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Semi-Live South Africa Plains Game (mostly archery) with the family
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Next up…Ostrich! Different property for this one — steepest ground and worst roads we’d been on - think Moab or Sedona. Slow rough going.
Ostriches on this place were spooky as anything we’d hunted. Every time we got a stalk going, a worker on a quad bike would come idling up from somewhere and blow the whole thing, even from a mile out (one worker, the guy was following us I swear). Burned through about five stalks that way
Eventually my wife and the PH climbed a hill and got a shot at 250 yards. Hit one in the drumstick — which on an ostrich is huge, bigger than my thigh, and it went straight through and out the wing. Bird took off running. Not stumbling, not slowing down. Ran a full mile with a 6.5 PRC hole clean through it.
Caught up to it at 670 yards. Wind was 10, gusting to 20, full crosswind. My wife asked me to please shoot it. I dialed and let it fly, way looser rules on follow up shots for me. Two follow-up shots, two hits. When we got up to it, it was still alive, so my son finished it off.
Hardest hunt of the trip. Also one of the best.
Ostriches on this place were spooky as anything we’d hunted. Every time we got a stalk going, a worker on a quad bike would come idling up from somewhere and blow the whole thing, even from a mile out (one worker, the guy was following us I swear). Burned through about five stalks that way
Eventually my wife and the PH climbed a hill and got a shot at 250 yards. Hit one in the drumstick — which on an ostrich is huge, bigger than my thigh, and it went straight through and out the wing. Bird took off running. Not stumbling, not slowing down. Ran a full mile with a 6.5 PRC hole clean through it.
Caught up to it at 670 yards. Wind was 10, gusting to 20, full crosswind. My wife asked me to please shoot it. I dialed and let it fly, way looser rules on follow up shots for me. Two follow-up shots, two hits. When we got up to it, it was still alive, so my son finished it off.
Hardest hunt of the trip. Also one of the best.
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