Bullet placement is the key. With a muzzleloader, you wait for a broadside shot. If you don't get it, you don't shoot. My kudu was taken at 68 yards, and the hartebeest fell to a 78-yard shot.

Fadala and his crew of guides followed the bull, tracking it until Fadala could get a shot. Using a rifle with a barrel greater than two feet long, he downed the kudu. The bull's meat went to a ...