Top 10 Plains Game Trophies

[TEX84]

I came across this list and thought it was interesting: http://www.wideopenspaces.com/top-10-animals-to-hunt-in-africa/

Mine is a little different. I've shot the three animals in bold which means I still have plenty of hunting left to do!

1. Kudu
2. Impala
3. Gemsbok
4. Zebra
5. Wildebeest
6. Waterbuck
7. Eland
8. Nyala
9. Springbok
10. Warthog

What's on everyone's list?

 

[postoak]

Nah, they lost me when they included two species of dangerous game.

First, if it isn't available in RSA, Namibia, Botswana, or Zimbabwe, it's off my list.

With that stipulation I divide as follows:

Dangerous Game (off my list)

Varmints and misc. including croc and hippo (off my list)

Plains Game:

Roan, Red Lechwe, tsessebe, and sable off my list because of expense

Tiny twelve, off my list (lack of bang for buck)

So remaining:

warthog
Greater Kudu
Blue Wildebeest
Black Wildebeest
Gemsbok
Red Hartebeest
giraffe
waterbuck
nyala
bushbuck
Burchell's Zebra
Mountain Zebra
eland
impala
bontebok/blesbok
springbok

 

[postoak]

Hi Marius! How are you doing?

Does my list make sense?

Rob

If I had to list my top 10, from that last list it would be: Blue Wildebeest, Black Wildebeest, Red Hartebeest, Greater Kudu, Nyala, Burchell's Zebra, eland, waterbuck, blesbok, and giraffe.

 

[Mr. 16 gauge]

My list is for plains game is as follows, and in no particular order:

Kudu
bushbuck
bush pig
warthog
blesbok
zebra (I don't really care about subspecies)
waterbuck (took a cow waterbuck on my last safari, would like to take a bull)
blue wildebeest
black wildebeest
gemsbok
hartebeest
eland
jackal
springbok
Impala
common reedbuck
Nyala

Those are what are on the list today.......it could change magically tomorrow! ( the animals that are in bold print are those that I took on my one and only safari last summer).

As far as dangerous game, the only one I'm really interested in is cape buffalo. I suppose if the opportunity presented itself, and the price was right, I would shoot a croc.....but I have no desire to shoot elephant, lion, leopard, hippo, etc.
...as for the smaller species, tiny ten, etc.: I don't think size of an animal has much to do with it's sportingness.......a good stalk or difficult hunt is where I get my "bang for the buck". The only smaller species that I would be interested in hunting at this particular time is common duiker.

If I ever trip and fall into a huge pile of money, then sable, roan, and red lechwe are on the list!

 

[postoak]

And Tsessebe?

 

[Mr. 16 gauge]

And Tsessebe?

No, I don't think so.......they don't do much for me. The sable & lechwe would be definite "musts", but the roan would probably be on the bottom of the list, even if it was doable from a money stand point.

 

[TravisB]

I went last year, and killed 2 impala, a gemsbok, and and a warthog. I was bowhunting, so I saw a lot more that could have been killed with a rifle. My top 10 that I haven't killed would be as follows.

1. Zebra
2. Kudu
3. Blue Wildebeest
4. Waterbuck
5. Blesbok
6. Nyala
7. Bushbuck
8. Red hartebeest
9. Eland
10. Giraffe (even though I don't know what the hell I'd do with one)

As far as dangerous game, the only two that really appeal to me are leopard, and Cape Buffalo.

 

[Bert the Turtle]

I think a top 10 is completely personal and it changes. 5 years ago I had no desire to shoot a zebra. I shot one in 2011. There is also a list of what you want to hunt, what you have hunted, etc. Always another mountain to climb, I suppose.

I haven't shot an impala, but my wife and my son have and I have no real desire to shoot one myself. But, they have 3 warthogs between them and when a nice one trotted out to the water hole, I shot him without hesitation. We needed another warthog like a hole in the head, but they are common, cheap, and sometimes they just move to the top of the list. Something fun about them. I have no idea why a warthog was on my list, and I'd probably shoot another. And I'd already shot one before for leopard bait, but there is just something about the damn things that makes me want to shoot them.

I will say that kudu hold a place on my list, despite having a nice one on my wall that I worked hard for. I'd hunt kudu again in a heartbeat, it is a magnificent animal and plenty of challenge.

That said, my next trip to Africa is for dangerous game and I plan to kind of focus on the dangerous stuff that requires walking for a while. Someday I'll be too old for it and I don't want to miss my chance. Leopard can wait- if I'm too old to sit in a ground blind they may as well use me for bait.

 

[BRICKBURN]

...................... I have no idea why a warthog was on my list,.................... , but there is just something about the damn things that makes me want to shoot them.

..................... I'd hunt kudu again in a heartbeat, it is a magnificent animal and plenty of challenge. ...................

Gotta agree with that.

 

[Wildside Outdoors]

Top ten left to take are

1. Lion
2. Buffalo
3. Nyala
4. Bushbuck
5. Blesbok
6. Springbok (slam so I will include as one)
7. Waterbuck (I should have already shot one of these darn things)
8. Black Wildebeest
9. Hartebeest
10. Leopard

Others wanted are............ Grey Duiker, Sable, Giraffe, Red and Black Lechwe, Mountain Zebra, Puku, Kob, Vaal Rhebok, Mountain Reedbuck, Lesser Kudu, Grants Gazelle, and a Thomsons Gazelle....... just a few...........

I've taken
Kudu, Common Eland, Zebra, Impala, Blue Wildebeest, Gemsbok, Warthog, Jackal and Steinbok...... And there's not a single one that I wouldn't hunt again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COME ON LOTTERY!!!!

 

[CAustin]

I want one of all of them. Not sure I could make a top ten list.

 

[tarbe]

Some pretty goods lists there!

 

[BWH]

I love these.... I took 7 of the 10....my first trip. Going back in 16 to knock out the other 3 + some.... At some point I'd like to add a Cape Buff & Leopard.... 2 cents.

BWH

 

[Royal27]

I want one of all of them. Not sure I could make a top ten list.

So you have ALL as number one Charles, just nine more to go.

My top ten would def include DG, but I will stick to PG for this list. As I know it today and subject to change.

In no particular order:

1. Kudu
2. Zebra
3. Sable
4. Dik-Dik
5. Warthog
6. Bongo
7. Gerenuk
8. Grysbok
9. Eland
10. Nyala

 

[Royal27]

Some pretty goods lists there!

Where is yours? Afraid to write "African goat" ten times????

 

[BWH]

Who are we kidding???? If you did your Top 10, we'd all be on to our next Top 10 within seconds, if not before we finished the Top 10.....guilty!!!!

 

[Royal27]

Who are we kidding???? If you did your Top 10, we'd all be on to our next Top 10 within seconds, if not before we finished the Top 10.....guilty!!!!

You really think so???

1. Lessor kudu
2. water buck
3. bushbuck
4. bushpig
5. giraffe
6. Blue duiker
7. Klipspringer
8. yellow back duiker
9. black wildebeest
10. roan

I edited my list taking out gemsbok and adding bushbuck. Went to fast!

 

[HuntingGold]

I guess I am the odd-ball.

I was fortunate enough to take a beautiful cape kudu, duiker, cull warthog, and cull cape bushbuck on my first trip. Daughters took a blesbuck and impala.

On my list of really wants are (in no particular order):
1) Vaal Rhebok
2) Klipspringer
3) Oribi
4) Black Wildebeest
5) Trophy Cape Bushbuck
6) After seing some photos of the Damara Dik-Dik.... I gotta have one!
7) A springbok just to say I have one
8) Mountain Reedbuck.
9) Nyala (wasnt on my list before, but after seeing how beautiful they are... gotta have one)
10) Another Kudu... always another Kudu!
11) I guess at some point I will take a gemsbok, but they just are not firing me up at the moment.
12) To work my way on the tiny ten, I still "need" the grysbok species and a blue and red duiker.

Not plains game, but I am really getting the itch for a Cape Buffalo.
Not African, but my bucket list has a roebuck on it.

 

[BWH]

You really think so???

1. Lessor kudu
2. water buck
3. Gemsbok
4. bushpig
5. giraffe
6. Blue duiker
7. Klipspringer
8. yellow back duiker
9. black wildebeest
10. roan

Haha.... Know so!

 

[Royal27]

Sigh....

I shouldn't have started this.... I need a third top ten list already. ...