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Posts: 51 | Location: eastern cape,south africa | Registered: 17 October 2007Reply With Quote
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Big enough!!! He is a keeper for sure!!!


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Posts: 3722 | Location: Okie in Falcon, CO | Registered: 01 July 2004Reply With Quote
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31,65739303030 Inch Wink


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Mine is 29 1/2", and this one looks like it would top that.
 
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I think 32 inches. Whatever, a heck of a bull.


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That bull is a first 5 minutes on Day 1 shooter.


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Perfect, go get him!


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Posts: 19750 | Location: The LOST Nation | Registered: 27 March 2001Reply With Quote
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His horns are too big and are probably causing his neck to cramp under the strain of their weight. You should shoot him IMMEDIATELY so he doesn't suffer any longer.


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Posts: 2789 | Location: Dallas, TX | Registered: 27 January 2004Reply With Quote
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I'd say he's getting close to world record potential, in the 33-35 inch range I would say. One more year with high protein feed and bingo.
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Wow! tu2 Having shot three very good nyala bulls before, I would definitely shoot a fourth if that one came into range!
 
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I'll guess 31-32.


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Many seem to reach the 29" mark without turning out too much. This one is turning out a mile. Just a guess but I would have to agree with L. David Keith on this one, pushing 35".


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Posts: 1378 | Location: Virginia, USA | Registered: 05 March 2005Reply With Quote
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I have never been to Africa an know nothing of these animals.

If I saw that I would have passed on it as an immature Kudu!


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Big enough you wouldn't have a chance to ask that question if we were hunting. Big Grin

I'd put him in the 33-35" area.


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Hmmm..Why dont you send me a private Message on exactly where he is and I will go inspect him at closer range to see if all the estimates are correct. Smiler
 
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Just as a reference, here's a pic of the world record, taken by a lady:


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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

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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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Andrew,

let me guess.. THIS was the bull I was suppossed to be on the lookout for down by the river??!!
If so, man did I mess up! Smiler

Great bull, bud!
 
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Until I read on this post (and viewed a nyala on the tape)I aloways had thought that no trip to Africa was worthwhile for anything except DG. I have lived to learn (as a one time hunter for DG)that there can be some pretty magnificent trophies besides DG. (I thought of the picture of the nyala like a magnified version of suddenly confronting a white tail deer in woods -both of us surprised - and the deer recovering first!Smiler I was particularly glad to read the comments of experienced hunters in that part of the world that it was a magnificent nyala - and I never saw a nyala in my life -but recognized him as a trophy when I saw the tape. I guess that hunters -the world over are the same in their instincts.
 
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JESUS!! Big enough..... Eeker


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Posts: 3116 | Location: Hockley, TX | Registered: 01 October 2005Reply With Quote
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Scotty that bull was there ,but your bull is a nice one at that,well done ,
 
Posts: 51 | Location: eastern cape,south africa | Registered: 17 October 2007Reply With Quote
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Andrew, I'm no expert on nyala, having hunted very few with clients so far, but would it not be wise to also see this bull from the side before making any guesses? I have seen nyala with outsplaying tips, but very shallow bend back, which propably did not measure that much then.


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Posts: 1340 | Location: Namibia, Caprivi | Registered: 11 September 2005Reply With Quote
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BANG BOOM


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Originally posted by L. David Keith:
Just as a reference, here's a pic of the world record, taken by a lady:


Is that Eilene Hansen? I met here in Luangwa, that woman can shoot my friend!!!

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Posts: 3760 | Location: Phoenix, Arizona | Registered: 26 April 2010Reply With Quote
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For me there's more to consider than just length when it comes to Nyala (and I've never shot one) and that's shape and thickness but mostly shape.


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Steve, it is Anne Dodgson who took this #1 with a rifle. Score was 84 5/8ths.

DB, I couldn't agree more. Nyala come in a variety of shapes. Here's few we took last year:






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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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There is more than one shape to consider besides the typical lyre shape. Another is the bell shape. I have two great lyre shaped nyala trophies and one very nice bell shaped trophy. Both shapes of horns are beautiful in their own right. Big Grin This is one of the lyre shaped trophies: This is the bell shaped trophy:
 
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only one way to find out my friend and that is to go a hunt it.meassure it onthe ground Wink
 
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30"
 
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I have 29 7/8's on the wall taken with a handgun @ Zulu Nyala back in 1995... this one pictured appears to somewhat bigger!







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Posts: 3611 | Location: LV NV | Registered: 22 October 2002Reply With Quote
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That is an over the top good bull mid 30's I'd say.



 
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