Rubberhead
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- South Carolina, South Africa
I didn't plan to try to video my hunts - I wanted the unencumbered experience of hunting Africa. But, my wife bought me a GoPro before I left. I didn't want to hurt her feelings by telling her it's just about the most impractical camera for filming a plains game so I just planned to try to use it when I could.
Anyway, I had it stuffed in my shirt pocket and turned on during a zebra stalk that ended with a shot. I did the best I could editing 45 minutes of boring, very wide angle video and 100 yard shot - I got it to less than 5 minutes with the shot at about the 1:30 mark.
The neat thing is that it's so hard to actually pick out zebra before the shot but it's like they all magically appear afterwards. It might just be coincidence but they all seem to run to the stallion after the shot. Maybe they were looking to him to lead them out or because it was flailing.
The quick story on the hunt is the big stallion left the herd before we could get a clear shot. He was chasing away a younger male. We stayed a while and my PH finally picked out a mare with a nice skin that didn't seem to have a dependent foal. He was fine with me shooting her but I only plan to kill one zebra in my life and I wanted it to be a big male. I'm glad I didn't shot the mare. This was the afternoon of Day 2 but it was the pivot point for the rest of the safari. I left a snippet of Nic saying that it was a fun hunt. That really was what I was going for. I wanted to give my PH a break from needy, poor-shooting clients and let him enjoy hunting like he would if we were just buddies with some free time to kill. He share a couple of zebra stories over the remaining 5½ days were clients buggered up a zebra and it took a day or more away from hunting and him have to finish an animal with a clients rifle. I think was relieved, too, that it wasn't a recovery problem.
I hope you enjoy.
Anyway, I had it stuffed in my shirt pocket and turned on during a zebra stalk that ended with a shot. I did the best I could editing 45 minutes of boring, very wide angle video and 100 yard shot - I got it to less than 5 minutes with the shot at about the 1:30 mark.
The neat thing is that it's so hard to actually pick out zebra before the shot but it's like they all magically appear afterwards. It might just be coincidence but they all seem to run to the stallion after the shot. Maybe they were looking to him to lead them out or because it was flailing.
The quick story on the hunt is the big stallion left the herd before we could get a clear shot. He was chasing away a younger male. We stayed a while and my PH finally picked out a mare with a nice skin that didn't seem to have a dependent foal. He was fine with me shooting her but I only plan to kill one zebra in my life and I wanted it to be a big male. I'm glad I didn't shot the mare. This was the afternoon of Day 2 but it was the pivot point for the rest of the safari. I left a snippet of Nic saying that it was a fun hunt. That really was what I was going for. I wanted to give my PH a break from needy, poor-shooting clients and let him enjoy hunting like he would if we were just buddies with some free time to kill. He share a couple of zebra stories over the remaining 5½ days were clients buggered up a zebra and it took a day or more away from hunting and him have to finish an animal with a clients rifle. I think was relieved, too, that it wasn't a recovery problem.
I hope you enjoy.
