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I’ll bet that rifle really shoots well. Seems like a great price. I already have one. Ballistically identical to the 6.5 CM and .260. Great deer/ pronghorn cartridge. Bruce

There are a number of Texas ranches to hunt them on. Been on my wish list for a while. Prices seem to of about doubled in the last 6 yrs or so. Some of the offers I've seen are places that seem more like shooting and not hunting. YMMV. There are some huge ranches that offer them tho. Saw a blurb...

Tika T3 is a solid choice. If you want something supressor ready look at the Seekins PH3. They have a number of calibers available with 20 or 22 inch barrels. Accuracy should be superb and the ability to change barrels/calibers at home. I voted for the 7mm. Killed up to eland with that caliber...

I’m sure the truck’s fuel tank started off completely full. The 5 gallons was extra. Unfortunately they needed 10 gallons extra or a place to purchase fuel. Some gas stations along the way were closed. Fuel shortages apparently. I had time so it wasn’t a disaster by any means. TIA!! It was...

Notice the yellow jugs. Used for both water or fuel. The. 1 liter bottles under the yellow peaked roof are bottles of gas or diesel. Particularly in small villages no gas stations are around. You buy fuel by the liter. They use any 1 liter bottle they can find. Motorcycles don’t need a lot so it...

Travel home is a PITA. The drive to and from camp is 12-13 hrs depending on stops and how fast the driver will go. We leave at 5 AM. It’s a diesel Mitsubishi truck. We get back to paved road in just over an hour. Perhaps an hour later we get stopped by the police and qualify for an inspection...

Few more pictures: Christophe posing with me and the bongo. He measured him at 25 inches after I left… One of the bridges that Christophe was leary of. This tree is absolutely huge. We saw at least 1 other that was significantly bigger. These guys seem to be 200 ft tall. Real monsters. Bruce

The day we got the Bongo I had 3 ticks on me. I was apprehensive about the rest of the trip. Wishing I’d of done the permethrin treatment. As far as I can tell I had 0 more for the rest of the trip. Christophe tells me that Bongos have ticks….. I’ll have my wife check carefully when I get...

I’m sitting in JFK waiting a flight to Denver and thought I’d post a few more thoughts. These are the 2 bullets from the .375. 300 gr Hornady DGS. Expansion looks pretty good. I was a little surprised that they didn’t pass through the Bongo. They are essentially the size of an elk. Hard to...

Well this hunt is officially over and in the books. Nothing else taken. One miss on a monkey much to the trackers chagrin. Got to see a new Savannah. Next hunter could kill a nice sitatunga there if they choose to hunt one. Lots of giant forest hogs on the camera. Too bad they are not on...

Last day last morning. Up at 5 and gone early around 5:30. Off to Christophe’s chosen spot for duiker. Driving in I’m told a blue duiker is still on the table. We’re hoping for Bay or Pieters though. We get there an hour later and head into the bush on a good trail. Seems a little odd. Too good...

Today was a little rougher. Up at 5 and gone around 5:35. A little after 6 Christophe stops for a “potty” break. Christophe had a place he wanted to go but the trackers apparently pleaded with him to go to another spot. So we did. Off we went down an overgrown road. It was cleared just last...

Lots of leaf litter. Rain helps keep it quiet. Interesting to watch the trackers work. Often lifting leaves to look at tracks in the earth beneath. It’s really an art. Bruce

Everybody tired of all of the reports yet? Running out of time. Tonight we checked a game camera at the salt lick where I killed my bongo and forest sitatunga. Then we hacked our way into the forest to call duikers. 6 sets. Called in 3 blues and 1 Pieters. We weren’t shooting blues and I...

Today was rough. We checked the new machan where the YB duiker had been coming regularly. Nothing since the machan was built. Nothing on the camera. So we checked several others in the area. Realistically nothing we should sit for. Back to the lodge for the night instead of a machan. This...

Very nice. Good job. Bruce

TSA allows ammunition in the same case as your firearm. Every airline that I know of does NOT allow that. Good example of where you must follow the most restrictive rules. Bruce

In answer to @Green Chile’s question. With Christophe and the operation here when we kill a non trophy duiker for the pot I’m not liable for the trophy fee. Only if I decide that I want to keep it as a trophy does the fee apply. At least that’s my understanding. With the machan that we have...

Continuing the daily reports. We headed back to the same blind. Got 1/3 of the way there and the trackers figured out they left their food in camp. So back we go. Fast trip in! Christophe put the hammer down. Got to the blind and had a nice quiet night. For me anyway. Christophe had a...

Another day without an animal. I did take a shot at a monkey. As we were going to the machan we stopped 3 times to try a get a monkey. The pigmies love to eat them….. I took one shot with the.222 and clipped one but it stayed in the tree and never gave me another chance. Crap happens I...

Those are Christophe’s chimp pics. Bruce

No shots fired again. Details following. We again went to the same machan as the night before. Cloudy and a little cooler. When using a machan our time goes generally as follows: Leave camp around 3-3:30 pm. Usually 1-1:15 to machan. Park well back from machan. Everybody takes a load in...

Looks like my update for yesterday failed to load. On our way back to the machan we found where the buffalo had been on the road. Several places. So Christophe decided on a different machan where he hoped that the buffalo were headed. Unfortunately we saw nothing. In the morning we...

Ruger Hawkeye. 20 inch barrel? Ammo is Hornady DGS in 300 grain bullets. Scope is a Trigicon. The duiker rifle is a .222 with 50 grain soft points and a 1 inch tube old Leupold. The shotgun didn’t seem to have a maker name or choke of the barrels stamped on it.

Once again no action but here’s the details. Christophe had determined a machan to go to for the night. On the way we found fresh buffalo tracks and dung on the road. Christophe changed the machan hoping they would come to where we waited. No go. The jungle during the day has a...

Ruger Hawkeye. 20 inch barrel? Ammo is Hornady DGS in 300 grain bullets. Scope is a Trigicon. The duiker rifle is a .222 with 50 grain soft points and a 1 inch tube old Leupold. The shotgun didn’t seem to have a maker name or choke of the barrels stamped on it.

The short of it is we saw both this morning. The longer version is as follows. Up at 4. Gone by 4:45. Arrived at the start of our walk about 5:15. 2 of the 4 game cameras showed buffalo. The other 2 had nothing. The furthest in one is a hour and a half of brisk walking in. It had some...

Tonight Christophe and I sat in a machan while staff finished the machan where the yellow back duiker we’re going to hunt is located. Saw nothing. Quiet sit. Been a great trip so no complaints at all. Might get a little rain overnight. Wouldn’t hurt. Tomorrow we go hunt buffalo. There are...

Good luck on your hunt!!! Bruce

Before I start on day 3 I’ll tell one on Christophe. Driving back in the evening through the jungle we usually make 20 to perhaps 30 mph. We’re going perhaps 25 and go by a gorilla that has tucked itself into some leaves for the night. Problem is he’s maybe 5 feet at the most off of the road. As...

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Really nice Pieters duiker that Christophe had seen 7-8 times. Saw one female duiker going in. Several groups of monkeys but they were gone quickly with no shot opportunity. We went to go across a bridge and heard a loud crack. Never good to hear. Not sure what part it is, but the general idea...

So the mission today was to go to the far side of our area. We wanted to look at a couple of salt licks along the road, do a camera check at another salt lick with a machine and hopefully kill a monkey for bait for the yellow back duiker. There also was the matter of a really nice

Great trip and report. Bruce

My internet seems too slow to post pictures. I’ll get some up one way or another. So first day out. Up at 5 and gone just after 6. Little bit of confusion. Head tracker wasn’t feeling well so they grabbed another to make 5 total. Then their current best or second best dog was nowhere to be...

Congo Forest safaris offers several duikers. Yellow backed, Pieters, Blue, Bay and just a few Vlack fronted duikers. The yellow backed are considered one the rarest and most difficult to hunt of the duikers. They literally bait them with rotten meat (monkey) and they eat the maggots out of...

While traveling across the country there were a few things I noticed. First was a little less bush meat being displayed. Saw one cane rat with one guy and a second had a cane rat and what appeared to be a blue duiker. Nothing else that I saw. Lots of folks selling or gathering firewood. Also...

Internet is too slow right now. I’ll try again later….. Bruce

Made it to camp. 13 hrs and 25 minutes. Did have a little excitement along the way. Saw a forest elephant bull alongside the road. We stopped for a picture but he stepped into the forest. Then about 45 minutes later we had a gorilla cross the road. Cool to see him. They had a big rain the...

Good job!! Glad to hear it went well! Bruce

So for you that might come to the republic of the Congo a few travel notes might help. My flight schedule was Denver-Atlanta-Paris-Kinshasa-Brazzaville. Coming out of Paris we sat on the tarmac for 1 hr and 10 minutes waiting for a restroom to be fixed. The “fix” didn’t make it to Kinshasa. No...

Nice buffalo but that sable looks like a real stud! Bruce

Nice impala and good shooting. That Lechwe in your picture above looks like a dandy! Bruce

My flight was at 3:43 and I got out on time. Had a small snaffu with my ticket out of Paris. Wouldn’t pull up a QR code on the ap. Said it needed required information, but the fields for that were not available. Luckily the Delta help center was close by my first check area. About a 25 minute...

Looks like a lot of fun. Looking forward to hearing about it. Bruce

That should be a lot of fun. I wonder who he is hunting with? Bruce

Screenshot of one of the bongo that my PH sent to me. He is at one of their salt licks. My PH once again will be Christophe Morieo. Bruce

Or will it be bungle in the jungle?? Many of you will remember my report on my trip to the republic of the Congo 20 months ago. My hunt had been pushed back to the end of the season. I was extremely fortunate to take an exceptional Forest Sitatunga, but not a Bongo. I was offered a reduced...