David Heitsman abd I got back a week ago from our grand adventure. I'll let him tell his story. I will say that the trip back was absolutely BRUTAL. We're both sick from spider bites.
We flew Seattle to London and then on to Johanasberg. We had about a seven hour layover in London. We arrived in Johanasberg at around 7Am. Our outfitter. Francois, and his wife Cory were there to pick us up. The ride to the hunting area was 5 hours. add a few stops and it was 6 plus.
After a reasonable nights sleep we were up and at-em. We borrowed rifles as the paperwork for 3 counties(USA, Britain and RSA) was a pain. I used a very nice Sako in 30-06 and David got a pre 64 M-70 also in 30-06.
The game numbers were astounding. The slowest day I had was over 70 annimals. Many in the 300 plus range.
We made a stalk on a Kudu the first morning but he gave us the slip. I did get a very nice Warthog later that morning.
Michael my tracker.
We too the hog back to camp where the staff made short work of it. we had a bite to eat and bck out we went.
Now my PH, Johaan, had told me we would not shoot an Impala on the first day. Thera are some very big ones in the area and he wanted to make sure I got a dandy. We checked out a water hole with 50 or 60 Impala around it. Johaan and Michael started taling in Zulu and pointin at some rams. Johaan said to me that it was a very good ram. My response was OK lets make a stalk. 120 yard shot and it was over.
We saw a lot of Kudu but were they tought for me to see. Michael the tracker has an unbeleivable ability to spot game.
Can you see the Kudu in this picture/
He's 1/3 of the way in from the right. Just above the stick.
Here's another Kudu.
That ended day 1. Two down. WOW what a start.
Day 2 was more of the same as day 1. Game everywhere but we didn't find anything worth shooting.