{"id":1955,"date":"2025-11-26T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:26:01","slug":"return-of-the-gillikins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/26\/return-of-the-gillikins\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Gillikin’s."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our good friends, Ronney Gillikin Jr. and Ronney Gillikin III joined us for a hunt during July of 2025. This father and son team are experienced hunters and excellent companions; I am looking forward to the day when I can hunt with three generations of Ronney Gillikin’s. When we met the first time, years ago, the first thing that brought us together was a shared, slightly offbeat, sense of humor. After several hunts together, we still laugh as much as we hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ronney Gillikin Jr. with his sable bull, taken against a mountain side after a challenging hunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ronney Gillikin III, with his black wildebeest bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ronney Gillikin III and Ronney Gillikin Jr. with Ronney Jr’s Impala ram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Gillikin’s with Ronney III’s white blesbuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Big Water Safaris recovery team with the Gillikin’s and Ronney Jr’s sable bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ronney Gillikin Jr. with his waterbuck bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ronney Gillikin III with his father and a blesbuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our good friends, Ronney Gillikin Jr. and Ronney Gillikin III joined us for a hunt during July of 2025. This father and son team are experienced hunters and excellent companions; I am looking forward to the day when I can hunt with three generations of Ronney Gillikin’s. When we met the first time, years ago,…<\/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\/1955"}],"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=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigwatersafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}