Big game hunting close calls

It comes with 25 whitetail sounds, and 10 predator sounds and holds sounds in total. The BuckPro uses a high-efficiency Mylar cone speaker, and you can also connect an external speaker to the jack on the side of the call for even more volume. When a mature buck is moving, it will likely move downwind.

The system controls up to 3 BuckPro deer call units from one remote if you are looking for directional advantage. Bugle in those big bull elk into your firing zone to improve your changes of filling your tag and filling up the freezer. Share This. Last call for big game hunter reports.

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Every time we got close to the buffalo, we were dead downwind. They could see us, but they could not smell us. Finally, after four close calls, a kind of a collective bovine nervous breakdown had occurred and started the whirling. Will you get the truck? We should check it. By now the adrenaline of a close encounter of the buff kind has given way to amazement. Forty yards from spinning death and we lived to tell the tale. In the s, his father, Geoff, founded the safari industry in that country.

Broom shot his first buffalo at age 9, and his first elephant at He moved to South Africa and built houses. But his restless nature and love of hunting brought him back. Now 52, Broom has a deep understanding of where and how to hunt in Zimbabwe. Thick and unforgiving, the Sikumi forest borders Hwange Park for nearly 30 miles. Plains and dangerous game drift in and out, searching for water and browse in the mopane thickets and grasslands.

There are elephants everywhere. I stopped counting at Alfred and Abednego, who at 60 has tracked in the Sikumi for 40 years, find the pug of a large leopard.

And the trail camera reveals that the cat had been there that morning in broad daylight. Broom checks his watch.

Two and a half hours until sunset. The trackers and Meka, the Zimbabwean game scout assigned to my safari, build a grass blind 65 yards downwind of the refreshed bait. Broom and I return to camp to gather provisions and mattresses to lay on in the blind. Back in the blind, the game scout insists on being the flashlight man. In prior outings, this has proved to be disastrous.