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    Bowhunting the Klipspringer

    Jul 04, 2020 6 minutes
    By Frank Berbuir

    It is simply fascinating to see how many there are and how diverse the group is and how challenging it is to hunt them. The first time I saw a klipspringer was during a safari in 2007 in Namibia in the Khomas Highlands. It was standing like the Lion King on a rock on top of a mountain overlooking the valley. The tiny antelope was far away, even for a rifle hunter, but I could observe him for a while with binoculars. Since that time, I never saw one again. After my successful adventure on a blue duiker and red duiker bowhunt, my next most sought-after specimen in my quest for the pygmy antelopes, was a klipspringer.

    I was with my friend and PH Izak Vos from Vos Safaris on a nice farm in the Northwest Province bordering the Limpopo Province. The previous year we had successfully hunted a mountain reedbuck there. During that safari we

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