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I hunted with Nick Bowker Hunting, highly recommend his outfit. Great value package hunts, excellent quality of animals, and huge expansive land to hunt. Free range animals with low fence ranches, excellent meals, top notch equipment, excellent website, what more can you ask for.

The best advice I can give is practice with the same type of shooting sticks your PH uses or bring your own. Also study the shot placement vitals of your animals you are hunting (If you hit your warthog bad, you are in for a long day). The vitals are lower and more forward than North American...

I also received excellent service from this outfit.

Check out Nick Bowker: https://nickbowkerhunting.com/africa-hunting.php. His operation is free range hunting, all done on sheep and cattle ranch land. I hunted with Nick this year and saw thousands of free ranging animals, harvesting 9 different species.

I’d add the steenbock, only sets you back about $200 and can be a challenging tiny ten trophy to acquire.

16x is too much for the ranges you are talking about. Anything below 500 yards you will be fine with 6x. More magnification makes it harder to find the target. Also as my PH said it also shows your crosshairs wobbling which translates into less confidence.

I hunted with Nick Bowker this year and used his gun. We used a Swarovski z8i 2-16x50. I say we because as I aimed at game anywhere between 30 yards to 400 yards Nick would adjust the turrets for the range. It was a sweet setup, all I did was put the crosshairs on the target, wait for the go...

Wow, crazy indeed. I flew in April with United and Gracy Travel, no delays and no problems MKE-Newark-Johannesburg. I know this isn’t for everyone, but I highly recommend what I did. Fly with only one Cary on luggage, no gun. Smooth sailing using the outfitter’s gun (Nick Bowker Hunting).

In honor of Cal Pappas - NKWE SAFARIS

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Fantastic hunt, thanks for sharing.

Fabulous hunt, thanks for sharing.

I can’t wait to here more! and see pictures.

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In honor of Cal Pappas - NKWE SAFARIS

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In honor of Cal Pappas - NKWE SAFARIS

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In honor of Cal Pappas - NKWE SAFARIS

In honor of Cal Pappas - NKWE SAFARIS

In honor of Cal Pappas - NKWE SAFARIS

Nice kudu!

Looking forward to hear how it went. I also had an awesome hunt with Nick this year.

The shooting sticks used are Rudolph quad sticks. My buddy and I bought a pair of the exact model Nick uses. We practiced a half dozen times shooting a few hundred rounds of 22LR. After the first round of 50 shots I got very comfortable shooting, I could hit a quarter at 50 yards. I am not the...

8 day’s hunting, 9 trophies taken and if the budget allowed I could have easily gotten a few more. What an awesome hunt. If anyone is considering Nick Bowker hunting, I would highly recommend this outfitter.

Day 7: sunny 78F windy I took a day off of hunting and watched my friend hunt zebra and warthog. I spent several hours with Mark, the neighbor landowner. I learned a lot about the behind the scenes of my hunt. Here are a few highlights: My exceptional luck was due to allot of intel provided...

Day 6 morning hunt: sunny 75F This day we drove 15 minutes to pursue zebra. We met the landowner, Mark, who took the drivers seat knowing the ranch’s roads better than anyone. He knew exactly where the zebra like to hang out. We spotted the zebra a mile out and devised a plan. Mark drove us to...

Day 5 afternoon hunt: going after blesbok. We drove to new area near the kudu hunt but with a much different terrain. A group of about 100 blesbok live on the grassland (with no trees or bushes at all). It was wide open county with absolutely no cover to make a stalk. We drove to an area a pond...

Day 5 morning hunt: sunny 70F Off we drove about 15 minutes to a new ranch in search of red hartebeest. We glassed a huge valley from on top a ridge. It was rocky Terrane with a few draws with patchy bushes. Right away we spotted a large herd of hartebeest and a small bachelor group (30 total...

Day 4 morning hunt: sunny 65F In search of a nyala. Hiked 3 miles, saw many nyala, no shots. Day 4 afternoon hunt we encountered a locust plague. Hiked a mile near a dry riverbed. The locusts made so much noise we were able to walk up to within 20 yards of a group of kudu. No shots fired...

Day 3 morning hunt: partly cloudy, windy, 50F In search of a nyala. We drove around for 3 hours, did lots of glassing and saw lots of kudu and nyala but none were approachable. Day 3 afternoon hunt: going for springbok. We made 2 unsuccessful stalks on springbok, their wary eyes were too...

Day 2 afternoon hunt: going after gemsbok. After asking if I could join my buddy on a hunt, we all piled into one Toyota Land Cruiser, including 2 hunters, 1 observer, 2 PHs, 3 trackers, and 3 dogs. Off we went to a new area about 20 minutes away. We drove up to a high ridge overlooking what...

Thanks for the kind comments. I am so thrilled with the kudu, Eastern Cape kudu don’t get much bigger than this one, I consider myself very lucky to have gotten him. I am now a huge fan of warthogs, they are all beautiful and I love the way they behave. I give all the credit to Nick Bowker...

Day 2 morning hunt: going after kudu. Party cloudy and 75 degrees. We drove back to the neighboring ranch from the day before. Elvin watched from a distance the kudu taking off from the shots fired at the warthog and saw the kudu circle around and stayed in the general area. So we would pursue...

Leupold BX-2 Acadia Binoculars - 10x42. love them. To be honest they were very cheep, on sale at sportsman’s warehouse. Work great and if they get stolen or broken during travel I am only out $128.

Day 1 Afternoon hunt: going after kudu. We drove about 15 minutes to a neighboring cattle ranch. This property had a riverbed with a few pools of water, but it was too dry for running water. Nick stopped the truck and we started walking towards the river bed and then parallel with it, always...

1st day of hunt: cloudy, on and off rain in morning. Cool temperature. We drove a short distance to a good spot and got out of the truck for a first stalk for impala. We took our time walking and glassing over a distance of about 750 yards. Our tracker, Elvin stayed back as we made our final...

Got back from my first safari with Nick Bowker and had the most incredible hunt, the hunt of a lifetime. I will have to post my report over the next few days. I had 9 successful stalks, one very exciting stalk with a close encounter and near miss of a warthog, but I will get to that later. To...

I recommend 6.5 Creedmoor 143 gr ELD-X® Precision Hunter. Its a great round on whitetail deer, so much so I bought 10 boxes before the amo shortage, good luck buying now…amo is just starting to return on the shelves…

Month/Year: April 2022 - Country where hunt took or will take place: South Africa - Species harvested or intended to be harvested: Kudu Nyala Gemsbok Blesbuck Impala Springbok Red Hartebeest

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Excellent advice. I only shoot factory ammunition.