{"id":1126,"date":"2023-10-25T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T09:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2023-10-25T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T10:02:39","slug":"bruce-bettis-and-doug-arens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/25\/bruce-bettis-and-doug-arens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Bettis and Doug Arens."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arizonians Bruce Bettis and Doug Arens hunted Laohu Valley Reserve with Big Water Safaris during May 2023. While predominantly a hunt for cull animals to feed the population of South China Tigers on Laohu Valley Reserve, a few good trophy animals were also harvested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professional Hunter: Thinus Steyn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1-1024x802.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1-1536x1203.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1-2048x1604.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Bruce Bettis with his blue wildebeest bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"822\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0-1-1024x822.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0-1-1024x822.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0-1-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0-1-1536x1232.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/0-1-2048x1643.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Doug Arens with his red hartebeest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A cape buffalo bull encountered while out hunting for tiger food.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9-1024x714.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9-1536x1071.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9-2048x1427.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Doug Arens and Velaphi Thumana with a springbok ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/11-1024x726.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/11-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/11-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/11-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/11-1536x1088.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/11-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Bruce Bettis with a black wildebeest cow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10-300x225.jpg 300w, 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While predominantly a hunt for cull animals to feed the population of South China Tigers on Laohu Valley Reserve, a few good trophy animals were also harvested. Professional Hunter: Thinus Steyn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}