BenKK--I spent a month in SA with my outfitter. I paid for 10 days but hunted about 20-25 days. Some of them were just in the only blind on the place(about 30,000 acers and no internal fences) to shoot baboons/monkeys as a kind of pest control. There were oranges pilled in front of it due to the drought. I was maybe 30-40 yards away from the oranges. I would shoot monkeys with the PH's suppressed 22RF and the baboons with my 257Weatherby. Sometimes they would walk/run by the blind so close I could have reached out and hit them on the head. I was able to shoot one or two. as it ran up the hill behind me after shooting one on the oranges. My PH used my rifle to shoot 2 on a hill at long range. We had fun.
I was also able to shoot a Yellow Mongoose which has made a neat mount.
I brought home 4 Baboon skulls, 2 Monkey skulls and the Mongoose skull.
I got some with long teeth but am having the large, old, gray-back male done in a full mount.
I also shot a number of other animals. We went out at night to shoot young Kudu and Impala for meat for the crew and the outfitters/PH families as well as for me to eat. I ate with the family for most of the trip. This was my 2nd trip with them. The 1st one my daughter and I hunted 11 days.
I also shot for myself-Black Wildebeest, a WIDE Kudu to go with my deep curl one from the 1st trip, an Eland they saved from my 1st trip for me that we were unable to shoot then, Zebra, Common Springbok, black and white springbok, Bushbuck, Nyala, Duiker, warthog(brought the skull home), Genia fowl(for feathers) and Steenbok. I do not think I missed any.
Strangely I did not see a Porcupine, Black Backed Jackal or Bat eared Fox which I wanted to get this trip for mounting and or flat skins.
