SOUTH AFRICA: MOZAMBIQUE: Off To Southern Africa With KMG & TMS & PPS

[Wheels]

By the way a high of ZERO Celsius tomorrow and a high of SIX Celsius.
(Home is supposed to be 30 degrees C)
The Bushbuck will be shivering in the sun in the morning. They do not stand a chance.

Sounds like shorts, short sleeve and flip-flop weather for you.

With the geese, does this mean you have hunted Egypt now?

Have a great hunt. Certainly enjoying the updates.

 

[AfricaHunting.com]

Sounds like shorts, short sleeve and flip-flop weather for you.

For sure, I've seen it with my own eyes!

Happy to hear that you are having a good time and thanks for the update.

 

[hunting4sanity]

Congrats on the geese! Cool looking birds, I've been dreaming of which animals to hunt on safari #2 and after seeing those birds I'm going to have to add Egyptian geese to the hunt.

 

[Redruff]

Congrats on the brace of geese. They'll make fine mounts I am sure. Good luck on the the stalks to come.

R.

 

[Sand Rat]

Great trip report Brick! Glad to hear there's plenty of waterbuck and bushbucks to go around. Just make sure you don't collect all the big ones before you leave. My countdown to KMG is only 9 more months...........but who's counting? The geese look kick ass, trouble is every KMG report I see has something else that needs added to the list!

 

[LivingTheDream]

I want to kill an Egyptian goose so bad! I saw Ted Nugent kill one with a bow like 10 years ago and immediately out it on my bucket list. They are so cool!

Keep it up and keep posting!!!

 

[Diamondhitch]

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Cool Geese Wayne, not sure about that retriever though

 

[Sand Rat]

As the sun sets in Saudi Arabia I have to wonder what is Brickburn and Marius up to in the fading light of the Eastern Cape..................?

 

[gillettehunter]

Thanks for the update and photo's. You let your pillow retrieve geese for you? Sounds more like Marius' job! Good luck with the other animals. Bruce

 

[KVS]

Really enjoying reading this thread. Brilliant!

 

[BRICKBURN]

As the sun sets in Saudi Arabia I have to wonder what is Brickburn and Marius up to in the fading light of the Eastern Cape..................?

Working our asses off.

This is the East Cape blood bank. It now has plenty of mine in stock.
You think hunting Whitetails is tough Walk and Stalk Bushbuck.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Just a tease
This is the Silver Ghost. By this I mean he is actually quite grey in comparison to all the other rams.
Grey Ghost is taken so Silver it is.
He disappeared after day one and finally came out and was bedded in a "perfect spot" for a stalk.
The details of this hunt are going to be long and involved.
Suffice to say Marius and I were tested repeatedly. I hunted this one ram the entire day.
Freezing, stalking, circling, climbing, descending.
He did not get that old by being stupid.

This picture was from 114 yards from the opposite hill before descending into the "blood bank".

 

[BRICKBURN]

What do you need these for?

To follow this........

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

What do you need these for?
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To follow this........

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Really.......that's how you're going to leave it?

 

[Wheels]

This picture was from 114 yards from the opposite hill before descending into the "blood bank".

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You wouldn't have to descend into the blood bank if you used a rifle!

 

[Wheels]

Really.......that's how you're going to leave it?

It seems the biennial Brickburn soap opera has begun in earnest. "Who shot JR"

 

[billc]

if you got that bushbuck with the bow you are the man. That is one dandy of a bushbuck.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Sadly, that is where I have to leave you hanging in the wind until I get home.

I left Marius on the side of the road this afternoon. Said goodbye to Bolt and "Turd" aka Rigby.
Miss the little guy already. (Rigby, just to be clear)
Marius reiterated that it was unfortunate my friend could not be there for company.


Marius is an intense, organized, dedicated hunting machine. If you have even the slightest doubt about hunting with this man, DON'T.
He spent 16 to 18 hours a day with me hunting and making sure that I was taken care of.
That is more time than any other PH in all my experience has ever spent solely focused on me and my hunt.

One of my favourite comments from him during the hunt, after a blown stalk, was "If it were anyone else I would have (paraphrasing) "pitched a fit". We both laughed.
He talked to himself about how I was managing this hunt and I was not getting overly intense about a pile of trophies at the end. He reminded himself of it and let the steam ease out of the mental kettle a few times.

Marius wants you to succeed so badly you can almost feel the intensity brimming off of him.
He is quiet and does not pressure you. You can just feel it.

Michelle Pieterse, one of my hosts at Mpunzi Lodge, made a comment that "You must be very patient". Far from it really.
This was just such a challenge, that to succeed you just have to FORCE yourself to be patient.
Sitting for hours and hours in close proximity and having to wait on the Bushbucks timeline.
This is not rifle hunting. Which suits my usual methodology; CHARGE!!!! Never wait, make it happen.
Can't do that with a bow.

This hunt was a test of mental fitness. Drop your attention for a second and you screw up and that is the end for the day.
These Bushbuck live amongst Leopard and Jackal that are hunting them constantly and the Bushbuck are switched on.

I would not have traded this hunt with Marius for all the Tea in China. Absolutely awesome.
Walk and Stalk Bushbuck in the thick of it.
Like the Nike Commercial says: JUST DO IT!

 

[BRICKBURN]

This may seem to be an incongruous photo but I thought I would share it as part of my fly by trip.
I have scheduled some fly by visits with various outfitters on my busy schedule.
Many are out with Hunters, funny that.

When you have your own vehicle you can make a plan and stop when you can.
(I can not stop everywhere as there is still a timeline and I do not drive after dark in Africa)

This is the remodelling effort of the family home that originally moved into and settled in the Valley in 1850 and settled at one of the Fonteins in the area. Water was rather important to keeping livestock way back when.

The attention to detail in the wood work and refinishing is amazing.
The new doors are in the same style as the originals.
The rest of the photos and story when I return.

The view up the Tootabi Valley from the lodge on the original farm site. It is just exquisite.

 

[Brent in Az]

Nice! Stalking in the thick stuff for Bushbuck sounds exciting!