Nice Springbok!! Looks like fun was had by all.\

Thanks for the post and pictures.

-Steve

Great trophies! Do you have any photos of the camp? I have heard that it is quite a bit different since we hunted there with Vaughan???? We were the second people to hunt with Vaughan on this concession and I wonder if the camp is still in the same location??

Mark, I do have some, but they've not been processed yet. My wife is taking care of all the pictures right now, so I should have some more digitals in the next day or so. The camp is quite nice, I'll tell you that. I'll post some more replies or start a new thread when I have some more "non-trophy" shots.

To round out the hunt, we traveled back to the south to pursue hartebeest and warthog.

Dad was first up and took this nice bull:


Our crack photographic team (Vaughan) does a bang-up job and likes these profiles:


After taking care of dad's hartebeest, we spent the remainder of the day hunting for mine. At last light, I managed a fairly long shot and killed this nice bull:


The next morning, we returned to hunt warthog and to see if we could find an oryx that wanted to come home with my dad. We didn't find that oryx, but dad did take this old boar at about 40-50 yards with his .270 WSM:


I think the frontal shot does him real justice (the pig that is):

Though I've already killed an oryx here in New Mexico, I couldn't resist the opportunity to go for another in Africa. It's only fair... After a long game of cat and mouse, during which this bull led us on a merry chase, I finally got a shot at about 200 yards. Here's the result of that very exciting stalk:

After some serious hunting in some pretty rough country, we each also managed a kudu. My dad's bull was quite old and had heavy horns that were pretty beat up. He'll make a nice mount for sure.


My kudu was a bit smaller (younger), but had the wide spread and graceful curls that I really wanted in a kudu.


I like the profile shot:

After the zebras, my dad and I each took a springbok.

Here's my first one (I ended up shooting two). At nearly 17", Vaughan claims this is the second largest springbok taken from his concession and a definite top-scoring book animal. I'm not really interested in "The book", but I'm definitely proud of this springbok:


A side view:


A couple days later, my dad shot this 15 incher at about 225 yards with his .270 WSM:


Near the end of our hunt, I opted to take another springbok so I could make a rug of the beautiful hide:

The first animals we took on Vaughan's large concession were mountain zebra.

Here is the stallion I shot with a .338 and 225 grain Barnes TSXs at about 130 yards:


I like the pattern on the rump:


Here's my dad's stallion, quite a scrapper judging by the amount of scars he had. He took his using a .270 WSM shooting 140 grain TSXs at about 130 yards.


Again, the rump pattern: