Game Species
 | SteenbokA small, brick coloured antelope among the smaller buck. The ears are large and the tail is very short.
Horns are upright spikes, smooth and widely separated. Steenbok should be taken with a smaller calibre or a solid bullet, so that the fragile skin will not be damaged.
|
 | Grey DuikerAmong small buck, although of similar height, they are much heavier than steenbok. Has small simple horns, relatively straight back, long legs and large pointed ears. As a rule, duikers from moist areas are darker in colour and those from arid regions are lighter.
The best hunting is late in the season after the grass is down. Most productive time to hunt is either early in the morning or just before sunset.
|
 | KlipspringerA small, stocky antelope with coarse, spiny hair. General colour yellow-brown to grey-brown, with an overall
grizzled appearance. Walks on tips of hoofs, extremely agile over rocky, mountainous terrain, rams have small
straight horns, occurs in pairs or small family groups.
|
 | Grey RhebokOccurs widely over the eastern parts of Southern Africa. Unusual coat with soft, very dense hair.
Fleet of foot, excellent hearing and sense of smell with exceptional eyesight, extremely difficult to approach, a very worthy adversary.
|
 | Springbok (Common/kalahari)It is a medium-sized gazelle, graceful and handsomely patterned, with a long fold of skin on top of its back, and short lyrate horns. Has a reddish fawn colour with a white lower rump. When in danger, the springbok has a characteristic 'prancing' behaviour - during which a crest of white hair on the curved back fans out prominently. Springbok are the Southern African version of a gazelle with both sexes carries horns.
|
 | Blesbok (Common)This tireless, nimble-footed athlete of the grassland can run rings around most of the other antelope, and certainly makes it one of the most challenging game animal.The horns of the Blesbok are usually
straw coloured, especially on the top of the rings. Females are similar but smaller and have thinner horns.
|
 | ImpalaA medium sized antelope, lightly built and graceful, with a short glossy coat and fine long horns.
Alert and extremely elusive, a one-of-a-kind antelope. They are vulnerable to over-hunting and can be wiped out, however, they are able to repopulate themselves rapidly once given protection.
|
 | GemsbokSpirit of the desert embodied in an antelope, recognizable by its magnificent V-shaped pair of horns carried by both sexes. It has a striking black and white pattern on the head and body.
The Gemsbok make spectacular trophies, females as much as males, although females should not be hunted except where their numbers are plentiful. Easy to locate because of the diurnal plains, and not to difficult to approach.
|
 | Red HartebeestA tall, tan or reddish antelope with bracket-shaped horns and goatlike eyes make them easily recognizable in the bush. The horns are thick, V-shaped when viewed from the front.
Red hartebeest is by far the most heavily hunted of the hartebeest and with it's spectacular shaped horns not to be passed up.
|
 | Black WildebeestThe Black Wildebeest or White-tailed gnu (Connochaetes gnou) is one of two gnu species.
The natural populations of this species, endemic to the southern region of Africa, have been almost completely exterminated, but the species has been reintroduced widely, both in private areas and nature reserves throughout most of Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa and Namibia, also introduced outside its natural range. The primal herds were exterminated, being seen as pests, with the secondary advantage of using the hides and meat. Thus this animal exists primarily in herds derived from captive specimens. The one other species of genus Connochaetes is the Blue Wildebeest, which tended to have a more northerly range.
|
 | WaterbuckA big, shaggy antelope with an elliptical ring around the rump, females are similar, a little smaller, and without horns, somewhat resembling deer. Waterbuck has a shaggy coat and the males have
long impressive horns. Overall colour varies from reddish to dark brown. Waterbucks are not especially wary or secretive, except where they are hunted hard. Their large horns are a fine trophy.
|
 | Sable AntelopeA large, magnificent antelope, with shoulders higher than its hindquarters. Has a glossy black to seal brown colour, with white underparts and white facial markings. Both sexes have long, sweeping scimitar-shaped horns that are heavily ringed and usually parallel to each other. A good sable is a spectacular trophy that is essential to any African collection. Shot placement is very important, as is the calibre used, because sable are "hard" animals that are strong and tenacious of life.
|
 | KuduLarge antelope. Browse and grasses, woodland savanna; occurs in Northern parts of Southern Africa; prefer rocky hills. This elegant antelope is recognized for the two magnificent spiral horns in the male, which make a spectacular trophy. A fine game animal, it is probably the least difficult of the spiral-horns to bring down. There is a hump on it's shoulders, and it has long legs, large ears and a bushy tail.
|
 | ElandThis huge, oxlike antelope with long, straight, spiral horns, is the largest of the African antelope.
It has a hump on it's shoulders, a prominent dewlap and a long, tufted tail. It is a difficult game animal to hunt, far more so than most African species, when alarmed, they will run for a great distance without stopping or looking back. Food: Browsers, eats grass as well, dig for roots and bulbs, use their horns to knock down foliage. Eland features prominantly in Bushmen paintings, they are excellent jumpers and can clear a 2m fence easily, adapted for dry savanna and open plains.
|
 | GiraffeLarge, long legs, long neck and patchwork patterns, easily identified.
Food: Grazer, rarely eating grass.
|
| If you have any other requests than our listed species please contact us.
| |
©2009 Karee Safaris | Home | Terms & Conditions | Contact