South Africa 2025

[Bob33]

Getting an early start tomorrow, hoping to get a gemsbok, common springbok and a black springbok.

Leave a few animals on your wish list unfilled so you have a good excuse to go back.

[Rainier10]

Found some gemsbok but just couldn’t get on them before the sky opened up and started dumping rain and hail, there was also plenty of thunder and lightningNo good but there is always tomorrow. We are hoping to go to a spot that has white blesbok.

[Rainier10]

Getting an early start tomorrow, hoping to get a gemsbok, common springbok and a black springbok.

Leave a few animals on your wish list unfilled so you have a good excuse to go back.

For sure. We are already talking about the next trip. Heartabeest, water buck, leweche, roan and eland are on the list already.

[Rob]

Getting an early start tomorrow, hoping to get a gemsbok, common springbok and a black springbok.

Leave a few animals on your wish list unfilled so you have a good excuse to go back.

For sure. We are already talking about the next trip. Heartabeest, water buck, leweche, roan and eland are on the list already.

Then you also have Dangerous game....  Croc and Hippo were two of my most memorable and interesting hunts.

[Dan-o]

Getting an early start tomorrow, hoping to get a gemsbok, common springbok and a black springbok.

Leave a few animals on your wish list unfilled so you have a good excuse to go back.

For sure. We are already talking about the next trip. Heartabeest, water buck, leweche, roan and eland are on the list already.

You're hooked.     

[jackelope]

Found some gemsbok but just couldn’t get on them before the sky opened up and started dumping rain and hail, there was also plenty of thunder and lightningNo good but there is always tomorrow. We are hoping to go to a spot that has white blesbok.

That’s where the hail went. Huh. Who knew.

[Twispriver]

Thanks for posting the day by day adventures.
I'm enjoying this thread and looking forward to today's update.

[Rainier10]

So Saturday was a little rodeo, not sure what happened. We found a ton of blesbok. Some regular and some white. My wife got all setup for a shot and clean missed. The animals moved off to the right a little so we moved and got setup for a second shot. She hit it but it sounded funny. The guide said it was in the guts. Everything scattered and the one she hit separated from the group moving slow. We followed and covered a ton of ground. It finally stopped and gave her a shot but she was winded and not as steady as she could be. She took the shot and missed. It moved on and when we caught up and had a shot again she asked me to take it. I did but was just as shaky and I missed.

We had to get closer and catch our breath. The brush was tall so we left my wife there to watch as we hiked up hill to get a closer shot. The blesbok played down and disappeared into the brush. We made a huge loop to get above it and when we got above it we couldn’t find it. Two stood up at 60 yards and we had to make sure we had the right one. As we confirmed the right one they both took off before the shot.

After a long hike we finally caught up to it again. I steady the rifle at 100 yards and pulled the trigger with no luck. I had flipped the safety off but only to the unload position not the fire position. This is where using their rifle but us in the butt.

It moved off and we repositioned for a 195 yard shot. I settled in, felt rock solid, touched the trigger and it dropped in its tracks. What a relief and what an exhausting hunt.

[Rainier10]

After that long hot hunt we headed back to the lodge, took showers and then headed to their beach house for a relaxing dinner.

What a view. Sunday we are going to an elephant park.

[Dan-o]

Wow, what a day!!!!

[Rainier10]

Elephant park was awesome.

[HillHound]

What an awesome adventure. And to be able to do it with your family is even more epic. These will be memories you are telling the grandkids about for sure. I would love to get over there one day, but I have a couple more trips to Alaska to check off before I start to set my eyes on a Africa hunt

[Rainier10]

Some photos my oldest daughter has been taking.

[Rainier10]

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[Rainier10]

More and the wildebeest before my daughter shot it.