20/08/2026
One of the wettest days I’ve ever spent hunting in South Africa.
After seven days of almost constant rain, the veld was absolutely soaked and the roads were too wet to get the truck around. We spotted a group of blesbuck mixed with black wildebeest, standing out in the open pan in the pouring rain.
We made a stalk, but once we reached the edge of the brush, the herd was still 600 yards away. So we pulled out the sticks and used the old gemsbuck trick — slowly creeping out into the open until we got within 300 yards.
Ferruccio settled in and made a perfect shot on this beautiful blesbuck ram.
Wet, cold, muddy and one hell of a stalk… but in the end, it was all worth it.