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🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 121 minutes
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This around-the-campfire episode details three proper backcountry hunts for big Kudu bulls, and two nail-biting hunts in Namibia's historic Caprivi region along the Okavango River for massive, ancient Cape buffalo bulls.
Adam Weatherby, Rob Gearing, Austin Brown, host Joseph von Benedikt, and PH Jacques Strauss dig deep into what worked, what didn't, and how to re-group and sort out a problem when it occurs. And of course we tell the stories of each of the tremendous animals taken, from the butt-puckering stalks on buffalo to the challenge of glassing and getting on a mountain-country Kudu bull.
African conservation success stories and meat-providing processes are part and parcel of the discussion, and in truth provide some of the most passionate elements. Eating the "Poop Chute" and Buffalo balls as a pre-dinner delicacy come into play, too.
And of course, there's plenty of rifle, optic, cartridge, and bullet performance discussion, too.
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0:00.0 | If you'll listen carefully you'll hear a campfire of a casia wood, camelthorn in the background. |
0:08.0 | Maybe crickets and if we're really lucky we may hear a lion roar across the Kavongal River. |
0:15.6 | I'm sitting here with... |
0:18.4 | I just heard a hippo. |
0:19.4 | I'm sitting here with my good friends Rob Gering Adam Weatherby Austin Brown and our |
0:27.6 | pH's jock Strauss and oh gosh I don't even know his last name. |
0:33.1 | Yokobs. |
0:34.0 | Yokobs. |
0:35.1 | Fransois, |
0:36.5 | And you would say Fransois Jacob. |
0:39.2 | Jacob. Jacob. |
0:40.2 | There you go. And we've got the apprentice pH 2, John Hartford here with us. And man, we have had such an |
0:49.1 | eventful week. We're going to tell you about that. We're about 12 hours drive north of where we left you on our last podcast episode. |
0:58.0 | In the area that was historically known as the Caprivi region, We're camping on the Kavangu River, |
1:05.8 | known in Botswana as the Okavango River, |
1:08.6 | and various other names in other places, |
1:11.0 | but we're in Namibia. So our focus here for the past three |
1:16.8 | days has been Cape Buffalo and in a really unique special opportunity. These are not, these are old old buffalo |
1:27.0 | daga boys of the purest sense. They're not a traditional trophy bull hunt. They call them an own use hunt. |
1:35.0 | Jock, tell us a little bit more about what that means in the various ways these |
1:38.7 | buffalo are put to use. |
1:40.3 | So the government puts out a couple of tags a year for a once like these which are like you mentioned |
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