During a Drought…
The herd of eland wasn't exactly cooperating. We’d go left to get the wind and they’d turn right, so we’d have to circle back and hustle to get on them again, and the light was fading fast. There was hardly any cover as a result of the terrible drought Namibia was dealing with in mid-2019, so when PH Maré van der Merwe spread the sticks, the distance between us and the bull was just over 300 yards.
I gave six-inches of holdover, broke the trigger of the .300 H&H, and the bull fell out of the scope. Maré and I walked those 300 yards chatting about the great time we’d had hunting together, and I knew, as we stood over an eland bull with horns over 38 inches, that this would be a point in time I would remember with nostalgia.
It was my last hunting day of a week-long hunt with Jamy Traut Safaris, organized by the folks at Federal Ammunition and Bushnell Optics, in order to test some of their new products, and what a week it was. In addition to representatives from the respective companies, as well as Suzie my wife who is my photographer on most hunts, there were two other writers from America, all
