After a year or so of doing homework and research i finally had the opportunity to get out and hunt in Africa . My father and I contacted Karoo Wild safaris and set a date . In total 5 us would be going. (Two hunting and three observers) We all agreed we wanted to do a management/cull hunt. Being it was my first trip overseas with a rifle I had a few concerns and questions. Luckily most of the questions I had were already answered on africahunting.
The night we landed in Johannesburg after the long trip from Atlanta. we stayed at the afton guest lodge . Had an amazing steak dinner. after a few beers we decided to call it a night .
Mr. X from afton helped us with all the proper paperwork and locations we needed to go for all of the police service..
We landed in port Elizabeth and started our journey to Karoo . It was only about a hour drive from the airport to the haaspoort lodge. After arrival we settled in our rooms and wanted to sight our weapons. Luckily they handled the trip very well.
The first trip out we spotted some impala and decided to try out luck. A few miles of walking later I successfully got a nice impala! Being it was my first shot ever in Africa I was a bit nervous .. luckily my shot was a good. Ha
During our first stalk ,victor noticed a impala that had a broken horn and wanted removed from the heArd. The hunt was on again. We spotted him once again and tried to cut him off on the other side of a hill . We waiting for a few hours and our patience paid off.
The next day the weather was kinda crappy so we decided to call it off and try again in the morning . We jump in the truck and try scouting .we can acros some springbok and decided to test our luck.. after a long stalk we were able to get close enough to take a shot.
We tried a few day for some kudu. Seeing many nice trophy kudu but no cull animals. Next trip over I’m going for one of them . Lol
Victor our guide took us to a annex location that was full of warthog.
We successfully took 7 in a day . Sometimes two at a time !
Coming to the last day of your hunting trip we decided to have our luck at some kudu again. Well ,saw a few but couldn’t get a decent shot , right before we were going to quit for the night this little guy ran out .
I think I caught the bug as we are planning another trip already.
The night we landed in Johannesburg after the long trip from Atlanta. we stayed at the afton guest lodge . Had an amazing steak dinner. after a few beers we decided to call it a night .
Mr. X from afton helped us with all the proper paperwork and locations we needed to go for all of the police service..
We landed in port Elizabeth and started our journey to Karoo . It was only about a hour drive from the airport to the haaspoort lodge. After arrival we settled in our rooms and wanted to sight our weapons. Luckily they handled the trip very well.
The first trip out we spotted some impala and decided to try out luck. A few miles of walking later I successfully got a nice impala! Being it was my first shot ever in Africa I was a bit nervous .. luckily my shot was a good. Ha
During our first stalk ,victor noticed a impala that had a broken horn and wanted removed from the heArd. The hunt was on again. We spotted him once again and tried to cut him off on the other side of a hill . We waiting for a few hours and our patience paid off.
The next day the weather was kinda crappy so we decided to call it off and try again in the morning . We jump in the truck and try scouting .we can acros some springbok and decided to test our luck.. after a long stalk we were able to get close enough to take a shot.
We tried a few day for some kudu. Seeing many nice trophy kudu but no cull animals. Next trip over I’m going for one of them . Lol
Victor our guide took us to a annex location that was full of warthog.
We successfully took 7 in a day . Sometimes two at a time !
Coming to the last day of your hunting trip we decided to have our luck at some kudu again. Well ,saw a few but couldn’t get a decent shot , right before we were going to quit for the night this little guy ran out .
I think I caught the bug as we are planning another trip already.
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