Black Wildebeest Pictures Needed

[BRICKBURN]

This measuring stuff has a down side. Don't knock your trophy because of numbers!

 

[Patrick R]

This measuring stuff has a down side. Don't knock your trophy because of numbers!

+1

 

[K-man]

Didn't measure this one - I don't take along a tape measure. Can measure in a couple of months when it gets back.

 

[billc]

Pictures of one we took last trip. Did not have it scored but he is pretty good one.

 

[ArmyGrunt]

This measuring stuff has a down side. Don't knock your trophy because of numbers!

not so much the numbers part. The sunlight was shining just so on the horns that he looked to have quite the pair on his head. He turned out to be a young'n. Great memory just the same.

We drove around for about twenty minutes trying to find him after the shot. Patrick's son, Valdo, was the first to spot it. He was jumping and pointing and shouting when he saw it. I let him get the first picture with the trophy.

 

[ArmyGrunt]

I think it was about 70 kg worth of meat to the butcher.

 

[Nyati]

NW 2009, never got to measure it.

 

[ActionBob]

April 2014

 

[ActionBob]

Those things do have a lot of ground shrink! Posing well for the pictures makes them look bigger again. My wife absolutely loved hunting them and was really laughing her ass off at the situation as they kept completely destroying the PH's plan on how to get close enough to shoot one! They marched for miles after a group of 7 nice bulls and never got a shot. I think the PH even threw his sticks on the ground at one point and it make Ann laugh all the more.. Which frustrated him more and made her laugh more! I was way off watching through binos and could not figure out what was going on.. Looked like he was doing a rain dance or some wildebeest dance or something? No success that day so off for zebra and bush buck the next and then retuned 2 days later and she got one of a group of 3 within a half hour. Hunters luck!

Those critters are amazing! They have evolved to throw smoke bombs to cover their retreat! (at least a mother nature version of a smoke bomb)... They run in a figure 8 until they kick up a big dust cloud and then run away on the other side of that while the dumb first time African hunters are wondering what the hell is going on and just what the PH is talking about!

 

[MT Griz]

Hi Brickburn,

Here you go!

And after taxidermy:

Score: 72 3/8 SCI

 

[BRICKBURN]

Thanks everyone. Keep them coming.

Anybody with some of these critters on the hoof?

 

[AfricaHunting.com]

From AH Photo Gallery…

 

[lwaters]

Here is the black wildebeest I shot last year in Namibia. I don't have the measurements off hand but he is pretty good

 

[Spydr]

 

[Sand Rat]

2014 No measurement yet.

 

[KMG Hunting Safaris]

 

[BRICKBURN]

Gotta says that Gun Rack idea caught my eye.

 

[KMG Hunting Safaris]

Gotta says that Gun Rack idea caught my eye.

You talking to me?

 

[BRICKBURN]

You talking to me?

One picture back Marius. Rifle cradled in the BW horns.

 

[KMG Hunting Safaris]

Okie dokie. Can't see any photos. Connection slow. Copper cables stolen.