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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Buffalo & Kudu in Africa's Backcountry

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES:

• Backcountry in Africa

• On the menu: Cape buffalo, hippo, and plains game--particularly big kudu bulls

• Prep and packing

• Shooting practice for success in Africa's bush country

• Buffalo charge stopped at 4 yards

• Big kudu bulls

• Stalking a monster hippo through other aggressive hippos, past Cape buffalo, and amongst crocodiles

• New and veteran hunters: What we'd do different next time

• Staying flexible and rolling with logistical challenges

• Advice from a PH: How to avoid most common mistakes made by American hunters

• Filming your hunt: How to plan for great results

RESOURCES

Kowas Hunting Safaris

Reinhardt Bronner Productions (pro cameraman & film producer)

Federal Ammunition

Turnbull Restoration

Kimber Firearms

Browning Firearms

Winchester Firearms

Facebook: Kowas Hunting Safaris

Instagram: Kowas Hunting Safaris

Instagram: Turnbull Restoration

Instagram: Reinhardt Bronner Productions

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, there we go. There we go. And we're alive. Rock and roll. Okay.

0:05.0

Three, two, one.

0:07.0

All right folks, thanks for tuning in today. We're coming at you raw and unedited from the field.

0:16.2

I'm sitting here with a bunch of my good hunting buddies around a fire and pop quiz for you where are we here here's your clue the fire is

0:29.2

camelthorn wood all right so I'm Joseph on Benedict and I want to just throw out an idea.

0:39.0

Backcountry doesn't always mean a backpack or horse pack trip into the Rocky Mountain West. It can be any place that's remote and challenging to access.

0:50.0

So for those of you who know what Camelthorne is, we are in Africa.

0:56.2

Namibia, to be specific, and hunting with my good friend and professional hunter, pH, is the term goes, Jock Strauss of Kovas

1:07.5

adventure safaris, hunting safaris, right?

1:10.0

Jock?

1:11.0

Okay, cool. So we got Jock Strauss, we've got his good friend and professional videographer, Ryan Hart here and

1:21.6

then we've got longtime buddies of mine Nathan Roberts and Robert

1:26.4

aired and Thomas Prove Scard and the legendary Mr. Doug Turnbull himself.

1:33.0

For those of you who don't know, Mr Turnbull, he's the world's foremost

1:38.0

restoration expert on Winchester and Colt firearms, so it's an honor to have him here hunting with us, and we've shot some honor to have him here hunting with us and we've shot some pretty

1:44.8

cool stuff using rifles he's built up on his own cartridge the 475 turn bowl.

1:52.3

So you may hear the fire crackling in the background. You might hear generator

1:57.1

sounds you might hear the breeze you'll hear our chairs creaking and stuff

2:01.0

no apologies that's just how it is when we record in the field.

2:07.3

So I want to ask all of you here. Some of us have done this before.

2:13.0

Jock of course has been doing it most of his life.

2:17.0

For those of you who have not been to Africa before,

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