What was your first African Game?

[Corey0372]

A nice Oryx in Namibia, up near Otjiwarongo. Fun times with some good friends.

 

[jdemocko]

A Jackal

 

[NTH]

Blesbuck

 

[zip4644]

the sable in your avatar is beautiful as well .

 

[Neil Molendyk]

Gemsbok, Picture taken at 400 meters before the stalk

 

[NTH]

J

the sable in your avatar is beautiful as well .

Thank you. Yours is impressive as well. What did he score?

 

[zip4644]

J

Thank you. Yours is impressive as well. What did he score?

41" waiting on SCI score....Yours?

 

[NTH]

41" waiting on SCI score....Yours?

He green scored 41”R & 40.5”L. I can’t wait for them to arrive and have him and my eland scored. My eland went 38”

 

[zip4644]

He green scored 41”R & 40.5”L. I can’t wait for them to arrive and have him and my eland scored. My eland went 38”

the dipper that has my families trophies score for SCI, they offer scoring as part of their service no charge. Perhaps your dipper does the same.

 

[outwestidaho]

My first was a Kalahari springbok in Namibia !

 

[Hookboy88]

Gemsbok my first morning out. Before lunch that day I also killed a Zebra and a nice springbok. Went out that evening and got a nice Warthog.

 

[MAdcox]

First morning out in Limpopo we immediately saw a young Kudu, then a few Hartebeest. I was just propped up on the truck soaking it in, loving the fact I was in Africa. Then the PH said “Impala, looks like a good one.” That sure got the blood pumping!

 

[Hunter101]

I could've shot 6 or 8 other bulls on this trip. Free range namibia

 

[zip4644]

the dipper that has my families trophies score for SCI, they offer scoring as part of their service no charge. Perhaps your dipper does the same.

scores are back L 43 7/8 10 3/8 R 44 10 3/8 I am awestruck looks like he is gonna be #16 SCI archery.

 

[Philip Glass]

It was 1997 and I was 25 years old and on my first safari. Due to a rain storm in Miami that stopped the loading of luggage (SAA flight on a 747, I was on upper deck) my rifle didn’t make it for a couple of days. This was the first morning and my first African animal!

 

[sierraone]

With my son, PH and tracker

 

[PARA45]

My first African animal was a female Gemsbok, the biggest one taken in this concession. I had no idea how big she was until the owner told me it was the biggest one taken in the property in over 20 years.

 

[Hogpatrol]

Crap phone camera and colors aren't correct but this is the first one, Northern Cape black wildebeest at 195 yards off the bipod, sitting in a hole in the ground, modified Savage MLII. 45 caliber.

 

[Charles de Ribeau]

Blue wildebeest was on my list, but I didn't have a clue what I was doing. The first morning, my PH spotted a group of blue wildebeest. We made a short stalk; he put up the sticks. I shot it and I shot it and I shot it. Like most African animals, it was tough. It kept going even when it was coughing up chunks of lung. Clearly, it was dead but it didn't know it and my PH had me shoot again each time it stopped.

When it we got to it, my PH told me that it was a really nice bull. I thought to myself, "That's probably what you tell every client about every animal." I was wrong. There was a bit of a stir when we got back to camp. I overheard the owner, ask the PH, "Did you know how big it was when you told him to shoot it?" Next, the only other American hunter came over an explained that it was, indeed, a big bull.

It hangs proudly in my trophy room. I don't remember or care what it scored. It was my first and still a great memory.