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We've now seperated the gray beards from the no beards

CRIES of the Savanna

Monday, August 15. 10th hunting day No hunting today. We slept in a bit, had breakfast and then Katja told us that Nikolai, her son, was willing to give us a tour of the cattle ranch. Susan had asked about it yesterday while I was hunting and Katja confirmed. We were both very interested in the...

Just reread my last post. Bases on the kudu were 11.5 inches. I couldn't remember as I was typing and was going to look it up before I posted and then forgot. Symptom of too many years experience.

Sunday, August 14, Hunting day 9 With just 2 days left to hunt and the elusive Kudu the last animal on my wish list, Berni, Paulus and I set off again after breakfast. We had debated between staying at the home ranch or going to the leased ranch 45 minutes away. Since we had seen so many Kudu...

Saturday, August 13, hunting day 8. Susan and I, Berni, Paulus, and expert skinner Johannes, left the Kamab ranch about 6:30 for an hour plus drive to a ranch we hadn't hunted previously. Berni has the exclusive PH rights on the 20,000 acre ranch, all low-fenced. As I was interested in a...

I couldn't agree more. Your observation became even more relavant a couple days later, as my continuing report will show.

Friday, hunting day 7. Back on the home ranch. Drove a bit in the morning, seeing lots of kudu, including one very nice bull, who immediately disappeared in the thick bush. This was near the cattle water station we had sat until dark a couple days earlier. We decided to go back to that water...

Thursday, hunting day 6. Had breakfast early as going to the leased ranch about 45 minutes away. Saw ostrcih, waterbuck cows and young bulls on the way. Berni and I did a stalk on the first waterhole where we had seen the nice kudu bull a couple days before. No kudu but two warthog boars, one...