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Thread: Age of Animal - Meat Hunting.
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29-05-2019, 20:14 #21
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This is a young karoo kudu, but check the body muscle compared to the two young bulls you posted, a big for horn size animal, small horns like a very young animal, but big in body and mass, dunno if it's because they climb mountains each day :
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29-05-2019, 20:23 #22
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29-05-2019, 20:29 #23
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T Stone - post 3 , the animal I thought to be older(much) and post 21, you put post 3 at 18 months, what would you put post 21 at then ?. I do not doubt your correctness, its just that post 21 looks young in every way even leaving horns out of picture. To me post 3 looks old even leaving horns out. If # 3 is 18 months - what would 21 be ?.
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29-05-2019, 20:30 #24
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29-05-2019, 20:42 #25
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Always keen to try judge horns 52"? That is on the bigger bull Messor.
One too many wasted sunsets and one too many for the road .........
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29-05-2019, 20:55 #26
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One too many wasted sunsets and one too many for the road .........
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29-05-2019, 21:49 #27
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Re: Age of Animal - Meat Hunting.
Generally speaking,the thickness of a Kudu bull's neck is a good indication of the overall weight and is easier to judge than trying to assertain a correlation between weight and horn lengh.
Those with a thick neck will vastly outweigh a bull with big horns and a scrawny neck.
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30-05-2019, 06:18 #28
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T, I think the reason why people go for the biggest animals on most game farms is because you pay for the animal. If I had to pay per kg I would also shoot the younger animals.
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30-05-2019, 06:52 #29
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30-05-2019, 06:58 #30
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Even with us, where people are paying per kg, some hunters are unhappy about shooting sub adult animals. If you pay per animal, I can understand wanting as much meat for your money as possible.
A young man who shot a year old kudu last year, and drew a lot of flack from his fellow hunters for doing so, came back this year looking for an animal of the same size. He and everyone else who ate of that animal was highly impressed with the tenderness and flavor of the kudu steaks.
If you use all of your meat for biltong and wors I guess age does not really matter though.
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