The heart’s hartebeest

It was a bitterly cold morning of -6°C when I arrived at Jamy Traut Hunting Safaris, where I would be spending the weekend with my brother and his 9-year-old son. After having some fresh hot coffee and a quick chat about the day it was time to head out into the bush.

Carel van Rooyen

I have wanted to hunt the red hartebeest for some time now but I never really had the opportunity, and it was made even more difficult by the severe drought that Namibia was faced with during 2019/2020. Red hartebeest are somewhat of a fragile antelope that require good rainfall and grasslands to survive. Unfortunately, many areas lost a lot of their hartebeest due to the drought. Asking around at a few places about where it might be possible to hunt this species, almost all of the responses were that I wouldn’t be able to find anywhere now. You can imagine my relief when I heard that Jamy would be able to assist with this hunt. Braving the cold we set out with the bakkie to an area of the farm…

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