Hailing from South Dakota, Paul Vinatieri, his son Chad and daughter Christine joined us for their second hunt with Big Water Safaris. This time around, Chad’s son, Chase and Christine’s son, Braylon joined the group. It is not often that we have three generations on the same hunt, so this was a special experience. Joining the Vinatieri family was Nathan Goeken, also from South Dakota.
Hunting with the Vinatieri family and their friends are always an enjoyable experience, not only are they all competent and ethical hunters but they are also very enthusiastic pranksters, and everyone had a lot of laughs.
Professional hunters: Henno Cronje, Dewald Kearns and Thinus Steyn.
Paul Vinatieri with his golden wildebeest bull.Nathan Goeken with his zebra stallion.Christine with a black impala ram.Chad Vinatieri with his sable bull. An exceptional trophy taken after an unusual and challenging hunt, which ended on top of a mountain.The recovery team contemplating the easiest way to get a large sable bull off a mountain.Christine, Chase, Chad and Paul, with Chase’s gemsbok.Braylon with his zebra stallion.Christine with a black backed jackal she hunted. Three generations of Vinatieri hunters. Chase, Paul and Chad, with Chad’s magnificent eland bull.Chase and Chad with Chase’s kudu bull.Braylon with an exceptional impala ram.Christine with a springbok ram.Chase and Chad with Chase’s blue wildebeest (brindled gnu) bull.Braylon with an ostrich male. Ostrich are one of the more difficult species to bag on the open plains, their eyesight is incomparable, and they seldom wait around for any length of time.Chase and Simon loading a blesbuck.Chad, Chase, a warthog and an apple. Hunting with the Vinatieri family is never boring.
