Eastern Cape bushbuck KMG Safaris

11 November 2024, 13:07

Charlie64

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I had hoped by now to have a full report to post but finding time for writing is just not on the cards at the moment! So much to do!

So let me just post one animal story now and hope that I can get a report up by the end on the month.

We hunted end September into October with KMG Safaris in the Eastern Cape RSA. We being my wife and I and good friends from Southern Germany. We put quite a few animals in the salt between us, including a bushbuck that I shot. My wife and I hunted with Nick and his tracker / helper, Temba.

A cold, wet spell came through and the hunting was tough. We drove, walked and glassed searching for a good ram and late one afternoon Nick and Temba spotted one, grazing at the edge of a clearing over 1.4 kms away on the other side of the valley! They, Nick and Temba, have terrific eyesight!

Nick and I then put in a stalk, down into the valley floor, across a small stream (past a grazing warthog that never saw us!) and up the other side, using the contours as cover, starting 850 m out.

We got to within 60 m downhill of the buck when Nick flicked up the sticks and bedding the rifle onto the sticks, I sighted onto the ram’s shoulder and fired. All very quick. The bushbuck dropped and I had my bushbuck! As a side note, Nick was stuck in the shoulder by a bushbuck ram some 3 years back whilst on a driven hunt and he approached my downed buck with his Glock drawn and ready! It’s the dead ones that get you! But my buck was dead and Nick holstered his gun.

An old ram with teeth to the gums and a horn of some 15 inches! I was and am still thrilled to have taken another great bushbuck! Diana had smiled on us again!

Then it was back to the skinning shed and a celebratory beer with the owner of the game reserve and then back to the lodge for dinner, drinks and stories!

Here some pictures of the ram. The second picture is the spot from where the guys first spotted the bushbuck!

Bushbuck, warthog and blue wildis, my top 3 plains game animals to hunt!