{"id":1539,"date":"2024-12-08T08:59:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T06:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2024-12-08T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T06:59:46","slug":"james-and-tristan-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/08\/james-and-tristan-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"James and Tristan Kent."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

North Carolinian, James Kent is no stranger to Big Water Safaris; this was his third hunt with us. Tristan accompanied his father on this hunt and did most of the hunting. It turned out to be a very successful hunt, Jim even got the baboon that has been eluding him during his previous hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional hunter: Thinus Steyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jim Kent with his baboon, a few years ago, Jim and I hunted baboon with much enthusiasm and no success. This year, on day one, on the way back to the lodge from the shooting range, an opportunity at a big solitary male presented itself and the baboon curse was broken. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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James Kent with his warthog.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Father and son team, Jim and Tristan Kent, with Tristan’s first African animal a cull black wildebeest (white tailed gnu) bull.

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Tristan Kent with his blue wildebeest trophy bull. Blue wildebeest (brindled gnu), also known as the poor man’s buffalo, is a notoriously tough animal and a challenging quarry. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim and Tristan with Tristan’s kudu bull, Africa’s Grey Ghost.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim with his steenbok ram, one of South Africa’s tiny ten antelope.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tristan with his blesbuck ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim with his mountain reedbuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim and Tristan with Tristan’s red hartebeest cow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim and Tristan with a warthog boar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tristan and Jim, with Tristan’s gemsbok bull, one of the most challenging hunts on this trip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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North Carolinian, James Kent is no stranger to Big Water Safaris; this was his third hunt with us. Tristan accompanied his father on this hunt and did most of the hunting. It turned out to be a very successful hunt, Jim even got the baboon that has been eluding him during his previous hunt. Professional…<\/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\/1539"}],"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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}