Bob's South African Safari

Day Two: April 25, 2005

The next day our rifles were sighted in.  No one needed to change a setting.  I shot an impala at 30 yards with my 257 Roberts from a blind over water.  He ran about 60 yards. I should have waited for him to come closer to use my handgun.  I was afraid that I would lose him if I waited.  Live and learn. 

The staff came and got me because Obed had found a group of zebra for me.  I followed him for about 45 minutes and shot a zebra at 187 yards. The shot was broadside and through some bushes.  The zebra was on a different hillside. It ran about 60 yards and went down. 

Because of the thick cover, I did not know it went down.  Obed said he saw the zebra go down but then 2 zebra ran off over the hill.   I only had seen 2 zebra and when 2 ran off; I thought that I had wounded it.  Obed thought it fell and then got up and ran over the hill.  We started to follow them but when no blood was evident, Obed wanted to back track them to check for blood.  We found my zebra lying quite dead when we back tracked the group.  There must have been 3 zebra in the group but we only saw 2.

I was quite relieved because, these guys track wounded game for days to recover them.  You are expected to participate in the tracking. Additionally, you pay for any wounded game as if you got it.  I did not want to pay for any game that I didn’t get.  Who would? Thankfully, I never had to shoot an animal more than once the whole trip and I never wounded any game.  All shots were one shot kills.

Impala

Zebra

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