnacle.

Thank you for your kind words.
Hope to share the bush with you one day.
Christophe

02 August 2016, 13:55

ChristopheMorio

quote:
Originally posted by MAH:
Ditto on Steve's remarks -- I hunted CAR with Christophe last year and couldn't have been with a better PH. Hope to hunt with him again in the near future.

Best of Hunting,
Mark Hampton

Mark,
Thank you for your kind words.
I am still waiting for the answer from the ministry for the pistol!!!

Christophe

02 August 2016, 14:44

Brian Canada

Christophe, What a hunt! Thank you for posting. The video is wonderful, including all the bush sounds and the Blacks. Brian

05 August 2016, 02:34

376 steyr

I had an employee from 777 ranch at Hondo say they really suffer in a cold winter rain.

05 August 2016, 04:02

jdollar

who, the pygmies??

05 August 2016, 19:50

Bill/Oregon

Is there a more beautiful game animal in all of Africa? I think not.

09 August 2016, 11:57

ChristopheMorio

Well, they are all beautiful but my icons are the Lesser Kudu and the bongo....
Christophe

09 August 2016, 20:13

Steve Ahrenberg

Hi Christophe.

Wondering, are encounters with Forest Sitatunga, strictly serendipitous or can one go there and expect to hunt them as a primary species?

Regards,

Steve

10 August 2016, 14:40

ChristopheMorio

Steve,

We can hunt them on purpose.
There are many ways that I will improve during my next 2 months trip in September/October.
The density is very high for this specific specie.
I will let you know.
Christophe