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This is my best bushbuck up to date shot in 1993 when I was 17. Waterberg mountains Ellisras. Shot with my 303 Enfield 174gr hornady interlock. It was midday came back from seeing nothing to shoot for meat when I spotted him sleeping as soon as I shouldered my rifle he noticed me but kept still the angle was awkward and I know I had to pull off the shot quickly I was 35 degrees above him 45 meters away and he was laying at an angle as well. The shot went off and he ran like the devil about 60-70 meters before I heard him fall. In all the exitement and adrenaline I never noticed the set of horns he had on him 17" with very thick bases. I was the talk at school for quite a while  The bullet clipped top of one lung and exited the middle of the other at an angle from back to front.   Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | ||
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Zimabawe 2001 hew went just under 16 on one side and just over 16 on the other Shot with an 8.59 Galaxy and oh my god anoth detachable box magazine  Mike Legistine actu? Quid scripsi?[/] [i] Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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That is a beautiful buck Mike, and a classic photo. Here is Ben Hutchison from Atlanta, Georgia with his limpopo bushbuck taken on Humani in The Save Conservancy. It measured just shy of 16". PH Thierry Labat, Roger Whittall Safaris. [URL=  ][IMG] | |||
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308win with 168gr TSX We were stalking the bankss of the limpopo looking for Bushbuck when I saw the rear end of something sticking out of a bush about 120m away. I stopped and when it turned around I looked through the scope (I'd forgotten my bins that mng...) and decided that according the piccies I had seen here on AR he would do!! The conversation went like this: "Dennie, I'm gonna shoot him. Stand still so I can rest on your shoulder" "He's OK but we should be able to do better..." "Dennie, I'm gonna shoot him. stand still so I can rest on your shoulder" "I can't really see him too well, move over so I can see if he is a shooter..." "Dennie, I'm gonna shoot him!!! stand still so I can rest on your shoulder!!!" "Well shoot him then..." I shot him and he dropped in his tracks. Of all the animals I saw in the short time I was there, the bushbuck was at the top of my wish list and probably one of the only animals I have the desire to shoot multiples of. (Apart from shooting Warthogs, but that is more of a fetish than hunting for me according to Dennie...) By the way... the other reason I want to hunt these again is because I really don't like this photo.  | |||
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 This is the 'buck I got in 05. Shot along the banks of the Limpopo. He's 17.5x17... and 6" bases.  The farm where he was taken has produced 4 16"+ bucks in the last 2 years. A young man from Spain shot a 16.5 as his first big game animal ever! I'm going back to hunt with them again next summer. I hope to get a crack at another nice buck. | |||
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Holy smoke, a couple of these look more like nyala or sitatunga. Great trophies. Kyler | |||
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1st: East Cape, RSA .223 w/60 grain Partition.  2nd: East Cape, RSA .280 w/160 gr. Accubond.  3rd: Masvingo, Zimbabwe .280 w/160 gr Accubond  Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Here is a Limpopo Bushbuck taken right along the Limpopo River just before dark.  | |||
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 My Chobe Bushbuck taken on the last day of my Zimbabwe hunt in June, 2005. I was hunting Buffalo, so I used my .375 Rem Ultra Mag with a 300 gr Barnes TSX handload. NRA Endowment Life Member | |||
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Killed with John X Safaris, East Cape in 2003. PH was Ed Wilson. Win. M70 .264 Wmag  Tony Mandile - Author "How To Hunt Coues Deer" | |||
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A bushbuck should be hunted and stalked in bush, right? This one was taken with a double-shot at 8 meters in really dense bush. A real BUSHbuck.  This one was shot at 45 meters.  This one is hanging in my livingroom so i can see it everyday. One of my favourites.  Rino | |||
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 Here is my Cape Bushbuck from the Eastern Cape of RSA. My PH thought I shot the wrong one, but was pleasantly surprised to walk up on the right one indeed/  This Chobe came from Mozambique while on a Buffalo/ Leopard hunt in 05. Larry Sellers | |||
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 Shot from a cliff into a small clearing in dense brush. An unforgetable sight picture. I had him mounted life size. | |||
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 This is a nice East African bushbuck taken from Mount Galai in Masailand. If you look carefully you can see the valley floor in the background.  We took this Cape bushbuck just at dark on a small farm in the hills.  This is the Harnessed bushbuck I shot in January on my Cameroon safari. I have a Chobe on a disk somewhere that I'll need to download and with a little luck I can pick up a Limpopo on the Save this year. 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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LDK, That is a hell of a ram on the rock.  Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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That's a beautiful ram, Mike!!! Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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Thanks Blair. It won't be many more weeks and I'll be hunting them again. My black Bushbuck (1st pic) was my first. We found him with a spotting scope while looking for Kudu one afternoon. Upon closing the distance to binocular range, I decided I wanted to go after him due to his color. He just makes 40 points but that didn't matter to me. He was an animal I knew right away I would always want to hunt everytime I went to Africa. Good hunting, David Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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LDK, Lovely coat on him. I can understand why you took him! I have two nice rams taken in the one morning with Peter Harris on the Limpopo. I'd say the bigger of the two is 16+.........never measured him. Peter insisted I shot him, he was right!!! Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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Have posted these before; are of rather nice Chobe Bushbuck taken in Zambezi Delta. A happy me with happier client and my crew :  The bushbuck trophy;  | |||
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I got this ram on the last day of my hunt with Chris Troskie Safaris in Limpopo. My flight back to DC was leaving that afternoon but I had not yet killed a wildebeest and zebra so Chris suggested we go out and look for some in the morning. We were busy tracking wildebeest when we entered some riverine bush and Chris said: "this is ideal bushbuck territory." His words were hardly cold when he stopped and pointed the ram out to me. It measured 16"... What a perfect ending to a great hunt.  | |||
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I think I enjoy hunting bushbuck more then any of the other plainsgame. Chobe Bushbuck, Luangwa Valley 2004:  A better one from the SAVE Conservance 2005:  East African Bushbuck (Masailand):  | |||
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You guys are killin' me with those giants! Mike300WSM: Chris is good at his job. He can conjure some great trophies and his Bushbuck and Nyala are some of the best. PeterV: that's a jaw dropper your client took. A super Bushbuck that anyone would relish. BillC: Fabulous trophies, all of them. Congrats to everyone who posted within this thread. I'm ready to leave tomorrow! Good hunting, LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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