Paging Thru A Journal
[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://www.biggame.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/untamed.png[/author_image] [author_info]Larry Weishuhn is a widely known writer, speaker, raconteur and world hunter. He co-hosts “DSC’s Trailing the Hunter’s Moon” on Pursuit Channel, CarbonTV and the show’s YouTube Channel.[/author_info] [/author]
“July 25, 2011…Cold, rainy day! Tosca, South Africa,” explained my journal entry next to a drawing of a kudu bull. The long-horned bull had drifted south from Botswana in search of receptive cows. “He’s only 57!” had said my PH Frikkie du Toit.
Fabulous kudu but not the 60-incher I was looking for! My longest horn African gray ghost to date, at that time, was 58-inches taken with Jonathan Hume on Zimbabwe’s Save Conservancy.
Hunting northern Namibia with the legendary Fred Burchell, I had taken several bulls in the 55 to 57-inch range. And, I had already taken one bull this hunt that was 57 ½-inches. So I had passed him.
I am not one who generally measures horns or antlers, with the exception of kudu in Africa and whitetails in North America. But I do appreciate mature animals with big bodies, horns and antlers.
Reading my 2011 hunting journal, a lot of memories vividly returned, aided by drawings I had done while on the hunt. Notes regarding others on the hunt, weather, Ruger fiream, Hornady ammo and Trijicon scopes compliment those memories.
Are you keeping a hunting journal? If not, it is time to do so. Start one. Be it an already bound blank journal, or a spiral notebook, leave several blank pages between your hunts. This will allow you to add details as you later recall them.
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