Results from 2012 Zimbabwe hunt

[Rob]

Got back from our 2012 trip to Zimbabwe.  Great trip.  All the planning info can be found here:
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,64016.0.html

Started rough with our plane from Atlanta being canceled and us needing to extend ourtrip by a day to get the full 10 days of hunting.  Everyone's baggage was missign for the first two days so we needed to use camp guns and ammo for those days.  The bag with my ammo never did show up until we passed back thorugh Bulawayo on the way home so I was left with camp ammo.

Other than that, we had a great trip.  the four hunters in our party of 6 shot a total of 58 animals over 37 hunter days.  My main goal was Buffalo and my dad and I got decent ones and had an outstanding hunt.

 Here are the photos from my animals, and my dad's.  I'll let the others post there photos if they choose to.

First set:
Klipspringer
Impala for camp meat
Bushbuck
Vervet Monkey

[Rob]

buff photos for both my dad and I

[Rob]

more Buffalo, plus warthog and two bait impala I shot for Leopard hunting.

[Rob]

five bait impala, one camp meat impala, and one mercy kill impala that was caught in a poachers snare.

[Rob]

last of my animals. 
Baboon
Wildebeest
Zebra

[Rob]

My dad's animals
Impala for camp meat
Zebra he shot for a friend to make into a rug
Wildebeest
Klipspringer
Waterbuck
first baboon

[Rob]

BAboons 2 and 3
Jackal
Heyena

[Rob]

and the last of the photos of animals

Here is Dad's zebra that he took for himself.

[boneaddict]

Great bunch of trophies.

[lhrbull]

sorry to hear about the flight and the misplaced luggage but it looks like u made the best of the situation great looking animals your dad's waterbuck looks great

[fvh40]

Rob

Glad you are safe at home .
Congrats with your hunt and all the excellent trophies.
Thank you for sharing.

[jackmaster]

that is awesome, looks likem some serious gunnin there, it would be fun just to shoot baboons and heyenas, man who ever your guys taxidermist is is gonna love you.... congrats looks like a blast 

[X-Force]

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! That is a dream hunt right there.

[cedarriver]

Wow! Looks like you had a heck of a hunt! Great trophies all,bushbuck looks really nice, how long were the horns on the Impala,bushbuck, waterbuck, and klipspringer? Great buffs and warthog too. Love the jackal and hyena. Nice to be able to have some memories like that with your dad. Congrats.

[Rob]

It was a great hunt.  Worth the two year wait, and financial saving plan to make it happen!  Already thinking about the next hunt...

The Hyena hunts were really interesting.  We did electronic calling at night to bring them in.  When I get some time I'll document how the hunts went.  Nothing like having 15 pissed off Hyena 30 yards away bathed only in moonlight.

We did a really poor job measuring the trophies.  hit and miss. 

While I shot a total of 10 Impala, 7 were for leopard bait, 2 camp meat, and one was a mercy kills.  So no trophies there. (The Leopard hunt was a last minute long shot add-in based on available quota upon our arrival.  We got close but did not connect which was a good thing for my pocket book!)
The waterbuck was at 29 inches.  I was really surprised how big the body was.  It was everybit as big an an average bull Elk, but perhaps not as tall (i.e. shorter legs).
My Klipie was 4.5 inches which I guess is pretty big.  my dad's was 4.25
My Bushbuck was 14.5 inches with 5.5 inch bases.

The buff were kinda interesting.  My buff had a wider spread, but dad's had deeper curls.
On the Rowland Ward system, mine had a 36 inch spread, and dad's a 35.
Per SCI,  Dad's wider boss and deeper curls gave him a 100.25 score to my 97.

That's about all we got