Africa Hunting Pictures

Every year, I try to post pictures from my annual trip hunting in Namibia. I just got back last week after 10 days of hunting, and a couple days playing tourist in London and Windhoek. Hope you enjoy them.

A VERY big Eland bull:



A trophy Waterbuck:



A Jackal- like a miniature Alabama coyote:




A Horned Adder- pretty venomous


Big Ben in London

That eland weighed 1200 pounds, and yielded 300 Kg of delicious meat.

I saw these pics on AR, congrats Bud. I'll bet that eland weighed more than 1200 pounds.

Fantastic!!

are your hands touching the eland bull's horns? I feel like my eyes are playing tricks on me

great animals BTW

Looks like an awesome experience! Congrats on the game!

Cool pics! That Eland is HUGE!

I would be smoking a big fatty too if I ever had a success like that!

That's a Cuban Montecristo I bought in London on the way over- it capped a great hunt

Congrats Bud.

Glad you enjoyed it. Africa is hard to beat.

Thanks for the kind words fellas. I just wish I could have afforded hunting in Africa when I was younger, instead of being a 70 year old fart.

He'standing like 20 ft behind the eland with his hands up to look like he's touching horns. Thats a big animal, and congrats on the great hunt. Africa is a dream for me.

You're wrong. Here's another picture with my hand resting on the hind quarter of the eland.

pic of one I killed in Zim in 2005

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/DTala/af18.jpg

That's a beauty Troy!

Bud, when I went over an Eland was NOT on my list to hunt. But as you know they are absolutely awe inspiring animals on the hoof. I saw one the first day and changed my mind about not shooting one.

I posted that pic to show their size. They are huge.

Yours is a great example of a trophy Eland, congrats.

Im not wrong. Eland are around 9 feet long, so with an outstretched arm on the hindquarter you are 10 ft behind the head. Also Bhamfreds picture has him kneeling behind the head and the eland tops are not at 4.5 ft high. So you werent 20 ft, But you arent holding the horns standing behind it. And if you zoom in on the hands you can see the horns in front. You already went on a dream hunt that 99% of hunters will never go on, no need to use camera angles to imply an animal is bigger than it really is. Great animal though. Congrats on a successful hunt.

Awesome pics. Thanks for sharing

Bud, did you get a chance to eat any Eland?? We had a roast while in camp and it was killer good.

Troy: Had a filet from my Eland. It was excellent but my favorite is still Gemsbok filet wrapped in bacon, stuffed with cheese cooked over mopane coals.

We had Impala Wellington that was outstanding. Old man that was the cook did it all in a small wood burning stove. Amazing.

Awsome pics/ animals. What where you shooting?

For the Eland and Waterbuck I shot a camp Mauser in 8 X 68 mm, shooting 200 grain TSX handloads. For everything else, I used a suppressed camp Ruger 77 Tactical Rifle in .308 shooting 150 grain TSX handloads. Both rifles had Leupold vari -X III scopes.

Bud, I'm guessing you chose to not take yer own guns and use camp guns?

Our guns/ammo/clothes got lost on arrival and showed up seven days later. We had to borrow guns/ammo/clothes. As the Zims say, we made a plan.

Those barns bullet are some awsome bullets. Congrats .I'm saving my pennies...

Troy: It's so much easier using camp guns. I carry on my binos, range finder and two changes of clothes, and don't have to worry about baggage pilferage in JoBerg or lost bags in the USA. My PH has excellent rifles and I really like his suppressed Ruger .308- it's like shooting a .22.

Your PH has better guns than ours did. I killed a zebra with a 100 year old Mauser rifle in 6.5X57 we borrowed. We did get a Sako in 375H&H but ammo was spotty. Wife wore Teva flip flops the first seven days!!!!! Only clothes I had was what I wore on the plane.

I might be able to one day afford the hunt, but I don't I'll ever be able to afford the taxidermy bill. Those are some beautiful animals.

The costs add up but you can spread the money over time. First you pay for the airfare and hunt. Then 6-12 months later ya pay for shipping the trophies home at, say $2000, then pay tanning pretty soon and spread the taxidermy over a couple of years. Dosen't hurt as bad.

One can hunt South Africa on package hunts pretty cheap, under $10,000 all in for the hunt and airfare.

My hunt in Namibia was cheaper than a western elk hunt. Roundtrip airfare was $1225 on British Airways. Daily rate was $300/ day X 8 days= $2400. Trophy fees were $2000 for Waterbuck and $2200 for Eland. Baboon and Jackal were free. European Mounts are $330 and shipping will be around $500. That comes to a total of $8655, plus a tip for the Professional Hunter and the Camp Chef.

I went to a house the other day and they had a mountain zebra, and also the neck vertebrae and head of a giraffe. With other things. The woman that killed all of it travels to Africa yearly( if I remember correctly)

I wish had gotten a vertebrae from my wife's giraffe. We did get the shin bones and skull plus the cape. It's next in line for a shoulder mount.

Hmm .. I'm thinking we need pics and relationship status of said woman!