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Article: Everyone wants a kudu: the greater kudu is Africa's most popular game animal, and for good reason.
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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My first greater kudu came as a gift at the end of a long, frustrating day. Early in the afternoon I'd missed a good sable bull. The sable stood facing me on the far side of a clearing, and I sat comfortably and took a good hold. I will never know how I missed it, and to this day I'm still not sure I did. But it ran with the herd, leaving nor a drop of blood. We tracked the animals through a warm afternoon, but they stayed in thick mopane and we never sorted out the bull before they bolted.
Eventually the shadows got long and the air started to cool. It was time to retreat to the comfort and safety of the ranch headquarters, for in that time and place the bad ...