I have long focused on chasing the big dangerous game that makes your heart accelerate and your palms sweat. Perhaps a mental professional would even say that I’m addicted to it. What could possibly be better than sneaking into the footprints of one that is taller than trees…5 tons in weight and 5 decades or more in age? I will always be an elephant hunter. Who can ever forget their first buffalo...or any buffalo after that? What about baiting for cats and the long wait for one that comes…or often doesn’t! I’ve even grown to love stalking the ancient river lizards around the reeds and cut banks…moving so slow to catch one asleep on the sand…and then realizing that he is watching you as you watch him.
Every trip of mine to Africa has focused on dangerous game. I’ve taken some excellent plains game here and there but never made a trip for that single purpose. Last year, while hunting elephant in Zim, I came across a common duiker that just could not be passed up. While I have not scored him, his longest horn measured 6+ inches and the PH almost lost his mind when we took him. He was very special! Something about him broke down my stubbornness or lack of awareness about these tiny, beautiful creatures. That hunt report can be found here https://www.africahunting.com/threa...d-in-zimbabwe-cancellation-hunt-report.77747/.
I came home and started researching more about these small antelope. I had read about them in times past but there was not a lot written about them until Peter Flack opened up about his growing addiction to them. If you haven’t read Heart of a Hunter by Flack then you are really missing some excellent writing about the Tiny 10 (and many other hunting subjects). In asking around of some PHs, I hear there has not even been a lot of professional research done on some of the tiny 10. We don’t seem to know a lot about their life patterns, etc. I’ve asked trackers and PHs if they have ever seen a baby red duiker. So far, no one I’ve talked to has even seen one in their whole career. Fascinating but little is known or written of them. There is one large book on the subject of duikers that I used to own and unfortunately sold it along the way. The price on it has really climbed but I am looking for a copy of Duikers of Africa - Masters of the African Forest Floor: A Study of Duikers - People - Hunting and Bushmeat by Vivian J. Wilson.
I recently started researching and making more plans for hunting the tiny 10 and small antelope in general. This hunt report is my first focused attempt on that subject. I will be sharing the results of that hunt for 4 of the tiny 10 here as well as 2 separate subjects that will be posted separately to keep the focus better on this hunt report. The other 2 subjects are very worthy of their own topic; dealing with police issues in Africa while hunting and missing/wounding game. I hope that you will also join me on those separate topics that I will post in the near future.
I hope you enjoy this report as I always enjoy sharing the ups and downs of my own experiences with others. I'm always learning and hope you find it to be interesting and entertaining.
Every trip of mine to Africa has focused on dangerous game. I’ve taken some excellent plains game here and there but never made a trip for that single purpose. Last year, while hunting elephant in Zim, I came across a common duiker that just could not be passed up. While I have not scored him, his longest horn measured 6+ inches and the PH almost lost his mind when we took him. He was very special! Something about him broke down my stubbornness or lack of awareness about these tiny, beautiful creatures. That hunt report can be found here https://www.africahunting.com/threa...d-in-zimbabwe-cancellation-hunt-report.77747/.
I came home and started researching more about these small antelope. I had read about them in times past but there was not a lot written about them until Peter Flack opened up about his growing addiction to them. If you haven’t read Heart of a Hunter by Flack then you are really missing some excellent writing about the Tiny 10 (and many other hunting subjects). In asking around of some PHs, I hear there has not even been a lot of professional research done on some of the tiny 10. We don’t seem to know a lot about their life patterns, etc. I’ve asked trackers and PHs if they have ever seen a baby red duiker. So far, no one I’ve talked to has even seen one in their whole career. Fascinating but little is known or written of them. There is one large book on the subject of duikers that I used to own and unfortunately sold it along the way. The price on it has really climbed but I am looking for a copy of Duikers of Africa - Masters of the African Forest Floor: A Study of Duikers - People - Hunting and Bushmeat by Vivian J. Wilson.
I recently started researching and making more plans for hunting the tiny 10 and small antelope in general. This hunt report is my first focused attempt on that subject. I will be sharing the results of that hunt for 4 of the tiny 10 here as well as 2 separate subjects that will be posted separately to keep the focus better on this hunt report. The other 2 subjects are very worthy of their own topic; dealing with police issues in Africa while hunting and missing/wounding game. I hope that you will also join me on those separate topics that I will post in the near future.
I hope you enjoy this report as I always enjoy sharing the ups and downs of my own experiences with others. I'm always learning and hope you find it to be interesting and entertaining.
