Blesbok historically inhabited the Southwestern Cape. Presently, the blesbok is found solely on game farms in South Africa. Blesbok are now primarily commercially ranched livestock, with very few occurring in national park areas. Blesbok are extinct in the wild.

Blesbok  males weigh between 55 and 80kg and develop large and curving, gazelle-like horns Their short tail is tufted with black fur. Head and body length ranges from 140 to 160 cm, tail length from 30 to 45 cm. Males are typically larger than females.

Blesbok spend most of the morning and afternoon grazing, resting during the midday and evening.  Blesbok are seldom observed in groups larger than ten and were previously nomadic, migrating among seasonal pastures and forming large herds in autumn and winter. Where they are housed in large enough areas they continue to display a semi-nomadic pattern of movement, travelling throughout the available range in loose groups. Herds are loosely structured and membership is unstable, but adult males do defend females and young in harem troops year round. 

Blesbok have been observed grunting and snorting, which is used as an alarm response. Males use dung-heaps within their territory to mark their domain.  Fights between males involve horn clashing and can be fatal. Males and females both mark objects with secretions from a gland below their eyes. These secretions are deposited on grass stalks as they are stroked with the horns.

Blesbok are herbivores, and graze both on grasses and herbage. 

At South African Hunting Safaris we have an excellent population of Blesbok for hunts on our ranch.