Day two

 The day started with us skirting the edge of the caprock high above the canyon walls as the first sunlight started burning the frost off the ground. Our target was Mountain Reedbuck. A loner animal they are sometimes  found in small family groups of two or three. The trick is to see them before they see you. We weren't fast enough on the first one and were treated to his whitetail like flag streaking up the rocks above us and over the top. Several km later Anton the tracker spotted a good ram (crazy to call a Reed buck male a ram!). We worked our way into 200 yards and Sandi missed the shot at an extreme uphill angle, she overshot the diminutive creature. Our penance was several kilomteres more of rock scrambling and nearly getting pushed off the trail by a bluie wildebeast charge. Why they were stampedeing wasn't clear and the blue is on my list there just wasn't time to do anything. Wildest Africa, when a herd of theose critters stampedes past!
Later in the day bedraggled and headed back for a very late lunch we topped a canyon wall to look down on a unsuspecting heard of blue wildebeast. A huge bull was in the herd and Guy said he was a great trophy. We worked our way down into the rocks to with in 200 yards and I smashed a Hornady 185 grain GMX bullet in Superformance ammunition through his boiler room. To my complete amazement he beat the rest of the herd out of the trees and down the trail another 100 yards before staggering hard and going down. I walked down and gave him another from 40 yards to finish the job. When they call the blue the poor man's buff they aren't kidding that bull lived for the 15 minutes it took me to get to him all the while blowing bloody froth from his nose and mouth.
Anton found both the bullets and they performed perfectly. The 200 yard shot is a perfect mushroom and the other shed petals right at the hide on the farside after slamming through both shoulders. My RMR .338 WM claimed my first African animal. Sandi of course put the first notch on it yesterday with her black. Today we have been chasing Mountain Reed Buck again and haven't found a ram only ewes.