Saturday, June 11, 2011

After tracking the zebras for about an hour, Braun and Neville spotted the zebras feeding about 200 yards away from us.  There were also blesbok (the same ones) watching us, so I was still skeptical.  

The zebras were moving to our left, and Braun put out the shooting sticks, predicting where zebra would come out.  First, we saw his head, and Sam lined up.  Slowly, the Zebra stepped out, but his shoulder was still blocked by bushes.  He took one more step, and Braun said, "Shoot, shoot, shoot!!"

After the shot, the zebra turned around and ran the other way.  At the same time, hooves from a dozen or more animals were heard all around us.  Blesbucks, 7 or so waterbucks, and the remaining zebra took off away from us.  Sam said he did not feel good about the shot.  I looked diligently to try to get some sign of an injured zebra, but we only saw one...I thought this was a good sign.

Eventually, Braun did see a flash of zebra as he fell to the ground.  We gave him about 15 minutes, an worked out way forward to find him.  He ran about 100 yards or so after the shot; it was a very good shot.  A very fine Berchell zebra.

1 comment:

  1. A zebra!?! You might as well just kill Bambi while you're out there!

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