Blesbuck in the Easter Cape

[Heinrich]

Here be the first post on Hunting that I make on Muzzleloading Forum.

I shot this blesbuck ewe towards the end of the hunting season in the Eastern Cape.

I shot her at 80m with a 385gr conical through the neck. The load was 80gr of FFg Wano. Gun was .50 caliber Ranger Rifle.

She weighed 90kg's before dressed. It was a pretty old female animal, and you can see the white hairs in her face.

 

[bob1961]

beautiful animal, wish we had other choices here in the u.s. that we didn't have to sign over our first born to hunt :hatsoff: :v ...........bob

 

[Rocky Johnson]

Nice picture. Are they hard to hunt. You have a light shirt on an no snow on the ground and the country behind you looks different than what we see here in Michigan. Is there a lot of walking or do you use some kind of an ATV? I am envious.
:winking: Rocky

 

[bigbore442001]

Congratulations. :grin:

 

[bucktales]

Congratulations. Good looking animal. :thumbsup:

 

[jethro224]

Looks delicious! Congrats! :thumbsup:
What other critters do you hunt?

 

[Heinrich]

That is a one of the larger medium sized antelope in South Africa, and they are found in large numbers across the plains in South Africa. And they are hunter pretty regularly, the meat is best as sausages and minced meat. We also make biltong in South Africa, basically jerky.

These are pretty difficult for ML hunting as they have excellent eye sight, and are as a rule pretty skittish. Being herd animal, when one starts running, the whole herd starts running, and they have tremendous stamina so they tend to run pretty far.

For this hunt (most hunts) we are dropped in the field, and then agreed to be collected at a certain time and certain place again. Then you are on foot.

The weather is very mild during the day, but it gets cold at nights.

I've got pretty quite a number other hunting pics with ML shooting, I'll post them as well.

 

[shmrck1]

Heinrich,
Beautiful animal! Looking forward to those other hunting photos. You and Titus hunt together or would that be too scary??? :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
snake-eyes :hatsoff:

 

[snagg]

Great lookin animal. Thanks for sharing the pic. :thumbsup: The 80m I can figure out cause the meter is close to our yard. But I had to get a conversion chart out to calculate the weight. I guess I'm metric challenged. :grin:

snagg

 

[PreglerD]

Congrats and Waidmanns Heil from Germany. I see on the pic you used a scope. What is it and how is it mounted? Is ML hunting very common in your country?

I have a deerhunter in .50 with 1 in 48 ''twist on which I have mounted a scope, too.

Greetimgs from Germany

Kirrmeister

 

[PreglerD]

The conversion is:

100 yds = 91 meters

Greetings from GE.

 

[Heinrich]

Yip, that is a telescope mounted on a sidelock...

I unfortunately have VERY bad eyes, and need all the help that I can get. :surrender: After some doubtful shots I took the step to have the telescope mounted.

I used Lyman mounts for octagonal barrels. Worked perfectly.

BP hunting in South Africa is in a phase of increase, but there are still many people who are sceptical.

 

[PreglerD]

My deerhunter from Traditions/Ardesa is drilled and tapped for scope mount. I used a Weavermount for my scope. Works pretty good, too.

 

[Heinrich]

I've seen the taps on those rifles, it makes it much easier to mount a scope.

I needed to have the tapping done before the scope mounts could take their place on the barrel.