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Wenner Wildlife Studio in Roswell, NM just finished up my caracal and vaalrhebok mount. Could not be happier with the way it came out. I let him choose the pose on my life sizes and he came up with a unique mount for me. I shot both these on the eastern cape last year.

Caught this tom for a friend. Dogs did good even finding their way through a mine shaft and out a vent hole?

Wenner Wildlife Studio in Roswell, NM just finished up my caracal and vaalrhebok mount. Could not be happier with the way it came out. I let him choose the pose on my life sizes and he came up with a unique mount for me. I shot both these on the eastern cape last year.

Caught a nice tom the other day with my brother and a friend. Thought I would share a pic.

How much to replace a toe on a lion mount? I had one of my hounds chew off the toe on a lion mount. Only one toe. Nathan

Nice. No better way to hunt them!

The two sows we let go.

Took the dogs out a few times this august and treed two sows which we let go and finally caught a nice boar with my brother. He has never shot a bear so was pretty pumped to get this guy, especially over the dogs.

Awesome video

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That's an awesome mount.

I have posted pics of this cat before in lion with a terrier. I'll try and right up an actual story sometime. This was really a pretty cool hunt for this cat. This is the cat in my avatar, but I didn't shoot it. It is the biggest lion I've ever caught.

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The cat pictured below is a mature lion. The cats posted earlier have spots and don't look anything like a mature lion. Thought I would share for comparison so all you people that say they are not kittens can see what a mature lion looks like. Notice there are no hints of spots. Saying those lions aren't kittens is like saying a 3 year old boy is not a kid.

Thanks for the writeup and pics. Sounds like a great trip.

Just got back from Africa. This was the main critter I was after since I really enjoy hunting over hounds. Ill post some more pics later.

Decided to share a pic of a bear i caught while out lion hunting late last fall. There was snow/frost in the trees but the ground was bare. Anyways the dogs started trailing up this canyon going really slow but steady gaining speed and making progress. Eventually we came to where a couple headers came together and all the pack went one way and my jagd male went the other. Eventually the pack made a big loop and got onto the trail my terrier had taken. The gps was showing the terrier treed and as the other dogs got there the signal switched to treed for them. My dad brother and I hustled the mile over to the dogs and saw this.

Awesome have fun. Can't wait to see the pics

That's a nice bear for this part of NM but bears on the western side of the state and in parts of AZ get quite a bit bigger. I guessed him at about 6.5 feet.

The rest of the evening was spent stalking along the edges of the jungle trying to find a mature ram bushbuck. Right on dark we saw a bushbuck ram with its head in the brush about 75 yards away. My wife was looking farther up the cut and didn't see it. As the bushbuck moved we saw it was a very nice ram, but by the time my wife spotted it was moving into the jungle and we could not get a shot. The next day we woke up to a very cold and windy morning. The bushbuck hate the cold weather, so we were in luck and they were going to be out sunning themselves in the middle of the day. Normally you only see bushbuck right at first light or right at dark. We spent the whole morning looking and saw several decent rams sunning themselves, but none were quite what we were hoping for. Finally around 3 pm we walked out to a bluff overlooking a river bottom and there was a very nice bushbuck sunning himself and browsing on the edge of the jungle. We moved into position and made an excellent shot at 280 yards on a very nice old ram

After we got the caracal we headed to a new spot in the afternoon to look for bushbuck. We sat on a high bluff overlooking a brush line to see if any bushbuck would come out. From there we glassed waterbuck, warthog, eland, zebra, impala, bushbuck, and hartebeest. We never did see a good bushbuck come out of the brush but spotted a warthog rooting in some long grass. My wife decided to try and get a warthog so off we went. We snuck along the bluff and got to about 180 yards. We managed to find a small opening through the jungle brush in which we could sneak a shot through. It was a perfect shot and the pig ran about 20 yards before piling up.

The afternoon after getting the zebra we loaded up and headed for the coast to finish out our safari. On the way down the weather reports were talking about a huge cold front with horrible winds and rain for 3 days fixing to hit the coast. So needless to say I didn't have high hopes for catching a caracal with the hounds. The next morning I woke up to lots of cloud cover but a calm morning with no rain so I was super excited. Jeff Ford dropped me and the dog handler off in an area where a rancher had seen a caracal about a week prior. We started hiking into a canyon and Jeff went to a high point to listen for the bushbuck barking. Bushbuck bark like a dog when they see a caracal moving through the jungle so that is one strategy to try and find a fresh track. Anyways the dog handler and myself started hiking through the jungle free casting 11 walker type hounds. About a mile in to our walk the dogs started to trail something. At first it started kind of slow like they were trailing a cat but in short order the tempo increased and the dogs were obviously trailing a jackal. After about 3 miles of fighting our way through the jungle we got the dogs gathered where they had made a loss going across an open farm field. At this point Jeff called us on the radio and said a rancher had heard a bushbuck barking in a canyon so we loaded up and headed there. As we walked into the canyon where this rancher had heard the bushbuck bark we got lucky and heard a ram bushbuck open up across the canyon from us. He sounded pissed so we called all the dogs and started running in that direction. When we hit the bottom of the canyon the dogs opened but started heading in the opposite direction of where we had heard the bushbuck. We guessed that the cat was headed up canyon so we frantically circled below the dogs and luckily managed to catch them trailing across an opening and got them gathered and turned around. Once we hit the area we had heard the bushbuck in the dogs started trailing and the tempo picked up. About a half mile later we heard the hounds start to bark treed.

Nice. Looks like an awesome place to live.