Cross wildebeest off the list?

[TERMINATOR]

Yes, in the US we are taught "right behind the shoulder".

In Africa, it's "in the shoulder, right in the tip of the big part of the shoulder"

Exactly

I don’t memorize the kill photos of every animal in Africa

I just wait for them to turn and drill them through the shoulder. Never met an animal yet that went very far when drilled through the shoulder in a broadside shot

And I have the patience to wait for a broadside shot

One thing that gets a little tricky in the east cape is that you’re often shooting at animals down in the valley/canyon from above and can’t get a true broadside shot . If I’m shooting down onto the animal, I shoot just above the shoulder so that the bullet is traveling down into the lungs.

Every animal in Africa has lungs and or heart between their shoulders

And I shoot my North American animals in the shoulder also. I don’t care about wasting a little stew meat from the front shoulder…I want to animal down fast…preferably where he stood

 

[Joker12]

Exactly

I don’t memorize the kill photos of every animal in Africa

I just wait for them to turn and drill them through the shoulder. Never met an animal yet that went very far when drilled through the shoulder in a broadside shot

And I have the patience to wait for a broadside shot

One thing that gets a little tricky in the east cape is that you’re often shooting at animals down in the valley/canyon from above and can’t get a true broadside shot . If I’m shooting down onto the animal, I shoot just above the shoulder so that the bullet is traveling down into the lungs.

Every animal in Africa has lungs and or heart between their shoulders

And I shoot my North American animals in the shoulder also. I don’t care about wasting a little stew meat from the front shoulder…I want to animal down fast…preferably where he stood

That high shoulder shot while damaging some meat is truly deadly. It shatters the shoulder blade which drives it into the spine and has been for me at least instant lights out. I have never had to follow up anything hit that way.

 

[TERMINATOR]

That high shoulder shot while damaging some meat is truly deadly. It shatters the shoulder blade which drives it into the spine and has been for me at least instant lights out. I have never had to follow up anything hit that way.

And sends “shoulder bone shrapnel” into the lungs

 

[HookMeUpII]

And I have the patience to wait for a broadside shot

I agree. As a first timer, I think there's a few things I want to convey to my PH. First one, I am comfortable at 150 yds or less, preferably around 100. If we can close that distance so be it. If all the shots are beyond that...I may go back empty handed for the day and that's OK. The second, is your point. I would like to wait for broadside. If not, I know enough at this point for a quartering to/slightly frontal. Quartering away or more advanced shots I'll likely tell the PH, ahead of time, I am really going to need some coaching.

Really, really want to be cautious and responsible with my shots.

 

[JimP]

I didn't see if you said where you will be hunting?

This last June my shots ranged from 30 yards to a little over 350 yards. The longer shots were cross canyons where there was no way to get closer and still see the animal.

On my first safari my longest shot was 479 yards on a kudu. We were on a knoll above all the brush with no way to get closer, that shot was taken off of sticks with me sitting on the ground and just using them to brace my rifle on. Due to circumstances I was set up for the shot for a hour and a half before a second kudu came into the picture and I was able to take him. I also had a 400 yard shot on a springbok with me sitting on a hill above the vast open area where they were feeding through.

Both hunts were in the Eastern Cape just north of Port Elizabeth.

 

[HookMeUpII]

I didn't see if you said where you will be hunting?

This last June my shots ranged from 30 yards to a little over 350 yards. The longer shots were cross canyons where there was no way to get closer and still see the animal.

On my first safari my longest shot was 479 yards on a kudu. We were on a knoll above all the brush with no way to get closer, that shot was taken off of sticks with me sitting on the ground and just using them to brace my rifle on. Due to circumstances I was set up for the shot for a hour and a half before a second kudu came into the picture and I was able to take him. I also had a 400 yard shot on a springbok with me sitting on a hill above the vast open area where they were feeding through.

Both hunts were in the Eastern Cape just north of Port Elizabeth.

To my understanding, it will be Limpopo. I believe, it will be in the region around Lephale. We will be hunting with Kuche Safaris.