End of Season Newsletter 2024 - Karoo Wild Safaris

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Another spectacular season has some to an end at Karoo Wild Safaris. It's been a season of tremendous variety and absolute quality. We hunted in Limpopo and Kwazulu Natal for rarer species like hyena, civet, red duiker, Limpopo bushbuck, crocodile, and African wildcat. In our home province of the Eastern Cape, our sustainable hunting model has paid dividends with our hunters taking some world class trophies this year, including 4 vaal rhebuck over 9", two of them will score in the top 10 of the SCI record books. Apart from offering classic plains game hunting, we've become a niche outfit for quality Tiny Ten hunts, offering our clients access to all the species in the collection. Despite our growth, we still remain true to our core mission of offering well planned, personal, fun and rewarding African safari experiences.

The 2024 season kicked off in March with a hunt with Seth and Julie, their first African safari and a celebration of their 15th wedding anniversary. Jason guided them on their hunt for the spiral slam and springbok slam species. After their hunt, I toured with them along the coast for some activities in Plettenberg Bay.

Richard and son Adam returned over Easter for their 2nd hunt with us. They had a spectacular hunt, taking some truly special trophies. Adam made up for missing out on a kudu last year by hunting two trophy kudu.

Tim hunted with us on his 2nd hunt in South Africa. He hunted some Tiny Ten species endemic to our area and completed a springbok slam.

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Scott and his son, Jock hunted with us on a 22 day multi-province safari. During our adventure Scott hunted an incredible variety of species, taking a total of 27 animals. A safari I will surely never forget and hopefully soon to be repeated.

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Troy and son Brian, from Georgia hunted with us on a father and son hunt. I guided Troy and Jaco guided Brian on their 8 day safari. We had a successful safari, taking an old dugga boyand a variety of plains game.

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Richard and Lin hunted with us on a 7-day safair for the spiral slam species. Richard hunted hard and was successful on all the spiral species. They took some time to sightsee, visiting the Addo Elephant National Park and combining into close contact with the big five.

Troy returned for his 2nd hunt with us, this time bringing his friend Marc with him. Despite some heavy rain in the first few days of their safari, they took some good trophies. Marc hunted a beautiful sable and Troy was lucky to connect with a caracal. Look forward to our hunt in Limpopo next year for spotted hyena!

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Kai had last minute flight cancellations last year and had to wait a full year before he could come on his dream African safari. It didn't disappoint and Kai had the safari of a lifetime, hunting some beautiful animals and soaking in everything Africa had to show him.

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In July, we welcomed a group of friends from Montana and Tennessee on a plains game hunt with us. Stacy hunted with Jaco as his guide, Jason guided Ken and Rob on their hunt and I toured with Andrea and Melinda showing them some of the highlights of the Karoo. We split the 8-day hunt with some time at Karoo Wild Lodge and a few days in our Camdeboo concession hunting a variety of plains game

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Lifelong friends, Carl and Chris hunted with us on their first African hunting safari. Both of them were successful in hunting all 4 spiral horned species

Jim returned to hunt his 2nd cape buffalo with us, this time bringing his wife Melissa with. A hunt with Jim is always a special occasion. I was indeed privileged to witness Jim's 120 yard shot with an open sighted Chapuis double rifle.

We were super excited to welcome Joaquin, on his first Eastern Cape hunt. Jason guided him on his 9-day safari. They had an absolute blast stalking vaal rhebuck above 6000 feet in the Camdeboo Mountains, chasing red lechwe along river beds and waiting at night in a blind for that monster boar to come in. Joaquin also hunted a giraffe, hartmanns mountain zebra, mountain reedbuck, copper and black springbok.

 

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We were excited to welcome Geoff for his 3rd hunt with Karoo Wild Safaris. I guided Geoff to an additional five Tiny Ten species to add to his growing collection. We hunted a world class vaal rhebok, oribi, common duiker, blue duiker and cape grysbok. All fantastic trophy specimens. Geoff also hunted a red lechwe, mountain reedbuck, baboon, warthog and an impala. Jason guided David on his first African hunt. They were successful on kudu, impala, bushbuck, gemsbok, warthog, duiker and duiker. Hope to hunt with the Ozzie boys again next August!

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Paul, from Weipa, Australia booked his first plains game hunt in Africa with us. We were honoured to guide Paul to some fantastic trophies and we had a lot of fun over the 11 days I guided Paul in the Karoo.

Chris (4th hunt with us) and Mitch hunted in KZN with Jason for oribi, red duiker, common reedbuck and greater kudu. Despite some foul weather during their safari there they hunted some excellent trophies.