{"id":1555,"date":"2024-12-08T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T07:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2024-12-08T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T07:47:30","slug":"jim-mraz-and-marlin-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/08\/jim-mraz-and-marlin-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Mraz and Marlin Ferguson."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Missourians Jim Mraz and Marlin Ferguson hunted with Big Water Safaris during July. This was Jim’s second hunt with us and Marlin’s first African hunt. Great trophies were harvested, the tigers were suitably fed, and a lot of fun was had by everyone involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Marlin Ferguson with his red hartebeest cow, harvested just at sunrise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with a blue wildebeest (brindled gnu) cow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with his golden wildebeest bull. This bull was hunted late in the afternoon, the sun is setting in the background. Golden wildebeest is a rare colour phase of the blue wildebeest (brindled gnu).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlin with a warthog sow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with his black impala ram, despite the non-typical horn formation, this was one of the largest black impala we have hunted t Big Water Safaris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with a Kalahari springbok ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlin Ferguson with his golden wildebeest bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with his copper springbok ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with a springbok ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlin Ferguson with a blesbuck ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with an ostrich male, the largest birth on earth, ostriches are a challenging quarry due to their excellent eyesight and a nervous disposition, bordering on paranoia. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlin Ferguson and Jim Mraz, each with a blesbuck ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with an ancient white springbok ram. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlin Ferguson with his warthog boar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlin Ferguson with a cull blue wildebeest bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlin Ferguson with his Kalahari springbok ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlin Ferguson with his trophy blue wildebeest bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with his steenbok ram, despite their diminutive size, these antelope make for a challenging hunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with a kudu bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Mraz with his tsessebe bull, a close relation of the blesbuck, the tsessebe is Africa’s fastest antelope.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlin Ferguson with a male ostrich.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missourians Jim Mraz and Marlin Ferguson hunted with Big Water Safaris during July. This was Jim’s second hunt with us and Marlin’s first African hunt. Great trophies were harvested, the tigers were suitably fed, and a lot of fun was had by everyone involved. 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\/1555"}],"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=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}