Who Likes to Hunt the Tiny 10 Antelope?

[ftrovato]

My Outfitter & PH Dempsey Bayly with Bayly Sippel Hunting Safaris suggested I consider hunting the Tiny 10 while in Moz since the Gaza Province had Suni hunting available. After much consideration, I decided to give it a try. So happy I did! I was able to successfully hunt 3 of the species. Already planning to hunt another area in 2026 trying to take more of these little antelope. Fun to hunt and the back straps were very tasty too!

I hunting Suni, Sharpe's Grysbok & Common Duiker.

Share some pictures if you have them.

 

[Hunting Hitman]

Still need a Suní but here is the Grys and Dik Dik

HH

 

[HuntingGold]

Love the tiny ten!
I have five...

 

[Ozishooter]

HI
Have done 6 of the ten , Going to try to get the last 4 in 2026
Great fun hunts

 

[LivingTheDream]

Still need a Suní but here is the Grys and Dik Dik

HH

That one is a Klipspringer.

 

[3chunter]

I have taken only a steenbok. But they are fun. An east cape trip for them would be my preference if I went back to east cape.

 

[Red Leg]

Some people have trouble with leopards. It took me three safaris in two countries, and God knows how many days to finally take a blue duiker. I was determined to only take a male and do it with a rifle while stalking one on my hind legs. That dream was finally realized in Zambia at @spike.t magnificent Takeri.

The tiny ten are special.

Oribi, Suni, Red Duiker

Blue Duiker

 

[Hunting Hitman]

That one is a Klipspringer.

I need to stop posting after a lengthy 19th hole session.

HH

 

[skydiver386]

I like big Kudu, Red Stags and Eland.

Tina has no interest in anything except the little ones. This is her Duiker and Steinbok.

 

[ftrovato]

I like big Kudu, Red Stags and Eland.

Tina has no interest in anything except the little ones. This is her Duiker and Steinbok.
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Fantastic! I'm with both of you on the Big & Small Stuff...

 

[Hunt anything]

I love hunting them. I’ve posted before that one of my biggest mistakes on Safari was ignoring them on my first safari to Mozambique. I had opportunities for red, blue and bush duiker, suni and oribi but I only had eyes for the big stuff.
I have rectified this somewhat by taking bush duiker, steenbok and klipspringer. I was contemplating trying for a sharpes grysbok in August but they are a little too expensive in RSA. I should have tried for a cape grysbok back in 2018 but ran out of time.

 

[lhook7]

I've got 5: Damara dik dik, common duiker, grysbok, steenbok, and klipspringer. When I go to Uganda next month, I am hoping to get guenther's dik dik and oribi.

 

[BryceM]

It fascinated me that African PHs often get just as excited about these little guys as they did by a nice kudu or gemsbok. It’s just one more way Africa is different.

 

[Throwback]

I really fell for the Tiny 10 as well. I have a duiker and this guy (a steenbok) and am headed to Namiiba this April for a dik-dik and a klipspringer. After that I plan to pick up some in Moz during a buffalo hunt (when I can find the time) and then the Eastern Cape for a few. Probably wont be all 10 after those trips but close.

Lastly, just curious what others shoot them with and how they taxidermy them? I shot mine with a 300WM since that is what was in my hand but the PH told me if you do a dedicated hunt he has a 22 hornet for this kind of hunt. I am getting mine shoulder mounts and possibly a full body for one or two of them eventually. Cheers

 

[Russ16]

What’s the perfect gun for these little guys. Looks like fun and I like the idea for building a Tiny Ten Rifle.

 

[DieJager]

Just started to hunt the small antelopes. Took a Steenbok and Bush Duiker last year.

 

[ftrovato]

I really fell for the Tiny 10 as well. I have a duiker and this guy (a steenbok) and am headed to Namiiba this April for a dik-dik and a klipspringer. After that I plan to pick up some in Moz during a buffalo hunt (when I can find the time) and then the Eastern Cape for a few. Probably wont be all 10 after those trips but close.

Lastly, just curious what others shoot them with and how they taxidermy them? I shot mine with a 300WM since that is what was in my hand but the PH told me if you do a dedicated hunt he has a 22 hornet for this kind of hunt. I am getting mine shoulder mounts and possibly a full body for one or two of them eventually. Cheers


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I took the 3 I got on this safari with my 416 Rigby and 400 grain solids. In & out real clean....it's what I had with me....

 

[Red Leg]

What’s the perfect gun for these little guys. Looks like fun and I like the idea for building a Tiny Ten Rifle.

Most of mine with a solid from a .375 (to include the tiny suni). The blue with a 170 gr bonded SP from a .275. Both worked perfectly. On my first African hunt in Namibia I centered a steenbok facing me at fifty yards with a 220 gr bullet from a .338. The results were spectacularly bad though very lethal.

 

[Kevin375]

I prefer "big" games but there is really something special with these tiny antelopes for sure.

So Far, I have hunted 4 members of the tiny ten : Steenboks, Grey duikers, Klipspringer and Damara dik-dik.

 

[Green Chile]

Perfect rifle is tough because the whole point of the T10 is that they take you into all kinds of environments, terrain and different countries. T10 is harder than big 5 in a lot of ways. You can throw money at the big 5 and get there fairly quickly besides some luck needed with leopard. I have used a 22 hornet for several T10 last year. I've also used whatever I had when one popped up.

Here are some good ones...

huge common duiker from Zim...

steenbok from Limpopo...

nice Sharpe's grysbok from Limpopo...

one of my favorites...very large red duiker from a little honey hole area in Limpopo...not easy to find