Back to Africa: My Last Hunt

By Tom in Oregon

It has been a fantastic 15 days. Superior Safaris has been amazing. Eli’s concession is about as wild as it gets and the amount of game we saw was incredible. What we didn’t see is easier to list than what we did: elephant, leopard, And cheetah. We came well armed and with a wish list of our desired animals. I came wanting to test RF’s Bighorn spike driver in .500 S&W. It tested well. From Jackal to Nyala. I also brought my Sako in .375 H&H for any long range work . . .

My friend Bill came with his Blaser R-8 in .416 Remington and an open mind. He wanted a tsessebe and a klipspringer. He was able to bag those and a record class duiker. He also took two animals of opportunity — a supremely nice impala and an equally nice waterbuck.

My friend Jeffrey brought two custom guns. One in .375 Ruger and another in .300 WinMag. He harvested giraffe, red hartebeest, blue wildebeest, cape buffalo, nyala, and a tsessebe. A target of opportunity turned up in the form of a mature warthog with a broken leg. One shot on the running vlakvark from the …read more

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