Jerycmeach
AH veteran
My name is Jerry and I have just returned from my very first Africa hunt. Stanley Pieterse owner of Stanley Pieterse Safaris is who I chose to take me on a hunt I had always wanted to take. A leopard hunt with hounds! The experience was everything I had hoped for and more! I am a new member of AH and I wanted to do a hunt report similar to the one I read from AH member “Mort”. His daily posts this July were so exciting that every night I could not wait for his next post to see how his hunt was going! I lived Mort’s hunt vicariously thru his hunt report and I really believe it was his posts that ultimately what pushed me over the edge to book my own leopard hunt.
Ultimately, I gave up on doing a good job on the hunt report like Mort did. The experience of traveling to Africa for the first time and all the new experiences I simply was not organized and relaxed enough to do a “daily journal” type post like Mort and others have done. Maybe on my next trip which I hope there will be one! A wild lion hunt is something to dream of!
Stanley is a class act and his SA hunting lodge is located in the Limpopo region. There are a couple of posts here on AH including one from July 7th of this year. This gentleman's post about his hunt with Stanley's and the lodge experience is so well done with terrific pictures that I will simply refer you to his post! Everything written in that July 7 post about Stanley Pieterse Safaris is spot on! His lodge is amazing and everything about his place is five star! I own and operate a hunting lodge in Kansas and a charter fishing operation in Alaska. I know what a top tier professional hunting outfit and lodge looks like and Stanley's operation is at the top of the heap!
I digress! I guided Larry Wieshune, "Mr. Whitetail" above the artic circle twenty five years ago East of Kotzebue Alaska. He was after moose and caribou and I was an assistant guide working for Kobuk River Guides and Outfitters. I think the year was 1996. I was in the same tent bunking with Larry and the meat pole was right behind our tent. A grizzly kept raiding the meat pole in the middle of the night and carrying off whole moose quarters. Larry and I would be rudely awakened when we would hear the plastic tarp tied over the hung quarters to keep the rain off them being ripped off by the ole grizzly! Fast forward to this past July when I was searching for auction hunts on an online hunting auction site and stumbled on a Dallas Safari Club banquet auction. There ole Larry Wieshune was co hosting the banquet and auctioning off the donations. I glanced down the list of items and there was a leopard hunt with CMS safaris. I had always wanted a leopard. I thought this would be a great thing to do being that I was not able to charter fish a second year due to covid! My sportfishing company depends on customers arriving by cruise ship to Ketchikan and that was not happening! I bid on the hunt and Larry called my screen name... Going, Going, G.... I had thought I had won the bid on the CMS leopard bait hunt but a fellow from Kansas City grabbed the hunt at the very last second! I was depressed! Well, Like the bible verse in Romans says... God works all things together for good for those that are called according to his purpose... Let me keep looking for a leopard hunt I thought.... The search began...
I found AH as I surfed the internet. What a great experience! I will say that there were "used car dealers" that were pressuring me to buy a hunt from them. There were also "sour grape" outfitters that once I selected Stanley went out of there way to tell me I had made the wrong choice and that I would pay for the mistake! Very unbecoming! Liam Urray Safaris who advertises here on AH was not one of those people! I would and will hunt with him someday! I know him from the hunting shows where I exhibit my Kansas whitetail hunting lodge operation. We have been side by side at the shows in our booths over the years and I trust him as well. He took the high ground and said Stanley is a good guy! Have a successful hunt and all the best to you! Guess what! That is professionalism and good sportsmanship! The ones that were rude and wished me ill because of not choosing them are now blocked from my social media and telephone!
Another thing that was great about AH is that I met great members who went out of there way to help me! They had no iron in the fire but when I posted that I wanted to hunt a leopard they came to my assistance! I think these guys will be my Safari friends forever! I want to say something else that unscrupulous Africa hunting companies should remember! I had members go out of there way to contact me when they saw someone contacting me that had screwed them or one of their friends over! Think about that for a minute! I myself never write reviews of a service or hotel or what not..... It is just not my thing. But I do recall of the one or two I have written in my lifetime they were all because I had been treated horribly and wanted to get the word out to save others from my miserable fate! So I sure am thankful that there are AH members watching the back of a first time Africa hunter like myself.
Stanley arranges hunts in many Africa countries and he arranged a Botswana dog hunt for me. What an experience! Camping in tents along the river with two ladies cooking over a bed of coals! We had such and entourage! Two PH's, Two cooks, three vehicles, 10 dogs, 6 or 8 bushmen trackers and three representatives from Botswana National Park Service! OH yes I forgot... And a professional videographer that Stanley hired that I knew nothing about! So, to a first timer to Africa and a guide and outfitter myself the the scale of the number of people involved in one man's hunt is something unimaginable and not seen usually in North America.
Its late and I have hunters coming in tomorrow so I must sign off... I am really disappointed in myself for not being able to do a "Mort" like hunt report. Heck I don't even know how to PM properly or how to post this hunt report properly. I am truly sorry.... Just know that I am so happy with my experience and that was because of Stanley's attention to details and planning and arranging! He is a licensed PH in South Africa but he also helped me arrange this hunt because he knew it was exactly what I was looking for! Everyone made over my leopard saying it was a whopper at 226.6 pounds and 7 feet 8 inches long. I could tell you all the exciting stories of chasing leopards with dogs but you can imagine how exciting that was! The friendship I have formed thru this site is terrific with one gentleman in particular. Also I feel the information this site provided me is a resource like non other when a green horn is trying to figure out Africa hunting! Now I am dreaming of a wild lion hunt and I hope the friends I have made on this site will help me with that as well... Thanks again the AH!
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Ultimately, I gave up on doing a good job on the hunt report like Mort did. The experience of traveling to Africa for the first time and all the new experiences I simply was not organized and relaxed enough to do a “daily journal” type post like Mort and others have done. Maybe on my next trip which I hope there will be one! A wild lion hunt is something to dream of!
Stanley is a class act and his SA hunting lodge is located in the Limpopo region. There are a couple of posts here on AH including one from July 7th of this year. This gentleman's post about his hunt with Stanley's and the lodge experience is so well done with terrific pictures that I will simply refer you to his post! Everything written in that July 7 post about Stanley Pieterse Safaris is spot on! His lodge is amazing and everything about his place is five star! I own and operate a hunting lodge in Kansas and a charter fishing operation in Alaska. I know what a top tier professional hunting outfit and lodge looks like and Stanley's operation is at the top of the heap!
I digress! I guided Larry Wieshune, "Mr. Whitetail" above the artic circle twenty five years ago East of Kotzebue Alaska. He was after moose and caribou and I was an assistant guide working for Kobuk River Guides and Outfitters. I think the year was 1996. I was in the same tent bunking with Larry and the meat pole was right behind our tent. A grizzly kept raiding the meat pole in the middle of the night and carrying off whole moose quarters. Larry and I would be rudely awakened when we would hear the plastic tarp tied over the hung quarters to keep the rain off them being ripped off by the ole grizzly! Fast forward to this past July when I was searching for auction hunts on an online hunting auction site and stumbled on a Dallas Safari Club banquet auction. There ole Larry Wieshune was co hosting the banquet and auctioning off the donations. I glanced down the list of items and there was a leopard hunt with CMS safaris. I had always wanted a leopard. I thought this would be a great thing to do being that I was not able to charter fish a second year due to covid! My sportfishing company depends on customers arriving by cruise ship to Ketchikan and that was not happening! I bid on the hunt and Larry called my screen name... Going, Going, G.... I had thought I had won the bid on the CMS leopard bait hunt but a fellow from Kansas City grabbed the hunt at the very last second! I was depressed! Well, Like the bible verse in Romans says... God works all things together for good for those that are called according to his purpose... Let me keep looking for a leopard hunt I thought.... The search began...
I found AH as I surfed the internet. What a great experience! I will say that there were "used car dealers" that were pressuring me to buy a hunt from them. There were also "sour grape" outfitters that once I selected Stanley went out of there way to tell me I had made the wrong choice and that I would pay for the mistake! Very unbecoming! Liam Urray Safaris who advertises here on AH was not one of those people! I would and will hunt with him someday! I know him from the hunting shows where I exhibit my Kansas whitetail hunting lodge operation. We have been side by side at the shows in our booths over the years and I trust him as well. He took the high ground and said Stanley is a good guy! Have a successful hunt and all the best to you! Guess what! That is professionalism and good sportsmanship! The ones that were rude and wished me ill because of not choosing them are now blocked from my social media and telephone!
Another thing that was great about AH is that I met great members who went out of there way to help me! They had no iron in the fire but when I posted that I wanted to hunt a leopard they came to my assistance! I think these guys will be my Safari friends forever! I want to say something else that unscrupulous Africa hunting companies should remember! I had members go out of there way to contact me when they saw someone contacting me that had screwed them or one of their friends over! Think about that for a minute! I myself never write reviews of a service or hotel or what not..... It is just not my thing. But I do recall of the one or two I have written in my lifetime they were all because I had been treated horribly and wanted to get the word out to save others from my miserable fate! So I sure am thankful that there are AH members watching the back of a first time Africa hunter like myself.
Stanley arranges hunts in many Africa countries and he arranged a Botswana dog hunt for me. What an experience! Camping in tents along the river with two ladies cooking over a bed of coals! We had such and entourage! Two PH's, Two cooks, three vehicles, 10 dogs, 6 or 8 bushmen trackers and three representatives from Botswana National Park Service! OH yes I forgot... And a professional videographer that Stanley hired that I knew nothing about! So, to a first timer to Africa and a guide and outfitter myself the the scale of the number of people involved in one man's hunt is something unimaginable and not seen usually in North America.
Its late and I have hunters coming in tomorrow so I must sign off... I am really disappointed in myself for not being able to do a "Mort" like hunt report. Heck I don't even know how to PM properly or how to post this hunt report properly. I am truly sorry.... Just know that I am so happy with my experience and that was because of Stanley's attention to details and planning and arranging! He is a licensed PH in South Africa but he also helped me arrange this hunt because he knew it was exactly what I was looking for! Everyone made over my leopard saying it was a whopper at 226.6 pounds and 7 feet 8 inches long. I could tell you all the exciting stories of chasing leopards with dogs but you can imagine how exciting that was! The friendship I have formed thru this site is terrific with one gentleman in particular. Also I feel the information this site provided me is a resource like non other when a green horn is trying to figure out Africa hunting! Now I am dreaming of a wild lion hunt and I hope the friends I have made on this site will help me with that as well... Thanks again the AH!
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there are not many hunts on leopard with dogs on here 
