Post two of your favorite African hunting pictures

[Pablo]

Sunset on the Palala River

The character on this old kudu was amazing!

 

[Vic]

Completion of Big 5 (elephant). First of the Big 5 (leopard).

 

[Rubberhead]

 

[358 Norma]

June 2024!

 

[HuntingFreak]

 

[Jared640]

1974 (First Safari)
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I love seeing all the pics from all of your post

 

[PARA45]

My PH took this picture of me smoking a cigar with an Eastern Cape sunset. Rocky keeping me safe and making sure I didn’t get into any trouble at Game-4-Africa.

 

[matt vejar]

My first big Safari and my last one.

 

[BryceM]

This was an iPhone pano I took after a storm in Namibia. About 1 hour from the airport in Windhoek:

My current tablet screensaver:

 

[Warren Knudsen]

A meat drop in C11, 2022 and the last evening in Botswana 2024 sundowners over the pan.

 

[Trogon]

Spectacular sun rise in the Eastern Cape, and one of my favorite animals I was able to hunt in the Winterberg Mountains.

 

[Topshots]

This was an iPhone pano I took after a storm in Namibia. About 1 hour from the airport in Windhoek:

My current tablet screensaver:

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Very nice.

 

[MarkinMI]

...my son's first SA animal,

...and sundowners over Baboon Cliffs, Limpopo

 

[425SCHADE]

 

[Smull1010]

 

[DLSJR]

Buffalo my son shot in the Selous, with PH Alan Vincent. I’ve known Alan since he was 10, and Alan has known my son since my son was a toddler.

Lord Derby Eland I took last February with Alan. Of all the animals I’ve taken over 10 African safaris, it surprised me at how much this one means to me.

 

[bowjijohn]

I have one

Meta Hills, Zambia 1973 or 4

This is what we knew as the ''muddy pool''

Not that impressive really - but significant in my childish memory - therefore more relevant than adult experiences (of which I'm sure we all have many)

Anyway ....

I and a childhood friend were out shooting - each with our cherished (and they were cherished) .22LRs

I was bet that I wouldn't walk across the old bridge at the far end of the pool - there remained only the twin parallel steel girders - you can see them in the pic

I walked on the girders, slipped and fell in

As I knew the pool was full of croc I was swimming before hitting the water

My splashing soaked the red loam banks and I couldn't gain sufficient purchase to get out

My mate - un-fazed - held out the barrel of his .22 which I grabbed hold of - he then hauled me out

''Bugger me'' - he exclaimed upon my safe retrieval - ''my rifle was loaded!''

Further examination revealed that indeed it was

Furthermore he had not troubled himself with the safety catch

My luck ran out some weeks later when I laid my rifle upon the ground to retrieve some spilt ammo

His sister (who was accompanying us) picked it up and pulled the trigger hitting me in the upper thigh

But that - as the say - is a different tale

 

[DG&Doubles]

My warthog in the Kalahari region of South Africa. Spotted his hind quarters sticking out of the weeds a few hundred yards down the track. He was totally oblivious to the ph and I as he was down on his front legs digging up some roots. My CZ550 in 375 H&H and 300 grain Barnes TSX anchored him on the spot from about 20 yards.
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This is Tina with her Duiker on the same trip. She stalked to within about 75 yards and took this fella. The Ranch we were on had an unusual number of Steinbok and Duiker, as well as Jackal.

Now that's an absolute brute of a warthog!

 

[DG&Doubles]

A old, scared up dugga boy from Zimbabwe, 2024 with a new to me 458 Win Mag that had an awesome back story and from the Caprivi in 2022. Sunset on the Kwando river, with a large visitor to share the sunset with. Hard to narrow it down to just 2. View attachment 636950View attachment 636951O

@Fatback how did you like the Kwando? It is a far lesser traveled and visited river in my experience. Did you hunt on it at all? Absolutely crammed full of hippos it is.

 

[DLSJR]

A old, scared up dugga boy from Zimbabwe, 2024 with a new to me 458 Win Mag that had an awesome back story and from the Caprivi in 2022. Sunset on the Kwando river, with a large visitor to share the sunset with. Hard to narrow it down to just 2. View attachment 636950View attachment 636951O

The Kwando is a special place. I’ve got very fond memories of a 1989 hunt that included that river. Lots of buffalo and lions there when I hunted that region of Botswana.