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Infected by the Bacillus africanus, my client Alexander was back hunting again with us in April. This time we wanted to try for an eland bull. Alexander was looking for a challenge and had brought his Krieghoff Classic Big Five double-barrell. “Back to the roots” I thought. I was impressed that somebody had the courage to hunt such a difficult antelope with a side-by-side and over open sights. Especially in such drought conditions where very little cover was left. It would also be a challenge for me, to bring my hunter close enough to the quarry for a shot over open sights. With the big calibre of a .450/.400 NE and without scope, we could only take a safe shot from up to 100 yards, but as we knew each other, I was looking forward to hunt with Alexander.

Hans Christian Denk

We were roaming the bush for days and scanned the valleys and the surroundings from the hilltops. The bush was sparse and offered little cover. No eland in sight, although it should have been easy to spot them. Our search and daily hunting excursion, however, taught us a valuable lesson: despite their massive bodies, eland are very secretive and quiet. We had some successful hunting in between, bagging a big hartebeest bull, which of course was to be expected in the prime area and cradle of red hartebeest. At sunrise on the fifth hunting day we were out again, still looking for that elusive eland bull. From hilltop to hilltop we went, when we suddenly heard something making a racket in the bush below us: two eland bulls trotted through…

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Huntinamibia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Huntinamibia 2020 (English)

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