SOUTH AFRICA: Hunt Of A Lifetime With TSALA HUNTING SAFARIS With My New 450-400 Double Rifle

[Rare Breed]

Day6
In the morning I got a nice warthog. During the afternoon I got to enjoy an incredible sight…a black impala fighting a brown one! The black one ran the brown one off showing his dominance…I just had to have a chance at him!
Patience was the name of the game as he took a drink at the water hole I was hunting. I finally got him in my sights and was thrilled to take such a beautiful animal!!!
Day7
What an incredible day! This was the day we went after Nyala. We traveled the dirt roads until we spotted one in the thick bush with 3 does…he was a beauty! We started our stalk through the bush until we came to a wide clearing with a steep drop off into a dry creek. My PH Brandon looks at me and says “we are going to remove our shoes and make our final stalk in the creek bed…talk about exciting!!! We go about 75 yards when we finally are able to get on him for a shot. My first shot hits him a little back and he takes off. My second shot takes off his left horn!!! Finally we track him to a thorn thicket where I finish him and he is mine!!! So grateful Bullseye Taxidermy can fix this as we found the horn
Day8
We had seen such beautiful Golden Wildebeest that I just had to have one! In the morning went to get my COVID test which was so easy then back to a waterhole. First saw an unbelievable mature Cape Buffalo come out!!! Then a group of black wildebeest follow him. Finally a beautiful very old golden wildebeest came out. I was able to drop him in his tracks…what a gorgeous animal with his teeth worn to the gum line!

In closing the new 450-400 DR exceeded my high expectations and the Tsala family gets my highest recommendation and then some!!!

 

[flatwater bill]

Rare Breed.............a safari with a double rifle! What an adventure. You certainly earned some fine trophies. But taking your shoes off to make a stalk in Africa? Where everything has a 2" thorn? That is above and beyond. There was an old Mel Gibson movie, "Gallipoli" where one of the heroes took off his shoes to win a trophy. The bloody results stick in my memory, so to speak. Anyway, congrats to you and to your PH.....(love the black impala)..............thanks for posting......................FWB

 

[meigsbucks]

What a buff… wide and deep! The black impala is really cool. Getting the Nyala and finding the shot horn was fortuitous. Taking everything with that new double made it extra special. Congratulations on a great hunt and thanks for sharing.

 

[TSALA HUNTING SAFARIS]

Hi Craig

Thank you for kind review of your hunt.

We really enjoyed having you and your 450-400 in camp.Here is to many a memorable hunt with your double rifle.Enjoy

 

[Edge]

@Rare Breed
Great hunt and write-up!
Well done @TSALA HUNTING SAFARIS, many great reports from your clients!

What ammo/bullets were you using in your 450-400? Assume a combination of softs and solids?

 

[Nyati]

Congrats for a great hunt, and a very good buff !

 

[Chago]

I had to move my safari from June to October due to a work emergency that forced me to cancel the june date. But I have a added a buffalo to my PG hunt and my god this just got me excited. Those deep curls!!!! He has it all!! Congrats

 

[Rare Breed]

@Rare Breed
Great hunt and write-up!
Well done @TSALA HUNTING SAFARIS, many great reports from your clients!

What ammo/bullets were you using in your 450-400? Assume a combination of softs and solids?

I had the Hornady bonded DGX. No solids. The shots blew through all PG and embedded in far shoulder of my buff with over 70% weight retention.

 

[Rare Breed]

Thanks everyone for your friendship and kind words. It is thanks to all of you that I have enjoyed my second Africa Safari of which I pray many more are to come all with my DR

 

[chashardy]

Congratulations! Great story and pics of some outstanding animals!
Fellow Chapuis double rifle shooter here. Just used mine on a huge nyala and a white blesbok in Limpopo. Glad you got to use yours on your hunt. They are great hunting rifles.

 

[krish]

Congradulations @Rare Breed.
A great hunt. Very good report.
Krish

 

[VertigoBE]

Thanks for sharing this hunting report @Rare Breed ! I enjoyed it!

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Hi Craig, please refresh my memory, what make red dot were you using and what MOA?

 

[Rare Breed]

@Rare Breed
Great hunt and write-up!
Well done @TSALA HUNTING SAFARIS, many great reports from your clients!

What ammo/bullets were you using in your 450-400? Assume a combination of softs and solids?

No solids. I used reloaded 400 grain Woodleighs

 

[Rare Breed]

Hi Craig, please refresh my memory, what make red dot were you using and what MOA?

Kevin I used 2.5 MOA Trijicon. I could have taken all five of my animals though with my iron sights

 

[Uncle Sauce]

Congrats on a great hunt!

 

[TEXASHUNTER]

Awesome! Can't wait to experience this myself with Tsala!!!

 

[Rare Breed]

you will have an experience of a lifetime!!!! i can’t wait for my leopard hunt with them in 25!!!!

 

[Rare Breed]

friends i will be hunting a leopard with my second family at Tsala in Mozambique in 2025 for a leopard. i then plan to take my third buff with them in 26 at their home place

 

[BnC 04]

friends i will be hunting a leopard with my second family at Tsala in Mozambique in 2025 for a leopard. i then plan to take my third buff with them in 26 at their home place

Going to be a wonderful trip thats for sure!