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As some of you may have read in a previous story I wrote about a friend of mine who was losing lambs to a predator at night. Which we eventually caught up with and killed. They turned out to be caracal which are amazing animals but can cause huge problems to a stock farmer, especiallyContinue reading “Black backed jackal in the lambing camp.”

The season had been long underway and we still had a few kudu to take off the property to meet our quota.  It is a low fenced free range area where the owner surveys how many kudu are regularly on the property and then calculates how many he will take off. These will be dividedContinue reading “TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION”

Over the years I have hunted many species of wild game.  On some occasions I get asked to shoot something different. These hunts don’t include the typical game species, but involve domestic stock that have gone wild. Due to the remoteness of the farms in the area I live in it is difficult to gather allContinue reading “SOMETIMES THE TAME BECOME WILD”

The warning was said over forty years ago. Hunters and land owners cautioned: “Don’t shoot anything there, as we’ll never be able to recover it”. Kudu and waterbuck are the main species which inhabit that specific property along with a few springbuck and mountain reedbuck.  The terrain is tough. High mountains with deep valleys, many of which are almostContinue reading “A forty year old challenge accepted and achieved.”

I had cleaned the skull of my kudu (Tregelaphus strepsiceros) and was waiting for a chance to get into town to drop it off at the taxidermy. I was going to have a European skull mount on a shield done, as I already have a shoulder mount of my first ever kudu bull. The bullContinue reading “The Magical Fifty (part two)”

In all sports there are magical numbers, which competitors strive to get to.Hunting is no different. Some of these would be numbers like, 40 in for sable (Hippotragus niger), 100lb for elephant (Loxodonta Africana) and in the Eastern Cape of South Africa the magical number is 50. This 50 inches, is all to do withContinue reading “The Magical Fifty (part 1)”

It was arranged. A group of five family members would head to the Eastern Cape to help reduce the springbok numbers on a low fenced stock farm. With sheep, goats and springbok on the property this was necessary as they would all be competing for the same food.We would be wanting to take off betweenContinue reading “HUNTING SPRINGBOK IN THE WIND”

Many people think that professional hunters get to hunt all the time. This is partly true but the final part of the hunt, the shooting is normally done by the client. Don’t get me wrong, we do get to hunt for ourselves but rarely on the ground that we take clients to.The game on theseContinue reading “A FIRST FOR ME”

As we sat in darkness, waiting for our nocturnal prize, the only sound we could hear was that of the ocean breaking on the beach on the other side of the dunes.A feeding area had been set up months before, and a trail camera placed out to record activity once the sun had gone down.Continue reading “TROPHY IN THE DARKNESS”

2020 will be remembered for a couple of reason but the main one being Corvid-19 closing the world down.The season was set and looked good. I had had my first clients from Austria in January where we had hunted a number of unusual species. From porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) to bontebuck (Damaliscus pygargus) and a numberContinue reading “THE HUNT BEFORE THE WORLD CLOSED DOWN.”