{"id":1380,"date":"2024-05-25T08:50:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T06:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2024-05-25T08:50:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T06:50:30","slug":"doug-kim-and-brad-ficken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/25\/doug-kim-and-brad-ficken\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug, Kim and Brad Ficken."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Father and son, Doug and Brad Ficken, hunted with Big Water Safaris during September 2023. Doug&#8217;s wife, Kim joined them as an observer. The Fickens are from Rapid City, South Dakota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professional Hunters: Henno Cronje and Thinus Steyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>                                         Doug Ficken with his eland bull, hunted just before sunset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougGB-1024x795.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougGB-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougGB-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougGB-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougGB.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Kim and Doug Ficken with Doug&#8217;s gemsbok (oryx) bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"843\" height=\"946\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougSable.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougSable.jpg 843w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougSable-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougSable-768x862.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><figcaption>Doug Ficken with a beautiful sable bull hunted with Big Water Safaris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"851\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Doug-BWB.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Doug-BWB.jpg 851w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Doug-BWB-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Doug-BWB-768x682.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><figcaption>Doug and Velaphi Thumana with Doug&#8217;s black wildebeest (white tailed gnu)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"843\" height=\"843\" src=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougGWB.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougGWB.jpg 843w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougGWB-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougGWB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DougGWB-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><figcaption>Doug Ficken with a golden wildebeest hunted with Big Water Safaris.<\/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\/11\/DouBWB-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DouBWB-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DouBWB-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DouBWB-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DouBWB.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>At the end of a hard hunt, we hunted this blue wildebeest bull for several days, Doug eventually got him with a great shot, in the rain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father and son, Doug and Brad Ficken, hunted with Big Water Safaris during September 2023. Doug&#8217;s wife, Kim joined them as an observer. The Fickens are from Rapid City, South Dakota. Professional Hunters: Henno Cronje and 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\/1380"}],"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=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}