Distribution: – Limpopo Bushbuck ranges from Mpumalanga, central Mozambique, the Limpopo Valley, eastern Botswana and Southern Zimbabwe.

Description: There are as many as 23 subspecies of bushbuck and a lot of controversy regarding the different subspecies. Listed below are the 9 most recognized subspecies:

Harnessed, Abyssinian, Menelik’s, Bor, Somali, Masai, Chobe, Limpopo and Cape. 

The smallest of the spiral horn family in Africa, it has short spiraled horns. Generally speaking the further south, the darker bushbuck become. The exception is the Menelik’s Bushbuck (central Ethiopian highlands) that is the darkest of all the bushbuck.

Limpopo – Bushbuck – Medium to light brown colour with a few spots on the rump and a white dorsal stripe. They have a “white neck collar” and a white patch under the chin and on the insides of the fore legs.

Size SH: 1.0m. W: 70kg (male).

Sex determination: Males carry the horns, females are reddish brown.

Trophy assessment: Anything from 14” and bigger

Shot Placement: Broadside – in the middle of the body straight-up with the front legs.

Frontal – Centre line in the chest.