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About hunting in Northern Cape
The largest and most sparsely populated province in the country. The country’s largest river, the Orange River runs through it over the Augrabies Falls and empties into the Atlantic Ocean. This extremely dry desert country incorporates the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park which shares an international boundary with Namibia and Botswana. Still a diamond rich area, it claims to have the world’s deepest hand excavated hole, a disused diamond mine known as “The Big Hole” of Kimberley. In the extreme western section of the province you find the Namaqualand Desert which turns into a sea of colour when the desert flowers bloom in spring each year.
As with all deserts, temperatures are extreme, hot in summer and winter nights can drop below freezing point. The Kalahari Desert, home of the Nama (Bushman) people who are rated as the best trackers in the business.
Owing to the low carrying capacity, some of the game ranches are huge. For the traditionalist hunter, there is nothing as gratifying as tracking a magnificent Kalahari Gemsbuck or Springbuck over the ancient red dunes of the Kalahari Desert.
A limited number of game ranches in the province offer free-range wild managed Lions, Leopards when quota is made available by the South African conservation officials, Buffalo, Sable and the rarer Roan Antelope. White Rhino and even the odd Black Rhino may be made available for hunting every now and again.
The terrain varies from flat open deserts, to salt pans, rolling red sand dunes and dry rocky mountains offering an assortment of desert hardy plains game species, from Blue Wildebeest, Red Hartebeest, an assortment of colour variant Springbuck, Blesbok and Gemsbuck.
Red Lechwe, a species that prefers aquatic habitats has been introduced to the province and has adapted surprisingly well. Other introduced non South African species are Scimitar Oryx, Barbary Sheep (Aoudad), Blackbuck and Mouflon.
The world’ biggest bird, the Ostrich is a common inhabitant of this dry land. Sandgrouse are plentiful, offering some good shotgun shooting in the mid-morning and late evening depending on which species of Sandgrouse you are targeting.
Threatened or Protected Species (TOPS) and CITES permits are required for some species even with an exemption permit. All the necessary documentation details will be provided by your Outfitter. Learn more about South African hunting regulations here.
Northern Cape on map
Game classification
Reviews
Emery
United States
9.0
Verified review
Nov 25, 2024
November Hunt
9.0
Limpopo North Safaris
Outfitter
The PH was very accommodating, supportive, knowledgable, and apresure to hunt with.
Hot dry weather.
Client review
9.7
Verified review
Mar 14, 2024
Returning home as Happy Hunters
9.7
McDonald Safaris
Outfitter
Very friendly and professional outfitter head by Alex running 3rd generation family business. The lodge Royal Thabane is an excellent 5 star one. Using Rigby rifles with Z8i Swarovski's optics was a good experience. My PH Gary was exceptional. Very calm, hard working and friendly person with exceptional knowledge of animals and animal behavior being also a vet himself. He was very selective to find old, mature animals rather than point and shoot style. Our tracker has several times beaten the dogs. Overall very good experience and left with only good memories.
Food was excellent. Only thing, being in Africa would have liked to eat more game meet but it was also understandable that we were the ones opening the season.
Chris
United States
10.0
Verified review
May 31, 2023
top notch
10.0
Wintershoek Safaris
Outfitter
everything....game ... food and especially the staff and ph's....would and will highly recommend wintershoek to everyone 👍
n/a
Stan
United States
10.0
Great Hunt
10.0
Limpopo North Safaris
Outfitter
My PH, Sampie Potgieter, absolutely did everything possible to ensure I had a great experience! We hit it off from the very first day and have been friends ever since. I plan to hunt with him again next year.
The BS going through customer both arriving and departing South Africa.
John
United States
9.7
Verified review
Nov 18, 2024
Success! Had many hunts before after my target animal with no success—-NOT HERE!!
9.7
Chumlet Safaris
Outfitter
The PH’s I hunted with were extremely knowledgeable about the cat I was hunting. We very quickly became hunting buddies and not a client with guides. This makes a hunt a memorable experience that goes to the top of the list of past hunts.
Had to leave due to previous scheduling commitments.
Holly
United States
10.0
Verified review
Jun 10, 2024
If You’re Not Hunting with BP Safaris, You’re Missing Out
10.0
BP Safaris
Outfitter
My husband and I went on an amazing safari with BP Safaris. From our initial outreach, they were fantastic. They answered all of our questions and were extremely helpful in arranging everything.
The hunting was exceptional, and the accommodations were superb. Awie, the PH, truly enjoys hunting, which significantly enhances the experience and the quality of the game. We are so happy with all of our trophies!!
I strongly recommend choosing BP Safaris. They are amazing and will plan the perfect safari for you. Can’t wait to go back!! Thank you Awie and Sandra!
Animals
Bush TV
Check out an amazing footage from outfitters and landowners properties.
Spot the Lions
Lions has amazing camouflage and it is usually very hard to see them when they are in tall grass
Mountain Zebra
Mountain Zebra herd running
Majestic Giraffe
Beautiful Giraffe standing in the distance with mountains in the background
Kudu Bulls
Kudu Bulls in the distance on a sand dune
Kudu herd
Kudu herd tots off in the distance
Broken Horn Kudu
Beautiful Kudu bull with a broken horn
Waterbuck bull
Big Waterbuck bull on a mountain
Sunset
Driving of into the the sunset after a great days hunting
Springbok herd
Large herd of Springboks
Running Hartebeest
A beautiful group of Red Hartebeest running
Oryx herd
Large herd of Oryx in the Kalahari at Chapungu-Kambako Safaris
Grazing Buffalo
Old Buffalo carelessly grazing at Chapungu-Kambako Safaris
Tower of Giraffes
Beautiful group of Giraffe on a little hill at Chapungu-Kambako Safaris
Blue Wildebeest herd
Large Blue Wildebeest herd in the Kalahari with Chapungu-Kambako Safaris
Top hunts
1:1 Premier Desert Plainsgame Safari
Northern Cape, South Africa
Baboon, Bat-eared fox, Black impala, Black springbok, Black wildebeest, Black-backed jackal, Blue wildebeest, Bontebok, Burchells zebra, Cape eland, Common blesbuck, Common duiker, Common springbok, Copper springbok, Gemsbuck, Genet cat, Giraffe, Golden gemsbuck, Golden wildebeest, Hartmanns zebra, Impala, Kings wildebeest, Kudu, Nyala, Ostrich, Porcupine, Red hartebeest, Red lechwe, Roan, Royal wildebeest, Sable, Saddleback blesbuck, Springhare, Steenbok, Tsessebe, Warthog, Waterbuck, White blesbuck, White springbok
Bow Hunting, Hunting From a Blind, Muzzleloader, Rifle Hunting, Stalking
Season: Feb 1, 25 - Nov 30, 25
Daily rate fee
$3,250
for 7 days, 1 hunter
Northern Cape
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