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NitroX
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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: Fjold]
#219415 - 10/11/12 06:34 PM

I always enjoy this thread, and looking at it again recently, really want to hunt bushbuck again. A great animal to hunt.

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: HendrikNZ]
#219426 - 10/11/12 11:53 PM

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Here is mine from my July2012 trip to the recently reopened Nuanetsi conservancy in Zimbabwe.

Hendrik it's amazing the way the horns on this fellow tip out! What an amazing example of a trophy bushbuck.

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: DaggaBoyBlog]
#219958 - 21/11/12 11:37 PM

Ntabeni Conservancy, Zimbabwe, November 2001.

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: JohnTheGreek]
#224370 - 27/01/13 09:31 AM

It was a pleasure to watch all of these stunning trophies.. Congrats to every singel one of you...

Now beat it !!! You have made me sick... I so miss Africa....

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: Rino]
#224419 - 29/01/13 02:52 AM

Yes, nice thread.............. I love bushbuck and you folks have taken some beauties. I never have shot one but it is high on my list if I ever manage to get back to Africa.

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: aromakr]
#227986 - 04/04/13 07:59 AM

The bushbuck that I missed.

Hiding too much behind the tree, the arrow creased the bark of the trunk and whizzed away.

missed bushbuck

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Edited by larcher (04/04/13 08:00 AM)

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: larcher]
#227987 - 04/04/13 08:25 AM

Larcher:
Great job getting that close to a bushbuck, sorry you missed him. Thats one animal I've wanted with my bow, no luck yet, but I'm going back to Namibia again this july.
Bob

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: aromakr]
#228052 - 05/04/13 12:51 AM

Thanks aromark

In this place along Cabora bassa lake, bushbuck is everywhere and some aren' very shy. At night, you can tread on them.

I was looking for an hippo with my 100# bow when this busbuck was spotted. My approach was long and cautious, leaves being very crispy. When so close to the game one is reluctant to show off to shoot. The arrow creased the bark, I would have kicked myself and ever since I regret it badly.
A couple of days later I saw a fantastic bushbuck that was staring at us and left when we were at 40m. A pity that we were still looking for hippo on land.

But the last day resorting to rifle I bagged my hippo and my croc

hippo brain shot

croc brain shot

Edited by larcher (05/04/13 01:01 AM)

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: larcher]
#229396 - 29/04/13 05:23 AM

My Bushbuck. Limpopo 2012

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: Fjold]
#231448 - 22/06/13 06:40 AM

I'm glad to see others share my budding bushbuck passion. I finally got one at the begging of the month in the cape. I think I have something like 14 mornings and 12 evenings hunting one before I finally took one with my 450-400.

I'm looking to do a short 1 week trip in 2014 targeting multiple bushbucks. It's really all I will focus on on this my 4 trip. My question is where and with who do I go?

Are there places with really crazy high concentrations of these animals and decent trophy quality? Any PH that is known to be crazy enough to hunt them for 7 days straight?

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: Rell]
#231511 - 23/06/13 10:18 PM

Bushbuck taken with a 9.3x62 "Hydro" bullet from northern Mozambique.

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Rell
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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: ozhunter]
#232633 - 17/07/13 10:07 PM

I took this one on the way back to camp with the 450-400. I hit him to far back with the first shot and he barely flinched, the next one took him in the shoulder. Even a cannon in the wrong spot is still in the wrong spot. Eastern Cape 2013.

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Rell
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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: Rell]
#232678 - 19/07/13 04:59 AM

[image]http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/Otterlake19/media/DSCN0283_zpsfada41c3.jpg.html?sort=3&o=5[\image]

[image]http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/Otterlake19/media/DSCN0283_zpsfada41c3.jpg[\image]

Sorry for the multi posting, trying to get the picture issue worked out.

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Rell
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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: Rell]
#232685 - 19/07/13 08:02 AM

[image]http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/Otterlake19/media/DSCN0283_zpsfada41c3.jpg.html?sort=3&o=5[/image]

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: NitroX]
#232690 - 19/07/13 12:25 PM

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I always enjoy this thread, and looking at it again recently, really want to hunt bushbuck again. A great animal to hunt.

I agree wholeheartedly.

The Bushbuck is truly the dapper gentleman of African game.

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: Rell]
#232696 - 19/07/13 04:29 PM

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[image]http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/Otterlake19/media/DSCN0283_zpsfada41c3.jpg.html?sort=3&o=5[\image]

[image]http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/Otterlake19/media/DSCN0283_zpsfada41c3.jpg[\image]

Sorry for the multi posting, trying to get the picture issue worked out.

Here you go Rell

You have almost got it right - next time just change the last bracket from [\image] to [/image]

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Rell
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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: 93mouse]
#232698 - 19/07/13 10:04 PM

Than you 93mouse for the help.

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: Fjold]
#236140 - 27/09/13 12:42 PM

Patos 17 inch bushbuck taken on our recently completed Sengwe hunt with Richard Cooke Safaris.

Another around the same size coming for a drink at the spring.

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: Claydog]
#236186 - 28/09/13 11:29 AM

I finally got my bushbuck after three trips to Africa. East Cape, September 2013.

No hair, no teeth and one horn, isn't he gorgeous?

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: NitroX]
#239141 - 11/12/13 09:31 PM

I have to apologize for the poor quality of the image, the photograph was taken 30 years ago. Then, as an forest officer in Northern Transvaal I culled a very large number of bushbuck, more than 50 rams plus females. The antelopes had caused a lot of damage to our young trees.

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Re: Bushbuck thread *DELETED* [Re: Sunshine]
#239148 - 12/12/13 12:03 AM

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Re: Bushbuck thread [Re: Rell]
#239149 - 12/12/13 12:11 AM

I took this 15 incher in the Eastern Cape this year when I took my father for his 70th birthday present. We had stalked an eland and ran into a herd of buff and just simply run out of time.

On the way back to the cruiser we started down a little embankment to cross the river stream and this guy broke from about 20 yards, the tracker calmly said shoot, shoot, shoot. Being an obedient client I shot. Hit him a little to far back with the first barrel, the second barle broke his shoulder.

It turns out a couple of 400gr .410 Hornady DGX are adequate for a 110lbs bushbuck.

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