Awesome South African hunt

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Geno
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Awesome South African hunt

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So the week came and went and now we are back at work again :(
Prieska 2013 was good and quite a few animals were sent to greener pastures.
The area is in what is known as "The Karoo", and it resembles New Mexico.
Rifles used varied:
My 6mm Dasher on fireforming loads with 75gr V-Max running 3420fps.
My .204Ruger running 32gr Varmageddons at 3900fps
My .308 running 180gr Accubonds at 2550fps
My .25-06 running 75gr V-Max at 3750fps.
Reno's 6mm Rem Ackley doing a blistering 3900fps with a 70gr Blitzking.
G-Force's .243Ackley running fireforming loads also with 70gr Blitzkings.
G-Force's 30-06 loaded with 200gr Barnes X's.
Adrian's .308 loaded with 110gr V-max's.
Adrians 7mm Rem Mag with 168 Barnes TSX's.
Kyle,G-Force's sisters kid who is 14 has a Sako Finnwolf .308 that Adrian gave to him.
Mark had his 30-06 with Woodleigh 150's.
Then another .308 or two.

We shot and killed 18springbuck,3 blue wildebeest,3 gemsbuck,2 red hartebeest,2 kudu,2 blesbuck,2ostrich,1 eland and some vermin.

A few shots stood out above the rest such as Reno's 579m springbuck kill and my 480m white blesbuck.
I also had a great shot on an ostrich with a solid headshot at 233m.
Most shots were over 180m far.

Farm gate
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We arrive
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Geno checking the dasher
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Just meeting old and new friends
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Farm house where we all stayed
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G-Force and I managed a double.
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Kyle with his springbuck and G-force's 243AI,great shot at about 250m.
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Vincent and his black springbuck.
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Kyle killed this gemsbuck bull with his Finnwolf .308
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My dad's eland, shot at 131m with my 6mm Dasher
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My Dad relaxing after his eland hunt. He is still smiling!
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Rooies and Petrie grilling some lamb chops. Yumm!
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Kyle, Vincent and Reno
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G-Force and Ross
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Reno's gemsbok:
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Ostrich I shot at 233m with the 6mm Dasher. One shot to the head, and it was all over.
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Reno's springbuck, shot at 579m, infront of 9 witnesses. Great shot with his 6mm Rem AI using 70gr Blitzkings at 3940fps.
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Petrie's wildebeest, 29+"
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Ancient bull. Not a tooth left in it's mouth.
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Carrying the bull out of the valley. Hard work!
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Mark and his wildebeest shot with his 30-06.That 150gr woodleigh went in the front left shoulder and flew out it's rump and is maybe even still travelling!
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Kyle carrying his blesbuck out of the valley. He's growing up to be quite the hunter.
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Satisfaction after the action:
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Reno's impala, killed at 330m.
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Dirkie, a good mate of mine joined the hunt, and he got me onto to this young white blesbuck ram. I shot it at 480m with the 6mm Dasher.
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Dirkie's ostrich. Shot with his .243
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G-Force's nice springbuck ram. Shot with his .243AI
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Vincent's springbok, shot with my .25-06
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I still need to get some of the other pics of the other animals.

Some random pics for you.
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Last pic is of the Orange River, our largest river, and also border with Namibia in some parts.

What a great week. Am I going back? Definitely!
Saving sheep one bullet at a time!
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Bill K
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Re: Awesome South African hunt

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Fantastic looking trip and gathering. Thank you for sharing that adventure. Bill K :)
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Re: Awesome South African hunt

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WOW!!! Beautiful pictures.

Lots of sound moderators on those irons.
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Re: Awesome South African hunt

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thank you for posting well done
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