Hunter: Will Barks and my son Jonathan 13 years old.
Observers: My wife Tania and my daughter Victoria 10 years old.
Dates: July 21 – August 4, 2008, nine days spent hunting, and three days sightseeing.
Area: Gobabis District, Namibia
Safari Company: Omuramba Hunting Lodge info@omuramba.com
Booking Agent: Abed Radwan of AR Hunting Consultants
Anchorage, Alaska 907-338-3629
Travel Agent: Gracy Travel, Annelise DuBose, annelise@gracytravel.com
PH: Anthea Koekemoer
Animals Sought: Kudu, Oryx, Impala, Blue wildebeest, Hartebeest, Hartman’s Zebra, Burchells Zebra Springbok, Caracal, and Warthog.
Animals Taken: Everything except the Caracal and the Warthog.
Rifle & Ammo: My rife; Kimber 8400 Montana .300 WSM w/ Nightforce NXS 3.5-15X50 scope. Hand loaded 180 grain Barnes TSX.
My son Jonathan’s rifle; T/C Prohunter 7mm-08Rem w/ Leupold 3.5-10X40mm scope. Hand loaded 140 grain Barnes TTSX.

This hunt turned out to be the perfect venue for what I had hoped to achieve. First it was a trip to celebrate my 40th birthday with my family. I wanted to be able to collect some good representative species of African Plains game. But also to have a hunt that my wife and two children could experience and be involved in. Gert and Anthea Koekemoer exceeded all of my expectations of including and caring for my family and getting me out to see plenty of game.
Gert Koekemoer is a 4th generation farmer in Namibia. His daughter Anthea and her Husband Andrew are the PH’s on the 81000 + acre ranch. I was told Anthea passed her PH test when she was 17. Then she had to wait until her 18th birthday to take hunters out. Her ability to locate and see game thru the thick thorn brush and her ability to judge trophies was great! She was very enjoyable to hunt with and she fell in love with my kids before the end of our stay.

This was very much a ranch hunt. We did see game fences. But the areas of land where so large and the thorns so thick that the animals had no problem evading us. The only easy clear shots were in a couple of large grassy plains/pasture areas. They still run about 2000 cattle but Gert stated that it has become a side line to the Trophy hunting. We were only about the fifth group of Americans to hunt here in the 20 years they have been hunting. They generally cater to hunters form Germany, Hungary and Poland.

We flew United Airlines from Phoenix to Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany. Then flew Air Namibia from Frankfurt to Windhoek. And the reverse back home. Annelise from Gracy did an outstanding job on our travel arraignments!! The airlines got every single item to Windhoek on time with zero damage. We had eight checked bags. One rifle case (SKB hard side golf case), one luggage bag with our clothes and one small carryon sized hard side bag with ammo and other items. The remaining five bags had donation items for the Goania Bushman School and the families of the ranch hands.

July 21st: Left Phoenix, AZ Africa bound!

July 22nd: We had a 17+ hr lay over in Frankfurt so we made the most of it. We arrived at around 05:30 and departed around 10:30. We made sure that none of our luggage came off the airplane at the baggage claim. Then we got a cab out to the city center. We spent the entire day walking every where around Frankfurt. Believe me you can see most every thing there is to see in Frankfurt in one day!

Photo from the top of a high rise of the Rhine River. This is the same boat we did the river tour on.
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Eating Frankfurters in Frankfurt. Victoria got a kick out of that!
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The kids on the river cruise.
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July 23rd: Arrived in Windhoek at around 09:30 collected our luggage and checked my rifles thru. The rifles were an absolute breeze to get thru. Sammy the police officer was very friendly and happy. Met our PH Anthea and her Mother. We had a four hour drive to the ranch. It was great to see Warthogs and Baboons straight out of the airport along the highway!
We got to the ranch ate lunch, organized our gear and fired my rifle. The zero was dead center even after three days of airline travel.
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Gert and his family had the Stars and Strips flying high when we got there. I thought it was a very personal touch and welcome.
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We drove out in to the thorn bush and circled back on to a large grass plain. Got out and stalked around to some Springbok grazing along a brushy bottom. We picked thru about 30 animals until Anthea located a good one. It was getting dark fast so I took a 150 yard shot quartering away hard. I hit him high in the left leg/low in the shoulder, thru the heart and out the base of his throat.
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Anthea measured and documented all of the animals on a form each time we brought them in to the skinning shed. I converted the measurements from cm to inches. This Springbok measured 14.2 inches with 6 inch bases. Total score 40.2 inches.



Appetizer for me that night was Springbok nuts! They were very good! I grew up eating this kind of stuff on a farm in Colorado so it was not a big deal.
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July 24th: The next morning we were out looking for Kudu or Oryx. We looked at a number of Males before taking this one. 160 yard heart and lung shot. The .300 WSM passed right thru. The bull ran in a hook towards us for about 50-60 yards and fell over. I had always heard how tough these animals are so I was happy to see the Barns TSX work so well coupled with a perfectly placed shot.
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This bull measured 34 inches with 8 inch bases. Total score 83.5 inches.

While out hunting Oryx we saw these two. Tania and the kids loved them! There were two babies on the place and about 6 or 8 Giraffe all up.
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The Black Wildebeest are flat out wild. And very cool to watch. I ended up choosing to not shoot one so I could use that money to hunt another Oryx and have my son hunt.
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A hawk catching a mouse. I took these photos while hunting Kudu at a water tank the evening of the 24th. I watched this hawk for about 5-6 minuets on top of the fence post looking down. Then wham he swooped down and nailed the mouse.
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Mr. Hawk eating dinner. In front of his friend.
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We had three nice bulls come in to the water that evening, but my wife was hesitant to photograph them. They were very close and she and I thought the camera shutter clicking might send them off in a cloud of dust. Anthea was not happy when I passed on a bull that she thought would go 53-54 inches. I thought it was too easy and I had not hunted enough to fill my two primary animals in the same day. I simply wanted to hunt more and see more animals before I picked my Kudu. I was mistaken on how easy it was. We hunted a lot before we had a clear shot on any other shoot-able Kudu bull. The thorn bushes were thick and nasty every where.


July 25th I shot this Impala fairly early in the morning just as a target of opportunity. We stumbled on to him and two other males. While looking for Kudu. Anthea stated to shoot the one in the middle so I did. 120 yards heart/Lung shot DRT (dead right there)
L-R Yan (tracker), Me, Alfonse (driver/tracker) and Anthea (PH).
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He measured Left horn 22 inches Right horn 21 inches with 5.5 inch bases. Total score 53.9 inches.

Gert had loads of Eland on the place. I had not chosen to hunt one so I really did not spend a lot of time looking at or for the bulls. We ran in to this group of cow Eland looking for Kudu.
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While looking for Kudu we found a small group of Hartman’s Zebra. They were pretty wild. Gert had purchased these animals for hunters to hunt. They came from an area closer to Windhoek. This was a large mare. Anthea said the few stallions they had purchased had been shot already. My wife Tania finally has her rug! She is very happy. This was a bit of a chase. We finally caught up with the group running down a long two track farm road. Luckily this one stopped to look back just before stepping in to the brush. I estimated the range picked my hold point and squeezed the trigger. There was a very loud whap and she shot off in to the brush to the right. The shot was a double lung at 320 yards. When we caught up to her she was still on her feet. Anthea asked me to put another round in her. Stating that Zebra are a bit dangerous when wounded. I shot her quartering away at 60 yards off hand. The bullet centered the left shoulder/leg and exited the base of her throat. She was dead on her feet but the finishing shot dropped her right there.
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You can just see the exit hole from the first shot just behind the leg and the entrance hole for the last shot in the shoulder/leg just where the strips are bunched up.

I did not spend much time looking for Warthogs. Here is one my wife photographed while sitting on a water tank with the kids.
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July 26th: We were out after Kudu again and found a group of Burchells Zebra. They were fairly easy to get a clear shot on. This stallion was in the back of a group of about 6 or 7 zebra. Anthea pointed out which one to shoot. When the zebras in front filed off to the right it left this stallion exposed. All I could see was his head and neck. I made a perfect neck shot and he was DRT!! Tania wants this one to be a shoulder mount.
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Tania and the kids stayed at the lodge after we dropped off the Zebra so Anthea suggested we go see if the Blue Wildebeest were out in the grass grazing. We stalked up a log the brush line in the far back of this photo. The wildebeest made us just as we were almost in position. We sat down and did not move. The wildebeest could not figure out what we were and would slowly work to us. Anthea was off to my left about 6-8 feet. She described which wildebeest to shoot. But due to the distance between us the angle was different. The animal in the edge of the bush for her was a different critter for me. I was concentrating on the shot and squeezed the trigger. I hit the cow dead center in the chest at 80 yards as she was looking at me. She jumped and bucked in a tight circle. I loaded and shot again as she came around and hit her in the shoulder. She dropped right there. Then Anthea asked me why I shot the cow? A slight miss communication on both our parts but not a big deal. We checked her out and decided to go after the bulls again.

We jogged about a mile along the brush line. The heard had run further out in to the open and was now trying to make it back to the thorn brush for cover. We caught up with them and I took a rest off the base of a tree. I hit the bull with a high lung shot at 240 yards. He ran about 900 yards off down in to the bottom of the pasture. He had heavy amounts of pink froth coming out of both sides. We got a bush between him and us. We walked down toward him. He was walking very slowly with his head down. I expected him to fall over any second but he would not. We got to the bush and I guessed him at 300 yards even. I dialed in my 300 yard dope and put the bullet square through both shoulders. He dropped instantly. Anthea was standing with the tracker about 60 yards behind me. She said she saw my Barnes bullet bounce three times in the dust behind the bull. These Barnes bullets have penetration plus and did a lot of internal damage, I was very impressed!
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We went back and loaded up the cow and dropped her out next to the bull for photos. The bull measured out at 45.3 inches tip to tip and had 14 inch bases. Total score 73.6 inches.

I took the rest of the afternoon off and hang out with the family. Then that evening Anthea and I took Jonathan out to shoot a Kudu cow for his first big game animal. He did a great job. We were in a blind on a water tank. Some young bulls came in with a group of 5 cows. Anthea picked a nice young good eating cow for Jonathan to shoot. The angle and shooting lane was bad due to the cattle fence and a gate on the other side of the water hole. The Kudu were behind this mess. Finally she came out to the right and gave Jonathan a clear shot between the barbed wire at 80 yards. She was quartering to us. Jonathan hit her just behind the on leg. The 140 grain TTSX passed out of her lung/liver on her left side. She turned to jump the fence but couldn’t. She fell over on her right side and was flopping trying to get up. Jonathan shot her again in the chest at the base of the throat. It hit the heart and lungs. We found the bullet under the hid in the cows left hind quarter. He did a great job and I was very proud of his composure and shooting!!!
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July 27th was my birthday. Gert took my family and me to Harnas Wildlife Foundation. They take care of all kinds of animals but the big thing is the predators that they care for. The place was a great experience! I believe they said the smallest pen was around 20 acres.
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We rode in the very back of this Land Rover with the raw meat wagon right behind Tania and I.
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They had a number of lions. This guy was incredibly vocal while he was waiting for his food. Another large male hit the fence Three times trying to get to the tour guild. His speed and power were more than impressive!!! They said he was very aggressive and they never entered the pen unless the lion was darted.
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Wild dogs fighting over intestines. These critters are nasty!
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We drove in to a pen with 20 Cheetahs. I got great video of all the animals at this place.
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Every thing looks quiet. The cats were very vocal while waiting to be feed. There is nothing but thin air between us and the cats.
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Then all hell breaks loose when they start tossing the meat out.
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Leopard retrieving meat out of the tree.
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They had about 20 Caracal in a pen.
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It was a dream come true for Victoria to be able to pet a Cheetah!! She has loved these animals as fare back as I can remember. But even with that she wants to hunt one some day. Tania and Victoria.
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When we got back they were cooking my Birthday lunch. This is my PH’s husband Andrew with a butter flied lamb on the BBQ. It was excellent!!!
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Sunday afternoon we gave a 50 lb bag full of clothes, toys, candy and books to the ranch workers families.
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The rest of the day was relaxing and taking photos. Gert gave Tania and me a Jeep to take out a drive any where we wished to go. We did not have to have a ranch employee with us. It was for us to use.
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July 28: Tania and the kids stayed back and we went out in search of my Kudu again. I now had most of my animals so I was not distracted by other animals begging to be hunted and shot. We had seen a few nice bulls but could not get a shot due to the thick brush and cover. Finally we found this bull. He could not figure us out and stepped out just enough to see his head and neck.
I made an easy 120 yard neck shot and down he went. We walked up on him and his legs were stiff and his eye was rolled back in his head. I put another round in his chest and he relaxed/expired. The interesting thing was the bullet entrance was perfect. But the exit was just a couple inches below the mane. I am not sure if he had his neck and head rolled towards us when I shot or what. Anthea said they don’t shoot too many Kudu in the mornings out hunting. Most of their big bulls are shot at the water holes in the evenings.
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He measured 51 inches with 11 inch bases. Total score 124.4. I consider him my Birthday Bull; it was July 27th here in the USA.
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That afternoon Gert had made arraignments for us to take our donations to the Bushman’s school. Here is part of the donations on the table. The kids are here with the school principle. We gave them four 50lb bags full of school supplies, warm clothes jump ropes, Frisbees, five soccer balls and age appropriate books.
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The school arranged for the kids to put on a show for us after a tour of the school. 320 children go to school here and about 280 of them board here. It was a huge thing for the kids to see and beaware of what we have here in The United States of America.
The living quarters.
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The kitchen and dinning/hall area with the stage. The kids eat millipop (spelling) three times a day. Millipop is a boiled corn meal with brown sugar and other things mixed in. They get meat three meals per week and fresh milk two meals a week.
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This group did a traditional dance about a springbok hunt. It was very cool. The kids had no music or instruments but the singing was beautiful.
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The springbok is down. The boy playing the springbok did a great job of dying!! It was hilarious. They had four different groups dance and sing.
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The play ground.
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We took the afternoon off from hunting for Tania and me to go out together for the evening with out the kids. We drove around the property in the Jeep. Found a nice hill top to have a beer on and spent some great quite time together as the sun set in Africa. Tania and I stalked these Zebra In the same area I had shot my Springbok.
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July 29th: The ranch does all of the dip and pack on the property for 30 Euro per animal. Here are some trophies from the group before us. They had 6 or 7 hunters from Hungary that shot 55 animals. Including a 59 inch Kudu bull.
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We hunted for a female Oryx for me in the morning. These are hands down my favorite African antelope. The kudu is close but I really like these Oryx. We hunted through a group and they made us and took off. Then found this cow all by her self. I made a 140 yard heart/lung shot on this one. She ran about 80 yards before falling over dead.
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She measured 36.6 inches with 5.5 inch bases. Total score 87 inches.



My next mission was to take my son out again to hunt. I had sat on a water tank twice and each time there were a two female and two male Duikers that would come in to water, each by them selves. Anthea said both males were easy gold metals. I am not sure how big that is but I took her word for it. So Jonathan decided that he would like to shoot a Duiker. Jonathan, me and Gert the ranch owner set up in the hide. Three female Duikers came in but no males. About 30 minuets before dark three very nice Kudu bulls came in. I asked Jonathan if he would like to shoot a Kudu instead and he could not nod yes fast enough. We picked out the best of the three and when it presented its first broad side shot Jonathan took it. It was 40 yards with a perfectly centered shoulder hit. The 140 grain Barnes TTSX exited the center of the left shoulder. The bull loped away with his tail up and crashed in to the bushes 45 yards from where he was hit. This is where we found him laying.
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Jonathan with Gert.
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I think the smile says every thing!!!
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Jonathan’s Bull measured 49 inches with 7.7 inch bases. Total score 118.1 inches.
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What a great trophy and a memory that fills me with pride every time I think about it. How does it get any better than sharing an African sunset with my son after his first big game trophy? I don’t think it can get much better.
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Andrew, the Kudu, Anthea and Jonathan back at the skinning rack.
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Jonathan eating his Kudu nuts. He wasn’t too sure about it until I tried them. Then once he tried them he would not share!!! Jonathan grew a full inch while we were in Africa. And he made a major step forward in maturity. He caries him self with a noticeably more confident nature now that we are back.
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July 30th: We spent the day checking fences and water tanks with Gert and seeing parts of the ranch we had not seen yet. We intended to shoot some birds but just did not get to it.
Gert has a 5 acre enclosure with four wild Cheetahs in it. The kids would go feed them every other night with Anthea’s younger sister Nicky and a tracker. They feed the vital organs from the game animals to the cheetahs. Gert traps the Cheetahs in large welded live traps when they cross on to his property. He does not wand to just destroy them but he does not want them killing his game. So he puts them in the pen and feeds them.
They would drive in on a quad with a trailer and toss the meat out. Tania and I went with for the first time. The kids are veterans by now and telling Mom to relax. She was nervous.
Entering the Cheetah enclosure. My kids are on the back of the quad. Tania and I are in the Jeep behind. The Cheetahs in the enclosure were very wild and skittish. We could not get a good photo. A very big male ran past us very fast and we could hear his foot steps come and go incredibly fast.
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July 31st: This was our last day of hunting. We set out to hunt Hartebeest. I had seen these animals around a lot and did not figure it would be that hard to get one. Boy was I wrong. We found this heard near the game fence as seen in the back ground. This fence separated the open plains from a large thick pasture on a hill. These guys are fast and wild. We hunted them from day break to dusk. By the latter part of the day I figured I probably might not go home with one. Every time we got close something would go wrong or we could not see the bulls. At one point we had multiple cow Hartebeest with in 25 yards but could not see the Bulls. The wind changed and off they ran.
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At the end of the day the Hartebeest blew out and ran thru an huge section of thorn bush. Anthea decided to go back to the truck and see where they crossed the next road about a click and half to the South/East.

Just as we turned on to the road three cows ran across. We stopped to look at them to see if it was the front or back of the heard. I was looking thru my scope set at 15 power when the bull we had been hunting all day stepped out and exposed his front half on the edge of he road. Anthea said that’s him take him. I pulled my head off the scope to determine distance. He was way out there. I guessed 330-340. But just as the reticle settled on my determined hold point I made a split second decision to give him 3-4 more inches of elevation. I squeezed the trigger… there was plenty of lag between the gun report and the whack of the bullet hitting him. He lunged across the dirt two track and was gone. He was stone cold dead when we arrived. He went about 30 yards and piled up. I measured the bullet drop from where I aimed with my 100 yard dope. It comes out to be 360-380 yards. I hit him 4 inches up from the bottom of his chest through the heart. If I had not gave him an extra 3-4 inches of elevation I would have blown one or both of his front legs off and screwed it up.
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Tania thought they were ugly until I shot mine now she wants it mounted. I am 6’3†with fairly large hands and I can barely get my hand around his horns. He is very cool and my hardest earned trophy of the trip.
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The trackers were quite excited about this guy. I really did not know much about scoring these animals. When I asked Anthea what was going on? She stated that he was very big! Turns out if he had another 6cm or 1.6 inches he would have made the top ten in Namibia according to the NPHA (Namibian Professional Hunters Association) web site. He measured 25.6 inches long with 11.8 inch bases. Total score was 74.8 inches. He was totaled at 190 cm. With the #10 biggest bull in Namibia making 196 cm.
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Gert grilling for our last dinner at the ranch. The food alone was worth the trip. We had food that would make some of our best restaurants in Phoenix and Scottsdale think twice. In both taste and presentation.
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Sea food appetizer in sea shells under the stars!
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We spent two days in Windhoek curio shopping and seeing the sights. Had dinner at Joe’s Beer House and ate a Bushman’s kabob. The only downer, if you want to call it that was that when you look at the terrain it was like we never really left Arizona. At first glance it did not have that foreign/exotic feel to it. But it was hands down voted the best vacation adventure to date by all of us.
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We had a parting lunch with Anthea and her Brother Gerrit and his wife Marcel. Marcel is the morning DJ personality on KUDU FM Namibia. The kids thought it was great when she gave a shout out to them on the Radio on Saturday night. Clock wise from front left. Victoria, Jonathan, Gerrit, Anthea, Marcel and Tania.
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What a dream hunt! I see you got back alright. Sounds like you and your family had a great time. Great report and beautiful photos.

I was looking at the photo of the lion rushing the fence. I don't think I would feel too safe with just chicken wire between me and him.

Congratulations on the great trophies.



Namibiahunter

A very enjoyable family adventure, a great report, and wonderful trophies. Congratulations to both of the hunters!

Nice report and photos. That is a really nice red hartebeest. I love those blue Namibian skies. I believe the hawk is a Pale chanting goshawk. The brown one is likely a juvenile of the same species.

great report and those memories will last a lifetime.

Congratulations on a great trip.

Nothing like taking your family on safari!

I took some photos of the three bullets we recovered. We fired 17 rounds every one was a well placed fatal hit. All but three were pass troughs. I thought I would share the info with you all. I am incredibly happy with these bullets. They shoot great in each rifle and do a lot of damage in the animals.
I will note that the exit wounds were fairly small the blood loss was not immense… from either wound. But the farthest any of the animals went was about 80 yards. Most didn't make it more than 40 yards. So tracking was not much of an issue. When they cleaned the animals the lungs were almost gone and the harts had nice large but clean holes in them.
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The bullet on the left was recovered from my Kudu bull. I finished him with a shot to the chest at 4 feet. The bullet was under the hide behind the left shoulder. It is a .30 cal 180 grain Barnes TSX and weighed 179.9 grains. I think the deep soft sand he was laying on helped stop the bullet.

The center bullet went through my Cow Wildebeest stem to stern. I hit her square in the chest at 80 yards and found the bullet just under the hide on the back side of the left hind quarter. It is a .30 cal 180 grain TSX. It weighed 174.5.

The bullet on the right is a .7MM 140 grain Barnes TTSX. This was the finishing shot Jonathan put on his Kudu cow at 80 yards. The bullet entered the center of the Kudus chest and we found it under the hide on the front side of the left hind quarter. It weighed in at 106.2 grains. It had the greatest loss of weight. But by shedding petals it penetrated two thirds of the animal.

Will,

Congrats on a good hunt, and thank you for one of the most enjoyable hunting reports I have read in a long time.

What a privilige to have shared the adventure as a family.

You look like a happy bunch of campers, and as a family are always welcome to hunt with me if you were ever inclined to visit RSA (not that you would after that!)

Enjoy the memories.

Charl

Thank you for sharing your hunt report and photos.

I realy enjoyed it

Great hunt and report! Thanks

A most excellent report. Its great to see you sharing this with the family. Your boy will be a man soon, enjoy your time.

Very well done, congrats. These are the things that will last.
Jeff

Congratulations on a great hunt. You will treasure the memories and so will your family.

Wonderful. Thank you.

Nice Kudu 458Lottfan!

What an outstanding report! An inspiration to me as I've two daughters I'm hoping to share Africa with in the future.

wonderful report. i never did get a red hartebeest on my first trip. congratulations.

Very cool report with the family!! I hope to share a similar hunt with my family in the coming years.

Congrats to your son! Seems he is on the right track to become a respected young man.

The picture of the blesbok with the sun and tree behind, is one of the best pictures I've seen in a long time. I'm afraid I'd have to print that one and hang it somewhere in the house.

Congrats again on an excellent family safari!

Thanks for such a great report very well put together. Nothing beats hunting with family and friends.

Will,

You and your family hunted just about 150 miles north from us here in the Kalahari and our region is only different in the sense that we have more red sand dunes and the vegetation is not as dense as over there.

It is always heart-warming to see a family doing those things together that will give them memories to last a lifetime. Congratulations on your adventure in the Kalahari of Namibia!

MCD
Uitspan Hunting Ranch, Namibia

Great pictures there! Thanks for that.

Cherish those memories. Thank you for sharing them.

Many thanks for sharing photos and story.
If there ever was something called quality time spent with famliy, this is it!

Thanks for sharing your wonderful family experience! Makes some of us empty nest types a mite jealous, but more power to you! Quality time like that with your family is priceless! I love it!

Larry

Hi Will & Family

Thank you so much for a great report. We are very happy to hear and see that you and your family had a great time here in Namibia with the Koekemoer family, we enjoyed your company just as much!

Everyone from Omuramba Hunting Lodge sends their love and regards to you and family we hope to see you back in Namibia real soon!

Take care
Gerrit Koekemoer

I really enjoy reading these family adventure stories.

Dave

First, thank you to all of you for the feedback on my report. This is a great site and I have spent untold hours enjoying other hunter’s reports and adventures. It is this site that helped me realize that hunting in Africa could be more than a dream.

Here are a couple of photos of my trophies when they got back from Namibia. My Taxidermist mounts a lot of African animals; he commented that my trophies from Omuramba were by far the best prepared trophies he has ever received from Africa. Gert's attention to detail and his crew’s professionalism really paid off from start to finish. I had my trophies here in the USA in less than 4 months.

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Very nice hunt report and some great trophies you. How did you find having a female Ph? I too hunted in Namibia this past year and got some pretty good animals, look for my hunt report under my login name here. Must have have been really special to have family there with you to share those experiences. Most of my hunts are done on a solo basis, not much interst in my circle of friends/coworkers/family in taking an African experience, their loss not mine. On my next trip to the dark continent (and there's always a wish for a next trip after you get that first trip behind you). Congrats again on your great animals.

I think your son was the one that most enjoyed the hunt!!! There is not a single picture of him without a big smile on his face.

Just looking at his face after hunting the kudu bull you know that a new big game hunter has born

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Congratulations on a great hunt with your family. I enjoyed your report and photos thanks for sharing.