Doug, they were very interested in the stone points. Unfortunately one of the Obsidian points was broke when I got there. The other Osidian point and the fercylinite point where both lost to misses and I brought the Missouri Flint head back to use here. They were impressed with the trade point because it really did a number on the Eland and was still sharp when they took it out of him. I will bring the pictures and video with me when I come down for the next Buffalo.
Day 10 - Antonie asked me if I would mind sitting alone for part of the day because he still had a lot of paperwork to do from the previous hunters. That was fine with me and we left the next morning at 0800 to go to a blind. It took 45 minutes to drive there and we never left the main property, it's a big place. I got settled in and after about an hour I notice some movement back through the brush so I grab the binos and start looking. It took a little while to figure out what I was looking at but I finally figured out that it was Cape Buffalo coming in to drink. I am standing there thinking this is cool! They told me when I first arrived that there was now a heard of Buffalo on the place at which time I replied that it would be col to see them because I had not seen any in the park. They just kind of strolled in and started drinking and messing around in the water hole. One of them kept sticking his nose under the water and blowing bubbles! After 30 minutes of this they just start laying down in any available shade so now I have 9 buffalo bedded down around my blind and I start thinking that this isn't that great because nothing will come drink while they are hovering around the waterhole so I really dove into my book. Along about noon as the sun had shifted the buffalo had lost there shade so they got up and moved 20 yards away to get back in it. As soon as they moved a little ways away the monkey's showed up which is always encouraging. At 1205 I notice 2 waterbuck cows coming in to the waterhole. I was trying to look behind them to see if a bull was following when out stepped a Zebra from behind the big tree at the back edge of the waterhole. They were just there all of the sudden which was kind of startling. It ended up being a stallion, 3 mares and a foal and they just sauntered right on in and started drinking. Since I was by myself I have to run the camera to and I got it zoomed in as good as I could without having to move it then I took the shot. Things got a little confusing then because everything stampeded away from the blind and 5 zebra and 9 buffalo can make a pretty good racket. As the dust was settling all I could remember seeing was most of the arrow sticking out of the oppiste side. A quick review of the tape shows that the shot was about 10 inches behind the shoulder crease and about 2/3's of the way up the side. Not my best work but the penetration was good so I force myself to waite an hour to call. Once I start calling it takes an hour for me to get someone on the radio and for them to show up. While I was sitting waiting I heard Zebra's calling from back behind the waterhole in the direction that mine had ran. When we went to where he had been standing the was good blood immediately and within 10 yards we found the front 22 inches of arrow laying on the ground completely covered with blood. The most encourageing sign to me though is the fact that the blood we are finding hasn't run down the Zebra's side and drippeed off, it has been sprayed out side ways on to everything! At this point they just take off on a fast walk, weaving through the thorn brush until, I'm guessing 400 yards later we round a bush and see this! The arrow went through the back of both lungs and cut the aortic artery that runs along the underside of the spine.
Now I did jump up and down and start yelling. Everything I had read and been told by people who have a lot more experience at this than I do was to never count on getting a Zebra because they are one of the hardest critters there are to get a shot at with a bow. I just take this as another sign that the Lord loves me and I must be doing something right in my life.
Either way I am not going to complain. The rest of my day was spent watching drivers trying to push Warthogs past shooters in a section where they are trying to eliminate the pigs. At the end of 3 pushes 4 pigs had been killed and 5 more had escaped. It was kind of entertaining. All I had left to look for now was a Warthog so later tonight I will let you know how that went and also go back to day 3 that i skipped over earlier. Joseph
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