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South Africa\u2019s Eastern Cape is beautiful, scenic, and teeming with game. The baboons would hole up in mid-level ribbon cliffs during the day, and descend to rob feed from lambing pens by night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

\"Take<\/a><\/a>“They have the biggest canine teeth, per pound of body weight, of any species on earth. Just wait till you see them, Mate.\u201d We were jolting up steep mountainside two-track on South Africa\u2019s Eastern Cape, talking about baboons. A band of them had been raising Cain in the lambing pens, stealing corn out of the feed troughs and threatening the sheep. We\u2019d been keeping an eye out for the troop while hunting plains game, without luck. Now we hunted the baboons specifically, hoping to reduce the pressure they were putting on the sheep.<\/p>\n

The terrain was rough, rocky, and broken, with cliff-rimmed mountainsides soaring toward the skies. I was hunting with Dave Davenport, an eighth-generation stockman on the same land. The Boer war had been fought across his ranch, in part, and he showed me tarnished cartridges and bullets he\u2019d picked up from ancient battlefields. The ranch sits deep in a natural horseshoe-shaped valley on the side of the mountains. Dave started Leopard\u2019s Valley Safari here years ago and offers wonderful adventures hunting free-range plains game across the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"Take
Baboon\u2019s possess intimidating fangs, to put it mildly. Additionally, they are remarkably interesting and repulsive in combination and can be a challenging quarry to hunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

RIFLE SETUP<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

My rifle was a well-balanced bolt action chambered in .280 Ackley Improved, with a 24-inch stainless Cerakoted barrel, hand-laid fiberglass stock, and Timney trigger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snugged atop the action in one-piece Talley mounts was a Zeiss Conquest V4 4-16X50 riflescope topped with an adjustable moa turret. I carried a Zeiss Victory RF binocular programmed to match my ballistics and environmental factors, which with a press of the button told me not only the yardage but also a dial-to moa number. It was a simple, fast, and accurate system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My ammunition was hand loaded in Nosler brass, primed with Federal Gold Medal Match large rifle primers, charged with 59 grains of H4831SC powder, and topped with a 155-grain Federal Premium Terminal Ascent projectile with a BC of 0.586. Chronographed velocity was 2960 feet per second. The combination was lethal way further than I wanted to shoot at game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Take
My .280 Ackley Improved handloads, which proved to be devastating on everything from Steenbok to Eland. Baboon not excluded.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A SMUG BABOON<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It was late in the hunt when we decided to get earnest about hunting the bandit baboons. We loaded into Dave\u2019s quintessential Toyota Land Cruiser pickup and pointed it toward the mountainside where they liked to retreat during daylight hours. Dusk was coming on, and we hoped to intercept the bandits on their way toward the lambing pens. Cresting a small rise in the two-track, we did just that. The troop scattered into a small canyon, disappearing like so many wraiths into the brush. Except for the dominant male, a burly baboon who dwarfed the other members of his band. He loped across the canyon, strutted onto a small flat on top of the other side, and turned to look at us. Smugly, he sat down in plain sight, confident that he\u2019d outrun our effective shooting distance and was safely out of range. He scratched himself. I found a good rest for my rifle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The range was 413 yards; not extremely far, but then baboons are not real big. I cranked the scope\u2019s power to eight, adjusted my turret, and settled my crosshairs on the baboon\u2019s chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Take
A classic Toyota Land Cruiser African hunting rig, complete with snorkel and steering wheel on the wrong, er, right<\/em>, side of the truck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

SHOOT OR DON\u2019T SHOOT?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Place yourself in my position. You\u2019re in Africa, drawing down on a marauding baboon. The target is small, not much bigger than a large American Coyote. The shot is long, but you\u2019re shooting an accurate and stable rifle, loaded with superb long-range ammunition. Your optic is excellent and dialed to enable a dead-on hold. Your crosshairs are steady, and the wind is negligible. Do you take the shot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HERE\u2019S WHAT HAPPENED (TRUE STORY)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The big male still sat, smug in his own estimation of my lack of shooting prowess. I pressed the trigger. He collapsed in a heap. It was the last mistake he ever made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Take
The smug baboon, his career as a robber baron having reached its end. It\u2019s what can happen when you think you\u2019re smarter than everybody else.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fact is, in this case, I\u2019d have taken the shot even if the baboon had been twice the distance. Sure, there is a chance of making a less-than-perfect hit, but baboons are considered vermin across much of Africa, especially when they become problematic and predatory. I wouldn\u2019t feel any ethical conundrum at taking a low probability shot at a grain-stealing rat, and the same applied to these baboons. That said, I was just as confident that I could kill the critter as he was that I couldn\u2019t. Turns out I was right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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