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HogPilot
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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: ducota]
      #190376 - 21/09/11 02:55 PM

Father and son again. Enjoy!

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: HogPilot]
      #190402 - 21/09/11 10:59 PM

Real nice Kudu's...that young fella looks pretty chuffed too..good job getting him to Africa.

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: messmate]
      #190608 - 24/09/11 09:54 AM

Love to see family hunts!

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: AspenHill]
      #190646 - 25/09/11 12:20 AM

This is the only greater kudu bull I have ever seen in the wild. It was taken in Tanzania in the Selous. The East African kudu is rarer than its South African counterpart.

We were out at "crow pee", as usual, driving along a typical trail in fairly heavy brush, when we came to a clearing on the left. In the clearing was a herd of kudu cows and this bull. The PH stopped the vehicle, I piled out of the left side, was handed my Krieghoff .375 H&H double rifle from the rear, and the vehicle moved on.

The herd of cows had moved toward the tree line on the opposite side of the clearing, some 175 yards away, with the bull bringing up the rear. I followed him in my 3X scope until he reashed the edge of the clearing and paused to look back, quartering away from left to right. At that point, I let off the shot.

He took a tremendous bound into the brush and piled up on the ground. The 300 grain Silvertip had taken out heart and lungs and the off shoulder.

It was a shot I will never forget.

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: xausa]
      #190803 - 26/09/11 11:02 PM

Very nice curl and good tops...gotta love the kudu.

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: messmate]
      #191122 - 01/10/11 11:59 AM

This is my Kudu taken in the Eastern Cape in August 2011 and although only 110" S.C.I.it is above average for this area.



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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: ducota]
      #192006 - 17/10/11 01:08 PM

In 2009 we took our two children with us on our fourth trip to Africa, and I finally had the opportunity to take a nice Kudu. It was a sunny but very cold morning in the Natal province, and one shot from my .375 put him down not 20 meters from where he had stood.

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: Cazadero]
      #193742 - 14/11/11 02:28 AM



My one and only kudu. From 1994 in Zimbabwe.





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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: NitroX]
      #239529 - 19/12/13 03:12 PM

A couple from 2011 and 2013 in the Eastern Cape. I would have sworn I was elk hunting in New Mexico. A little slice of heaven.









Edited by Rell (19/12/13 03:16 PM)

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: Rell]
      #239532 - 19/12/13 03:30 PM

Sengwe Oct 2013

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: Claydog]
      #239534 - 19/12/13 03:44 PM

Photo from the same hunt above. There is a one horned bull second from left I really wanted as his single horn looked beautiful and I like different trophies. Alas it was not to be and I got the one above.

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: Claydog]
      #239589 - 20/12/13 09:10 AM



Done with a .333 jeffery and a loooooong crawl through the bushes...

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: rigbymauser]
      #241588 - 02/02/14 08:48 AM

My Namibian taken in 2008, Jump shot him at 80 yards with my 375 H&H.



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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: Fjold]
      #244083 - 21/03/14 08:39 AM

Oldest son shot this one in Namibia





Youngest son shot this one in the Eastern Cape RSA





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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: FOsteology]
      #254948 - 10/10/14 12:06 AM

Some fantastic Bulls on here. Hunted this bull in Limpopo late August 2012, after a dry Winter, so it dressed out at only 120kg. Longest horn measured 52.5", my biggest to date. Used my Blaser R93 Safari 375H&H, with 250gr Barnes TTSX Bullets.



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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: UmshwatiBoy]
      #254954 - 10/10/14 12:37 AM

Nice bull Deon - welcome to the club!

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: crkennedy1]
      #254955 - 10/10/14 12:47 AM

Shot this Bull at last light two years earlier on a cattle farm in the Dundee District of KZN. Used my Blaser R93 in 270 Win with 160gr Nosler Partition.



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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: UmshwatiBoy]
      #254978 - 10/10/14 06:50 PM

Lots of great kudus added since I last visited the thread. Good work. I reckon if I got back, a second kudu will be on the list looked for.

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: NitroX]
      #254979 - 10/10/14 06:57 PM

Tanzania, early 90's


Zimbabwe, late 90's



I'va some more, but the 2 first are always the most remembered .

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Re: The Kudu Thread! [Re: ducota]
      #269224 - 13/08/15 12:08 PM



My Kudu from 2007.

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