Broadside
Hold on the back line of the near front leg, about a third of the way up the body. A nyala bull's long belly hair hangs below the chest and fools hunters into aiming too low; the dorsal mane fools them into aiming too high. Use the elbow.
Quartering and other angles
Quartering away, aim for the far front leg. Quartering to, enter at the point of the near shoulder. Nyala are often shot in dense riverine thickets, so check the bullet path for twigs.
Do not
Do not shoot through brush in thick cover, and do not confuse a young bull with a mature one. Wait until you can see the horns and the white chevron clearly.
Where they live and the typical miss
Found in the lowveld of Southern Africa, from KwaZulu-Natal to Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The typical miss comes from a bullet deflected by brush or a shot that was aimed by the fringe.
Hunting the thickets
Nyala move through thick bush along riverbeds at dawn and dusk. Still-hunt slowly or wait near a water hole.