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<blockquote data-quote="ballisticxlr" data-source="post: 1705560" data-attributes="member: 82022"><p>African plains game. Nothing in the world like it if you find a place that you can do a real proper hunt on instead of riding around in a pickup bed all day. Cost is surprisingly cheap compared to guided deer and hunts. African game are ridiculously tough compared to American big game. The difficulty of making the perfect shot on skittish critters and the plain old wariness of plains game helps to make up for the fact that where there's game, there's usually a lot of it by American standards. If we see one deer or elk with bones on it over a 5 day hunt we're over the moon. Where you see African horned critters you usually see quite a few at a time. That does not make it easy. If you're on foot you'll get a real challenging spot and stalk experience. If you go to most safari outfitters you'll do it in a truck and it kind of feels then like doing a drive-by shooting of a cow in a grocery store.</p><p></p><p>Springbok by spot and stalk is probably the most challenging to the shooter. They're smallish, a bit smaller than a typical west coast blacktail deer. They dig seriously open ground and are quite wary and run pronghorn fast and long. They're pretty tasty too, a bit like mild goat or lamb. You can hunt them any time of year where I've been. When you find yourself inside 300 yards you're really pretty close. Getting a lot closer takes huge amounts of patience but can be done. I've been inside 70 yards. You best be fast with your shootin' iron. If it winds you it's gone.</p><p></p><p>Eland by spot and stalk were not quite as challenging as some things but still a huge amount of fun and not easy to get very close to but they're not as skittish as sprinkbok or kudu by a mile. They're huge animals, as big as a large horse, and delicious. Tastes like good beef. Monstrously tough animals that need a hard swat to go down. Pretty intimidating to find yourself in the midst of 20 or so of them at conversational distances.</p><p></p><p>Kudu by spot and stalk are seriously challenging. I just got mine this year. They have radar dishes for ears and skedaddle at the first sign of far off trouble. Twice the size of a good deer and can get quite a bit bigger than that. Mine was 95kg minus guts, head and feet and was apparently pretty small. He was old and kind of thin too. They taste exactly like blacktail deer but unlike deer quite a few bits are easily made fork tender without having to slow cook or braise. You can do the tenderloins over an open fire and they come out tender. Not too intensely flavored but just enough flavor to let you know you're eating something different. Even a smallish bull gives a really beautiful trophy. Plan longish shots and bring something with some thump and bring all of your patience.</p><p></p><p>In the USA:</p><p>Cottontail rabbit are my all time favorite thing to hunt. If you find a spot with some there's likely to be a ton of them and once you learn how to hunt them you'll usually have no trouble filling a limit in a day. Fast movers and 12ga go together like peas and carrots. Not my favorite to eat anymore, already ate a semi-truck load as a kid growing up poor where they made up most of our protein. Tough as bulls balls, you need alligator teeth and bulldog jaws to eat them. Used to have endless fun pulling 10 or 20 a day in the spring and late fall. Not usually good for summertime hunting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ballisticxlr, post: 1705560, member: 82022"] African plains game. Nothing in the world like it if you find a place that you can do a real proper hunt on instead of riding around in a pickup bed all day. Cost is surprisingly cheap compared to guided deer and hunts. African game are ridiculously tough compared to American big game. The difficulty of making the perfect shot on skittish critters and the plain old wariness of plains game helps to make up for the fact that where there's game, there's usually a lot of it by American standards. If we see one deer or elk with bones on it over a 5 day hunt we're over the moon. Where you see African horned critters you usually see quite a few at a time. That does not make it easy. If you're on foot you'll get a real challenging spot and stalk experience. If you go to most safari outfitters you'll do it in a truck and it kind of feels then like doing a drive-by shooting of a cow in a grocery store. Springbok by spot and stalk is probably the most challenging to the shooter. They're smallish, a bit smaller than a typical west coast blacktail deer. They dig seriously open ground and are quite wary and run pronghorn fast and long. They're pretty tasty too, a bit like mild goat or lamb. You can hunt them any time of year where I've been. When you find yourself inside 300 yards you're really pretty close. Getting a lot closer takes huge amounts of patience but can be done. I've been inside 70 yards. You best be fast with your shootin' iron. If it winds you it's gone. Eland by spot and stalk were not quite as challenging as some things but still a huge amount of fun and not easy to get very close to but they're not as skittish as sprinkbok or kudu by a mile. They're huge animals, as big as a large horse, and delicious. Tastes like good beef. Monstrously tough animals that need a hard swat to go down. Pretty intimidating to find yourself in the midst of 20 or so of them at conversational distances. Kudu by spot and stalk are seriously challenging. I just got mine this year. They have radar dishes for ears and skedaddle at the first sign of far off trouble. Twice the size of a good deer and can get quite a bit bigger than that. Mine was 95kg minus guts, head and feet and was apparently pretty small. He was old and kind of thin too. They taste exactly like blacktail deer but unlike deer quite a few bits are easily made fork tender without having to slow cook or braise. You can do the tenderloins over an open fire and they come out tender. Not too intensely flavored but just enough flavor to let you know you're eating something different. Even a smallish bull gives a really beautiful trophy. Plan longish shots and bring something with some thump and bring all of your patience. In the USA: Cottontail rabbit are my all time favorite thing to hunt. If you find a spot with some there's likely to be a ton of them and once you learn how to hunt them you'll usually have no trouble filling a limit in a day. Fast movers and 12ga go together like peas and carrots. Not my favorite to eat anymore, already ate a semi-truck load as a kid growing up poor where they made up most of our protein. Tough as bulls balls, you need alligator teeth and bulldog jaws to eat them. Used to have endless fun pulling 10 or 20 a day in the spring and late fall. Not usually good for summertime hunting. [/QUOTE]
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