MrCreedmoor
AH senior member
Day 7: sunny 78F windy
I took a day off of hunting and watched my friend hunt zebra and warthog. I spent several hours with Mark, the neighbor landowner. I learned a lot about the behind the scenes of my hunt. Here are a few highlights:
This day we went after a gray duiker. We drove 10 minutes and then hiked 2 miles over about 2 hours. I must say, Nick puts in the same effort on this $200 add on tiny 10 game animal as the kudu. We sneaked around kudu, nyala, warthog, Steenbok, Guineafowls, and baboons, to get into position for a shot at a trophy duiker. I made a 140 yard shot on the 5th duiker we stalked up to.
I took a day off of hunting and watched my friend hunt zebra and warthog. I spent several hours with Mark, the neighbor landowner. I learned a lot about the behind the scenes of my hunt. Here are a few highlights:
- My exceptional luck was due to allot of intel provided by many of the landowners and their employees acting as scouts. Mark spends 7 hours a day counting his wild game on his land.
- Trophy hunting provides a huge economic benefit to the ranchers and they now treat all the local wildlife as a valuable resource and thus conserve and protect it.
- Only about 3% of the game animals are harvested as trophies each year.
- Some species reproduce at a rate of doubling every 2 years, thus requiring culling of around 30% a year (meat hunting).
- Each game animal has a score compared to a cow as to the amount of food needed, and the land only has a set amount of browse available dependent on rainfall and grazing pressure.
This day we went after a gray duiker. We drove 10 minutes and then hiked 2 miles over about 2 hours. I must say, Nick puts in the same effort on this $200 add on tiny 10 game animal as the kudu. We sneaked around kudu, nyala, warthog, Steenbok, Guineafowls, and baboons, to get into position for a shot at a trophy duiker. I made a 140 yard shot on the 5th duiker we stalked up to.
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