This is a brief preliminary report since I have many home assignments such as cutting 5 acres of grass and just returned yesterday and am still suffering from jet lag. I'll add to the post later.

The first animal taken was a quite nice Red Hartebeest at a bit over 100 yards with a Thompson/Center handgun chambered for 460 S&W Magnum shooting Hornady 250 gr. SST/ML (muzzleloader bullets) bullets.

For some reason, the Zebras that had been leaving, decided to come back our way after I shot the Red Hartebeest so I took one of them as well with the 460 S&W. In fact, I could have left my rifle at home since I took all of my 14 animals except two with the hand gun. My varmint gun was a Blaser (Walter would approve) 375 H&H Magnum shooting Hornady 300 grain FMJ RN bullets.

Other animals taken were a European Fallow Deer, an Impala, a Vaal Rhebok, a Klipspringer (at 180 yards), 2 Cape Grysboks, an African Wildcat (with the Blaser), a Jackal (with the Blaser), a Steenbok, a Kalahari Sprinbok, a Gray Duiker and a porcupine.

Several of the trophies were expeptional. Unless someone has taken a better one since publication of the SCI record book I had access to, my Vaal Rhebok will probably be number one in the handgun category and several of the others should make it into the top 5 of the handgun catetories.

Here is a NEW LINK to the entire story with photos:

2008 R.S.A. Safari

Congradulations on the hunt, some great trophies. I'm looking forward to the rest of your report, I ended up buying a hunt at our local SCI banquet with these guys, scheduled for 2009.

Get some rest and post a full report.

Looks like you had a bunch of fun!

Nice hunt cant wait for the rest of the report

Well done! Looking forward to the rest of the story and lots of photos.

There are fallow deer in RSA?

Yes there are fallow deer in RSA. Look forward to the full report and pics.

Here is a link to the full story with photos. As I sort through more photos, more will be added but those will be more of a travel photo type rather than hunting photos.

2008 R.S.A. Safari

Thanks for the link. There are some very good trophies there and your hunting reports were very interesting.

The Vaal Rheebok is outstanding.