Another mid week hunt close to Cape Town, South Africa

[Kola]

Managed to get away early Tuesday morning for a spot of pest control on a farm about 100km north of Cape Town.

This is a large, just under 20,000 acres farm with a number of birds and animals to be controlled.

On the list at the moment are:
- Guinea Fowl
- Spurwing Goose
- Egyptian Goose
- Crows
- Cape Hare
- Porcupine
- Caracal (there is one currently known to take lambs and the owner asked to be on the lookout for it - I will generally not shoot these if they do not take lambs).

In between hunting there is excellent fishing to be had as well.

It is not the easiest farm to hunt, with a lot of walking and ambushing during the day, and quite a bit of very slow driving using using a spotlight at night required.

This was quite successful once again.

I use two rifles.
- FX Dreamline Classic Walnut .22 with an Element Helix 6-24x50 FFP scope and H&N 23gr slugs.
- Kral Puncher Empire with a Hawke Vantage 3-9x50 AO scope and JSB Hades 15.89gr pellets.

Tuesday evening/night...

Wednesday evening/night... (spotted the Caracal but did not have opportunity for a sure, clean shot).

And just some random photos...

 

[stateofmisery]

Managed to get away early Tuesday morning for a spot of pest control on a farm about 100km north of Cape Town.

This is a large, just under 20,000 acres farm with a number of birds and animals to be controlled.

On the list at the moment are:
- Guinea Fowl
- Spurwing Goose
- Egyptian Goose
- Crows
- Cape Hare
- Porcupine
- Caracal (there is one currently known to take lambs and the owner asked to be on the lookout for it - I will generally not shoot these if they do not take lambs).

In between hunting there is excellent fishing to be had as well.

It is not the easiest farm to hunt, with a lot of walking and ambushing during the day, and quite a bit of very slow driving using using a spotlight at night required.

This was quite successful once again.

I use two rifles.
- FX Dreamline Classic Walnut .22 with an Element Helix 6-24x50 FFP scope and H&N 23gr slugs.
- Kral Puncher Empire with a Hawke Vantage 3-9x50 AO scope and JSB Hades 15.89gr pellets.

Tuesday evening/night...

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Wednesday evening/night... (spotted the Caracal but did not have opportunity for a sure, clean shot).

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And just some random photos...

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Beautifull pictures, your a lucky man to live in such a beautiful country. Mark

 

[beerthief]

- Caracal , just looked it up similar to our Bobcat . very striking looking cat .

 

[Kola]

- Caracal , just looked it up similar to our Bobcat . very striking looking cat .

They are beautiful, will be a pity to shoot it.

 

[Ranchibi]

Wow....you definitely have the BEST most BEAUTIFUL and GINORMOUS permission to hunt! Thanks for sharing!

 

[willy]

Those look like Guinea hens?good eaten" i think i seen a fish jump in the lake?whats in their?

 

[bdzjlz]

Beautifull pictures, your a lucky man to live in such a beautiful country. Mark

Those rabbits are huge!

 

[Kola]

Those look like Guinea hens?good eaten" i think i seen a fish jump in the lake?whats in their?

Carp, largemouth and smallmouth blackbass and Mozambique tilapia, sharptooth catfish.

The animals usually go to the farm workers, they appreciate the meat.
I sometimes take a few of the cape hare.

 

[Kola]

Those rabbits are huge!

Those are cape hare females, they are big.
The males are smaller.

 

[bdzjlz]

Managed to get away early Tuesday morning for a spot of pest control on a farm about 100km north of Cape Town.

This is a large, just under 20,000 acres farm with a number of birds and animals to be controlled.

On the list at the moment are:
- Guinea Fowl
- Spurwing Goose
- Egyptian Goose
- Crows
- Cape Hare
- Porcupine
- Caracal (there is one currently known to take lambs and the owner asked to be on the lookout for it - I will generally not shoot these if they do not take lambs).

In between hunting there is excellent fishing to be had as well.

It is not the easiest farm to hunt, with a lot of walking and ambushing during the day, and quite a bit of very slow driving using using a spotlight at night required.

This was quite successful once again.

I use two rifles.
- FX Dreamline Classic Walnut .22 with an Element Helix 6-24x50 FFP scope and H&N 23gr slugs.
- Kral Puncher Empire with a Hawke Vantage 3-9x50 AO scope and JSB Hades 15.89gr pellets.

Tuesday evening/night...

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Wednesday evening/night... (spotted the Caracal but did not have opportunity for a sure, clean shot).

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And just some random photos...

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Stunning!

 

[DeanB]

just curious why are the Guineas considered pest, people here keep them to eat garden harming insects and as alarm birds as they go crazy if anything strange comes around?

 

[Kola]

just curious why are the Guineas considered pest, people here keep them to eat garden harming insects and as alarm birds as they go crazy if anything strange comes around?

Simply too many of them, to the point where they do a lot of damage to the crops on the farm.

 

[Emu]

- Caracal , just looked it up similar to our Bobcat . very striking looking cat .

Caracal jumps better than any olimpic athlete.