An old hunter’s dream

I consider myself still a novice hunter although I was born in 1937 in a family with a long tradition of hunting whitetail deer in Wisconsin, USA. My father, grandfather and great grandfather hunted, but I came to hunting deer late in life when a colleague invited me to hunt on his big farm on the opening day of the annual Wisconsin November deer season in 1996. We hunted from improvised ground blinds. Taking my first deer, a big doe, at a hundred yards that morning was exciting. After that I returned year after year, eventually hunting on our own land. I shot some big deer in the ensuing years but never did any stalking or tracking.

David Becker

Looking for adventure late in my life, I read about a hunting farm called Sandveld located in the remote northeast of Namibia that offers a very different and unique hunting experience - hunting the eland on foot and in their natural habitat. The terrain is flat and all sand. Walking on it is somewhat like walking on a dry beach, perhaps not as deep except for the vehicle tracks through the bush. I wouldn’t call them roads exactly, but tracks made by vehicles through long straight firebreaks or curving through the bush. The wind fills in the tracks somewhat, and game often follow the tracks or cross frequently leaving deep imprints. “We must track,” says Allan Cilliers who considers hunting from a vehicle unethical. “Are you up to it?” Of…

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