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Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/09/16 11:34 PM
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Pierce Trophy Hunts
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Our hunter took a fantastic water buck today on the 2nd day of his hunt. Very unique opportunity to be able to take a free range animal like this in Texas. Congratulations! We still have Nilgai Bull hunts available, very exciting hunt on a beautiful piece of property. piercetrophyhunts@yahoo.com www.piercetrophyhunts.com  
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 12:05 AM
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Very cool  Congrats to the hunter
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 12:22 AM
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Elkhunter49
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Wow that is a beast of a Waterbuck. His mass is incredible. Best Waterbuck I've ever seen! Congrats to you and your hunter!!!!!! Baker 
Last edited by Elkhunter49; 04/10/16 06:00 PM.
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 04:08 AM
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John Humbert
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Where are free range waterbuck in Texas?
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 04:33 AM
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TonyinVA
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Impressive. I did not know there were opportunities to hunt free range waterbuck in Texas. Congrats to all!
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 04:46 AM
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 11:40 AM
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Where are free range waterbuck in Texas? X 2 
"It is the same boiling water that softens the rice, which hardens the egg." It's not always about the circumstances, but what you are made of....
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 12:08 PM
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TxHunter80
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That is a really nice waterbuck. Do you see them flourishing like nilgai did?
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 12:21 PM
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Where are free range waterbuck in Texas? I doubt if there are any truly free range waterbuck in TX. They are contained by a fence of some sort because they are just to valuable for someone to allow them to wander off their property for the neighbors to shoot. I've got a waterbuck about like that on my wall, but mine came from Africa.
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 12:27 PM
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We hunt on the free range portion of the Yturria Ranch. There were animals brought in years ago before they high fenced a portion of the ranch. There are now large self sustaining herds of water buck and oryx. We also see eland, kudu, lechwe, and blackbuck. Very unique opportunity to see all of this in the free range, not to mention the extremely large numbers of Nilgai.
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 04:21 PM
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Red Cloud
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Outstanding water buck! The Yturria certainly does have a unique hunting operation. I have hunted water buck in Zimbabwe strong, tough animals and they can be tough to put down. What was your hunter shooting? 
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 07:09 PM
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Yes we saw lots probably 30-40 when we were their, and that one is a monster. The property has just a stand 3 strand barb wire fence, the neighboring ranch is King ranch
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 07:18 PM
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Beautiful, dark bull. Congratulations to the hunter and outfitter.
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/10/16 11:14 PM
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Lone Cowboy
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that's a beautiful animal. (in the word's of my wife upon seeing the picture "wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/11/16 08:24 PM
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Thank you all, this was a fantastic hunt and Brent is a great guy to get with to set you up on a hunt, we saw a extensive amount of nilgai and probably around 35 different waterbuck Bulls we looked over before this bull stepped out of the thicket by a pond to tend to some cows. I was using a 300 weatherby mag with 185 Berger bullets. When I shot him he didn't even flinch and both guide and me thought I missed but I looked at him and said I couldn't have missed, he was only 150 yards and his whole shoulder filled up the scope. Went over to where the bull went in the brush and he had only gone 100 yards and pulled up. Bull quick taped at 27 inchs long with 9 1/2 inch bases
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/12/16 05:51 PM
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When I guided on the Laureles Division there was one that a hunter shot mounted in the lodge they killed on that lease (low fence) in 2007.
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Re: Outstanding Free Range Water Buck
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04/17/16 04:33 PM
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That's a great animal. Congrats to the hunter.
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