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Zebra hunt
Hunting area Chaibis west Namibia Mountain
It
is early morning, me and my client are sitting on top of a
ridge in the Kos mountains
with the most beautiful view in front of us possible. The sun is just breaking the cold from the African winters night. The different colours are amazing with different reds and brown colouring the roughed terrain below us. specie of zebra only to be found in these mountains along the western side of Namibia. They have unbelievable sensors and are really challenging to get close to. Although they are white and black it is still very hard to spot them in this terrain. dreaming with my binos in front of my eyes when Torsten says there is some movement. Where, where I reply getting pulled back to earth. There down below in the small dry river bed, I spot them as well. It is a group of kudu feeding slowly up the river bed on the few green bushes that are still left from the good rains that we have had the last season. that I am awake again I can start looking for Zebra. After a short while I spot a small herd standing in the morning sun also heating up from the evenings cold. seems like a good herd to shoot from. I show them to Torsten and then we start our decent towards them trough the countless loose rocks. possible, testing the wind every now and again as the wind in these areas can really mislead you. Looking everywhere for other game that can spoil our hunt . have to slowly go up a little ridge in order to shoot from, we stop and Torsten loads his rifle after a short break. We start going up the ridge slowly and quietly. Reaching the top we sneak over to some bigger stones that are scattered on top of the small ridge hiding behind them we peep over to find the Zebra still standing and having their sun bath. 
I
Look through the herd and find a good Zebra for Torsten to shoot. Second from the left I say he sees the zebra gets a comfortable position and squeeze the trigger........And then the hole climax of the hunt goes down as the Zebra goes down. Everything knows now we are hear, the baboons are going crazy and in some sense the magic of the morning is over. But still Torsten is over the moon about his Zebra, and I am glad for him it is a nice one. |
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