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Returned to hunt our area around Karoo Wild Safaris extensively for some more nocturnal species on Scott's wish list. We got onto a pair of Cape Grysbok early evening and Scott made a tricky shot as the grysbok ram was moving into thick bush. The bullet grazed him all up his side before entering...

We were excited to welcome Kai to South Africa. Kai had initially planned to hunt with us in May 2023. Due to airline issues, we re-scheduled to May this year. Kai booked our 11 day plains game package and made the absolute most of his hunt, shooting some special trophies. He had some once in a...

Awoke to a crisp Karoo morning in the Camdeboo Mountains. It smelled like home. Drove up a mountain road and glassed a herd of Cape Mountain Zebra sunning themselves on a north slope. Put in a stalk and got within 250 yards before our cover ran out. Scott placed his shot beautifully to get a...

We were hunting roan the next day when we got the call that hyena had hit the bait at a site we had running. We rushed back to pack our gear and did a quick range check on the 7mm with the Hikmicro thermal. It was badly out. Several attempts to get it set in failed and the crosshairs had shifted...

We had a fantastic hunt Troy and his wife Melissa in 2023 and were very excited to see Troy again in 2024. Marc accompanied Troy on his 2 on 1 safari with Jason as their PH. Their hunting safari got off to a slow start due to a winter storm but they made up with it as the weather improved...

Richard and wife, Lin travelled from Idaho, USA to hunt and vacation with us in South Africa. Richard was successful on hunting the spiral slam. They visited Addo Elephant National Park where they had good sightings of elephant and buffalo. Thanks for hunting and vacationing with us.

I fetched Jason from Johannesburg airport to assist us with the hunt. J's first words to Scott and Jock were "your holiday is over cupcakes, I'm here to break you". He was right, there were times in the next 15 days we were all inidividually or collectively broken. The South African / Australian...

Met Scott and Jock at City Lodge restaurant for dinner and drinks, early to bed and drove 3 hours to Bela Bela area where we were to hunt for the next 5 days. Had a range session to check the rifles. No major issues and we were all set. Checked in with the local PH / farm manager who was just...

I'd like to share this hunt we recently did with Scott and his son, Jock from New South Wales Australia. Scott contacted me in April last year about a hunt he'd been dreaming of for several years. Scott had hunted Africa on 4 previous occasions, twice in the Eastern Cape with additional safaris...

Tim and 2 friends from the UK hunted with us in late April. Jason and Jaco guided them to some fine trophies. I've posted Tim's trophy pics. The Tiny Ten was in his sights and he took five with us in this trip. His friends didn't want their photos posted and I didn't want to blur faces out. We...

Richard and his son Adam returned to hunt over Easter with us. They had an outstanding hunt, the highlight was Adam's two kudu. Eland, nyala, duiker and both klipspringer were hunted within 800 yards of Karoo Wild Lodge.

As an outfitter I naturally get asked this question a lot, “What’s a good tip? ”. It’s always a little awkward because it’s essentially a conversation about a gift and you don’t want to offend someone who’s not from a tipping culture. You also don’t want to be seen to undersell your staff who...

With the width of that first turn, he’d score nicely. What part of the Karoo is that, more open veld than the area we’re in?

Thank you Randy. Hope you and Shannon are well

Start of the 2024 season and a fine celebration of Seth and Julie's 15th wedding anniversary - hunt and vacation in South Africa. Jason and I had an absolute blast with these fine folks from Nevada.

Peter Beard authored a photographic novel based on his experiences in Kenya called “The End of the Game”. A must read for African enthusiasts.

Cape leopard in the coastal Eastern and Western Cape mountains are generally smaller. They’ve adapted to survive in their environment. Every now and again this theory is tested however. There was a leopard killed with dogs in the Grahamstown area a couple of years ago that was over 100kg, some...

Thank you for your interest. We hunt a total area of 320,000 acres in the Eastern Cape. I’ll limit my description to the area where we hunt the majority of our spiral slam species. Our main lodge Karoo Wild Lodge is on our 11,000 contiguous acres boundary high fenced property. We hunt good...

Some pics of eland hunted in our area in the 2023 season

The end of an absolute cracker of a season! Click to read our End of Season Newsletter 2023

Good morning Samson We have avaialability and would love to have you hunt with us in the Eastern Cape. Please PM me your email address and I will quote you for your hunt. Regards

The topic has been well covered. There's no worse feeling for a PH than having to shoot his client's wounded animal. Communication is key but I do believe there are two scenario's where it's non negotiable and it comes down to universal hunting ethics. 1. Where the animal (DG) poses a threat...

Pics of some of the kudu hunted in our area in the 2023 season

Hunt the Spiral Slam in the Karoo, South Africa for 2024. Included are the members of the spiral slam; kudu, eland, nyala and bushbuck. These animals represent the most sought after trophies South Africa has to offer and all of them involve a different hunting challenge. We're flexible regarding...

Fantastic seeing you again Chris. Thanks for organizing the hunt, you and Rhys hunted some fantastic animals. Second klipspringer we've hunted a stone's throw from camp this year! Getting you closer to completing the "Tiny Ten". Next year red duiker and oribi :W A Rifle:

Caesar and his wife Megan and their friends Jason and father, Dan hunted with us in July. Some light hearted banter centred around who would take the largest eland. Dan and Jason hunted two exceptional eland and Jaco (PH) was all smiles. Caesar and I returned with this eland on the 2nd last day...

Jim and son, James hunted cape buffalo with us in June. Check out the videos

Father and son, William and Todd booked our Plains Game Hunting Package and hunted 20+ trophy species on their 11 day hunt. Some absolutely remarkable shooting from two very accomplished hunters.