Lion, Bongo, Zebra and more...MORE NEW PICS...Enjoy!!
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I chose to take this guy because he had a stunted and bent horn (if you can call them horns) and he was a big old male. Will make a neat and unique pedestal mount.
You can clearly see the shot placement in these photos, just beneath the left eye. He was 40 or so yards and was getting tired of us dogging him. My shot options were somewhat limited so........
Thats most of the pics from the hunt, certainly all that are worth seeing and even that may be debateable. I'm not much of a story teller and an even worse typist so feel free to ask any questions you like and I'll answer as best I can.
You can clearly see the shot placement in these photos, just beneath the left eye. He was 40 or so yards and was getting tired of us dogging him. My shot options were somewhat limited so........
Thats most of the pics from the hunt, certainly all that are worth seeing and even that may be debateable. I'm not much of a story teller and an even worse typist so feel free to ask any questions you like and I'll answer as best I can.
the spank
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I think I made the comment last year about Eddie Shack? Looks like "The Shack" is back for another round in Africa!!
I know that the meat from the game you take is usually handed out to the local tribes peoples but do you ever keep and cook any of the meat while there to sample it and if so how would you describe the taste of Giraffe and Zebra? Is it comaparable to anything here in flavor and texture?
Looks like the Lion got it in the head? Is that an entry hole just below the eye and exit wound showing(blooded area) on the rear of the head in the fur of the mane? If so how far were you from him to make such a great shot placement?
I know that the meat from the game you take is usually handed out to the local tribes peoples but do you ever keep and cook any of the meat while there to sample it and if so how would you describe the taste of Giraffe and Zebra? Is it comaparable to anything here in flavor and texture?
Looks like the Lion got it in the head? Is that an entry hole just below the eye and exit wound showing(blooded area) on the rear of the head in the fur of the mane? If so how far were you from him to make such a great shot placement?
I think I made the comment last year about Eddie Shack? Looks like "The Shack" is back for another round in Africa!!
I know that the meat from the game you take is usually handed out to the local tribes peoples but do you ever keep and cook any of the meat while there to sample it and if so how would you describe the taste of Giraffe and Zebra? Is it comaparable to anything here in flavor and texture?
Looks like the Lion got it in the head? Is that an entry hole just below the eye and exit wound showing(blooded area) on the rear of the head in the fur of the mane? If so how far were you from him to place that shot so well?
There are some animals that the white cooks over there just won't prepare and in this case zeba and giraffe happen to be two of them, so I can't comment on their taste. Every piece of meat eaten over there though is game meat when hunting, some is good, some is fair and some they just don't feed you like elephant and zebra. I doubt old bull giraffe would be too palateable either.
Congo was a straight eat what you shoot program "no shoot-no meat". No meat was brought into camp with our groceries which we bought in the last town before camp. First 2 nights supper was soup in the Congo and the help was getting restless so I popped the red colored Peters duiker morning 3 and all was good again. I took one blue duiker on day four, see photos, but 15 lbs live weight don't go far at all. Day 5 was Bongo very early in the morn, right at daybreak, so lots of meat for all. A little tough but still very good. The liver was first and it was outstanding.
The entrance is indeed just below the left eye but no exit. He was crouching and the shot followed through the throat and spined him just ahead of and between the shoulders, took out about a foot of spine. You want instant no twitch dead that shot works.
He was about 40 yards or so and I took him offhand, which is why the shot isn't dead square on the bridge of the nose and level with the eyes where I wanted it.
the spank
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Very neat indeed and sounds like some good eats..........40 yards from that big beast?? WOW!! I guess you want a no twitch shot if you're going to be that close!! Again...WOW!!!
fishslinger
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Very nice. Keep them coming. This proves that the Remington model 700 still is a good rifle.
daddylonglegs
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Congratulations, Douglas, on an amazing speciman of a lion, and on the gorgeous bongo! The pictures of the silver-back gorilla were also awesome. It looks like you had an excellent & successful hunt. You should have built your new shop twice as large; you're going to be out of trophy space in no time!
Thank you for sharing your excellent pictures with us. Much appreciated!
Thank you for sharing your excellent pictures with us. Much appreciated!
Other way round, shipped home then mounted. I use Brian Dobson in Edmonton, he's won the world championships for taxidermy 7 times and does contracts for the Smithsonian Institute. Tough to beat his work and his prices are in line. He's also a friend, we hunted Marco Polos together. If you want to have a look at his work just google Artistic taxidermy studios in Edmonton.
Hey Len, I'm actually building a new 2000 sq ft trophy room and a swimming pool on my house down on the Kootenay Lake next summer, hopefully, if business stays good. Should be completed by Sept when I head to Tanzania for another dozen or so antelopes only found there. Then Oz/NZ in 2014 and possibly South America that year as well. I really want to take a Cappy Barra, there's just something about shooting a 200 lb guinea pig that turns my crank. Then I have to relook at emperor penguins and leopard seals in Antarctica to complete my seven continents hunted. I've also heard through a reliable source that it may be possible and LEGAL to take a problem tiger in either India or SE Asia. I'm looking into this, but kinda gotta go at a moments notice.
Lion they said would go between 5+600 lbs, I can tell you it took 6 guys to get him into the back of the truck even after they dug tire pits to back it into. He's over 11 ft nose to tail. PH was using a .375 H+H, I think that one was a mod 70.
PH was using a .375 H+H, I think that one was a mod 70.It's somewhere previous in this thread but regardless it is a Rem 700 CDL stock on a SS barreled action with PT&G bottom metal in .375 H+H. Leupold 30 mm rings and 1 piece base holding a Zeiss Diavari 1.5-6. The load is a 270 gn Barnes TSX @ 2925 fps using Rem cases, CCI 250s and RL 15. It is argueably the most universal cartridge on the planet, as flat as a hot loaded '06 with the same energy as a factory .458 Win 500 grn load. Good for 12 lb blue duiker to 12,000 lb elephant.
Given the shot placement I'm sure either would have been just as effective with TSX bullets.
