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A young eland bull: We enjoyed a morning’s quad bike game viewing. A most exhilarating experience: I guess these guys were wondering who was making all the noise: That was the end of that short hunting trip, we then went on to Franschhoek for the obligatory wine tasting...

On the way back to the lodge for breakfast, we spotted some ostrich. Gavin asked if I would take one of them out. The ostriches were four hundred yards distant and completely unaware of our presence. Gavin led me into a comfortable, prone shooting position, where I could use my bi-pod...

It has been a good while since I have posted on the forum. I often thought that I must get back on the forum but I guess there has been a lack of “round tuits” though I have been a bit busy with eight months of consultancy work in the oil & gas industry that took me from China to Argentina, so...

Blesbok by Aloe Plant Baboon Black Wildebeest Cape Buffalo Caracal Bush Pig Nyala Sable Waterbuck From Andrew’s Cellar

Here are some pictures of the South African sunset. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/DavidWatt/AfricanSky9X.jpg[/IMG

Day five found us back at the mouth of the Great Kei River, this time to hunt my Nyala and a Zebra. Having spent the morning looking for a Nyala, with no success, we were about to commence a stalk towards a herd of Burchell’s Zebra. Suddenly, four Nyala bulls came over the crest of a hill...

I know I said this last year but it really does not seem like a year since I posted the 2007 Safari Story. However, a year it surely is. This year saw only Iain and myself making the journey to Komga, Eastern Cape of South Africa for our 2008 hunt. Regrettably, our friend and usual...

Can anyone help me with load data for Barnes Varmint Grenade Bullets in .22-250, 36gn, using Accurate or Vihtavouri powders please? Thank you. Roebuck.

Last week I and my colleague Iain, took our German and Dutch friends, Andreas and Marcel out for a stag, as a thank you for the wild boar hunting they kindly provide for us. We knew they really wanted a red stag (there's precious few in Holland) so we asked a friend to take them out on his...

As you probably know already, we cannot legally bow hunt in U.K. However, this is certainly not the case in South Africa. Here is a picture I have just received from my friends at Kei River Hunting Safaris. It shows Professional Hunter Dave and his client with a lion, taken with the bow...

LAR-15 Quick question for you European shooters do your gun laws influence your gun selection for hunting? Here is the US I have several different calibers and guns for different shooting situations (I.E. long range vs short range, big calibers vs light calibers, ect) The short answer...

The Internet is an amazing thing. It allows hunters and firearms enthusiasts across the world to communicate as easily as if they were next door to each other. I like to browse several sets of forums and I was browsing though a U.K. deer stalking site when I came across a message posted by a...

That afternoon, when we arrived back at the Lodge, Paul and Iain were still out goose shooting, Sharyn and Max were shopping in East London, so rather than deplete Andrew’s beer supply further, I thought I would have a nap. Setting my alarm for 1700hrs, I dozed off and remember waking up at...

Having got his eland, Paul turned his attention to getting his gemsbok. He stalked on to one later that afternoon and as PH and Kei River Safaris owner Andrew was assessing the gemsbok, he noticed a small blood trickle from the top of the animals back. It had been the first gemsbok that Iain...

We still had some light left so Allan suggested that we might go and look for some last light kudu. The kudu, I guess, is everyone’s favourite. It is a strikingly beautiful antelope, with highly developed sense of smell, hearing and vision. Their camouflage is excellent and they are not...

The subject kudu was feeding behind a group of scrub, aloe and thorn trees but was not visible to us though Paul and Andrew kept assuring us that the bull was still there, standing in some dead ground behind the cover. I settled in to a comfortable shooting position, or at least as comfortable...

Good eating is not difficult to find in RSA and even in a very small, seasonal and tourist town like Kenton, there was a first class restaurant where again we enjoyed a fine dinner. Regrettably, our accommodation for that night was nowhere near the standard of the previous night, but it was...

It doesn’t seem like a year since I was sitting down to write up my 2006 Plains Game Hunt, in the Eastern Cape area of RSA, but it is. How time flies. There hardly seems enough time to get all the hunting that I would wish to get done, done, and I do hate having to pass up on any hunting...