SOUTH AFRICA: KMG Hunting Safaris 2015

[BRICKBURN]

Built the plaque and he is on the wall in his new home.

 

[cpr0312]

Nice to have him home, awesome looking specimen!

 

[BRICKBURN]

Where to find that next Bushbuck.... hmmm.

 

[KMG Hunting Safaris]

Where to find that next Bushbuck.... hmmm.

Bow or nothing. Let's do it.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Here we go again.

 

[Ryan]

Oh boy, those sneaky little nightmares. They seem so innocent.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Here it comes...

https://www.africahunting.com/threa...unt-with-brickburn-in-2020.49103/#post-532323

 

[Justin.]

The day off from Bushbuck hunting was done on the Mpunzi property.

This was a very special circumstance that I got to encounter and not many get to participate in this kind of hunt.

Louw had arranged for a specialty pack of dogs to come in to try and cull some Black backed Jackal. The Jackal are "taking advantage", really they are a little to ravenous and focusing on the wrong spies for dinner.


Of course I know absolutely nothing about the layout of the property.
Everyone is joining in on this hunt.
There is but one goal, Jackal number reduction.

I am sent along an eastern fence and I set up my own little shooting stand out of available resources.

View attachment 154924


I situate myself at a crossroads of the boundary fence and an old internal fine that has been removed.

the panoramic view.

View attachment 154923


I can see 600 yards down the old fence and 250 in either direction on the boundary fence. Perfect.

We have assumed the Jackal are going to make an escape out the boundary fence and be easy pickings.
Little did we know.

I was given a radio to listen to the progress of the hunt and also communicate any useful info I might have. Afrikaans and Xhosa being my second and third languages I could really help out.
Most of the time I listened and guessed from the tone and also from listening the dogs baying as they chased the Jackal.

This is my view down the old fence line. The orange spots are the old fence rolled up in to balls.


View attachment 154925

I actually ended up seeing more Jackal than anyone else. They were not heading to the boundary fence.
They have a home range and they stayed in it and ran back and forth cross this fence line with impunity.

Dogs in the way, trackers in the way, Louw in the way with a puncture.


Every time I had a shot opportunity there was a safety issue.
I was using a 375H&H with 250 grain TTSX. Not something you want to skip off a rock in the direction of anything you cared about.
View attachment 154926

If I would have had a smaller caliber with a more delicate bullet I might have given it a whirl.

Marius' spot along the boundary fence.


View attachment 154922

What an awesome thing to take part in!

Between your second and third language, which have you found to be the most useful while hunting in South Africa?