Fast forward a year, to South Africa with my wife, Greeta, and long-time hunting partner, Bruce. After a few days in the Limpopo Province, attempting to add to my Tiny 10 goal by hunting klipspringer and duiker, then seeing the biggest kudu I’ve ever seen in the wild, a 59” brute, my attention turned to the Karoo and the main focus of the safari— springbok.
We left very early in the morning on the fourth day of a seven-day hunt, for the 12hour overland trip south, to arrive as early in the afternoon as possible to get in some hunting time before dark. Two of those seven days were travel days — so hunting time was precious.
About The Karoo:
The Great Karoo is a plateau region extending across a vast area and several provinces, with open rolling grasslands interspersed with volcanic hills and the occasional tree - quite different from the Limpopo bushveld. The Karoo is similar to the landscapes of northeastern New Mexico, where I’ve hunted pronghorn antelope, but the similarity ends there,
