Small antelope, big challenge
“He’s an absolute monster,” said Pete matter-of-factly, “and he lives on this big plateau.” ‘Big’ was an understatement. Even ‘huge’ didn’t cut it. The landscape in Eastern Cape is steroid-induced expansive, and Pete’s ‘plateau’ was the size of Switzerland. The ‘he’ Pete was referring to was a steenbok and, paradoxically, the ‘monster’ was a bit bigger than a hare but smaller than a large puppy. One of South Africa’s ‘tiny ten’ antelope, it is a very fascinating animal and extremely challenging to hunt – unless you are a long-range shooter, and I am not.
Ironically, hunting these miniature species never appealed before coming to Africa, but they grew on me, crawled under my skin like microscopic parasites and
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