FL Will
New member
I would like to thank AH for this platform and everyone that has shared their knowledge and experiences. It has been an invaluable tool in assisting my wife and I on our first but not our last safari. Like many others I have always wanted to go on a safari but was not sure who, when and where to go. In January of this year we went to the SCI convention in Las Vegas hoping to answer all of these questions and find our first safari. That was not the case. After leaving SCI I felt overwhelmed with options and sales pitches as to why we should hunt with them and not others. Luckily I discovery AH and spent countless hours reading posts and reviews. This helped us decide when (September) and where (South Africa) but left the who we would be hunting with. Here on AH two operators keep coming up over and over. That was @JKO HUNTING SAFARIS and @KMG Hunting Safaris. I reached out to both KMG and JKO and both companies promptly responsed and answered my newbie questions with patience and professionalism. What made us choose JKO over KMG was the concession size, area and assurance we would see exceptional Kudu and Sable. Both these animals were high up on our trophy list of 16 animals. Jacques at JKO exceeded all our expectations!
We flew Delta from Orlando to Atlanta and Atlanta to Johannesburg. The team @riflepermits.com made the rifle import process smooth and efficient. They even walked across the street to our hotel. We stayed at the Intercontinental at OR Tambo and was picked up by Jacques the following morning. The food and accommodations at the Intercontinental was top notch.
Day1
Day 1 started off a little slow with a couple of busted stalks and unusually high winds. However, after lunch we spotted a group of zebras and spent the next two hours tracking them on foot for over 2 miles until I was able to get a shot at 80 yards with my 300 win mag. While Jacques and I were tracking the zebras my wife and PH Dewyk Vorster found this nice 51” kudu and warthog. With her custom pink 300 Win Mag she made two great shots at 160 yards and we hard out first three African trophies in the salt.
Day 2
We started off the morning looking for a buffalo for my wife. It was amazing to watch Jacques, Dewyk and the tracker decipher the tracks from the evening before. After locating the area we knew the bull was in we made our stalk only to have the bull double back and give us the slip. With one blown stalk we headed back for lunch. On the way back we spotted a heard of Gemsbuck and I was able to take the 37” bull at 250 yards. The Barnes 180 grain ttsx bullets performed amazing on the 19 trophies we took.
After another amazing brunch we went out to see what the bush would provide. It was not long and Dewyk spotted a 47” sable feeding along the Setlagole River. After a quite stalk and a 126 yard shot I had this proper sable.
The skinning crew picked up the sable and we were off to once again look for buffalo. Just 45 minutes before the sun went down we found a large heard of buffalo. My wife was able to make a perfect front shot using Jacques 375 H&H. The first picture is a still frame from the video I took showing the bullet right before impact. We knew we had a special bull when Jacques told my wife “you shot a hell of a buffalo bull mama you do not know what you have just done. He is old and big”. After a follow up stalk with four more well placed shots, my wife had her first buffalo on the ground measuring 44 7/8”.
More to come.
We flew Delta from Orlando to Atlanta and Atlanta to Johannesburg. The team @riflepermits.com made the rifle import process smooth and efficient. They even walked across the street to our hotel. We stayed at the Intercontinental at OR Tambo and was picked up by Jacques the following morning. The food and accommodations at the Intercontinental was top notch.
Day1
Day 1 started off a little slow with a couple of busted stalks and unusually high winds. However, after lunch we spotted a group of zebras and spent the next two hours tracking them on foot for over 2 miles until I was able to get a shot at 80 yards with my 300 win mag. While Jacques and I were tracking the zebras my wife and PH Dewyk Vorster found this nice 51” kudu and warthog. With her custom pink 300 Win Mag she made two great shots at 160 yards and we hard out first three African trophies in the salt.
Day 2
We started off the morning looking for a buffalo for my wife. It was amazing to watch Jacques, Dewyk and the tracker decipher the tracks from the evening before. After locating the area we knew the bull was in we made our stalk only to have the bull double back and give us the slip. With one blown stalk we headed back for lunch. On the way back we spotted a heard of Gemsbuck and I was able to take the 37” bull at 250 yards. The Barnes 180 grain ttsx bullets performed amazing on the 19 trophies we took.
The skinning crew picked up the sable and we were off to once again look for buffalo. Just 45 minutes before the sun went down we found a large heard of buffalo. My wife was able to make a perfect front shot using Jacques 375 H&H. The first picture is a still frame from the video I took showing the bullet right before impact. We knew we had a special bull when Jacques told my wife “you shot a hell of a buffalo bull mama you do not know what you have just done. He is old and big”. After a follow up stalk with four more well placed shots, my wife had her first buffalo on the ground measuring 44 7/8”.
More to come.
