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Kipplauf hunting
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MM
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TexasWestPointer
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Re: Kipplauf hunting
Congratulations!! Where did you get the leather cartridge holder?
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canalrifle
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Re: Kipplauf hunting
Thanks for sharing and congratiulations.
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Bravo Matt!!
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Re: Kipplauf hunting
It takes a bit of balls to hunt something like that with only one shot. 
I'm soft and I don't care. 
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gillie
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Re: Kipplauf hunting
Morning all,
Can't believe that I forgot to add this hunt here.
In July 2024 I visited an old friend and outfitter in the eastern part of Namibia. The target specie for the hunt was a good sized eland and the preferred rifle was my K95 in 8x57, handloaded with 200gr Swift Aframes, shooting at about 2500fps.
After a bit of scratching around on the first 2 days, looking for a certain one-horned eland bull, we ran into a massive herd of gemsbok, probably 70-80 animals strong, if not more. The stalk was on and as we crested a small "dune", a fine looking bull presented itself at about 50/60m. The K95 went up and onto the shooting sticks, the shot went boom and the gemsbok went "flop" as the 200gr took out the engine room on a quartering away raking shot. Everybody was happy with the quick and clean kill and we were chatting at how the shot dropped the gemsbok in his tracks, when the guide asked if I would mind shooting the cow that was standing and looking at us at about 70m, for camp meat. I of course did not decline the invitation and after quickly loading another round, the cow went down in her tracks where she stood looking at us, this time from an almost frontal shot into her chest. We stood there, laughing as we could not believe our luck, two gemsbok within 1 minute at about 30m apart from each other. We took the obligatory pictures before loading the two animals on the vehicle.
Over the next 3 days we continued our scratching, bumping into a lot of eland, but not THE one we were looking for. On Saturday, the day before we were supposed to leave, my friend and I set out alone, looking for some fresh sign. We found the sign in the form of a single footprint of a lone eland and some relatively fresh dung.
I took the above pictures at 8:53, just before we started following the tracks. After about 3 hours of zigzagging through the bush and sand on the tracks, the eland track was joined by two gemsbok, the same two that ran in front of us just 5 minutes prior. We could see from the tracks that the eland was not spooked by the gemsbok, and that they were still grazing after joining up with each other. We moved slower, seeing that they were 3 animals now, more eyes to see and ears to hear!
I still can't figure out how we did not see the eland sooner, but the next moment the eland that we followed was standing broadside at about 60m in front of us, looking at us. The sticks went up and the same movement that led to the two gemsbok being shot, was executed almost automatically without having to think about what to do next. There was one problem however, a tree branch of about 5cm thick, was blocking the shoulder shot. I aimed at just below the branch and just behind the crease of the elands' shoulder. The shot rang out and the loud thump of metal meeting flesh was audible just before the eland turned around and ran.
We stood there and talk about the shot, I was confident, no I was certain that the shot was good. We discussed the fact that he did have two horns, but the one growing directly down, giving the appearance that it only had one horn. This is where we made a mistake that could have cost us dearly. We started walking in the direction of where the eland ran too quickly. We found a spot under a bush where it stood and watched us, with blood dripping high on the leaves, meaning it was a lung shot. Too keep a long story short, we found him about an hour later. We followed up on the first shot too quickly, instead of leaving him alone to expire. At about 12:50 and after 15,000 steps for the whole morning according to my Garmin watch, we took the first picture of the "one-horned" eland bull.
Can't believe that I forgot to add this hunt here.
In July 2024 I visited an old friend and outfitter in the eastern part of Namibia. The target specie for the hunt was a good sized eland and the preferred rifle was my K95 in 8x57, handloaded with 200gr Swift Aframes, shooting at about 2500fps.
After a bit of scratching around on the first 2 days, looking for a certain one-horned eland bull, we ran into a massive herd of gemsbok, probably 70-80 animals strong, if not more. The stalk was on and as we crested a small "dune", a fine looking bull presented itself at about 50/60m. The K95 went up and onto the shooting sticks, the shot went boom and the gemsbok went "flop" as the 200gr took out the engine room on a quartering away raking shot. Everybody was happy with the quick and clean kill and we were chatting at how the shot dropped the gemsbok in his tracks, when the guide asked if I would mind shooting the cow that was standing and looking at us at about 70m, for camp meat. I of course did not decline the invitation and after quickly loading another round, the cow went down in her tracks where she stood looking at us, this time from an almost frontal shot into her chest. We stood there, laughing as we could not believe our luck, two gemsbok within 1 minute at about 30m apart from each other. We took the obligatory pictures before loading the two animals on the vehicle.
Over the next 3 days we continued our scratching, bumping into a lot of eland, but not THE one we were looking for. On Saturday, the day before we were supposed to leave, my friend and I set out alone, looking for some fresh sign. We found the sign in the form of a single footprint of a lone eland and some relatively fresh dung.
I took the above pictures at 8:53, just before we started following the tracks. After about 3 hours of zigzagging through the bush and sand on the tracks, the eland track was joined by two gemsbok, the same two that ran in front of us just 5 minutes prior. We could see from the tracks that the eland was not spooked by the gemsbok, and that they were still grazing after joining up with each other. We moved slower, seeing that they were 3 animals now, more eyes to see and ears to hear!
I still can't figure out how we did not see the eland sooner, but the next moment the eland that we followed was standing broadside at about 60m in front of us, looking at us. The sticks went up and the same movement that led to the two gemsbok being shot, was executed almost automatically without having to think about what to do next. There was one problem however, a tree branch of about 5cm thick, was blocking the shoulder shot. I aimed at just below the branch and just behind the crease of the elands' shoulder. The shot rang out and the loud thump of metal meeting flesh was audible just before the eland turned around and ran.
We stood there and talk about the shot, I was confident, no I was certain that the shot was good. We discussed the fact that he did have two horns, but the one growing directly down, giving the appearance that it only had one horn. This is where we made a mistake that could have cost us dearly. We started walking in the direction of where the eland ran too quickly. We found a spot under a bush where it stood and watched us, with blood dripping high on the leaves, meaning it was a lung shot. Too keep a long story short, we found him about an hour later. We followed up on the first shot too quickly, instead of leaving him alone to expire. At about 12:50 and after 15,000 steps for the whole morning according to my Garmin watch, we took the first picture of the "one-horned" eland bull.
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canalrifle
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Re: Kipplauf hunting
Thanks for sharing, Unique trophy.
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MM
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Re: Kipplauf hunting
Congratulations and a great story.