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Offline mtmn35rem5

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South Africa august 2013
« on: October 15, 2013, 10:24:45 PM »
Always wanted to hunt Africa, missed an opportunity to go a few years back and when this spring I had another chance I jumped on it. It was an august plains game hunt in South Africa, and an absolute blast. Good food, people, country and the hunting was insane. Pretty sure I’m hooked for life and already planning a return trip. Here are some pictures from the trip..







































Thanks for checkin ‘em out!
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2013, 10:28:42 PM »
Looks like you took a lot of nice animals on your trip.
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2013, 10:35:23 PM »
Some dandy animals.  Looks like a great hunt.  What were you shooting?  .270 WSM/ .7mm WSM/ .300 WSM?
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2013, 10:44:33 PM »
Thanks! .300wsm I got a chance to shoot at some longer distances then I usually do, it worked great. I found that it liked 165 gr better then the 180’s

I didn’t originally plan on taking this many animals but when your already there, and your not sure when you’re going to be back, well.. it was hard to say no.  One thing I liked about my PH was that he was into walking a lot. We didn’t drive up and shoot any of these guys and we spent most of the day on foot in awesome country (after getting to the spot). Actually I take that back, the wart hog ran in front of the rig on our way back to camp. I jumped out an ran after him and got a shot off.
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2013, 10:45:11 PM »
Congrats looks like you had a great trip!
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2013, 08:51:09 AM »
 :yeah:
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2013, 09:13:04 PM »
great looking animals what part of RSA were you in
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2013, 09:28:03 PM »
Congratulations, that looks like some great trophies and life-long memories.
I'm going crazy for March to get here, first trip to Africa coming up.
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2013, 10:05:06 PM »
Wow! Those are some amazing animals.
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2013, 10:53:38 PM »
african hunting just doesn't interest me for some reason
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2013, 11:11:37 PM »
Looks like a good time,congrats :tup:
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2013, 12:48:58 PM »
Thanks, we were in the east cape area, near a small town called alicedale. It was an awesome trip.
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2013, 01:06:14 PM »
did you get both a lesser and southern greater kudu
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2013, 01:08:11 PM »
I like the frost knife. 
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Re: South Africa august 2013
« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2013, 02:12:50 PM »
Knife is actually a $20 Mora, I always have one or two handy. I’d lose a Gene Ingram if I had one.

Both are lesser kudu, and within two inches of each other. The one that looks smaller had a tighter spiral and measured well, and I’m sitting back a decent ways on the “bigger” one.
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