Scott CWO
AH legend
It’s been about ten years but since I’m laid up after surgery on my right tibia, I thought I would share some safari adventures in Mozambique.
After a 2012 safari to the SVC in Zimbabwe, my wife and I knew we had to go back. A cancellation safari came across my desk and I jumped on it. The safari was for leopard, buffalo, sable and plains game with the late Jamie Wilson of Luambeze/Mazeze Safaris in the Niassa Reserve area R3 bordering Tanzania. The gentleman that cancelled told me he had been there four times and had killed four leopards with a bow in daylight! He said the leopards in the area weren’t the biggest in Africa but due to the absence of people, they also weren’t very spooky. I had heard tales of hunters struggling to get a leopard after several trips so this sounded too good to be true but Jamie confirmed the story!
I booked for July and started making the necessary travel arrangements and applied for a USFWS leopard permit, which I received before I left for Africa.
Before we knew it, Wendy and I were on our way to Africa for the second time. I brought my custom Winchester M70 .338 WM and my CZ550 .458 Lott. After flying to JNB, we took another flight to Pemba, where we met Jamie. We went straight to his plane, a twin engine Piper Navajo. Besides being a very experienced PH, Jamie was also a great pilot.
Flying with us was Jamie’s head tracker, Cosimo, who had just been released from the hospital after being tackled and bit by a wounded leopard. Cosimo had stitches on his scalp and cheek. Wow, this was getting real!
After a 2012 safari to the SVC in Zimbabwe, my wife and I knew we had to go back. A cancellation safari came across my desk and I jumped on it. The safari was for leopard, buffalo, sable and plains game with the late Jamie Wilson of Luambeze/Mazeze Safaris in the Niassa Reserve area R3 bordering Tanzania. The gentleman that cancelled told me he had been there four times and had killed four leopards with a bow in daylight! He said the leopards in the area weren’t the biggest in Africa but due to the absence of people, they also weren’t very spooky. I had heard tales of hunters struggling to get a leopard after several trips so this sounded too good to be true but Jamie confirmed the story!
I booked for July and started making the necessary travel arrangements and applied for a USFWS leopard permit, which I received before I left for Africa.
Before we knew it, Wendy and I were on our way to Africa for the second time. I brought my custom Winchester M70 .338 WM and my CZ550 .458 Lott. After flying to JNB, we took another flight to Pemba, where we met Jamie. We went straight to his plane, a twin engine Piper Navajo. Besides being a very experienced PH, Jamie was also a great pilot.
Flying with us was Jamie’s head tracker, Cosimo, who had just been released from the hospital after being tackled and bit by a wounded leopard. Cosimo had stitches on his scalp and cheek. Wow, this was getting real!
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