This happened before 7:00...we moved on to the next area to continue to look for Suni. We spent an hour on the ground, then 1.5 in a blind without seeing anything. About 10:00 we got into another area we had walked the 1st evening. We were about 300 yds.from.the end of the stalk when Muhlawase stopped and started scanning the whole area we were in. It didn't look very different to anything we'd seen the last 3 days.

After a couple of minutes he moved to.the.left about 20 feet and started clearing space on the ground in front of a rotted stump. He motioned for Talon and I to come over. He instructed me to set with my back to the stump. We settled in...using a Ruger 12ga with #3 shot.

We hadn't been there 1 minute and he got very excited and pointed to my left and held up his hand to wait. Where he was pointing was to my left and behind us...about 7 o'clock relative to where I was facing.

We took a long lunch break, carried the two animals to the skinning shed and got back to the hunting area about 3:00 pm. We drove to an area where we had seen Reedbuck the 1st afternoon. We got out of the truck and walked up to this open area. No Reedbuck, but there was a Grey Duiker at about 300yds angling right to left towards the treeline. We moved in rushes when his head was down and closed the gap to about 150yds but he disappeared into the tree line.

At that point we moved slower trying find him to our left in the trees. We didn't go very far before he came out and was more or less backtracking his previous path only at about 240yds. We started rushing again to close the gap.

We wrapped this up about 4:00pm. At that point there was one other nearby area we might find Reedbuck, and it would be on the way out anyway, so we headed out with the idea that we'd likely just wrap the day early. About 10 minutes later we were crusing a tree line looking for Reedbuck.

We'd only driven a short way when Thulani saw two about 150 yds into the forest. Both looked like females, but within a very short time we saw a male a little deeper. We kept moving up and back but couldn't get a clear site line. The animal moved deeper into the woods. So we drove forward to look for a place to cut up where the animal was headed.

About 200 yds up we saw him...we backed up to get a clear line of sight. I rested my elbow on the seat frame. He was about 140 yds in from us. He lifted his head, and looked our way. He was facing straight at us. I took a couple of extra breaths to steady myself and fired. He bucked and turned about 150 degrees and ran deeper into the woods away from us.

That Reedbuck looks much smaller that the Mountain Reedbuck I got in 2023. Mainly talking body size but also the horns.

FSGuide said:

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That Reedbuck looks much smaller that the Mountain Reedbuck I got in 2023. Mainly talking body size but also the horns.

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He's old, not big. I don't think he's much over 12", don't know bases, and body weight is ~175lbs based on carrying him.

Naveronski said:

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Such very cool photos and stories.

Can we get a couple photos of the trucks y'all are using too?

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I'll take photos when we go out in the morning.

Temp never got above 42 with steady 10-12 mph winds....damn it was cold. We got on a black impala that proved smarter than we were.

Tomorrow AM is supposed to be 42 at 8:00 am...so bodes for a better day. Hopefully temps hit the high 50s

japantiger said:

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Naveronski said:

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Such very cool photos and stories.

Can we get a couple photos of the trucks y'all are using too?

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I'll take photos when we go out in the morning.

Temp never got above 42 with steady 10-12 mph winds....damn it was cold. We got on a black impala that proved smarter than we were.

Tomorrow AM is supposed to be 42 at 8:00 am...so bodes for a better day. Hopefully temps hit the high 50s

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Temps peaked in the 40s with 20 mph winds

Toyota Hilux will go just about anywhere. Great truck

Those animal pics are very nice, the cheetah looks like he's just chilling out after eating a big steak meal

Using a Remington 700, 300 WM, heavy bull barrel, heavy wide hand guards, Nikon 2.5 x 10 scope with a Calypso suppressor. It weighs a ton. Close to 50% more than Thulani's rifle and over double what I used in KZN.

I had been toying with getting a suppressor.....nah. Too heavy amd unbalanced. Glad I am getting to use it. Shoots well....sounds like a lady-finger firecracker going off. But with that weight, they'll be no off-hand shots.

Awesome! Did you bag a Cape buffalo while you were at it?

Fascinating

So this appears to be the same aoudad we have in Texas (imported from Africa). Although reading a couple minutes it sounds like there may be more in Texas and Spain than native range in Africa at this point.


I thought you were in southern Africa geographically? It appears they are only supposed to be in northern Africa.