We have not had good access to the internet as Namibia had outlawed Star link since Elon Musk would pay the government extortion money. Using phone as a hot spot is allowing us to send some pictures.
Doug shot his Leopard quite early in the trip and that made the need for additional bait animals unnecessary. There were species in the area that I had yet to take on safari and decided to concentrate on them. Steenbok, Duiker, Springbok and Black wildebeest.
Namibia had their best rainfall in years and the grass was 2 ft tall, it made hunting the small antelopes quit a challenge. Hunted for a steenbok first and spent the day spotting their horns sticking above the grass only to have the vanish upon approach. As the sun was getting close to setting an old springbok ram step out into a clearing in front of me, the PH threw up the sticks and I quickly positioned my rifle. “Click” rather then bang was the noise my gun made, I had not chambered a round. I had just enough time to work the bolt and sent a round through the front of the brown stripe as Werner had suggested. Back in camp that night my first springbok had been named “Click.
