fishinpox |
01-24-2014 11:14 AM |
Husband and Wife Gemsbok down!!! What an amazing hunt yesterday!! I shot a gemsbok at 400 yards on a walk n stalk , I've been hunting this animal the whole time I've been in Africa , tgey have been the most difficult animal to get . The closest I could get was 400 before they'd start moving, the terrain was extremely rugged and the day was coming to an end so I squeezed off a round 400 yards uphill in 30 mph wind KABOOM .... Tagged it! Animal took off.... Crap! Put my pack back on and we took off up the mountain after it , it went out of sight but when we rounded a corner another herd of 8 was 200 yards away so we set up the shooting stick and my wife tagged one! My wife went in the direction of hers with the PH and another PH and I went off with a tracker and a skinner into the direction of mine . Full of emotion , excitement not only I finally got one but so did Kori, fear it wasn't a good enough shot , worried Kori would get hurt climbing the mountian on pursuit of hers... We get to where my animal was shot but couldn't find blood... Crap! At this time Kori n the 2 PH's are completely out of sight . We search high n low in crazy thick terrain ... Nothing and the sun is going down , starting to get very nervous . I finally start to see Kori and 1 PH in the distance so I begin to make my way to them . Once we meet up I find out one of the PH continued on after koris Gemsbok . So we devised a plan to continue on and leave Kori . After another hour tracking we finally spot mine seeking cover and saftey in the brush on the side of the mountain ... Boom perfect shoulder shot ( take out its 4 wheel drive because I couldn't imagine chasing it any longer) and down it goes!! Now how to get it down !! Bittersweet feeling now since we had recovered mine but koris was still missing , it was dark and we couldn't find the other PH. We load into a land cruiser ( which is the most hardcore work horse vechile I've ever seen) in search of the PH . Within 30 min we find him and plan to come back in the morning since he located good blood . 6 am we start tracking the blood and finally locate the animal at 1:30 ! What a feeling! .. Unfourtantly koris gemsbok was damaged by animals during the night so we don't have a picture of hers but ill post up some of mine later tonight!
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