SGraves155-Namibia 07

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   Hunted with CEC safaris--Cornie and Elaine Coetzee
Came back to a modern House every night, slept in a real bed, and had internet and TV--useful but not always desireable!
Mainly was there to hunt lion out of Etosha, but the antelope/PG had calved a few weeks early, and the lions had gone back into the Park.  Similiarly, the leopards were having too much fun killing gemsbok, hartebeest, and kudu calves to take our baits.
game taken:  Gemsbok, Kudu, Hartebeest, wildebeest X 2, Giraffe (huge bull), mountain zebra X 2, warthog
game seen, but not taken--leopard, eland, blesbok, black wildebeest, springbok, dik-dik, steinbok, baboon.

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sgraves155 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .223 Remington Joined: 21 August 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 88	Post Options Post Reply Quote sgraves155 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: SGraves155-Namibia 07 Posted: 26 December 2007 at 15:15
	Hunted with CEC safaris--Cornie and Elaine Coetzee Came back to a modern House every night, slept in a real bed, and had internet and TV--useful but not always desireable! Mainly was there to hunt lion out of Etosha, but the antelope/PG had calved a few weeks early, and the lions had gone back into the Park. Similiarly, the leopards were having too much fun killing gemsbok, hartebeest, and kudu calves to take our baits. game taken: Gemsbok, Kudu, Hartebeest, wildebeest X 2, Giraffe (huge bull), mountain zebra X 2, warthog game seen, but not taken--leopard, eland, blesbok, black wildebeest, springbok, dik-dik, steinbok, baboon. Edited by sgraves155
	Steve

Kingpin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka Old IronSides Joined: 01 July 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11716	Post Options Post Reply Quote Kingpin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 January 2008 at 15:01
	Is that the remnants of a leopard kill in the tree in photo 12? The photography is what fantasies are made of....................Kingpin
	There are times when a normal man must, spit in his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

sgraves155 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .223 Remington Joined: 21 August 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 88	Post Options Post Reply Quote sgraves155 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 January 2008 at 05:40
	Kingpin, yes that was a young gemsbok that a good-sized leopard had put up in the tree. Most of the leopard kills we found were eaten on the ground, because of scarcity of hyenas and lack of lions, but there were hyena tracks under this tree, so that is why the leopard put it there. The odd looking animal is an aardvark, killed by a leopard, but hung in a tree by us hunters to keep the leopard from dragging it away.
	Steve

sgraves155 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .223 Remington Joined: 21 August 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 88	Post Options Post Reply Quote sgraves155 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 February 2008 at 11:47
	Edward, the tracker, was amazing. He was better than the dog! He was Herero/Himba, and a Christian. A good man to have on the hunt. The little dog, Foxie, was only 9 months old at the time. He would trail as fast as he could and be completely worn out when after a wounded critter, but he would grab on to its rear end if he got to it before I could finish it off. Cornie and Elaine lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas from 1999 to 2004 so that their daughters could go to high-school in the USA
	Steve