Sorry for posting a hunting video on a hunting site.
Most of this was taken from a GoPro that was shoved in my shirt pocket and basically forgotten about so the whole video is long and not very interesting but, for you, I edited down to less than 5 minutes with the shot at about 1:30.
We originally had stalked a single, old Oryx that turned out to be a cow and I just couldn't shoot her. We saw the zebra in the distance so we worked our way to about 100 yards. I spent 40 minutes with the gun up leaning over those sticks waiting for the PH, Nic, to find a stallion. The stallion we knew about had left the group before we could get a clean shot. You can tell Nic wanted me to shoot a mare - maybe to get it over with or maybe to make sure his client killed a zebra. The mare he pointed out was clean with a nice skin but, again, I just couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger. Luckily, the stallion came back and gave me a shot.
These PH's get clients from all over world, many with little to no hunting experience so they have to assume everyone is a rookie. At one point in this Day 2 video, he coaches me to breath out and squeeze the trigger then not shoot an animal while another one is behind it. By Day 4, he was leaving me alone in the field while he went to the road to get lunch. I think the average South Carolina hunter, is more experienced that hunters anywhere on the planet.
Walking up to that zebra laying, dead, on the African plain is about the most wonderful, surreal experience I could ever imagine. I'm glad I had the gopro in my pocket.
It's a high def video you can see more detail if you watch it on YouTube.
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