On the first hunting day in South Africa my son Alexander 10 years old has taken two Impalas, the first a female and the second one a male, both were taken at the same waterhole within two hours this afternoon. PH is Frederik Cocquyt aka Safari-Hunt



Alexander and me with his old female impala that had grey hair on her head.



Alexander with his 20 inch Impala ram.



Some traditional rituals took place



Sundowner with his PH Safari-Hunt, next one has to wait many years.



Our friend Hans-Olof Andersson also from Sweden shot a nice Duiker.


I will be back with more reports from our camp during our 7 day hunt here in South Africa

Congratulations. Enjoy all the father son bonding you can.

Simply wonderful. What a lucky young man.

Weidmannsheil to the fortunate and skilful young hunter!

What a treat to be able to share this with your son, savour your good fortune!

- mike

That is great Christer.....just the way to bring up a son !!
What a fortunate young fella

Great Job... I applaud you for introducing your son to hunting at an early age.

Christer,

Please congratulate your son from everyone on AR, we are all proud of him.

Way to go Christer !!!
Mine is still fighting with milk bottles and smelly diapers

L

Blink your eyes, and the smelly diapers and milk bottles will be gone and they will be grown. By the way, I'm sure glad to see some new hunting blood developing!

Congratulations Christer and Alexander! Trevor and the family send regards. I saw you tried to call my cell today, probably while the sundowners were in action..

SORRY I missed it!

Christer:

No surprises here, but still a wonderful event in your family's history! Waidmannsheil!

CC
Congratulations.
It was nice to meet you in Dallas at the DSC.
Will you be here next year?

Congratulations! Is there a new video in the works?

Congratulations Christer and Alexander!!!

How long are you going to be in RSA? Shannon and I try to give you a call on Saturday.

Lee

CC

Congratulations to you and and your son, Alexander! Your bringing him up right! The blood on the face! Excellent!

Good to see you on AR, you were out of sight for some time.

Look forward to seeing you in Reno again!

CC congratulations to Alexander on his success and to you for making it possible for him. You should be very proud, I wish my Dad had been a hunter not a fisherman! So all I have from my youth is fishing stories... Well done to both of you.

Outstanding!!!! Many congrats to you both!

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Originally posted by Lorenzo:
Mine is still fighting with milk bottles and smelly diapers

At just over 3 weeks into a new boy, I am in the same predicament!

I can't wait for my new son to join the ranks of your son Christer!

Hello Christer,

Theres nothing better than hunting Africa with your son. Have a great trip.

CFA

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Christer

Well done!

A few more blinks of your eyes and your grandson is ready to be introduced to hunting! My oldest grandson is 4 1/2 now. I have started, but will take it slow, for the sake of my poor squeemish son-in-law.

In good hunting,

Andrew McLaren

Congratulations to both you and Alexander.

Important memories that will last forever.

My 10 year old son made his first handgun kill last weekend. It was only a jack rabbit but I couldn't have been more proud.

Great hunting with great hunters,
Kyler

Well done Alexander and Hans. Christer, you can for sure be proud on your son. Seems to me he knows how to handle that 308.

Alexander earned himself a piece of Impala biltong. It will be ready for pickup when you come through Pretoria.

When does the double get a chance?

Just got off the phone with Christer and the boys. they had another good day, though it seems young Alexander takes after Christer and get's a little trigger happy! He's learning about restraint, though he did get a duiker!

They are at the butcher shop dropping off some meat and seeing of they can piece together a couple Jackels that Christer dissected. He said he'll be posting some pictures and updates later.

Congratulations to both you and Alexander. The only downside is that you will now have to pay for two hunters on all of your future safaris!

On your next trip to California, we will have to be sure to take Alexander (and Trevor Jackson) out when we shoot the .50 BMG at jack rabbits.

I took my son Jack (3.5 yrs old) to the SCI Youth Safari fair two weeks ago. He caught his first fish, shot a bow & arrow and shot a Ruger .22 pistol, all in one day. He seems hooked now and can't wait to join me on our next outdoor adventure. Having kids join you brings a new dimension to the joy of hunting and fishing.

Good job!

Tim

You must be one proud Dad! Congratulations!

Alexander, congratulations!

Christer, you must bring him with you to Dallas next year!

Update from our camp in Africa

Thanks for all great replies, we are having a great time, at the moment we have taken a sleep in and are relaxing in camp before we go out in the bush in an hour.




Hunting 2 Alexander shot a Duiker in the morning



I finally got to shot something, first an Impala and than a double on Jackals



Safari-Hunt shot a warthog when we had a siesta



Hans-Olof also took an Impala



Hans-Olof with a Jackal



Hans-Olof with a Warthog



This great Gemsbock was taken by Hans-Olof on the third hunting day, it is around 40 inch on both horns

Congratulations to all of you. The Impala Hans-Olof got is great.

I am just wondering if you guys are drinking a bit toooooo much. That jackal looks like a Wartie to me..... Just asking

On going back to the tread I saw you fixed it.
Sorry Christer I just could not resist

Jaco, we are sorry for the confusion but our office is a bush office and its easy to slip on a key and make a small misstake, it should however be fixed now.

This pictures from our bush office were taken 3 minutes ago.





BTW, the reason for the bush office is taht there is were we have cellphone connection, if its blowing from the right direction and the weather is in a certain way :-)

Christer,
When I saw it I realised it must have been a finger slip, BUT being me I could not resist giving you a little bit of grief, all in good fun though. Looking at all the pics, you guys are enjoying youself, keep it up and have lots more fun.

Christer,
Congrats to you both. How great it must be to have a son with you to enjoy the hunt together.
bobga

Christer,

Congratulations to Alexander!! Now, are you going to bring him to the U.S. for all the shows this winter? Love to meet him.

-Steve

Special update

Alexander shot a huge Warthog at 11.30 today at a waterhole. Tusks were 12+11 outside and body is close to 100 kilogram.



Alexander with his warthog



The huge tusker



Alexander, me and Frederik posing behind the big tusker.

We sat in a blind when Frederik saw a warthog coming in, Alexander shot as soon as he had an opportunity and the warthog ran away. We could not find any blood but could see on the video that the bullet never exited. We tracked the warthog 200 meter without finding any blood and there he was, turned towards us as been ready for a fighting end.

Rifle used was Alexanders Varberger Super Light Kevlar in 308 Win loaded with Rhino bullets in 150 grains.

Holy smoke!!! Thats a nice pig. Congrats to the young hunter and to his proud papa!

looks like a great hunt and good trophies had by all.

I never got into the wiping blood on the face thing or even a little alcohol for minors, but to each his own.

Hopefully, your son cherishes the memories afield with dad for a long time.

That´s something to brag about when schools start again Alexander !!
You might get in trouble with the kids who love Pumbaa from The Lion King movie though

Kidding aside...that´s one heck of a hog !!
Coongratulation and keep them coming

Its always nice to see young men learn good bad habits from there fathers. You are never going to have to worry about that one. Good for you both.

Nice Warthog. One the both of you will always remember.

Christer,
You've got problems. I think your hunting days are over. The kids do all the hunting and it leaves dad to be proud of them. I'm in the same boat.

That is a huge warthog, cangratulations to Alexander.

Maybe you must give him a couple of sundowners to get him to sleep late one morning, that way you might also get a chance

Wow! You seemes to have a great time in RSA!! I suppose this will be a trip that Alexander will remember for a while!!

I got home a few weeks from my trip to RSA and I can´t wait to go back

Fina bilder Christer! Jag vet inte vem som ser mer stolt ut, du eller Alexander

Stefan

Hans-Olof shot a Steenbok



Just at the Limpopo River he got a nice Bushbok



Red Heartebeast and a happy hunter



All of us with the Red Heartebeast



Finally I got a Warthog the last day



Hans-Olof with his second Warthog



Last hour Alexander got to shot a Steenbok


Once again thanks for all replies, I am back in Sweden on wednsday and will answer all posts then.