African Black Buck

[Firebird]

Saw these at scheels the other day. I suppose it is possible that this black buck came from Africa but more likely Texas, India, Pakistan, Argentina and a couple others, but Africa seems the least likely.
Then I saw the duiker, which may have some dik dik in its lineage from a rambunctious uncle somewhere down the line but my guess is just an employee didn’t know the difference and to them it was just a little African antelope.
But the African eland has me stymied!

 

[dchum]

Yikes

 

[Edster]

That has to be the ugliest Eland I have ever seen, looks like runt of the litter as well. Not a big fan of lacquer on the horns either.

 

[375er]

Leaving idiots in charge of the signs.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Saw these at scheels the other day. I suppose it is possible that this black buck came from Africa but more likely Texas, India, Pakistan, Argentina and a couple others, but Africa seems the least likely.
Then I saw the duiker, which may have some dik dik in its lineage from a rambunctious uncle somewhere down the line but my guess is just an employee didn’t know the difference and to them it was just a little African antelope.
But the African eland has me stymied!View attachment 622739View attachment 622740View attachment 622741

Yeah, the last time I was in Africa I hunted hard for one of those African black bucks. Never saw one though. Don't know why. I always thought my dik-dik was a duiker. Learn something new every day, but that really is a nice "eland." ;-).

That was fun. Thanks for the chuckle!

 

[Firebird]

Could finish the tiny ten much quicker if duikers were dik diks. Kinda like that free square in the middle of a bingo card. Just kill a duiker and call it whatever you need at the time!

 

[sgt_zim]

At least the taxidermy is well done.

They could have had something like this on display and had it labeled "Africa" as well. If the goal here was to give a bear a "come hither look," then the taxidermist succeeded beyond widest expectation.

 

[C.W. Richter]

this is fit for "on a lighter note!!" LOL i once heard a guy from NOLA, hunting the TX hill country say...."I didn't even know what a Ma-Floon was (and he went on and on)...it was a riot listening to him! Perhaps the animals have gotten the species reassignment green card memo from the Disney school of nature?

 

[mark-hunter]

Haha, blasphemy on AH forum, where members are on the highest level of education of african bioduversity!

 

[Ryan]

Amazing how many folks don't realize there are antelope in other continents aside from Africa. The eland is a truly impressive screw up.

And along these lines I noticed there is a Lord Derby eland labeled common eland in the Cabela's in Dundee Michigan. I'm guessing it's been like that for the better part of 20 years or more.

 

[Firebird]

Makes ALL hunters look like red neck idiots

 

[fourfive8]

Incredible isn't it. I guarantee every employee including the supervisors and the boss have finger tip access to trillions of dollars worth of technology and information-- a cell phone or lap top or desk top and spend countless hours daily on each but are too lazy or arrogant to do a simple search to correctly ID and label the mounts.

Don't know, don't care, don't care to know

 

[Connor Baumgarten]

This is just heretical