African Hunting Gazette

ZEBRA bow hunt

The next day we had interesting game drives and inspected the several elevated and pit bowhunting blinds. Carlo Engelbrecht Safaris is well prepared and equipped for bowhunters. That evening, we concealed ourselves in a tent blind nestled in a rock formation, to hunt a bushpig, another species on my bucket list, but that is another story. We heard them, but for some reason they did not come in. Probably it was the changing wind or the approaching rain and thunderstorm. Luckily, we decided to leave the blind once we heard the lightning storm close, because a couple of minutes later it poured.

The next morning, I took a stand in a spacious brickednot easy to look for the right zebra with all this back-and-forth movement. Furthermore, we needed to be careful with our movements inside the blind, as well with the wind direction, not to open the wrong window.

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