Here's some photos of my Scimitar Horned Oryx and North African Addax, no photos of Nilgai as he was taken at last light and prompty ran off into the gathering darkness and found the next day without my presence. Hence no photos.
Photos from latest hunt.
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Shame this will probably some of the last taken by sportsman ever.
I was hoping to see pictures of your trip. Glad it went well.
I was hoping to see pictures of your trip. Glad it went well.
Here's some photos of my Scimitar Horned Oryx and North African Addax, no photos of Nilgai as he was taken at last light and prompty ran off into the gathering darkness and found the next day without my presence. Hence no photos.
Texas is great aint it?
I am eating at a roadside mexican burrito stand in my head right now. Tamales...mmmmmmm
Yep I've always loved Texas, not big on Mex food though. Had a beef and chicken fajita plate at a roadside diner that was pretty good though. We were the only white guys in the joint so you know it was good, real Mex food.
Got to exercise my spanglish a bit too which I haven't done in years.
Going back some time pretty quick here, don't have a date yet but it should be this fall or winter.
Got to exercise my spanglish a bit too which I haven't done in years.
Going back some time pretty quick here, don't have a date yet but it should be this fall or winter.
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What are you after this time?
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No, but the status of the Scimitar Oryx, Addax Antelope and another one or two other antelopes have changed, making it illegal to kill them High-fence or not.
The Greenies would rather see these species disappear from the planet than allow some to be shot.
Yes we had this exact discussion several times while I was there, and the general thinking is no one will continue to raise them if they cannot be sold. Hence the true extinction of these species thanks to the forward looking greenies. What a bunch of idiots, what do they think, people are going to spend money to keep these species alive with no remuneration possible? The next two species they are going after are the Aoudad and Blackbuck and there are literally 100's of thousands of them running about Texas.
Got to go fetch my pet Arabian Oryx and maybe a 30"+ Aoudad before they make them CITIES I endangered.
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First I have heard of this, but wouldn't be surprised. Get while the getting is good c-fbmi. There are free range aoudad and Blackbuck all over the world.
Stuff like this just makes me shake my head. I am glad you got them while you could. Wish I could take one if I so chose.
I was shooting my buddies 300 win custom from Hart with 28" bbl the Oryx was 250 mtrs hard quartering away, the addax was a hard 90 mtr shot walking. The Nilgai was a nightmare and was shot at last light at 450 mtrs.
What I thought was going to be a gentleman's hunt turned into 6 days, 16 hrs a day, cactus spines in my legs following blood by flashlight. Tough hunt all in all.
"Tough hunt"... Thats the way it should be... our appreciation of the expereince and the animals is often directly proportionate to the personal cost involved... physical, mental and sometimes the pocketbook... no sportsman would enjoy shooting "fish in a barrel." Nice animals, congrats. I assume that you borrowed the gun to avoid the border hassles both ways?
There's a name out of the past, you'll have lost anyone under 40 with that name, and no, your's is the first comment to that effect. No offence taken as I can't even remember what he looked like, me I guess.
Yep, it was unseasonally warm, 90 deg a couple days.
Yep, it was unseasonally warm, 90 deg a couple days.
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You are correct on both points, it would be nice to have an easy hunt once in a while though. I'm getting too old and fat for these greuling epics anymore.
Your statement brings to mind the several goat hunts I have done. Where we are allowed to hunt them they are far and away the toughest animal to hunt in the Yukon. Talk about physical and mental investment, it would take 5 years between each hunt in order to forget how ugly it really was and convince myself it wasn't that bad and I should do it again. All for those little bitty 9-10" horns, the trophy on the wall doesn't speak adequately to the severity of the hunt.
But now that I think about it I would sure like a lifemount, late season 10" billy, and it wasn't really all THAT bad............hmmmmmmm....somebody slap me, please!!!!
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For those who don't know who he was he was a well known NHL player back in the day. Here is a commercial he used to do for Pop Shoppe back in the late 70's.
http://youtu.be/X8pGHpfWu8s
And another for a Motel chain circa 1990. Eddie was a great guy. I met him when I was a 12 year old kid enrolled in summer hockey school. He was one of our part time coaches for the summer. He was funny as heck and really nice to us kids.
http://youtu.be/hO6sLkGiTSs
