Climbed a million miles into the mountains here in Ethiopia near our Omo River camp. We finally spotted a male Abysinnian greater kudu at about 200 yards, but it was too small.

Today we also called in three klipspringers, and I shot one of those. This evening we didn't see anything and it was kind of a bad dik-dik day. We only judged 14 dik-dik's today. We saw one that was over 3 inches, and I had my gun capped, but Jason called off the shot, said we can do better. I'm driving Jason nuts. He thinks I'm here for Abysinnian kudu, but I love hunting the dik-dik's.

We're also hunting for tiang and northern Grant's gazelle. This is the only place in the world where you can currently legally hunt the northern Grant's gazelle.

And we saw a millipede today that was about as big around as my thumb  and close to a foot long. Cool!
 
The Next Day ...

Started seeing the northern Grant's gazelle early this morning. This is the only place in the world where you can legally hunt them. You used to be able to hunt them in Kenya, and there are hundreds and hundreds of them. We also saw some Beisa oryx. It's rather unusual to see them around here, many of them migrated down to Kenya and there are not as many around here anymore.

We also saw several hundred tiang, but they are spooky, spooky, spooky. We tried over and over again, and the closest we could get was 186 yards and the tiang were running at that point. So, it looks like it's going to be a longer shot on those guys.

But I did get a beautiful Grant's gazelle, about 24-inch long horns, gorgeous animal, one shot, perfect, 130 yards. Kind of got lucky. We were sneaking on tiang and poked our noses around an anthill, and there was this Grant's gazelle. Everything is pretty spooky in these wide open plains. It's really quite pretty here.

Today we also saw a corybuster, the largest bird in Africa, in full display with its tail up over its back and its neck all ruffed out as well. Good all around day. We only saw one lesser kudu female this evening. We're kind of struggling on kudu, but we're in the mountains hunting up in the highlands, down lower we could see more lesser kudu. Everything is going good!
 
The Next Day ...

Hot, hot, 98 degrees outside my hut last night. I didn't get much sleep, kept dripping some water from the shower onto me to try to cool off.
 
Not much action today, except the big news that I got a huge dik-dik! His horns measured 3 5/8 inches and 3 1/4 inches long. Tiny animal, with tiny horns, but this one, relatively speaking, is big. We ended up judging a total of 73 dik-dik's ... now the dik-dik hunting is over.

We're going to spike out in the mountains, probably starting tomorrow, so that we are living closer to the kudu, hoping that increases our odds for the Abysinnian greater kudu. Many famous hunters who have spent a lot of time in Africa, say that the Abysinnian greater kudu might be the most challenging animal in all of Africa. But we're going to keep working on it!