6/24
Usual morning, up at 5am gone by 6:30.
Today loaded up 375 and 458 Lott. We are concentrating on finding buffalo. I plan on taking advantage of Gerrit's special on buff cows. We have not seen any so far but today we started covering the property. Hunting buff here is challenging. The rolling thick terrain and two mountains and valley in back of place. By lunch we had seen a lot of game. Kudu, Impala, Blesbuck, Sable, wildebeest, Nyala but no buffalo. We took a break about 11 and went in for lunch and headed back out around 2pm. About 4pm we spotted a good size herd of wildebeest. Made a stalk in on them. Gerrit picked out a bull he wanted removed from herd. He was facing us at about 90 yards. I was packing the 375HH this time. Decided on a frontal shot, but he quartered just a bit so went to the front of the right shoulder. As shot went it looked like he swung his head to lick himself. We could tell he was hit, but was a cloud of dust drone the rest of the herd taking off. When we reached the spot he was standing there was blood but also pieces of horn!! Started following blood and tracks. He went about 70 yards. How I don't know. There was a big chunk of right horn missing and a bullet hole in front shoulder. He was pretty messed up and only took a pic of him laying as we found him.
Called Robert and guys to come get him so we could continue on looking for buffalo. We finally found a herd of 25-30 Buffalo but it was already after 5:00pm when we did and sun was setting. Just not enough time to do anything with them and make a stalk. So we headed back to camp. On way in from the back area of the property I started feeling ill. Up to this point I had been pushing pretty hard and not sleeping well. We hit camp and I went showered ate just a small bite of dinner and went bed by 7:30.
6/25
Up at 5 like always. Felt great had a good nights sleep finally. We headed back out looking for buffalo. Found a small herd and looked them over from a distance, they were in a fairly open area. Decided to make a stalk in on them and try for one of the cows. We had closed distance to about 100 yards and like usual the crazy winds we had been having swapped direction and they were gone. They didn't go far but went into some thick bush. We got wind right and started again. We were in some really thick stuff. You could hear them but not see them. They were less than 50 yards but you couldn't see them.
Then like has happened before the wind swirled and they were gone. This time we could here them go up hill and over the top. We decided head in for early lunch about 11 am. Gerrit was leaving for the afternoon to take care of some stuff in town and would be just me and Rikus this afternoon. We left about 1:00 I wanted go by range and double check 300 and 375 as we had been bouncing around a good bit the last couple days. Both were still on sight. We started back looking for the buff. Found some zebra and made a stalk on them and as usual the dang wind switched and blew that stalk. Wind had been crazy last couple days. Swirling and swapping directions in the valley and hills. We did find buffalo 2 more times and made stalks but both ended with no shots because wind swapping and blowing the stalk. Finally about 5:00 we gave up for the day and headed to camp. Early dinner and to bed. We have plans to head to another property to look for Croc tomorrow.
