Gary Reeder
This was a female Watusi. Alan had tried to
Tuesday, October 01, 2024, 14:40

breed her twice and it never took so he asked me to have a talk with her. The 41 GNR did the talking. That is 12 with one shot each, plus one Nilgai that I drowned.
This one filled up 3 large coolers of steaks and burger.
This was the first day and you can see the storm clouds coming in behind me. The storm hit that evening and stayed with us the rest of the hunt. Kase and Robert and I took our soaked clothes down to the lodge dryer and dryed them but 15 minutes after going back out we were soaked. We dried our clothes 4 or 5 times but it didn't help. We were walking in inches of water with leaves and grass on top of the water. Our boots never dried out at all.
In this picture Robert and the guides were loading Robert's Dall sheep about halfway down the steep hill while Lynn's son had fun playing in the rain.

This was one of the steep hills we climbed several times during the hunt in the rain and mud and slick leaves. I was about half way down the hill when I took the picture.

About half way down I spooked several goats out of an overhang out of the wind and rain.


The animals liked to go to the bottom of the hills and we rousted several big herds of Fallow and Sika does plus herds of elk and large Fallow deer plus Red Stag bulls and dozens of hogs. Behind the goats you can see several Sika and Fallow does heading toward the bottom of the hill.

This is Kase and Robert in a hard driving rain trying to catch up with a couple of big hogs. You can't really see the heavy rain in this pic but it and the fog were with us the whole hunt after the first morning.

Kase hunted like his old man with his gun in his hand all the time.
There was never a time that we said "screw it, I'm going back to the lodge" My truck was right there in the pic but other than trying to drive around a gully to try and catch up with Kase's big hog we never gave up . We stayed out in the rain and fog the whole time except when it was time to go in and eat. We went there to hunt and that was what we did.
Here is Kase's monster hog with Lynn getting ready to skin it.

That hog was worth every minute of the rain and fog.