Lots of feedback on the 5" Steenbok. What about monster Klipspringers - any stories or picks about them?
By the way, I hope to take one on my next trip to Africa.

There was some talk about the high trophy fee on waterbuck on another thread. I do not consider waterbuck to be too high but for me, klipspringers are bit high. If you shoot one, plan ahead and do not blow it in half as they are delicate and really do deserve a lifesize mount IMO. The hair is really unique on them and also be sure that it is skinned and salted ASAP, as they seem to be more prone to hair slip.

Here is my 4 incher that I got in Zim last July.

Seems it was "lost" somewhere between Zim and the US. It would of made a neat little mount for my office.steve

If you do have a backskin, take it, the hair is excellent for dry flies!

Haven't found it in me to shoot one!
cheers

They seem to be wonderful little critters. There were three hanging out at the Fimbiri camp at Lemco. Bouncy little suckers!

Of the tiny ten, I'd really like to try for klipspringer. Maybe if I go back to Zim after that Bushpig, a klippy will get some attention.

Neat animals.

They are neat.

Here are a couple of live ones.

Here's my Klippie I took in 2002, Zimbabwe
What a fun hunt! Saw him the first day, he and a female stayed up in this hilly country. for 5 days we cruised through there looking for him we ended up having to climb up in these hills, go over the top and sit and wait looking over to another hill. After a few hours we spotted him, a smaller one and a female. I shot him at about 200 yards with a .270 Interesting climb up to get him, this is where the photo was taken, with the sun almost down.

his horns are just about 4 3/4 inches!

The ranch I hunted in Zimbabwe in 1995 had klipspringers but not in great numbers. Also had a lot of rock hyrax. One day we came across a rather nice klipspringer and I asked my PH if they could be harvested and he basically didn't want to talk about it and said discuss it with the safari manager. At dinner that night I asked the manager to which he roared that nobody is allowed to shoot his "pets" period!

I went back two years later, no klipspringers and no rock hyrax. Seems that young leopards were working with a different agenda.

Where do you find a good Klippy? It seems they are rather widespread throughout much of Southern Africa, but are pretty thinly scattered over much of that range.

From what I've read, there seem to be pretty good populations in the broken county coming out from the Zambezi, Limpopo, and other larger rivers throughout Zim.

Any Klippy experts out there? Where are the biggest or the best numbers?

Here is a Klipspringer I shot in Namibia on my second trip to that country in 2002.




Regards
Aziz

Heres a link to Klipspringers - the first picture is of a very nice trophy; the second picture of one taken by Archie Nesbitt last season with a bow, it's head is unfortunately tilted back so the horns don't feature prominently:

http://www.africanhuntersguild.com/index.aspx?pageid=tr...ry.ascx&lid=1&cid=15

Here my Klippie from last year in RSA

Saw lots of Klippies in Zim last May of course this wasn't the largest spotted.