billc
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This was my 3rd trip to natal and this trip was another great one. Plan was for red duiker and a big nyala. Hunting red duiker is not easy and I decide I would pass on nyala as we hunted for it. I only had 2 days on the place where we could hunt them and 4 days total to hunt natal. First day we see a few and some 30inch and bigger nyala. The 2nd day we start early and have a good plan for duiker. The tracker tells me we will get one by 8am and I likes how sure he was. get to the spot and of course the animal that comes in is a few nyala with around a 30 to 31 male. we just watch and enjoy the nyala as we search for duiker. When all of a sudden tracker tells me red duiker coming in get ready. I watch him walking through the thick brush and pick the spot I think he will come out at. He walks along a down long he comes out and I fire. I felt good but he took off full speed. We check and blood right at spot I took shoot. a short walk of 15 yds and we find him dead. Shoot was perfect just behind shoulder. We check the time and at 757 am we were done. I just looked at the tracker and laughed he asked what was funny I said duiker was early your time was off 3minutes and I was not ready and he is lucky I can forgive him for that. He laughed got a big smile