Chobe and Harnessed Bushbuck questions

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28 November 2011, 09:24

dogcat

Chobe and Harnessed Bushbuck questions

1. What are they found?

2. Is the harnessed bushbuck found in the farthest northwest corner of Zambia on the Angolan/DRC border?

3. What is a big Chobe or a big Harnessed Bushbuck?

Thanks

28 November 2011, 09:35

knuckle

Harnessed bushbuck are found in Cameroon,C.A.R, Benin, Burkina Faso. A big one would be around the 13" mark, but anything over 10" is acceptable and considered a good trophy. Chobe bushbuck are found in Northern Zimbabwe, Zambia and parts of Mozambique. A big Chobe would be 16" plus, but anything over 13" as long as it was mature, would pass for a reasonable trophy. They may occur in other countries I have not mentioned, but for sure they exist in the one I have mentioned.

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28 November 2011, 19:24

MARK H. YOUNG

Ross,

I think knuckle has it about right. My PH in Cameroon said he looked for something between 10"-12". I killed a 16.5" Chobe in Zambia and a 17" in Mozambique and in both cases they were the one of the best or maybe the best trophies of the safari.

In the SCI record book it looks like there could be a slight overlap of the harnessed and Chobe species on the Zambia DRC border in a small area west of Lake Tanganyika.

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28 November 2011, 21:05

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The general consensus is that the bushbuck in the northwest corner of Zambia are Chobe bushbuck. Similarly, the general consensus is that the sitatunga in that area are Zambezi sitatunga, although some have claimed them to be forest sitatunga. Of course, there's nothing wrong with taking a Chobe bushbuck or a Zambezi sitatunga.

29 November 2011, 11:30

dogcat

I got ahold of Pete Fisher at Nchila, where we killed the bushbuck and a sitatunga.
He says the DNA run on the bushbuck in the area show some to be harnessed and others to be Chobe and some to be a cross. His sitatunga are Forest Sitatunga according to his work with DNA there.

He also has several sable in his herd of 500+ animals that carry about 5/8's to 3/4's Giant Angolan Sable "breeding" - again, according to DNA and whatever other methods are used to determine such things.

30 November 2011, 23:59

zimbabwe

The farm I hunted on near Chinhoyi would not let me take anything less than 15" although I was quite willing to. We passed up a lot of Bushbuck till we found a 16" he was satisfied with. Then it was in tall grass and the only thing you could see was the head so I took a headshot and promptly hit him at the base of the left horn. Looks good in the pictures and since i don't take trophies it was fine with me. The second one was shot for camp meat at the instructions of the PH and went around 12". Tasted delicious though. This was in the Doma area.