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Kudu
#210 - 30/12/02 03:05 AM

From: Nitro (Original Message) Sent: 8/12/2002 1:39 AM
I don't think I have posted this picture on the message board before, though it has been in the photo album.

The kudu is a 51 1/8 inch greater kudu from the Lowveld of Zimbabwe. West Nicholson, Southern Zimbabwe. The man with me is the PH's tracker, Judea.

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Re: Kudu [Re: Prev_Forum]
#689 - 09/01/03 04:37 AM

Hi,

I have a few pics of the big 4, and a few others I would like to post. Need advice on how to post them up.
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Re: Kudu [Re: Mpofu]
#692 - 09/01/03 06:28 AM

i will try and find the pic i found on the 70 inch plus kudu i picked up surfing

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Re: Kudu [Re: gryphon]
#694 - 09/01/03 06:47 AM

What an animal considering we all would give a nut for a 60 inch model This all-time world record kudu was picked up by the late Italian hunter Carlo Caldesi. He found this head while hunting in Mozambique with the safari company of the late Baron Werner von Alvensleben. The head was picked up in 1963 near the Save River. Carlo Caldesi won the Weatherby Big Game Award in 1981, the first Italian hunter ever to do so, for his outstanding accomplishments as a hunter of international repute. The kudu is listed in Rowland Ward with a longer horn measurement of 73 7/8 and a shorter horn measurement of 71 5/8. This is the ONLY known kudu that has ever been measured with horns of over 70 inches. This head outdoes every heads ever recorded by Rowland Ward, and it is one of the greatest trophies ever to come out of Africa

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Re: Kudu [Re: Prev_Forum]
#10303 - 28/02/04 12:59 AM

btt because everyone should see this world record.

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Re: Kudu [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#10468 - 01/03/04 03:46 AM

That record was recently beat by a few tenth...A lion killed Kudu from Mozambique, unless this is the same one? There was a photo of the one I am referring too in Man Magnum magazine some time back, and it was the all time new record...

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Re: Kudu [Re: atkinson6]
#10491 - 01/03/04 08:31 AM

Ray, the Kudu shown with Carlo was picked up in '63, so if there's a new record I'd love to see a picture of that one too.

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Re: Kudu [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#10493 - 01/03/04 09:45 AM

There's something poetic about the record being a natural kill

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Re: Kudu [Re: DoubleD]
#10807 - 03/03/04 09:16 PM

Maybe I'm not refined, but I would trade a lot of poetry to get that kudu in my hands!

I have always heard that the farther south and west you go, the better the kudu. Why then does the northern province of RSA consistently put heads in the books? I know that perhaps Namibia has less foreign hunters and therefore less recorded heads, but I have heard great things about the kudu there!
Lastly, we all have heard that kudu are easy to kill, even with small calibers...
Have any of you people noticed this in the field, ie whilst culling?

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