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Blue Widebeast,
First of all let me start by saying this was not a guided hunt there was no PH present all of these critters were hunted on a friend of mines ranches in South Africa and most were self guided.
The three for one Blue Wildebeast,
On day one I shot a large bull wildebeast head on at about 100 or so yards and somehow gut shot him head on???? I can't figure it out either.. In anycase the bullet passed through the bull knocking him down and hit a cow wildebeast standing behind the bull in the nose.
I wasn't aware that the cow had been hit and when I started to the bull he got up and ran. I found digested grass and a copious amount of blood at the scene. So I followed the blood and to my surprise found the a cow in the last set of tracks so I put her down. It was dark by now so I returned to the scene early the next morning and never found the first bull.
Feeling pretty low down I returned and told my buddy, the land owner, my tale to which he laughed and told me that they wound about 300 a year not recovered and don't worry about just go shoot another one. The Blue wildebeast is also known as the Blue Woundedbeast or the poor mans buffalo because they are so damn tough.
In any case later that afternoon I shot the bull pictured below killing him with one shot through both shoulders and spine.at about 80 yards.
.375 H&H 270gr Barnes X
First of all let me start by saying this was not a guided hunt there was no PH present all of these critters were hunted on a friend of mines ranches in South Africa and most were self guided.
The three for one Blue Wildebeast,
On day one I shot a large bull wildebeast head on at about 100 or so yards and somehow gut shot him head on???? I can't figure it out either.. In anycase the bullet passed through the bull knocking him down and hit a cow wildebeast standing behind the bull in the nose.
I wasn't aware that the cow had been hit and when I started to the bull he got up and ran. I found digested grass and a copious amount of blood at the scene. So I followed the blood and to my surprise found the a cow in the last set of tracks so I put her down. It was dark by now so I returned to the scene early the next morning and never found the first bull.
Feeling pretty low down I returned and told my buddy, the land owner, my tale to which he laughed and told me that they wound about 300 a year not recovered and don't worry about just go shoot another one. The Blue wildebeast is also known as the Blue Woundedbeast or the poor mans buffalo because they are so damn tough.
In any case later that afternoon I shot the bull pictured below killing him with one shot through both shoulders and spine.at about 80 yards.
.375 H&H 270gr Barnes X
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