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[harden]

Mort, if you want the best possible mounts , yes follow the salting and be specific on the the degreasing instructions, MAKE SURE THEY DO IT and If you CAN use SOLIDS on these little guys. Soft nose bullets on these paper thin skinned night critter are like Grenades to them. They do get blown up a lot. Don't shoulder shoot them shoot them right behind shoulder and USE SOLIDS if you can......Good Luck my friend !

 

[Philip Glass]

Good luck it will be a fun hunt. I did a similar hunt last year.
Philip

 

[Mort Hill]

Thanks all. Got a month of honey do’s to complete in addition to a heavy work load. Time is gonna fly by, then two weeks of pure heaven!

 

[Mort Hill]

I served MT antelope and Idaho elk to some church friends tonight, multiples of them had never tried either. Only one person didn’t like the antelope. It was a joy to expand some!)

I love the built-in “sage” flavoring of Pronghorn. It is one of my favorites. Of course Elk is to top of the meat spectrum for US game. I fix a lot of deer venison for folks in Nashville as I try to take 4-5 deer per year. It is great to share game meat. Especially when my sons’ friends come over just to eat venison, gals included!

 

[buck wild]

Mort, if you want the best possible mounts , yes follow the salting and be specific on the the degreasing instructions, MAKE SURE THEY DO IT and If you CAN use SOLIDS on these little guys. Soft nose bullets on these paper thin skinned night critter are like Grenades to them. They do get blown up a lot. Don't shoulder shoot them shoot them right behind shoulder and USE SOLIDS if you can......Good Luck my friend !

I had Jimmy Derringer tell me to use Meli mil to rub into cat hides during the salting process to “soak “ up the fat and grease

 

[wesheltonj]

I had Jimmy Derringer tell me to use Meli mil to rub into cat hides during the salting process to “soak “ up the fat and grease

I heard the late Mr Derringer say the same thing.

 

[Mort Hill]

I had Jimmy Derringer tell me to use Meli mil to rub into cat hides during the salting process to “soak “ up the fat and grease

Did you eat the mili mil after you used. Just a total non-serious question LOL

 

[Nyati]

Wish you the best of luck in your night hunt.

I tried for hyena and bushpig but failed miserably , got a Duiker however !

 

[Mort Hill]

Wish you the best of luck in your night hunt.

I tried for hyena and bushpig but failed miserably , got a Duiker however !

Thanks. If I had to list all the animals that I failed miserably on, the AH server would crash.

 

[spike.t]

We sound a lot alike, cougar is by far the best meat we get semi regularly, wolf not so good. Not sure how your outfitter will plan your hunt but on previous hunts we put bait out and night predators, pigs, came in. In Namibia after leopard (delicious) was in salt we went out with light and slowly drove around, on light and bang, also I took some good old mouth blown rabbit and fawn in distress calls, out in savanna grass calling, light and shoot what PH says, based on eye color and animal ident. Antelope's came in but off limits at night. My interest increased after a hyena hunt in Zim at a bait site, no permits for small predators and guess what was on bait nightly? Dam No hyena that trip but did get one on earlier Zim trip by sitting on a bait at water hole. I asked about my 2020 hunt and a combination of all, I will take the calls again. These type of hunts have been more relaxed than leopard sits, after a good dinner usually took a drive, crept in to bait to sit but back before midnight, good sleep and up for dawn hunt, did this every second day. Not sure about a designated shorter night hunting safari.
I am also not afraid to eat anything and I mean anything, remember a conversation with cook over zebra, very good, another over baboon, PH (I hope he reads this) gave Linda? orders that he does not eat, I did as did the team (not PH), not so good, same for the jackals, not so good. After conversation on hyena its body disappeared from skinning shed mysteriously before I could give any instructions. Learned to be more stealthy like, that is only animal I did not try. If all goes well I will try lion and the night small stuff in 2020.

MB

Not surprised the hyaena vanished from the skinning shed if you had brought up that you might want to try eating some of it.........

 

[Hogpatrol]

Picked up one of Nick Bowkers cull hunts. Saw on AH so forwarded it to tease a buddy. Leave March 10. WTF LOL.

Same here with Nick's cull hunt only I got the info from my regular hunting partner. One perusal of his website and a few WhatsApps and I'm in. Tix are bought, leave in June.

 

[Hogpatrol]

Thanks. If I had to list all the animals that I failed miserably on, the AH server would crash.

Good luck on the hunt. Night time is addictive, especially the varmints like springhare, jackal and smaller cats.

 

[MarkB]

Springhare were like camp rabbits in Zim, not sure why I did not shoot one? but I'm told only in Limpopo SA. Not on list for next hunt, may have to add as "extra" or put on return list. I have not eaten hyena to date, but not knocking it till I have tried. I am warned that the night predators have the lowest success rates and they are the hardest to put in the salt. That's Africa Safari success rates, not compared to say Northern BC wolf hunt success rate?? Looking forward to a "fix" in Oct/Nov when Mort gives us a couple pics and a story.

MB

 

[Mort Hill]

Not surprised the hyaena vanished from the skinning shed if you had brought up that you might want to try eating some of it.........

Gotta agree with Spike T here. Hyena are the nastiest beast alive, or dead. Actually felt sorry for the skinner. Gave him a cigar just to kill the smell.

 

[MarkB]

Leopard tasted great, even after he had a few days and full belly of maggot infested zebra 1/4. But yes the hyena did carry a stigma with the guys. Probably reason body "vanished" in the night. Skinned zebra head also vanished in another camp one night, skinner was in a panic until I told him I did not want/need zebra skull. A close investigation showed a ton of hyenas tracks all around, in and thru camp.

MB

 

[KEMP AFRICAN SAFARIS]

Some pictures of one of the Baiting sites...

 

[KEMP AFRICAN SAFARIS]

Clearly big and a smaller Cevit cat...

 

[KEMP AFRICAN SAFARIS]

Monster Gennit....

 

[KEMP AFRICAN SAFARIS]

Looks like early night if we go for badger or badger early and a Civet same night....

 

[MarkB]

Those are awesome pics, that genet looks to be a "lets wait for that one specimen". Do you shoot 2 in same night reg, or does first kill at site deaden bait for any length of time? Did see a TV guy "slock" a few on same bait in a night. Looks like all could be in salt before midnight?? Don't think that easy in real life. We also seen genet in trees while driving with light, you do that?Mort is in for a treat. Is it 2020 yet?

MB