Hunting Tsolwana and Oviston

**Raw1** · 02-10-2016, 18:27

I just came back from a 10 day hunt at Tsolwana and Oviston Nature reserve in the Eastern Cape.
Myself and my cousin bought 2 hunting packages for the following game.

Tsolwana

2x Black Wildebeest
2x Red Hartebeest
2x Kudu
3x Springbok

Oviston

2x Black Wildebeest
2x Red Hartebeest
1x Eland
1x Gemsbok
2x Springbok

We each shot one species each on the reserves and i took the Eland, Gemsbok and 9 Warthogs at Oviston, 2 very different places.
Very exciting hunting and lots and lots of walking involved.
I must of walked close to 100km over the 10 days.

**Raw1** · 02-10-2016, 22:26

My rifle i used is a Ruger Scout Rifle in .308 with a Leupold 2.5x28mm scope which performed very well at taking everything down.
Bullets used were PMP ProAm 150g.
My Cousin used his Weatherby Vanguard 30-06 with a Burris Eliminator 3 Scope and suppressor.

Tsolwana

**Raw1** · 02-10-2016, 22:31

Oviston Pics

**nkosi** · 03-10-2016, 04:57

Hi Raw 1

Congratulations.

Nice photos and some nice animals there.

Good to see that you used the Ruger Scout in the Scout configuration with the scope mounted forward - so many guys use the conventional scope posiion on their Ruger Scouts.

**Maroelas** · 03-10-2016, 05:58

Very nice!

**MyLani** · 03-10-2016, 06:29

Very nice.
I have done game capture in Tsolwana before. Very nice area for hunting

**Dinat** · 03-10-2016, 07:52

Congrats, some awesome pictures

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**Daniel55** · 03-10-2016, 09:35

Very nice,well done. I like the setup of the rifle. What sort of distances were they shot at, how did the 150gr pro amm perform, any bullet recoveries.(well all the animals are dead

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**Raw1** · 03-10-2016, 09:52

Originally Posted by Daniel55

Very nice,well done. I like the setup of the rifle. What sort of distances were they shot at, how did the 150gr pro amm perform, any bullet recoveries.(well all the animals are dead

)

Distances where anywhere from 80m on the Eland to 364m on the Red Hartebeest at Tsolwana, everything else was at around 150m-250m.
Bullets that i did find mushroomed nicely and none of them fragmented.

**Raw1** · 03-10-2016, 09:59

Originally Posted by nkosi

Hi Raw 1

Congratulations.

Nice photos and some nice animals there.

Good to see that you used the Ruger Scout in the Scout configuration with the scope mounted forward - so many guys use the conventional scope posiion on their Ruger Scouts.

From day one i was determined to make my scout a scout.
It took a while to wait for the scope, QD mounts, Rhodesian sling but it all worked as expected.

They size of an animal through the scope looked small at first at those distances but i quickly figured it out and the Leupold optics made everything clear, nice and bright.