Photographed on the ranch.
Black Wildebeest
Dark coat, a white tail and horns that hook down and forward before they turn up. The white-tailed gnu is a different animal to hunt from its blue cousin.
The animal
- Trophy fee
- $10,000
The stay
Your stay is quoted with your hunt.
The trophy fee is the animal. Your lodging, guide and the rest of what comes with every hunt are priced with you when the hunt is planned, by the person who plans it.
No season. No draw. Texas hunting license required.
Plan this huntHunting black wildebeest here
The black wildebeest is the white-tailed gnu of the South African highveld, and it is a different animal to hunt from its blue cousin. It is smaller and darker, nearly black at a distance, with a long white tail that it swishes constantly, a bristling tuft of hair on the face and chest, and horns that sweep down and forward from a heavy boss before they hook up at the tips. Head on, that hook is the first thing you see.
The species came close to disappearing a little over a century ago, when it was hunted out of most of its range, and it survived because a few farmers kept herds on their own land. Private ranches are still a large part of where the black wildebeest lives today, and Texas has its share.
On the hoof, black wildebeest are restless. A herd will run, wheel, snort and circle back to stare at whatever spooked it, which gives a patient hunter more than one look and an impatient one a lot of chances to rush the shot. Wait for the animal to stop broadside and settle. Like every exotic here there is no season and no draw, only a Texas hunting license, so the hunt can be built around the week that suits you, from a blind or off the truck.
Hunt it your way
- From a blind, before the sun is up
- Safari-style, off the front of the truck
- However you have always liked to hunt