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Day 2 right side of us. There it was, the sable,standing
on its knees with straight hind legs gasping for
The camp is both peaceful and beautiful and the air. The sable is a big and tough animal, it wasn’t
lodge isn’t surrounded by any fence. Outside enough with the first shot, so it required another
our bedroom windows we could see roan one. A quick shot was fired and it laid down
antelope’s living in their natural habitat. After instantly.
breakfast our backpacks were packed and we
went out in the area to shoot in our rifles to This was truly an amazing feeling. To get a sable
make sure nothing had happened to the them on our first hunting day was almost difficult to
during the flight. grasp and we felt so lucky. After the hunting we
returned back to the lodge where a great lunch
And then the hunting and walking began. We with local game meat was served.
had earlier in the morning seen the sable, and
that was our main goal to hunt during the trip. Day 3
When we went through bushes and terrain, we
managed to stumbled upon five buffalos. Our hunting trip takes place in May 2022, the
Buffaloes are powerful and potentially very weather at this time in South Africa is winter so
dangerous animals to whom we feel great you can expect cold weather. But for us two
respect and we decided to quickly depart from Swedish guys who are used to cold weather it
our planned footpath. Our PH told us we was a pleasant climate. The temperature during
needed to quickly get as far away from the daytime is around 20 degrees Celsius.
buffalo’s as possible and made sure to have During this day it was Carl’s time to shoot a
permanent supervision so they wouldn’t come common springbuck. Carl is an experienced
following us. We choose another path over a hill hunter and has shot a lot of different animals,
and 200 meters away we came across a whole from buffalo in South Africa to black bear in
herd of Sable antelope. We started our cautious Canada. For Carl this is a new species which he
stalking to get closer for a shot between the has not hunted before and was very happy to
bushes. At first, we didn’t see the big male but start out with. Not long after starting he managed
after further stalking, we got a sight of him, to get an opportunity and took it.
standing 50 meters from the big herd, under a During the evening the sable that was shot the
tree barely visible. We stood completely still and day before was served for dinner. We were
waited for him to move since there were sitting on the patio with each cold Castle Light.
branches in the way and no clear view, but the The climate during evenings is noticeably colder
sable didn’t move an inch. After ten minutes of so the bonfire felt warming and nice. Later during
waiting, we chose to try to get closer in order to this evening, we decided to go on a night hunt
take a shot, but suddenly a clear sight emerged. and Carl got the opportunity to shoot an African
Dag fired the shot with his Remington 700awr wildcat in the dark. Later we went back to the
.300 Win Mag. He could hear the bullet hit the lodge to recharge ourselves with some sleep
target but lost sight of the game after the shot. and prepare for a new upcoming hunting day.
Both Carl and our PH called “GC” looked with
smiles upon their faces and said it was a good Day 4
hit. They could see the sable’s big body reacting
to the shot but also that he went running behind We were on the hunt for a Golden Gemsbuck. At
a hill. Directly we all hurried to the location of the moment we couldn’t spot any but Carl once
the shot and continued in the direction the sable again had hunting fortune so he was able to
ran. The PH and Dag had their focus straight shoot a Copper Springbuck during the morning.
ahead but Carl tapped Dag on the shoulder and Time passed and soon it was afternoon and we
pointed to the side, approximal 40 meters to the spotted a Golden Gemsbuck. The coolest of
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