2019 Adansonia hunt in the books!
I will try to keep this short, but it may drag on a little while.
So as some of you may know, I manage the Adansonia sponsorship here on TBH. I put together a "TBH" hunt last year and after several question and answer sessions booked 9 TBHers. Unfortunately 2 dropped out leaving me with a grand total of 7. With a friend that has been before and the wife we had a group of 10.
This was a top notch group of guys who came to have a great time and shoot some african animals, and boy did they accomplish both. If you take away the animals my friend that has been there before and I shot, they ended up with 45 well above average African trophies. There were some monster Kudu, Impala, Waterbucks, Sable, Cape Buffalo, Gemsbok, and the list goes on and on. I will not mention any names, but be on the look out in a few days for their stories.
Now I really can't stress enough the quality of the animals these guys were shooting. There were several impalas over 24 inches, some 40 plus inch gemsbok, the sable were between 38 and 42inches just to name a few. When I say these boys were having a blast, that is one huge understatement.
So on to my story so you guys can see some pics.
The first morning........
The top animal on my list this trip was a Golden Wildebeest and I knew he was going to be a tough hunt because he was the last bull on the place and he was a loner. We thought about hunting from a blind but decided to do a spot and stalk. Well after a while of him not wanting to come out of the heavy brush on the mountain we decided a push was in order. I set up about 30 yards off a well used trail next to a fence line, the plan was to try and push him to the fence and hopefully he would take the trail that came by me. He attempted to flank the pushers a few times but finally decided to take the trail. I heard him coming down the trail and drew my bow, when he stepped in to my opening I let the arrow fly. It was a great hit and he exploded out of there. We found blood at the spot and decided to give him a few minutes before taking up the track. As it turned out he was pouring blood the entire 90 yards before he died as he was still running, the poor mans buffalo is one tough animal.
Next on my list was a Black Impala. We went out and found several groups of rams, but after a lot of glassing and discussing it I decided to pass on everything, It was one of those times when I just wasn't feeling it. I decided to go after a steenbok and think about the Black Impala a little longer. The Steenbok is a very small very nervous little critter, in the 20 years I have hunted with Adansonia I had never had the opportunity to take one with a bow. This trip I decided I was going to put the bow down and pick up a rifle, after only about 15 minutes in to it I spotted a pretty nice Steenbok and he made the mistake of thinking he was well camouflaged and gave me about 5 seconds to make the 60 yard shot.
With 2 days left and time running out fast, I decided I would go ahead and take a black impala, I went through all of the" well just get one next trip, well what if there is no next trip" type things and decided to go for it. This hunt was kind of like the Golden Wildebeest except I opted for a rifle due the the time constraints. This guy again was the only black ram on this place and was the best one out of all the others I had seen at different places. Again, he would not come out of the brush and was with a group on regular impalas and a black impala female. Another push was in order, the first push he out smarted us and I didn't get the shot. The second push he was walking thru a small opening at about 70 yards away, that was his last mistake.
Here are a few other random pics of one of the tracking dogs taking a nap, and a Donkey cart.
I will post more pics and stories shortly.
So as some of you may know, I manage the Adansonia sponsorship here on TBH. I put together a "TBH" hunt last year and after several question and answer sessions booked 9 TBHers. Unfortunately 2 dropped out leaving me with a grand total of 7. With a friend that has been before and the wife we had a group of 10.
This was a top notch group of guys who came to have a great time and shoot some african animals, and boy did they accomplish both. If you take away the animals my friend that has been there before and I shot, they ended up with 45 well above average African trophies. There were some monster Kudu, Impala, Waterbucks, Sable, Cape Buffalo, Gemsbok, and the list goes on and on. I will not mention any names, but be on the look out in a few days for their stories.
Now I really can't stress enough the quality of the animals these guys were shooting. There were several impalas over 24 inches, some 40 plus inch gemsbok, the sable were between 38 and 42inches just to name a few. When I say these boys were having a blast, that is one huge understatement.
So on to my story so you guys can see some pics.
The first morning........
The top animal on my list this trip was a Golden Wildebeest and I knew he was going to be a tough hunt because he was the last bull on the place and he was a loner. We thought about hunting from a blind but decided to do a spot and stalk. Well after a while of him not wanting to come out of the heavy brush on the mountain we decided a push was in order. I set up about 30 yards off a well used trail next to a fence line, the plan was to try and push him to the fence and hopefully he would take the trail that came by me. He attempted to flank the pushers a few times but finally decided to take the trail. I heard him coming down the trail and drew my bow, when he stepped in to my opening I let the arrow fly. It was a great hit and he exploded out of there. We found blood at the spot and decided to give him a few minutes before taking up the track. As it turned out he was pouring blood the entire 90 yards before he died as he was still running, the poor mans buffalo is one tough animal.
Next on my list was a Black Impala. We went out and found several groups of rams, but after a lot of glassing and discussing it I decided to pass on everything, It was one of those times when I just wasn't feeling it. I decided to go after a steenbok and think about the Black Impala a little longer. The Steenbok is a very small very nervous little critter, in the 20 years I have hunted with Adansonia I had never had the opportunity to take one with a bow. This trip I decided I was going to put the bow down and pick up a rifle, after only about 15 minutes in to it I spotted a pretty nice Steenbok and he made the mistake of thinking he was well camouflaged and gave me about 5 seconds to make the 60 yard shot.
With 2 days left and time running out fast, I decided I would go ahead and take a black impala, I went through all of the" well just get one next trip, well what if there is no next trip" type things and decided to go for it. This hunt was kind of like the Golden Wildebeest except I opted for a rifle due the the time constraints. This guy again was the only black ram on this place and was the best one out of all the others I had seen at different places. Again, he would not come out of the brush and was with a group on regular impalas and a black impala female. Another push was in order, the first push he out smarted us and I didn't get the shot. The second push he was walking thru a small opening at about 70 yards away, that was his last mistake.
Here are a few other random pics of one of the tracking dogs taking a nap, and a Donkey cart.
I will post more pics and stories shortly.
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