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This is one of two big sables at the San Diego Zoo. How big do you think it is?    | ||
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Very nice I'm not an expert on sable but my guess would be 42" Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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Big enough that's for sure. He's an old boy. 42" looks like a good guess, he might go 43" but he's broomed off quite a bit. ______________________________ "Truth is the daughter of time." Francis Bacon | |||
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Not sure, but I hope to find his twin in Zim next May! | |||
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I think the estimates are a little "short". I shot this one a few years back in Zim and it measured 42+" and the one at the zoo looks to be a couple of inches longer.  DB Bill aka Bill George | |||
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Whatever the measurement end up to be I doubt that anyone will say no to take him ! Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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I agree with DB Bill. My sable was 42" and that bull sweeps back more and has good height... I am guessing 44" to 45"... On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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I'm going to say, 46 inches, maybe 47 he has great height and they sweep back far "America's Meat - - - SPAM" As always, Good Hunting!!! Widowmaker416 | |||
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At least 46", it can easily be longer. Not many of them left in the wild. Life is how you spend the time between hunting trips. Through Responsible Sustainable hunting we serve Conservation. Outfitter permit no. Limpopo ZA/LP/73984 PH permit no. Limpopo ZA/LP/81197 Jaco Human SA Hunting Experience jacohu@mweb.co.za www.sahuntexp.com | |||
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a hint..... at least 45"... now let's see how good of a PH you'd be Jeff | |||
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I'd be damm good-shoot him and we'll measure him in the PU. Bob Clark | |||
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I'll be in San Diego on the 29th of this month, do you want me to check? Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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His sweep back is rather abrupt but, with his head held fully upright, those tips are still quite near his back. I'd be surprised if he was under 46". | |||
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 This one taken in ZAMBIA at the ranch some years ago now ran at 46.75 .... So I would think that ZOO sable was approaching 45" Cheers, Peter | |||
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I agree with those who said 42-43 inches. | |||
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I'd say 43-44". _______________________________________________________ Hunt Report - South Africa 2022 Wade Abadie - Wild Shot Photography Website | Facebook | Instagram | |||
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He's a little over 46". Nice Sable, eh? | |||
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Hey Jeff, does this mean I'm PH material! "America's Meat - - - SPAM" As always, Good Hunting!!! Widowmaker416 | |||
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Sure Ron - I'd hunt with you | |||
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"One doesn't hunt to kill. Rather one kills to have hunted. Peter H. Capstick" Isn't this quote from "Meditations on Hunting" by the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gassett? | |||
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Bill, That is a paraphrase, or a rough translation from the Spanish, but yes, it is Ortega, and it is from Meditations on Hunting. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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