The three most special animals for me was the Waterbuck (XP), Springbok (revolver), and Jackal (Revolver).
The Waterbuck would be an obvious one, since it is a trophy of a lifetime.
What made it more difficult and memorable was the problems I had to overcome to make the shot. First, there was brush everywhere, and we needed to try to find way to thread the needle/bullet. Prone wouldn't work, so then I tried seated to no avail. Animals were 167 yards away. Trying to hurry and not move much or quickly. Adjusting the legs out on the Bog Gear for a double kneeling shot while staying low was kind of funny after the fact.
Once I have the Bog Gear set-up, my bolt won't close. This became frustrating but we took our time figuring it out. My scope cover had rotated was was barely hindering the bolt. That was ever so quickly ripped off, never to be seen again! Thinus made sure of that.
Todd (friend from the states) and Thinus (PH) were way more worked up over all of these adjustments than I was. I just knew I wasn't going to make a bad shot in the attempt to take a trophy of a lifetime, since Thinus said it was the largest Waterbuck he had ever seen outside of a national park.
Once The XP was finally hot, and ready to go I still needed to make a few small adjustments to ensure I did not clip limbs. That Waterbuck amazingly stayed where he was. I still had a number of limbs to navigate around, but found a small opening and took the shot, and that 750 pound animal went down about 20-40 yards or so from the shot.

The Springbok was another animal that popped up when were actually still hunting along the river for a Kudu. Springbok are kind of like squirrels on crack out there. Seems like they are always running and jumping. Every day after I shot the Waterbuck, it was like I became the "Waterbuck Magnet." This was Thinus' description as Thinus and I literally saw hundreds of them in total (all in different locations), every day. It was surreal. As we had another waterbuck encounter, one was a very good trophy in the 40-50 yard range, we had a large Kudu bull blow out of cover, that was closer to us than the Waterbucks, never to give a shot opportunity.
We kind of assumed that might be it for the area were in, but we continued to take our time outside of the heavy cover from the river. 20 minutes or so later we see a small white spot that looks out of place-Springbok!
Now we are stalking in a semi-open area, using shrubs and trees as cover trying to get into range with the Franken-Ruger. We get into that 80-90 yard range and I set-up and make the shot from the standing position. Thinus was again overjoyed that were able to accomplish the stalk and kill with a revolver. The Springbok was an old man at that, as you can tell a lot of his hide is worn down in areas.
The large male Black Backed Jackal was one of the last animals I took. Since we were not going to do any night hunting for them (Which they do), my expectations were pretty low. We were still hunting on the shore of the river, primarily looking for warthog, and possibly a Kudu. I can't tell you why I wanted a Jackal so bad, but I did. I don't coyote hunt very often here in the states. We had been ever so slowly making our way along the shore, staying close to cover in search of hogs, when I noticed movement-Jackals (Three of them). They were over a 100 yards away and they were hunting. They headed for the edge of water and some grass near the water and some topography his us from their sight. We set up the Bog Gear (standing position) and the Franken-Ruger was ready to roll.
They stayed hidden from our sight, and Thinus asked if I wanted to move closer?
I declined, as I was afraid if we tried to get closer, they would likely pop out of cover and catch us unprepared to shoot, and the opportunity would be lost. We stayed put and waited.
Sure enough one of them came our way and stopped right at 100 yards in some of the green grass that was by the water.
I got as steady as I could and made the shot. One thing I noted is that every time I shot the FR standing with the Bog Gear my shot went a little high and a little left. I do not have this problem sitting or double kneeling.
To be able to do the "sneaky sneak" on a Jackal with a revolver in the daytime was priceless. My first shot was a little left and high and exited right in front of his hindquarter on the opposite side. I did a finisher shot on him. If that hadn't been required I am pretty sure I would have had a shot on a second Jackal, as these guys had no clue we were there.