Post by: jetjockey on May 17, 2023, 09:15:37 PM
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Post by: Alchase on May 18, 2023, 12:48:52 PM
Can't wait to see your pics!
Post by: Bob33 on May 18, 2023, 01:51:34 PM
Post by: jetjockey on May 18, 2023, 01:56:12 PM
That's awesome. Are you able to hunt buffalo in Zambia with a 300?
No, bringing a Dakota 76 in .416 Rigby for the stuff that might try and kill me. 🤣.
Crappy thing is I just got the updated 2023 price list. Man, trophy fees really jumped. Looks like I’ll be taking one less animal.
Post by: mountainman on May 18, 2023, 06:14:59 PM
That’s what extra plastic is for👍👍That's awesome. Are you able to hunt buffalo in Zambia with a 300?
No, bringing a Dakota 76 in .416 Rigby for the stuff that might try and kill me. 🤣.
Crappy thing is I just got the updated 2023 price list. Man, trophy fees really jumped. Looks like I’ll be taking one less animal.
Post by: jetjockey on May 18, 2023, 07:36:23 PM
That’s what extra plastic is for👍👍That's awesome. Are you able to hunt buffalo in Zambia with a 300?
No, bringing a Dakota 76 in .416 Rigby for the stuff that might try and kill me. 🤣.
Crappy thing is I just got the updated 2023 price list. Man, trophy fees really jumped. Looks like I’ll be taking one less animal.
I already had $10k set aside just for trophy fees. Buffalo, Kudo, and Waterbuck will pretty much eat those up now. Still would like an Impala, warthog, and a Puku, but that will add another $2500 now. Free Range in Africa isn’t cheap.
Post by: mountainman on May 19, 2023, 09:48:59 PM
Don’t cut yourself short. I know a budget is a budget, but for most, this would be a once-in-a-lifetime! I and my son went over budget on extra trophy fees, shot many no charge culls also. Extra money well spent imo👍That’s what extra plastic is for👍👍That's awesome. Are you able to hunt buffalo in Zambia with a 300?
No, bringing a Dakota 76 in .416 Rigby for the stuff that might try and kill me. 🤣.
Crappy thing is I just got the updated 2023 price list. Man, trophy fees really jumped. Looks like I’ll be taking one less animal.
I already had $10k set aside just for trophy fees. Buffalo, Kudo, and Waterbuck will pretty much eat those up now. Still would like an Impala, warthog, and a Puku, but that will add another $2500 now. Free Range in Africa isn’t cheap.
Post by: jetjockey on May 22, 2023, 07:44:57 AM
Don’t cut yourself short. I know a budget is a budget, but for most, this would be a once-in-a-lifetime! I and my son went over budget on extra trophy fees, shot many no charge culls also. Extra money well spent imo👍
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Oh I’ll be back. I LOVE Africa. There’s a couple other animals I want to take that I can’t on this trip. Plus, the budget is pretty tight on this one. An expansive trip turned into a REALLY expensive trip when my Mother in Law found out. 🤣. After the hunt, we fly to Joburg where we meet my MIL, and my wife and daughters. We are then spending 6 days at Kruger and then flying to Vic falls for another 3……. I never had any desire to hunt leopard, but after talking to my FIL about his hunt, I think I’d like to try that some day. May have to win the lotto first for that one though.
Post by: Zardoz on May 24, 2023, 08:00:35 PM
We will be hunting the Luangwa Valley in Zambia for Buffalo and plains game. 10 day hunt starting on the 2nd of June. I’m really hoping to kill a big, old full boss 40+ Buffalo with lots of drop. I have Kudu on quota as well. Other plains game animals such as Waterbuck aren’t under quota, so hopefully we will see some good ones.
WOW, excellent and Good Hunting. :tup:
Post by: jetjockey on June 02, 2023, 01:17:22 PM
Post by: Alchase on June 02, 2023, 02:17:38 PM
Wouldn’t ya know it…. Got this nice Kudu not long after an extremely, extremely too close encounter stalking Cape buffalo in thick coverage. Even with a 416, I felt like the hunted.
Holy smokes what a beautiful animal!
Post by: jetjockey on June 12, 2023, 10:04:21 AM
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Post by: jetjockey on June 12, 2023, 08:20:27 PM
Well I hope that's not the end of the story telling?!? Awesome.looking animals. I'm finding a desire to go to Africa growing in me. Looks like the rifle.is doing well. Congrats
If you go, take tough bullets. Most of these animals are easily as tough as our elk. I shot the zebra at about 100 yards perfectly broadside, and the 200gr Accubond didn’t reach the opposite skin. I only made 1 suspect shot, and that was the waterbuck that took a step as I was squeezing the trigger. Hit him about 1ft back of the shoulder, just barely getting the lungs. I wasn’t even sure I had hit him. That bullet passed through, and so did the Puku, which is maybe just a little bigger than our pronghorn. The Buffalo took 3 400gr TSX’s from a 416 Rigby. This is what the Kudu did to my Accubond at 160 yards.
Post by: Rob on June 12, 2023, 08:31:05 PM
Thats the problem with Africa... always unfinished business and a need to return...
Post by: jetjockey on June 12, 2023, 08:42:27 PM
Great animals. Congrats
Thats the problem with Africa... always unfinished business and a need to return...
As soon as I get home, Ill start saving for another trip. I still want a BIG Buffalo, but also a warthog (saw a monster, but he never stopped running) and a sable. The concession we ended up hunting isn’t the one we signed up for. Many of Zambias concessions are a mess right now, and tied up in court. Hopefully that gets straightened out sooner than later. But you’re right, Africa, and especially wild Africa, hooks a person.
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on June 12, 2023, 09:05:35 PM
Post by: MADMAX on June 12, 2023, 09:17:15 PM
Id have to mortgage the house
Post by: Rob on June 13, 2023, 05:58:16 AM
Great animals. Congrats
Thats the problem with Africa... always unfinished business and a need to return...
As soon as I get home, Ill start saving for another trip. I still want a BIG Buffalo, but also a warthog (saw a monster, but he never stopped running) and a sable. The concession we ended up hunting isn’t the one we signed up for. Many of Zambias concessions are a mess right now, and tied up in court. Hopefully that gets straightened out sooner than later. But you’re right, Africa, and especially wild Africa, hooks a person.
We had a similar problem in Zim-they took our PH'S consession and awarded it to a black "farmer" with no warning - breaking the lease they had.
My advise to new African hunters is to learn to roll with things. Africa rolls along at its own pace and direction. Trying to control it only leads to frustration. Roll with it and it might be different than what you had planned but if you have a good PH it will still be spectacular.
Post by: Alchase on June 13, 2023, 07:17:15 AM
Well I hope that's not the end of the story telling?!? Awesome.looking animals. I'm finding a desire to go to Africa growing in me. Looks like the rifle.is doing well. Congrats
If you go, take tough bullets. Most of these animals are easily as tough as our elk. I shot the zebra at about 100 yards perfectly broadside, and the 200gr Accubond didn’t reach the opposite skin. I only made 1 suspect shot, and that was the waterbuck that took a step as I was squeezing the trigger. Hit him about 1ft back of the shoulder, just barely getting the lungs. I wasn’t even sure I had hit him. That bullet passed through, and so did the Puku, which is maybe just a little bigger than our pronghorn. The Buffalo took 3 400gr TSX’s from a 416 Rigby. This is what the Kudu did to my Accubond at 160 yards.
Congratulations!
It would be interesting to weigh that bullet, see how much of the 400 gr. it retained. It expanded nicely though.
Post by: jetjockey on June 13, 2023, 11:29:48 AM
Well I hope that's not the end of the story telling?!? Awesome.looking animals. I'm finding a desire to go to Africa growing in me. Looks like the rifle.is doing well. Congrats
If you go, take tough bullets. Most of these animals are easily as tough as our elk. I shot the zebra at about 100 yards perfectly broadside, and the 200gr Accubond didn’t reach the opposite skin. I only made 1 suspect shot, and that was the waterbuck that took a step as I was squeezing the trigger. Hit him about 1ft back of the shoulder, just barely getting the lungs. I wasn’t even sure I had hit him. That bullet passed through, and so did the Puku, which is maybe just a little bigger than our pronghorn. The Buffalo took 3 400gr TSX’s from a 416 Rigby. This is what the Kudu did to my Accubond at 160 yards.
Congratulations!
It would be interesting to weigh that bullet, see how much of the 400 gr. it retained. It expanded nicely though.
That is the 200gr Accubond from the 300wsm. The 400gr TSX’s expand with boring regularity from the 416. Those TSX’s are designed to open at slower speeds than normal TSX’s, and they do it well. They .416 is a beast as well. I drove the 2nd shot from about 3/4 of the way back through the lungs because he fell quartering hard away. Here’s the bullet, and here’s the channel from what looks like a gut shot, but was heading hard forward.