Hunting Kizigo And Ugalla In Tanzania 2009

Hunt Report III

Alan is removing thorns from Roy's shoes

Lunchtime in the bush. Walter's favorite time. He started complaining about lunchtime, as sometimes we had ours at 3. So Alan arranged for some sandwiches to be made, which we planned on having at 11, and were called "elevenses". This was shortened sometimes when Walter was with us, and we had our "elevenses" at ten!

Walter is taking pictures with one of his many cameras. You can also see the hand washing basin on the left.

The results of a good morning hunt. We saw this herd run ahead of us as we drove along. We stopped the truck, and went after them Walter had a grand view of the proceedings, as he stayed on the truck, which was parked on opposite side of a valley as we followed the buffalo. We managed to get to about 20 yards of them, and they sensed danger, and started packing together - just as if they were being harried by lions. I shot the one on the left, and he ran a couple of steps and stopped. Then I shot the one on the right, and dropped him. Another shot into the first one dropped him too.

This is how they dropped

Roy is is crawling to an ant hill, to shoot ma zebra, and Alan was behind him.

The giraffes played hell with us. They seem to be scared, and run from far away. And almost every time we are after something, a giraffe appears, and puts a monkey wrench in our plans.

Alan climbed a tree to see some buffalo we were following

We followed these bulls for a while, sometimes getting less than 10 yards of them, but were not able to see enough for a shot. If you look at the top right hand corner of the photo, you will see the back of one, and others are ahead of him.

Picture taken at my eye level

The reeds on the left were the buffalo were feeding.

The buffalo hunters wishes - fresh buffalo dung!

Alan climbing an ant hill to be able to see better. No luck!

The buffalo are on the other side of these reeds.

Alan looking for higher ground.

The bull we picked to shoot out of about 15 that came out of the reeds. I wanted to drop him in his place, hence the neck shot.

Walter insisted on having a BBQ pronto, so this kongoni was added to the menu

Walter's iphone, with him in the bush, where there is no reception. He has 4 separate SIM cards for it, all in one pack. Great way to loose everythig!

I think this a nightjar egg

Following a herd of buffalo that ran up this hill

Buffalo liver for breakfast

A funny looking little fellow we found late one afternoon.

A pair of oribi

Sleeping on the job! One of our trackers putting up a leopard bait

Recovered bullet from a buffalo

A tiny frog we found on the dead buffalo. For size you can see the fly on the right

Our eland was full of fat. He was in great shape

His ears were in tatters

Roy shot this zebra, and during his whole hunt we made sure we kept him on his toes.

A small fruit from a tree we found. It is very hard, and had sharp thorns as you can see

Chris and Roy trying to pull a bullet out of one of my ammo. We had some organic salt, which looked very similar to black powder. So we hatched an idea to put a trick on our trackers and game scouts. I emptied the powder from the case, then filled it up with that salt, and replaced the bullet. The next day at lunch time, I had a hard boiled egg, cut it into five pieces - there were 2 trackers, one game scout and one driver, plus one for me. I put a little bit of salt on each piece of the egg, and popped one into my mouth. I then offered the others the rest. They all ate them, and commented that the powder did taste like salt. I told them that taste came from the "saltpeter" I used to make the gunpowder!

A giraffe killed by lions

We were sitting right in the open, as we were trying to get close to some roan, when a kudu cow saw us. We sat still. In fact so still, these warthogs came very close to us without noticing.

Roy's kongoni

Roy getting ready to shoot his kongoni

Breakfast