{"id":7147,"date":"2025-08-11T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:12:03","slug":"texas-ranch-millionaire-fatally-gored-by-buffalo-on-south-africa-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7147","title":{"rendered":"Texas ranch millionaire fatally gored by buffalo on South Africa hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"159\"><strong data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"159\">Texas Ranch Realtor Killed in Tragic Buffalo Attack During South Africa Hunt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"378\">Asher Watkins, 52, a prominent Texas ranch realtor and founder of Watkins Ranch Group, was fatally gored by a 1.3-ton Cape buffalo during a hunting trip in Limpopo, South Africa, on Sunday, safari officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"380\" data-end=\"567\">According to Coenraad and Vermaak Safari, Watkins was tracking the buffalo with a professional hunter and tracker when the animal charged, killing him instantly. The buffalo was unharmed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"667\">Watkins&#8217; mother, stepfather, and brother were nearby at a safari lodge when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"669\" data-end=\"852\">An experienced outdoorsman, Watkins was raised on his family\u2019s Dallas-area ranch and was active in the Dallas Safari Club. He frequently shared his hunting adventures on social media.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"854\" data-end=\"1027\">His ex-wife, Courtney, and their daughter, Savannah, have been notified. Courtney shared a now-deleted post expressing heartbreak over the loss and its emotional complexity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Ranch Realtor Killed in Tragic Buffalo Attack During South Africa Hunt Asher Watkins, 52, a prominent Texas ranch realtor and founder of Watkins Ranch Group, was fatally gored by a 1.3-ton Cape buffalo during a hunting trip in Limpopo, South Africa, on Sunday, safari officials confirmed. According to Coenraad and Vermaak Safari, Watkins was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7147\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Texas ranch millionaire fatally gored by buffalo on South Africa hunt&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}