Green March in Magersfontein — 6 friends, 12 trophies
The group
Six hunters — four from Denmark and two from the United States — who had met through a mutual friend at a shooting club in Copenhagen. The Danes had hunted together in Sweden and Poland but never outside Europe. The Americans were experienced whitetail and elk hunters from Montana who had talked about an African trip for years but never pulled the trigger on booking one.
A shared conversation about "doing Africa properly" led them to Huntica.
Why they came to Huntica
The group had considered booking through one of the large online hunting marketplaces but couldn't get past the uncertainty — reviews that contradicted each other, outfitter profiles that all looked the same, and no way to know what they were actually getting until they arrived.
What sold them was the hosted model. A Huntica founder on the ground for the full trip, destinations that had been personally hunted and vetted, and a level of trip design that went beyond "we'll pick you up at the airport." They wanted someone who would own the experience — not just book it and disappear.
Hosted on Huntica Approved Ground
Alex hosted the group at Magersfontein in South Africa's Northern Cape — a historic farm and surrounding concessions where the lodge sits within the hunting area. No long transfers. No wasted mornings on dusty roads. The group walked out the back door and they were hunting.
The ground had been personally vetted by Alex — game density, lodge quality, outfitter relationship, ethical management, and the overall feel of the place. This is what Huntica Approved Ground means in practice: a destination where a co-founder would bring his own family.
Alex managed the daily rhythm: rotating hunting pairs so everyone hunted with different companions, adjusting the pace when the group needed a slower morning, and ensuring the first-time African hunters got extra attention from the PHs without feeling singled out.
Moments that became stories
On the second morning, one of the American hunters — a lifelong elk hunter from Montana — made a clean 180-metre shot on a kudu bull that emerged from a brushline the PH had been watching for three days. The celebration that followed was the first time the group stopped being "the Danes and the Americans" and became a single crew.
On day four, Alex moved the sundowner spot from the lodge veranda to a kopje overlooking the plains. The group sat on rocks, drank cold beer, and watched a herd of springbok drift across the flats in golden light. No one spoke for ten minutes. One of the Danish hunters later said that silence was his favourite moment of the trip.
The final evening, the lodge kitchen prepared a traditional South African braai with game from the week. The group ate outside, told their stories from the trip, and planned the next one before anyone had even packed a bag.
The results
Over seven days, the group took 12 plains game trophies ethically across kudu, impala, springbok, and warthog. Both first-time African hunters finished the trip already discussing Bespoke trips for the following year — one to Greenland for muskox, the other back to Africa for a private hunt with his son.
The four Danish hunters committed to an annual Huntica Hosted trip and have already referred two colleagues from their shooting club.
In their words
"It felt like hunting with old friends who happened to have every detail sorted."
"I've booked hunts through websites before and it's always a gamble. This was the first time I felt like someone actually cared whether I had a good time — not just whether I shot something."
Hosted by Huntica
This hunt was hosted by Alex Hohne at Magersfontein in the Northern Cape, on Huntica Approved Ground. The itinerary was designed by the hour around the group's mix of experience levels and goals — balancing serious plains game hunting with the kind of evenings, sundowners, and shared meals that turn a hunting trip into a story worth telling.