One Day...
AH elite
"Please look at this video; this is very exactly what I do not want!" said I when forwarding to Dawie Kemp, owner of Kemp African Safaris a YouTube video showing Ferdinand the bull and promptly thereafter Betsy the cow, red and yellow ear tags included, being sadly executed by a "hunter" "guided" by Joe the farmer and a couple of his buddies, all discussing and laughing loudly, with cars driving on the highway in the background, and a placid herd of Cape Buffalo milling around peacefully among the irrigation lines on a well manicured pasture, and not even running away at the shots. "If this is buffalo hunting in South Africa, I would rather pass" I added. This is how my email conversation, and my friendship with Dawie Kemp started. We had some good email laughs together about this "hunt" and shared some commiseration about the heroic Nimrod so proud of it that he posted the video for all to see, and we both agreed that this is fine if others like it that way, but that we would do it differently, the "proper" way.
I wanted a traditional buffalo hunt, on foot, in dense bush and tall grass, with a .470 NE double rifle fitted only with iron sights, picking up a spoor at day break, following it as long as it would go and to wherever it would take us, and culminating in a close shot in the 20 to 40 yd range. Dawie liked it and was eager to organize the hunt: "this is the proper way to hunt buffalo" he said.
So, I booked a week long hunt with Kemp African Safaris and started dreaming. The dream could not have been more exciting, but it paled in comparison to reality. Picture yourself in a remote lodge with a huge veranda where they could have filmed Out of Africa, impeccably catered to, among a wide diversity of plains game unafraid of hunting trucks because they are never shot from trucks, sharing the tall grass with ever watchful herds of buffalo and groups of monster 'duga boys', and hunting the way they did it in the golden days...
This is your view when Dawie Kemp, owner of Kemp African Safaris, personally guides you at the Afrika Barrel and Bow concession owned and operated by Marco and Francesca Du Plessis...
Did I say Out of Africa?
And this is what awaits you...
I wanted a traditional buffalo hunt, on foot, in dense bush and tall grass, with a .470 NE double rifle fitted only with iron sights, picking up a spoor at day break, following it as long as it would go and to wherever it would take us, and culminating in a close shot in the 20 to 40 yd range. Dawie liked it and was eager to organize the hunt: "this is the proper way to hunt buffalo" he said.
So, I booked a week long hunt with Kemp African Safaris and started dreaming. The dream could not have been more exciting, but it paled in comparison to reality. Picture yourself in a remote lodge with a huge veranda where they could have filmed Out of Africa, impeccably catered to, among a wide diversity of plains game unafraid of hunting trucks because they are never shot from trucks, sharing the tall grass with ever watchful herds of buffalo and groups of monster 'duga boys', and hunting the way they did it in the golden days...
This is your view when Dawie Kemp, owner of Kemp African Safaris, personally guides you at the Afrika Barrel and Bow concession owned and operated by Marco and Francesca Du Plessis...
Did I say Out of Africa?
And this is what awaits you...
