Bob's South African Safari
Day Seven: April 30, 2005
Two impala were fighting through the property fence. It was very impressive. From a long way off we could see the fence bouncing back and forth as they butted heads.
I shot a good impala at 243 yards on our side of the fence. I held a bit high to compensate, but it was not necessary. The bullet struck the Impala in the spine quite high. It was just were I held.
We then went to the river and located a 30 ¼ inch waterbuck. I watched him for 20 minutes. He never presented an easy shot. He showed his head and horns, that was all. I finally aimed into the grass about 4 inches below his chin. He went down. Bullet severed the carotid artery and spine.
Near dark 4:30 PM I climbed into a blind over some meat the outfitter put out. What a night that was. At 5:30 a Klipspringer buck came to the water hole in front of us. I could hear him drinking. He ran off when 3 warthogs showed up. The warthogs knelt to drink. They were leaving as a group of 5 Wildebeests also showed up to drink. They stayed until well past 6:00 PM and dark.
For the next hour we sat perfectly still and at 7:30 a hyena came in to the bait. Johan shined the light on him from a remotely wired light in the same tree as the bate. The hyena immediately ran off. We waited another 10 minutes and he came back. Johan used his surefire flashlight from our blind to shine on him. He whispered, “shoot.”
I could not see the animal until I came back off the scope and realized that I was looking too high on the tree in the dark. With a slight adjustment, I made one shot at 60 yards. She went right down. Boy they smell bad and look mean and scary.
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