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Article: Curse of the eland. (hunting)
- Article from:
- Outdoor Life
- Article date:
- February 1, 1992
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FEW AFRICAN HUNTERS HAD SUFFERED AS I HAD, LIVING THE FRUSTRATION OF THE 20-YEAR ...
Suddenly, it was all too easy. Ridiculous even. The impossible became the probable. The fool was being crowned king; the tortoise was flying to the moon. Quite simply, my crosshairs were on the eland bull, and when I touched the trigger, nearly two decades of frustration would have a happy ending.
Of the game I had seriously pursued during my hunting career, the eland had been the only animal to steadfastly remain unobtainable. Not that I hadn't hunted long and hard, or that I'm an unlucky hunter, it just seemed that the gods of hunting had decreed that the eland ...