BUFFELSHOEK MOUNTAINS’ THOLO BULLS

For many years to come, we will still reminisce around a bushveld campfire about where we were on 27 March 2020, the day that South Africa felt the impact of the Covid-19 virus and everyone was ordered into “lockdown”. This brand-new phrase, along with its mates “social distancing” and “sanitise”, sneaked into our everyday existence and changed our lives literally overnight. The terrible new virus engulfed the whole world and our beloved country, alas, was not spared. Overnight it seemed that everybody turned into experts in the fields of virology, immunology and epidemiology.

By the time that three weeks turned into five, the prospect of a single malt and a chop on the campfire at a hunting lodge vanished into the distant future. Several weeks of inactivity and a severe state of gun smoke deprivation forced me into registering for a full-day online Classic Arms gun auction, and me nearly buying several old