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Impala of Paterson

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:29:31 GMT

Impala Of Paterson

Late afternoon on 15 March we set off looking for the surprise we had for Jermey with me not being 100% happy with the first Impala. I managed to get him another one. We drove into the field where we spotted a herd of about 5 rams grazing just on the outside of a stand of trees. We spotted a big ram, but what we did not know, was that the Blesbuck was close by and that made our plans fall through as they spooked the Impala into the bush.

We spotted a herd about 1200 meters out grazing on a ridge and decided to shift our focus to them. We set off with bush in between us towards them. We managed to get 4 rams about 150 meters from us and out came the shooting sticks right next to the trees what we used as a shield.

With the cross hair on the target, the trigger got squeezed and the bullet hit the spot and sent the Impala off, running about 80 meters before going down. We took videos and photos, loaded the Impala, and returned to the skinning shed. We got invited to have a braai with Seun and his family as he used to work in USA. We had a delicious meal and kuier. We then decided to have some fun and set off to go and shoot some springhare with a shot gun. This was to prevent any more damage to the field where the cattle graze. At about 2am we got back to The Wild Olive and had a few drinks before heading off to bed as we were leaving for Van Stadens resort in Port Elizabeth in just a few hours.

Springbuck of Assvoelvlei

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:28:08 GMT

Springbuck Of Assvoelvlei

On 15 March we only had 3 animals in sight, Springbuck, baboon, and a surprise gift for our client. After leaving The Wild Olive where we stayed for the last couple of days at around 06:30, we met up with old friend to see if we could get a baboon, but for 3 hours the baboons outsmarted us.

We left to see if we could get a big old Springbuck ram. As soon as we entered Aasvoëlvlei, we spotted a lone Springbuck on the ridge about 900 meters out and decided to stalk closer with the temperature raising close to 40° Celsius in the Karoo. We grabbed a few drinks from the cooler box and set off walking and after staying connected with the truck, we came close to the Springbuck ewe at about 60 meters. We decided to leave here and go to the only tree on the ridge about 150 meters from here to wait and see what will happen.

After about 30 minutes, the truck went around and picked up a big herd of Springbuck. Unfortunately, they startled them, and they ran a wide turn. They stopped about 500 meters from, stopped, scanned the area and they took off, running towards us. The whole herd of about 60 Springbuck came past us, mostly young rams’ ewes, and lambs. We waited before the ram came trailing them by about 5 minutes and he followed the same path the herd did. With the shooting sticks out, the 6.5 RPM resting on the sticks, we waited for him to stop about 150 meters from us. With the tall grass we only had 50% visibility of Springbuck. With the instruction of "Take it" the morning silence was broken by the loud sound of the bullet being sent towards the selected animal. He went down in his tracks and the celebration started as the client just successfully finished his first trip (starter package) in Africa in 2 days with super formidable shooting skills. He shot 5 shots / 5 animals.

We took photos and loaded Springbuck onto the truck. We took him back to the skinning shed as it was 43° Celsius now and we still had to take Jeremy for his surprise animal.

The Black Tail Of Van Stadens

Sat, 24 May 2025 15:37:27 GMT

The Black Tails of Van Stadens

After finishing our hunt, we set off to van Staden holiday resort on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth to do some sight seeing and to visit the Taxidermy Africa in Humansdorp to see what our client wanted to do with his trophies.

After arriving at van Stadens late the Sunday afternoon, we had to cool down and started a fire to braai some chops and steaks.

At last we decided that we needed to test the fish waters as we wanted to get our client to catch some fish. We used pink prawns as bait. We had a few casts to see if we have luck. On the fourth cast, the wind started to pick up and with 1 undersize black tail, 2 big black tails and a barber we set off to our home for the night. We suddenly had a hard rain shower, but we didn't care about that seeing that we had some blood warmers in. Lol. We shared hunting stories around the fire into the early hours of the morning

The breeding of the Yellow and Copper Blesbuck

Sat, 24 May 2025 13:55:05 GMT

The breeding of the Yellow and Copper Blesbuck in the Karoo

In the next couple of months, we anticipate the release of our first bredding herds of Yellow and Copper Blesbuck on to our Karoo farm near Jansenville in the Eastern Cape, where we will undertake an intensive breeding project for the next couple of years.

The primary objective of the program is to produce animals with the ideal horn conformation and robust body size that I prefer for my clients.

To prevent inbreeding, which has signifincantly impacts the horns and body development, we expect to have selected rams available for huntin in two to three years. This will however be more the a cull then hunting to prevent in breeding in the herd.

However, to achieve the desire outcome, it is essential to work with the worlsd's top genetics to ensure the right horns conformation and robust body size we looking for.

We will start CK Hunting Safaris brother aswell a thing that is close to me CK Game Breeders a section from CK Hunting we started back in the days but never finish the paperwork.

The Ostrich and the gale force wind

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 11:37:16 GMT

The Ostrich and the gale force winds.

On 7 July 2024 i set off looking for a young warthog boar on GrassRidge Lodge, our main base in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. As soon as I arrived at GrassRigde the weather started to change from sunny to windy and cloudy. After checking the rifle, my trustworthy 2027, I set off to see if I could get a warthog. Not long into the stalk I spotted a sow and yearlings, I quickly had a good look to see if I didn't mis the boar. I quickly made way around them as they were busy chilling and not bothered with the rest of the world. After about an hour the first rain drops started to fall and I had to make my way back to the truck. I grabbed something to eat and waited to see if the rain shower will pass. After about 30 minutes it stopped raining. I set off with the farm owner and we were talking about hunting Ostriches, as we have over 70 on the farm and ideally only want 40-50. As we come to a place, we call the Truksvy vlak we saw the female Ostrich that normally spook all the animals in the area. I said I want to shoot her. He was hesitant due to the fact that there where gale force winds at the time. I got out of the truck and start to stalk in on her with the wind in my face. I made it to -+ 100-meter form her with the shooting sticks out the vortex viper on top off the leg halfway up the body the bullet hit the target and sent her down where she stood. She looked like an ordinary Ostrich, but infact she was the biggest Ostrich hunted on GrassRidge in the 7 years since Mario's father bought the farm.

The Blesbuck that made us walk 25 km

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:45:36 GMT

The Blesbuck that made us walk 25 km.

After a day of 4 seasons in one day, long hours of walking, we set off on our day to hunt Blesbuck The only Blesbuck, a certain type of Blesbuck needed to be hunted. After arriving on the farm (dairy farm - free roaming) the owner met up with us and asked us to see if we can't get the lone ram as it no use to him as it has broken out to the next-door game reserve a few times and then comes back again. It's been a problem for him as they have lions on the neighbouring farm. After spotting the herd, we stopped and started to stalk, seeing that he was normally in the same area as the herd. After spotting him and checking the wind, as we didn't know which direction it wanted to blow in, we started stalking him in a riven. The wind suddenly changed direction again and off took the herd. We followed the herd and spotted a beautiful Impala ram. With Impala on the menu, we quickly shifted our attention to take the gap and take what the bush offered us. With the shooting sticks out and the 6.5 Weatherby RPM fitted with a Leopold scope, the crosshair on target, the morning silence was broken by the 140gr Nosler accubond hitting the target. After taking photos, we shifted back to the Blesbuck and we sent the Impala to the skinning shed. We started walking in the direction of the herd to where they moved, in the hope to find him. Yet again after about 10 km, we saw the herd in dense bushes hiding from the wind, but we could not spot the chosen ram. We kept our eyes on the herd for about an hour before we decided to go and have a look in the area that the owner always sees him in the afternoon. We walked back to area where our driver called us on the 2way radio to say they have eyes on him, but with us still being 7-8 km away, we just prayed that he will settle down and start grazing. With the distance getting shorter and shorter we really needed food and refreshments. We met up at the truck and had some awesome boerewors rolls and juice in the field. We set off to where they spotted him from the road. He looked calm. Unfortunately, yet again the wind changed direction, and he picked up his head and ran +-500 meters. He stopped right behind some dense trees, and we could use them as camouflage as we closed the gap between us. From about 50 meters away, our client was about to pull the trigger, he took off again and stopped about 200 yards from us. We moved a bit closer to get a clear shot. With our sticks out and the 140 gr Nosler, we were ready for our target and sent this Blesbuck down in its tracks, sending him on his way to his forever home, Ogeron USA.

The Duiker

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:36:18 GMT

The Duiker

The Duiker.

When we weren't able to spot a duiker during the day, we knew finding a duiker will be alot of patience and praying. They are mostly active late afternoon during the night and early mornings. We made plans with one of our famers in the area to go and have a look early the next morning if we could find a ram by him.

After getting the Impala and Blesbuck in the salt, the sun was about to set. We started to drive back to the lodge and as we drove by the one cattle pasture, we spotted an awesome looking ram. We quickly had a look at him and decided that we should at least try and get a stalk on him. we quickly got the 6.5 RPM loaded up and the shooting sticks and set off. We had to walk against the fence in hopes of him not going into the open field to be never found again on this hunt. We spooked him up from in the thick thorn bushes where he was bedding down head flat on the ground. We watched as he take of over the open 400-meter pasture just to go and bedding down in front of the only trees in the middle of the pasture. Out with the shooting stick, our client made one super good shot and sent this little fella to the salt and his forever home in Oregon USA.

The Copper Springbuck Ram

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:59:47 GMT

The Copper Springbuck

09 September 2022.

After a long and hard week of hunting the time arrived for us to set off to our Karoo concession in search for some awesome Springbuck rams. We left the lodge at 04h00 am in the morning and we arrived at the farm at 07h30. We went straight to pick up Stefano our tracker for the day and we set off to the Springbuck camp. We hoped to find The Copper, Common, Black And White Springbuck. After we arrived at the camp, we spotted an old big male Copper with a few ewes and the hunt was on. We sent off on a stalk up the hill. The wind started to blow and we then knew thst this was going to be a long day of hard hunting.

After about half an hour later, we managed to close the gap to about 100 meters. We got a shot, and the wind was blowing gail force. The bullet, a 100 grain Sellier & Bellot out of a 243 is a bit to light weight for gail force winds. We decided it would be better to go for the 338-win mag with 200 grain Winchester Super x bullets. We set off to the hill to glance at the camp in hope to spot the Springbuck again. They only moved in a circle and came back to about 100 meter from where they original was. We started to stalk again. With the wind now form our left hand side, we were able to get close to the herd of about 30 Copper Springbuck. The ram, about 100m from us, was standing with its back towards us while grazing. We decided to take the shot and to put the Vortex Vipers Cross hare on top on the back in hope to penetrate the vital organs. With the cross hair on the spot and the 200 Grain super X chambered in the trigger, the morning's silence was broken. The bullet hit the sweet spot and the Copper Springbuck Ram went down in its tracks. After taking photos, the ram was dropped off at the skinning shed and we set out to have a lovely field lunch. The rest of the afternoon we tried to get the Painted Springbuck ram. All can say is, I think we where the first guys ever to be charged by a Springbuck ram.

We will be back in 2023 to see if we can finish what the ram has started.

Hunting Harmann's Mountain Zebra up in the mountains

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:24:24 GMT

Hunting Hartmann's Moutain Zebra up in the mountains.

13 July 2021

On day 3 of our 5-day hunt, we set off to hunt Zebra on a farm about 60 kilometres from our accommodation. As we drove into the farm, I decided to get onto the back of the truck with the tracker and the farm manager. As we made our way to the area where they normally are, we spotted beautiful fallow deer's, Kudu and Red Hartebeest. After about a 3-hour drive on the farm we spotted about 10 Zebras up the mountain. Unfortunately, with no way to get the truck up there, we knew this will be a long hunt as we set off on foot to stalk the herd on the mountain. We discussed the shot and how to get it loaded. With the 338-winmag fitted with a Vortex scope and loaded with 230 grain Winchester ammo we came closer and closer to the Zebra to about a150 meter range. The shooting sticks came out and the crosshair came to rest on the Zebra. The morning silence was broken with the sound of the shot. Our client was extremely happy, and this trophy animal is now in his forever home in the USA.

Hunting Cape Buffalo in the Karoo

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:21:03 GMT

Hunting the Cape Buffalo in the Karoo.

Cape Buffalo hunting in the Karoo.

On 12 March 2023 our client's dream came true on our Buffalo hunt in the Karoo. After meeting up with the owners and staff, we shot a few rounds on the shooting range. With the 375H&H hitting the spot, we started our hunt. Our client wanted a proper dagga boy. After a few unsuccessful stalks, we decided that it's time to call it a day, seeing that there was only 2 hours of sun left, but then our spotters informed us that there was buffalo below us in the riverbed.

We hid in the shade after we requested the horse men to get the buffalo to move out of the riverbed in the hope that they will run pass us.

Fortunate for us, our plan worked perfectly. We placed our shooting sticks just in time as the herd started to pass us.

I made the call on the proper dagga boy. He was beautiful, covered in dry mud with big bosses and stunning heavy horns. As the animal came closer, our client put a last bullet into him, to make sure he will be adding this buffalo to his collection. This was his first trophy of the Big 5 in South Africa.

Our client was also able to shoot a beautiful Lechwe on this day.

As the sun set, we started to travel back to our lodge to celebrate our successful hunt for the day.

Hunting the old kicked out Copper Blesbuck

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:11:33 GMT

Hunting the old kicked out Copper Blesbuck ram.

15 July 2022

After hunting the Yellow Blesbuck we drove to the skinning shed and shared a few memories of the hunt. I spotted the herd of Copper Blesbuck and I stopped to look at them when our client asked what I'm looking at. I handed her the binnoculours to take a look and I told her it is a Copper Blesbuck. She decided right there, that she needed to shoot this one as she already have the Common Blesbuck, Yellow Blesbuck and White Blesbuck. We dropped off the Yellow Blesbuck at the shed and returned to area where the herd went up the mountain. The tracker told us about a ram that was over his prime and had been kicked out from the herd by a younger ram and that he walks on the east side of the 1000 hectare camp. We spotted him and started to stalk into a shooting distance. When the sable got spooked and took off, running towards the ram, it was in our luck, as the ram stopped and looked at the Sable going pass him. At around 20 meters, we closed the gap between us very quickly. He was making his way down the ridge, we were able to close the gap to the end of the ridge. While he was still searching to get out of the camp, we slowly got the shooting sticks in place and the 270 rested on its safety. We were scared to reload with him so close, as we could scare him off. We waited and soon we started to hear him coming closer. Sudden we had this unbelievable beautiful animal standing infront of us, not even 50 meters. With the safety removed and the crosshair on the shoulder, the silence was broken with the sound of the bullet hitting the perfect shot. With the old Copper Blesbuck in the salt and on his way to his forever home in the U.S.A, we have come to the end of an awesome 5 day safari. Our client who landed in Port Elizabeth as a stranger, left as a very, very good friend.

Hunting Yellow Blesbuck

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:44:36 GMT

Hunting the awesome Yellow Blesbuck.

15 July 2021

As we woke up to the coldest morning of the whole safari, we knew we were in the heart of the Karoo. The Karoo gets super cold in the winter. We started 2 fires to heat us up a bit and enjoy a nice warm cup of fresh boere moer coffee while we wait for daybreak and the sun to rise. We talked about the Yellow Blesbuck and walk and stalk in the 2000 hectar camp. At 07:30 we set off to look if we can see them. After driving for a while, Frans, out tracker on the farm stopped and pointed towards something about 3 kilometre's from the road. I took out the binnoculars and look at them. At first I only spotted ewes grazing into the wind and almost decided to leave, when I suddenly saw this stud of a ram walking out of the dry riverbed and I knew we had to go after him with the 243 loaded with 100 grain bullets. We set up with little hiding place in the field and decided to use the river bed to our advantage and stalk. Within about 200 meter reach, I asked the location of the Blesbuck on the 2-way radio just to make sure they don't run off during the stalk. Feeling like forever (about 45 min) , we closed the gap between us and we were close to a dry dam. We first waited for the client to catch her breath again and then I stepped up on the dam wall to look where they where. They were about 80 meters from us grazing with no worry in the world. Our client joined me on the dam wall and took the shooting sticks out with the crosshair from the vortex that is on the 243. I told the client to take her time and then the moment we waited for, the soft sound from the 243 fitted with the CK Hunting Suppressor was a sign that yet another trophy is on it's way to his forever home in the USA. The Blesbuck took off running for about 25 yards before going down and we gave our client a change to take in the beauty of these animals and pay her respsct towards the animal that she just harvested.

Hunting the Old Gemsbuck Of Bloemhof

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:39:55 GMT

Hunting the Old Gemsbuck of Bloemhof

With our last day of hunting in the Karoo, we decided to go after the Hartman's mountain Zebra. We left the lodge at 06:30 as it was going to be a super hot day and we wanted to be there before it was too warm. Unfortunately we had no luck, so we returned to the lodge at 11:00 for brunch. We decided to leave at 14:00 after stalking a herd for over a hour. We got to a rivine and stopped to see where the Zebras was or to establish if they moved up to the mountain. Unfortunately we had no luck in seeing them, but all of a sudden this old Gemsbuck cow walked towards us with no care. She grazed up to about 50yards from us after watching her. The client asked if he could rather shoot her and leave the Zebra. We agreed and the shooting sticks came out. With the 338 placed on the shoulder, the bullet sent her to her forever home in USA.

Hunting the jittery Steenbuck of the open plains

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:17:21 GMT

Hunting the jitter Steenbuck of the open plains

13 July 2021

On day 3 of our 5 day hunt, we set off to hunt Zebra on a farm about 60 kilometres from where we stayed. We spotted this very good looking Steenbuck ram, and our client said she wanted him in her trophy room back home. With Steenbucks being territorial animals, we knew he would stay in the area. After we came back from the Zebra hunt, we had a lovely lunch. After lunch, we drove down the road to see if we could spot any old mature Steenbuck rams. Late that afternoon we spotted one, in the distance. We looked at him with the binnos and we knew it as the ram we saw the morning. We set off on foot through the vlei. W even had to take off our shoes, as we walked through the water for about a 150 meters. We slowly made our way towards him. Finally we had a chance to close the gap. He stood for about 5 minutes, just looking towards us. Being in the shade and with the sun behind us, we were able to load the 270 on the shooting stick loaded with 150 grain. We waited for him to give us a full side shot. With the beautiful sound of the shot, we could enjoy our client's happy moment with them by taking some stunning photos. The photos not only captured this trophy animal, but also the beautiful Karoo in the background.

The Grey Ghost of Addo

Mon, 15 May 2023 12:52:41 GMT

The Grey Ghost Of Addo

At the start of 2022 we had some good rain, but still not enough to break the curse of the 8-year long draught we suffered in the Eastern Cape. Some will say the Eastern Cape is green, yes it is indeed green, but that is what we call a green draught. We have a green field, but our underground water table is super low with some boreholes that dried up causing alot of farmers do have their own feed they grow on the farms. I received a phone call from a farmer one day to assist him with a PA (problem animal) that is breaking his fence every night to get to the lucerne. He wanted the Kudu bull down as he can't fix the fence every morning, as it costing him a fortune. I agreed to meet up with him that evening at around 9pm when he told me that the problem animal normally comes in at 1am. We sat down around the camp fire when I heard Jackal calling. As many know, I'm a permitted Jackal hunter as well. After about 5 minutes I told the owner I want to go and shoot the Jackal as well. He then called Jan, the manager, to go with me and we drove off into the dark and all off a sudden the jackal called close to us again. We decided to go into the open area next to road and start calling. I started with tge Jackal Locator and they answered me back on the first call. We moved down the hill and I waited 10 minutes and then started with CK Fight which is a sound I had mixed myself and within 10 minutes both of them the male and female came in at a high speed as there was another Jackal in their territory. They wanted to fight and lucky for me the 243 fitted with the CK Hunting Suppressor was waiting for them to send them to their forever home. Back at the farm house we shared stories of hunting as well as fishing when we realised its already 00:15 and time for me to go and solve the problem in the lucerne camp. I drove in and stopped close to the shed and waited. What felt like ages, I started to hear them jumping against the fence to break in and to graze on the green lucerne. When I scanned with my ATN all I could spot was a few cows that is walking towards me, I scanned the whole area when I spotted the bull about 80 yards to the right of the cows. I reloaded the 100 grain S&B into the chamber and waited for him to lift his head so I can send him to his forever home and solve the problem. As soon as he lifted his head, after about 3 minutes because the dogs started to bark, I sent the bullet right down range to the target and he dropped in his track. This bull is till to this day, the biggest full body kudu I have ever shot as he weighs in at a whopping 386lbs in just body weight.

HUNTING THE ULTIMATE MOUNTAIN RHEBUCK.

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:48:33 GMT

Hunting the ultimate Mountain Rhebuck

On the 10th of July we picked up our client at the airport and set off on our 4 hour journey by bakkie to the main camp in the North.This camp served as our home base, from where we set out to hunt on our diverse concessions. On the 11th of July the Mountain Rhebuck was the first animal on the card. We woke up at 5 am to freezing temperatures of -8 degree celsius and frost of 1cm thick. While drinking coffee and planning our hunt for the day, we were cozy and warm infront of the fireplace. We decided to leave for our first destination, Aberdeen, where we had our mountain concession. On arrival the farm manager informed us about a sought after Rhebuck ram, with a broken horn tip, that has outsmarted 9 other hunters before. The last hunter, being outsmarted just 3 weeks prior. We set off looking for the Rhebuck, aswell as some baboons. After 3 hours of scouting, our hopes started to fade.

We spotted a nice looking Kudu bull and then some movement caught my eye about 400 meters off. Low and behold, there stood the ram! Unbeknown to the animal, we prepared ourselves for the hunt. We started stalking closer and closer until about 250 meters from the buck. The stalk felt like hours, softly treading with our breaths hitched, we took our stand in the shade of a tree. While stalking the buck, I saw a big Black-back Jackel coming towards us. We kept still and held on to hope that the Rhebuck will show himself. Within a split of a second the Jackal took a turn down the hill, and boy, were we in for a show! The Rhebuck ram came out from behind a tree, ever so chilled, scratching himself for a good couple of minutes. With this scene unfolding in front of us, we chambered a 100 grain S&B into the .243 Remington, fitted with a C.K Hunting Safaris suppressor. We waited for him to give us a full side-on shot. After a while an ewe came out and started grazing away from us. We had no other choice than to go for the quartering away shot. With the cross hair just a bit more to the back, the bullet was sent on it's way. It hit the perfect spot, sending this old warrior to his forever home in the U.S.A.!

Well done to our client on an awesome hunt.

We can't wait to host you again in 2026.

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Impala of Paterson

Impala Of Paterson

Springbuck of Assvoelvlei

Springbuck Of Assvoelvlei

The Black Tail Of Van Stadens

The Black Tails of Van Stadens

The breeding of the Yellow and Copper Blesbuck

The breeding of the Yellow and Copper Blesbuck in the Karoo

The Ostrich and the gale force wind

The Ostrich and the gale force winds.

The Blesbuck that made us walk 25 km

The Blesbuck that made us walk 25 km.

The Duiker

The Duiker

The Copper Springbuck Ram

The Copper Springbuck

Hunting Harmann's Mountain Zebra up in the mountains

Hunting Hartmann's Moutain Zebra up in the mountains.

Hunting Cape Buffalo in the Karoo

Hunting the Cape Buffalo in the Karoo.

Hunting the old kicked out Copper Blesbuck

Hunting the old kicked out Copper Blesbuck ram.

Hunting Yellow Blesbuck

Hunting the awesome Yellow Blesbuck.

Hunting the Old Gemsbuck Of Bloemhof

Hunting the Old Gemsbuck of Bloemhof

Hunting the jittery Steenbuck of the open plains

Hunting the jitter Steenbuck of the open plains

The Grey Ghost of Addo

The Grey Ghost Of Addo ﻿

HUNTING THE ULTIMATE MOUNTAIN RHEBUCK.

Hunting the ultimate Mountain Rhebuck

The Grey Ghost Of Addo