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Dec 2023 - ONE HORN meets his his end.

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(@that-hunting-kid)
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Well - not yet.

It's been almost a year that I have been going after this 1 specific impala with one horn, which I call One Horn. I just can't seem to get him, every time I start to get into a range that I can shoot, one of his herd members always ends up seeing me.
I have taken clients hunting with me while I hunt for one One Horn and give them the chance to shoot if it is not him. I have also shot other rams while trying to get One Horn, but it seems that One Horn knows the game of hunting. So, this weekend after much convincing I finally convinced my dad to take us hunting in the summer heat, so hopefully this weekend I can get One Horn. I have already got a spot on my wall for his horns.


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Posted : 13/12/2023 5:28 am
(@treeman)
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Here is the Impala Cody speaks of, we going again, taking 2 adults two young boys. Cody takes all these folk hunting, while he searches for this mythical beast.
The amount of times I have seen Cody walking back to play out the same " Yo boy!"  - " Yuuuuu ! Dad you should have seen, I got ........................................"

Everyone gets their hunt, but one horn ???

Screenshot_20231213_181828_Gallery by David Frank Allen, on Flickr


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Therefore I am me.

 
Posted : 13/12/2023 8:47 am
 Ds J
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Good luck!


 
Posted : 13/12/2023 8:55 am
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Big body and thick neck. Go for it !!!!!


 
Posted : 13/12/2023 10:22 am
(@treeman)
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Years ago on Gun Site someone wrote regarding a large Impala they had hunted, someone added something about weights of 36 - 38 abouts animals. I wrote in that thread that we sometimes got 33 kg skin on ewes (I think it was about there)
I saw this ram twice now and I am thinking 38 KG skin on.

TStone wrote of an 40 kg animal I believe ?


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Posted : 13/12/2023 12:28 pm
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Alldays area - I have seen a 42kg carcass (no skin) that was shot there.


 
Posted : 13/12/2023 11:34 pm
 Ds J
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Do I get this right:

Eastern Cape kudu is smaller than RSA average?

Eastern Cape impala is larger than RSA average?

Or is it only the Impala in that area?


 
Posted : 14/12/2023 1:08 am
 Ds J
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And what is taking so long?

Where is the photo?

;D  ;D  ;D


 
Posted : 14/12/2023 8:11 am
(@oafpatroll)
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I'm so clueless about furred game I doubt I would have guessed the average weight of an Impala of either sex to within 10kg.

Good luck with your quest Bonsai!


 
Posted : 14/12/2023 8:20 am
(@treeman)
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Do I get this right:

Eastern Cape kudu is smaller than RSA average?

Eastern Cape impala is larger than RSA average?

Or is it only the Impala in that area?

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The average size of both animals are smaller E/cape, but the big trophy's seem to be the same size. I think game farming and transportation has changed the old rules.
We always got some Very big kudu done here though.


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Therefore I am me.

 
Posted : 16/12/2023 7:09 am
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We just got back from the hunt at 10h00, and finished working meat into portions an hour ago. I will post photo's later as I am super tired. Cody did not get one horn, but he did get a Impala that weighed 35 kg clean carcass, head skin all off. This Impala has its own story, never seen the likes of what happened here.

I will try convince Codes to post a post, but he is dead to the world tired and teenage grumpy.
I will download photos, he can write his story, I will write the other story, never seen this before NEVER.


I am who I am - I am not who you want me to be.
Therefore I am me.

 
Posted : 16/12/2023 7:15 am
 Ds J
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Looking forward to it! Thanks.


 
Posted : 16/12/2023 8:14 am
 BBCT
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We always got some Very big kudu done here though.

You only got to take a drive thorugh Addo National Park to see how big Eastern Cape kudu (that haven't been shot at for a few generations) can actually get.


 
Posted : 16/12/2023 11:25 am
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https://systemz.online/index.php?topic=493.msg2972;topicseen#msg2972

posted here.


I am who I am - I am not who you want me to be.
Therefore I am me.

 
Posted : 16/12/2023 11:24 pm
(@jamesnotbond)
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Cody let me know when you get him, I will help you again with the mounting board, I have this idea I wish to try.


 
Posted : 18/12/2023 1:07 am
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