SOUTH AFRICA: Karoo Wild Safaris Mid Season Report & Pictures

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Hi Everyone

We're well past the half way point of our season at Karoo Wild Safaris in South Africa and it's been a season to remember so far. In the early part of the season we welcomed Vern and Joyce (Oregon, USA) to South Africa for the first time, kudu connoisseur James and Dorothy (London, UK) returned for their 3rd safari with us as did Rob (Birmingham, UK) and Scott (Houston, Texas) for their 2nd safari with Karoo Wild. Steven and Neale (Queensland, Australia) hunted with us on their first ever hunt in Africa. Mike (California, USA) joined us for a shark cage diving/hunting package. Mike has hunted in Africa many times and it was a pleasure to hunt and tour the Eastern Cape with him. As it normally is doing the mating season, the hunting was superb with a number of excellent trophies taken. April and May again proved to be prime time for hunting kudu in the Eastern Cape Although the rain stayed away we still had to swim the odd animal out!














We welcomed Texan outfitter, Don and wife Debbie to South Africa in June for a 15 day hunt. Don took a number of antelope and small carnivores during his hunt, including the rare and elusive aardwolf. It was a privilege to hunt with Don and learn some of the skills he's developed as an outfitter and guide







July and August proved tough hunting. The Cape area was flooded by a rare cut off low system and it poured for 4 days. Bruce and Michael (Oklahoma, USA) were hunting with us at the time and we all decided to hunt hard and we hunted through the rain on the first half of their hunt. Richard and Michael (New Jersey, USA) and the Torres family (Mexico) joined us for five day hunts. Genaro Torres has hunted in Africa several times and his wife, 20 year old daughter and 13 year old son, Genaro jnr all were hunting for the first time ever. Genaro took a black wildebeest, gemsbok and impala in the first two days. The next two days were hard and we covered a lot of distance. He missed a kudu on the second last day and he began to doubt he would leave with one. The last morning and afternoon was spent tirelessly searching for kudu and on the last hour he made a 250 meter shot to bag a 51 inch bull. The joy on Genaro snr's face when his son's perseverance was rewarded was one of the highlight of the season for me. Graeme (PH), Valeria and Liliana also had success and took a blesbok, gemsbok, impala and zebra.






During the year we've added 2 new young trackers, Jerome and Dolf to our team. They're showing great promise under Mitchell's guidance. We're delighted to welcome Madeleine to the team as a student doing work experience and has been a great help to Lindsay in managing the lodge. We're looking forward to the next part of the season and have some exciting cull hunts booked for August and October.

Wishing you all good and safe hunting!

Victor Watson
 

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Great pictures with some very good looking Trophy's.
 
Some very nice trophies, some exceptional kudu in there.
 
Happy to see that the season has been successful.
I hope it will continue at least during this month.:)
See you soon Victor.
 
I'm sure the good hunting will continue! See you in a few days Denis...
 
Good trophies, Victor !
 
Those Kudu look very nice nice especially for the East Cape. Congrats on some fine animals. Bruce
 
Thank you. The kudu hunting has been tremendous the past 18 months in the Eastern Cape. Think we're seeing a whole generation of big kudu that were born in a period of high rainfall after the 2007/8 drought
 
Here are some pics of cull/management animals that we took during two cull hunts in August









 
Some fine trophies, keep up the good work. Your clients seem pleased!
 

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