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LAST EDITED ON Mar-21-18 AT 08:48AM (MST)[p]This forum has been really quiet for a while now, so I thought I'd post up a new topic for discussion...
A fair number of us who visit this site have enjoyed hunts in various African countries. Some of us plan to go back and I'm curious about where you'll be hunting. But I'm also curious about which animals you'd really like to hunt. Which animal would you travel all the way to Africa to hunt?
I'll start things off, as I'm doing a short hunt in Zambia this fall for Sitatunga. I hunted Sitatunga in Botswana back in 1989 as part of a 24 day safari, but didn't get one. We were also hunting a lot of other game including a couple Buffalo and mainly focused on lion. I only saw 2 Sitatunga rams on that safari, got a shot at one and missed him at about 350 yards. I was shooting while laying on a tree limb about 15 feet off the ground. It wasn't the most stable situation. I've always wanted to hunt them again, so this time I'm going late in the season when things are drier and I'm hunting an area, Tondwa, which has many Sitatunga and a high success rate. They do hunt from Machans, but mainly by walking and spotting them on the floodplain, then stalking in for a shot. I'll also have licenses for a puku, bushpig and reedbuck, but this is a Sitatunga hunt and if that's the only animal I shoot, I'll be very happy indeed.
So, what about the rest of you?
A fair number of us who visit this site have enjoyed hunts in various African countries. Some of us plan to go back and I'm curious about where you'll be hunting. But I'm also curious about which animals you'd really like to hunt. Which animal would you travel all the way to Africa to hunt?
I'll start things off, as I'm doing a short hunt in Zambia this fall for Sitatunga. I hunted Sitatunga in Botswana back in 1989 as part of a 24 day safari, but didn't get one. We were also hunting a lot of other game including a couple Buffalo and mainly focused on lion. I only saw 2 Sitatunga rams on that safari, got a shot at one and missed him at about 350 yards. I was shooting while laying on a tree limb about 15 feet off the ground. It wasn't the most stable situation. I've always wanted to hunt them again, so this time I'm going late in the season when things are drier and I'm hunting an area, Tondwa, which has many Sitatunga and a high success rate. They do hunt from Machans, but mainly by walking and spotting them on the floodplain, then stalking in for a shot. I'll also have licenses for a puku, bushpig and reedbuck, but this is a Sitatunga hunt and if that's the only animal I shoot, I'll be very happy indeed.
So, what about the rest of you?