Moosie's 2008 Adventure in Africa...
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Tom
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Moosie
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I'm picking up my New Video software tomorrow. I'll have more Vid clips up soon after 
Ultrahunter
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Hey Moosie,
Have any of the taxidermists around here ever mounted a Giraffe?? Who is doing all your African critters??
Have any of the taxidermists around here ever mounted a Giraffe?? Who is doing all your African critters??
Moosie
Grand poopa
Thats funny
280, If I wanted to hear from a Monkey I would have gone to Montana and asked. Zip it
Tom
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Life is a circus they say. Show us a circus trick, ok, 280, you can do it? You just watch the circus or do you participate too?
Show us a circus trick, ok, 280, you can do it? You just watch the circus or do you participate too?
Moosie
Grand poopa
Life is a circus they say.
OOOOOhhhhh BURN !!!!!!!
Moosie
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Tom
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Did you save any of the giraffe bone? I have a knife handle made of giraffe bone.
DRAFTSTUD
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Hey Mooseman, Does a Giraffe have a Boner like a Coon or something like that....you could have made a walking staff! John
TOM IN TENNESSEE
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Well, I made it back after 21 days in SA and had to check up on Moosie....Great hunt dude! Pics are super.Lotsa nice animals! The two Impala are frigging awesome.
You kilt a pore lettle G-raffe?!?!? Me too! I like your mount idea better than what I did as I couldn't figure out where I would put a neck mount. I had the neck skin made into a scoped rifle case and a shotgun case and the rest of the skin is the carpet in a guest bedroom...barely fits! Them suckers are fun to watch run, wobble and take forever falling! I got mine in Zim in 2002. Lemco Conservancy was going to start culling them because of drought and gave me a 50% deal for $800. Worse meat, filets, I ever ate but it wasn't aged but about 8 hours since we were changing concessions the next day.
My Afrikaans friends consider Gemsbok liver stuffed in the rectum liner a true delicacy. I agree but they only eat Kalahari Gems liver...say it doesn't taste right when killed in all the concessions they have been transplanted too.
I got a buddy who went with me in 2002 that has a full body Ostrich mount. Sumbeech is nine frigging feet tall. Shot him like a turkey, in the face with 12ga #5's. Half the workers on the farm came to watch! He was an attack Ostrich and had chased workers and put one in hospital. Put dents in both bakkes! We drove to within a hundred yards, my buddy got out and started walking toward him and the Ostrich ran at him and stopped to posture at 20 yds---dead ostrich!
I'll start another thread for my fun trip report.
You kilt a pore lettle G-raffe?!?!? Me too! I like your mount idea better than what I did as I couldn't figure out where I would put a neck mount. I had the neck skin made into a scoped rifle case and a shotgun case and the rest of the skin is the carpet in a guest bedroom...barely fits! Them suckers are fun to watch run, wobble and take forever falling! I got mine in Zim in 2002. Lemco Conservancy was going to start culling them because of drought and gave me a 50% deal for $800. Worse meat, filets, I ever ate but it wasn't aged but about 8 hours since we were changing concessions the next day.
My Afrikaans friends consider Gemsbok liver stuffed in the rectum liner a true delicacy. I agree but they only eat Kalahari Gems liver...say it doesn't taste right when killed in all the concessions they have been transplanted too.
I got a buddy who went with me in 2002 that has a full body Ostrich mount. Sumbeech is nine frigging feet tall. Shot him like a turkey, in the face with 12ga #5's. Half the workers on the farm came to watch! He was an attack Ostrich and had chased workers and put one in hospital. Put dents in both bakkes! We drove to within a hundred yards, my buddy got out and started walking toward him and the Ostrich ran at him and stopped to posture at 20 yds---dead ostrich!
I'll start another thread for my fun trip report.
Horn Seeker
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Leaving out the Big 5...I think the Giraffe is wayyyy coool. Good job. There's a guy in Missoula with one mounted, shoulder mount. SHoulders on the ground, neck arches up real high then head is down about 6 feet off the ground...maybe 7... He's got a lot of african stuff and the giraffe and the zebras are the coolest mounts he has...
Looks like a great trip Oscar...congrats...now get to work to pay off the BILLS!hump
Ernie
Looks like a great trip Oscar...congrats...now get to work to pay off the BILLS!hump
Ernie
TOM IN TENNESSEE
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For those that think hunting Africa is like driving thru your local zoo and shooting something different ever 100yds, I invite you to hunt Vaal Rhebok and Klipspringer in the Eastern Cape mountains near Graff-Reinet or free ranging East Cape Kudu in the mountains near Cookhouse. Or you could track buffalo in Zim for 8km to 12km per day for weeks in the hills, thorn and Jess of Chirisa or Matetsi 6....the ellies and lion you stumble on are not circus animals and are generally not amused!
