Shooting Springbok Shelter

On Zandvliet was about 60 Springboks on an open piece of land. This will have to be planted with citrus in the near future. Most of the Springboks were capture alive and relocated to other farmers. A handful were left over; the ones to bright to get captured by nets. Unfortunately we had to shoot the remaining ones.

I got this idea to build a small shelter to shoot from. The kids loved helping with this. It started with 3 old farm gates.

Then we start cutting some of the natural surrounding bushes and add them on the gates.

Was great fun and the kids enjoyed building it with me.

In the end, it was not necessary to shoot from the hide, but we had it for backup.

Next day the last springboks were culled: