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Folks Just to let you know that Luan called me this morning and told me he took a waterbuck yesterday that measures 40 inches RW & 94 with SCI. Which will be a new world record.   I'm going to meet up with him at Lifeform Taxidermy tomorrow and will photograph it there and post better pics. It's a helluva animal though. | ||
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Holly smokes that thing is big!!!!!!!! Where was it taken? Mike With kind regards Mike Mike Taylor Sporting Hunting, Fishing & Photographic Safaris Worldwide +44 7930 524 097 mtaylorsporting@gmail.com Instagram - miketaylorsporting | |||
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Report - Report- report Details please! Wow! | |||
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I don't want to steal Luan's thunder, so I'll let him post the story tomorrow(?). I will say that he told me it wasn't the biggest one he saw in the area though! | |||
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Luan Congrats Boet That is an awesome waterbuck. Steve, looking forward to those pics and thanks for posting Cheers Ian | |||
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Awesome Boet ! Well done  | |||
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Whoa... looking forward to seeing the monster! 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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From what I have heard he should guard it carefully- I have heard that these monster horns have a way of "disappearing"at the taxidermist- though I know Life Form is top flight and they did most of my taxidermy........ ______________________________ "Are you gonna pull them pistols,...or whistle Dixie??" Josie Wales 1866 | |||
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I wonder what the biggest one looks like. There must be some sort of "celebrity" feeling that goes along with taking the N°1 in the world and I suppose the PH can justly bask in the limelight as well. Hell, my 29 inch waterbuck just made it into Rowland Ward and it gives me a warm feeling. Congratulations to all who made it possible for Luan. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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It looks like a lechwe-waterbuck hybrid. George  | |||
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That is a big waterbuck! Not very pretty (although it could be the camera angle), but what huge horns! Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Wow that is huge! Quite a trophy. Congratulations. I agree not the prettiest but what a monster. It seems to me that most times I see a really huge animal that is high in the records they are not the usuall symmetry. Happiness is a warm gun | |||
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That is an exceptional animal! Well done guys, Steve we need a better silhouetted pic showing the horns better | |||
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Incredible! Can't wait to see better pics. | |||
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Ridiculous. So big it looks fake. What was the old record? Will J. Parks, III | |||
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What a freakin' stud! 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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So, a new claimant for possessing the World's Biggest RingButt. Steve "He wins the most, who honour saves. Success is not the test." Ryan "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Stalin Tanzania 06 Argentina08 Argentina Australia06 Argentina 07 Namibia Arnhemland10 Belize2011 Moz04 Moz 09 | |||
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Heck of a waterbuck. Damn!! Mike | |||
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Hi Folks Thanks for everyones congratulations it feels actually good and sad in a certain way to take such a beaty. Lets start with the story,Three weeks ago a very close friend of us had two very big heart attacks and was in icu and heart surgery for a two weeks.So on wednesday we decided to abduct him and go have a few beers and a barbque at a friends place in hoedspruit area. The same friend promised me a waterbuck and so we decided the afternoon to go and have a quick drive around his farm.We saw a few cows and about 5 bulls a few good ones from 25 to 32 inches but nothing spectacular.Must say this outing was more for a friend to recover and get out of his house not for hunting.Then we saw a WATERBUCK me and my brother we got out and start stalking it.After about an hour it gave us the disappearing act and we decided to go back and go home on our walk back to the vehicle this bull stepped out and (kicking myself)told my brother to shoot the bull at about 80 yards facing us must say his 7*57 mauser did a great job.I saw it was big but NOT that big and it wasnt the first big bull we where chasing,so we still in a argument if this one or the other one the biggest!!!! Must say we enjoyed a few very good brandies and laughter and backslapping.Our sickfriend tried to help us load the bull and we had our handsfull to calm him (not a good idea for a guy after a open heart surgery) had to say was glad for my brother and sad for me but it was great guyss. Phoned my friend told him the good news and thanked him for everything and as a good frien he said Luan remember your bull are still waiting. So guys watch the space maybe i can get the other bull and who wants to join me?? Thank you everyone and Steve will post better photos his on his way with a master measurer to go and measure the bull right now. Luan | |||
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A better pic for now but Luan't brother is going to email me some better ones that were taken in the bush. I'll post 'em as soon as I get 'em.  | |||
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those are skew gemsbuck horns that have been cut off and stuck on the waterbuck.  Well done!!!!!! | |||
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |||
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Yeah WOW!!!! | |||
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What a wonderful story behind this monster. I am even happier it was this way instead of a visiting hunters paying to shoot it. Not that anything is worng with that but a truely SA trophy taken by South Africans just out having fun as it should be!  An old man sleeps with his conscience, a young man sleeps with his dreams. | |||
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WOW! Good thing it wasn't taken in Texas. You would wonder if it was a longhorn cross. Have gun- Will travel The value of a trophy is computed directly in terms of personal investment in its acquisition. Robert Ruark | |||
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Me! Please let me be a driver or drink-poured, backslapper, help-to-loader or whatever job you have, just to be near when such a monster gets taken! Congratulations to your Boet, and best of luck to you for getting the even bigger one! In good hunting. Andrew McLaren | |||
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Luan, So your friend just had two heart attacks and open heart surgery, so you take him out for beer and barbi-q and then make him load your animal in the truck!!!! Some friend you are!!!  Nice waterbuck!!!Brett DRSS Life Member SCI Life Member NRA Life Member WSF Rhyme of the Sheep Hunter May fordings never be too deep, And alders not too thick; May rock slides never be too steep And ridges not too slick. And may your bullets shoot as swell As Fred Bear's arrow's flew; And may your nose work just as well As Jack O'Connor's too. May winds be never at your tail When stalking down the steep; May bears be never on your trail When packing out your sheep. May the hundred pounds upon you Not make you break or trip; And may the plane in which you flew Await you at the strip. -Seth Peterson | |||
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Brett, If there's one thing Luan's known for it's his own inimatable style! | |||
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He is the ph and outfitter WELL DONE MATE "Buy land they have stopped making it"- Mark Twain | |||
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That waterbuck will look awesome next to the 65" kudu  "Buy land they have stopped making it"- Mark Twain | |||
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Amazing Waterbuck ... Congratulations, indeed!!!!! Mike -------------- DRSS, Womper's Club, NRA Life Member/Charter Member NRA Golden Eagles ... Knifemaker, http://www.mstarling.com | |||
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Hi everyone Thanks again for your replies im trying to get the photos onto my computer and will sent it to steve when ready. Brett he got a young beautifull wife and good insurance so he must work his way around. Luan | |||
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