Heading For Africa

[JimP]

Looks like you have had a great time! Accommodations don't stink at all!

The accommodations are 5 star all the way across. The only downfall is their watter supply that comes out of a bore hole or a well to us it has some of the highest metal content that I have ever seen. Everyone uses bottled water or collects rain water for drinking and cooking.

 

[JimP]

Not much happening today, I did get a baboon and put down a injured bleastbuck for a property owner

 

[JimP]

Just a cull impala today one more animal to go, thinking about a ostrich

 

[Hilltop]

Appreciate you sharing with us. Love the gemsbok and the warthog.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Just a cull impala today one more animal to go, thinking about a ostrich

Great drumsticks.

 

[Winchester]

Congrats Jim, that's a lot of great trophies!!
But I just gotta ask ... baboon, warthog, ostrich? Where you gonna put all the stuff? You must be single .. HaHa!!

 

[JimP]

Got the ostrich yesterday and my final animal a cull bleastbuck this morning

I'm only doing three shoulder mounts. The warthog, blue wildebeest,, and the mountain reedbuck. The rest will be euros. I'll post more pictures when I get home the internet here sucks

Hanging space will be tough

 

[gonhunting247]

Congrats, That looks like a ton of fun! What a cool adventure, thanks for sharing!

 

[mallardsx2]

Did you get to eat any of the Ostridge? I always wondered what they tasted like.

 

[JimP]

Some like it and some don't. WI went to a ostrich farm 7 years ago I had a steak and a burger and loved it

 

[RICMIC]

Yeaaaaa.....Jim, you got your warthog.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

That is an awesome Warthog Jim, Congratulations!

 

[mallardsx2]

My dad shot a warthog (made a bad hit on it) on his last trip and they tracked it for 300 yards or so where it ran down a hole and the guides said they would go get it out of the hole when it started stinking and not a moment before then lol

They sent him the tusks in the mail a few months later.

Apparently things get a little western with wounded warthogs. The guide had some pretty crazy stories dealing with them. They were not fit to eat either according to my dad. The locals didn't even eat them. lol

 

[JimP]

All the animals there will get western real quick if they can move. We had one warthog make it to its den so they pilled sticks and rocks on top of it and came back the next morning. They found the warthog right at the entrance dead. You have to figure that all of these animals are prey animals to the predators that are there even if the bigger ones have been shot off. They still had leopards in the area so there was still one alpha predator to keep all these animals on their toes.

My best one this trip was my baboon. I hit him at over 300 yards and he made it to a bunch of brush next to a 8' high boundary fence. My PH and tracker went over to the left side and I stayed in the middle. The baboon was making his way to the right when I saw him. He came to the first fence pole and was headed up it when I took a 20 yard shot. When I hit him it blew him through a hole in the fence and it was all over.