Post by para45 on Oct 7, 2022 8:20:18 GMT -5
1 Jun 2022.
As Wik and I sit on the dining table eating our breakfast, I ask where we are going today. I only have one animal left, and that is a Nyala. Wik tells me we are going to hunt West side of Kudu Ridge. Great, these mountains are not that as bad as the ones on Mountain Top, or so I thought.
We take off for the 5-10 min ride to the West side of the property. As soon as we get in, we see some Impalas and some Kudus. Wik stops the Land Cruiser and tells me to let's go take a look. I get out, and Wik looks at me funny, and with a smirk tells me to get my rifle. Oops, I thought we were just going for a look. We walk roughly a mile or so up hill, then we start going downhill and we get on the edge of some cliffs, and since my boots have not been performing great, I keep my distance from the ledge. BTW, I'm not afraid of heights, but didn't want to slide and end up at the bottom of this cliff. :ROFLMAO:
We haven't settled in to start glassing, and I can see some Kudus eating on the sunny side of the opposite mountain. I get by binoculars up and now I can see more animals including some Nyala bulls and some females. The bulls to me look good, but not for Wik, he tells me that are too young. We keep looking, when Wik freezes and now he is looking into this one area. He tells me that we need to move, and to move slow. We start walking up and down this mountain to get to a better shooting area. I can see where they are but have not seen the bull we are after.
We keep walking for roughly another 400-500 yds, and then the sticks go up, and it's show time. I get behind the rifle, and Wik points to where this Nyala bull is, and I have him, range is about 190 yds. Settled behind the rifle and scope and I am rock solid. Wik tells me to shoot when I'm ready. I take two deep breaths, relax, and shoot. I see the Nyala reaction from the bullet impact, he jumps about 20 feet, runs about another 20-30 ft and stumbles down the side of this mountain. He is down for the count. Time is 0830 in the morning. Little did I know that Wik was recording this hunt with his cell phone; wow what a video.
So now, how do we get to this this animal? Well, we keep going downhill, Wik sends the drivers to go around, and then we start going uphill to where the Nyala bull was laying. We get up there, and this thing is in some deep thick sh*t, and I'm wondering how in the world the trackers are going to get this animal out of here. We took a couple of pictures of where he laid and waited on the trackers. Trackers got there, got the Nyala on this pole, and 45 minutes later they were loading it into the back of the Land Cruiser. It took them 45 min to get down from where we were.
Where we found the bull, I had my Nyala....success. Beautiful mature bull. This bull was surround by about 8-9 female nyalas. This area is called Kudu Ridge, and it was loaded with kudu, and nyala, and I mean lots of them. I believe we saw 3-4 shooter bulls.
As Wik and I sit on the dining table eating our breakfast, I ask where we are going today. I only have one animal left, and that is a Nyala. Wik tells me we are going to hunt West side of Kudu Ridge. Great, these mountains are not that as bad as the ones on Mountain Top, or so I thought.
We take off for the 5-10 min ride to the West side of the property. As soon as we get in, we see some Impalas and some Kudus. Wik stops the Land Cruiser and tells me to let's go take a look. I get out, and Wik looks at me funny, and with a smirk tells me to get my rifle. Oops, I thought we were just going for a look. We walk roughly a mile or so up hill, then we start going downhill and we get on the edge of some cliffs, and since my boots have not been performing great, I keep my distance from the ledge. BTW, I'm not afraid of heights, but didn't want to slide and end up at the bottom of this cliff. :ROFLMAO:
We haven't settled in to start glassing, and I can see some Kudus eating on the sunny side of the opposite mountain. I get by binoculars up and now I can see more animals including some Nyala bulls and some females. The bulls to me look good, but not for Wik, he tells me that are too young. We keep looking, when Wik freezes and now he is looking into this one area. He tells me that we need to move, and to move slow. We start walking up and down this mountain to get to a better shooting area. I can see where they are but have not seen the bull we are after.
We keep walking for roughly another 400-500 yds, and then the sticks go up, and it's show time. I get behind the rifle, and Wik points to where this Nyala bull is, and I have him, range is about 190 yds. Settled behind the rifle and scope and I am rock solid. Wik tells me to shoot when I'm ready. I take two deep breaths, relax, and shoot. I see the Nyala reaction from the bullet impact, he jumps about 20 feet, runs about another 20-30 ft and stumbles down the side of this mountain. He is down for the count. Time is 0830 in the morning. Little did I know that Wik was recording this hunt with his cell phone; wow what a video.
So now, how do we get to this this animal? Well, we keep going downhill, Wik sends the drivers to go around, and then we start going uphill to where the Nyala bull was laying. We get up there, and this thing is in some deep thick sh*t, and I'm wondering how in the world the trackers are going to get this animal out of here. We took a couple of pictures of where he laid and waited on the trackers. Trackers got there, got the Nyala on this pole, and 45 minutes later they were loading it into the back of the Land Cruiser. It took them 45 min to get down from where we were.
Where we found the bull, I had my Nyala....success. Beautiful mature bull. This bull was surround by about 8-9 female nyalas. This area is called Kudu Ridge, and it was loaded with kudu, and nyala, and I mean lots of them. I believe we saw 3-4 shooter bulls.