{"id":1872,"date":"2025-11-21T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:08:08","slug":"ron-puhl-and-micah-shanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/21\/ron-puhl-and-micah-shanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Puhl and Micah Shanks."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oregonians Ron Puhl and Micah shanks, hunted with Big Water Safaris during May of 2025. It was Micah’s first hunt with us, but Ron Puhl is an old friend of Big Water Safaris, having hunted with us several times previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Micah with the legendary Lunchbox. The hunt for this belligerent but elusive buffalo bull, ended in an unlikely spot, high against a mountain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Micah capturing his, late afternoon, kudu on camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ron Puhl with his waterbuck bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hunting is not just about killing, Ron Puhl and Micah take a moment to appreciate the beauty of the Southern Free State.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Micah with his sable bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ron stealthily stalking a trophy grasshopper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The grasshopper, it was a catch and release hunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Micah with his nyala bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Early morning at Laohu Valley Reserve.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ron with his blue wildebeest bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ron, Micah and Simon, with Micah’s zebra.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Micah with his white blesbuck. This is about as white as they get.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ron with his zebra.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Micah with his golden wildebeest bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ron Puhl with his blesbuck ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oregonians Ron Puhl and Micah shanks, hunted with Big Water Safaris during May of 2025. It was Micah’s first hunt with us, but Ron Puhl is an old friend of Big Water Safaris, having hunted with us several times previously. 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\/1872"}],"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=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}