Common Duiker hunting

Common or Grey Duiker, unlike most other species of Duiker, prefers savannah habitat to rainforest, and is therefore referred to as bush duiker. Its range covers all parts of Trans-Saharan Africa where there is sufficient cover, and hunting opportunities for this species are found in South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania and the savannah part of Cameroon.

Duikers can be surprisingly difficult animals to hunt, in spite of their small size and wide distribution. They don’t depend on water sources, being able to extract enough moisture from the plants they graze on, so it’s hard to connect with them from a blind over a waterhole, and their preference of habitat with dense undercover, where they can detect the presence of hunters before hunters can see them, makes spot-and-stalk hunting complicated. For this reason, most Common Duikers are harvested when an opportunity presents itself in the course of a hunt for some other animals. For a trophy hunter, the biggest challenge of Duiker hunting is estimating the size of the horn, which is difficult both because the horns are small and lie almost level with the animal’s back, and because you typically get only a fleeting glance of the Duiker.

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