First Blesbuck

Marlene’s love affair with my .22-250 started when she first handled the rifle. Flat shooting and with low recoil, the rifle suited her well and she even started referring to it as “her rifle”

to my WhatsApp message was, “ .” That set the ball rolling for a truly memorable get-aw I’ve been hunting at Spitskop, a sheep farm in the Cr ock district of the Sneeuberge, for more than a decade. Th s hunters’ heaven has an abundance of game, a landscape that includes mountains, plains and thickly wooded brush, as well as a small seasonal river feeding into the Great Fish river. It was the ideal place to hone my wife’s novice hunting