Ok,I'll give you the jist of it. It rained for four days before we got there and the morning of the first day. When we drove back the long red dirt road after we got off the Platinum Highway to the gate, we were driving in mud. There was standing water every where,that never went away. It changed the entire dynamic of the movement of the animals. Sounds like I was disappointed but I wasn't. We still saw animals but not in the quantity that perhaps others did in dry conditions. It was still well worthy of my bucket list. It is the only opportunity I will have to hunt Africa and I cherished every minute of it. I had great company, a fantistic concession, and made new and wonderful friends in Stewert, Bronwyn, Richard and Roscoe Dorrington and the new PH, Huibert (Bert) Meyer in his first year was great, solid.
Net result is I harvested a nice Kudu, a Warthog, and a Wildebeest, and I am very proud of them all. I also wanted an Impala which I made two bad shots and lost two Impala. I never grasped how quick they reacted to the string. As far as my Zebra and Gemsbok, the only shot oppurtunities I had were on pregnant females and I did not want to shoot pregnant females, nor did Stewert want me to. My hunting partner Ted was focused on a trophy Sable and tho there were several there in the forty plus inch catagory, he was never given the good shot to close the deal. He did however harvest a beautiful Zebra stallion.
I will try to supply photos in the next couple days and tell a little more of my journey. I will end tonight by saying if you have ever wanted to hunt Africa, try hard to make it happen, you will remember the experience for ever.
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