pimes
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After our coming back from a great 12day hunt for Buffalo and PG in Zimbabwe‘s Nuanetsi Conservancy Area (= a 400.000 acres conservancy in southeast Zimbawe - home of 2500-3000 Buffaloes, 300 Elefant, 120-130 Leopards and abundance of Giraffes a PG) with Richie Schultz Safaris, here a short report about. Please excuse = English is not my mother language = so my report is keyword-like...
Traveling: Start 09.08. my son and I with Qatar (= great service) from Munich via Doha (31/2 hours stopover) and Lusaka (1 hour stopover) to Harare
Overnight stay in BB Woodland (highly recommended = very nice and helpful owners)
11.08. Drive with our PH Richie Schultz to the hunting ground = 71/2 hours - an experience (charter flight to the hunting ground = $ 4000,- = we prefer waste this money for hunting)
Around 5:00 pm arrival in Nuanetsi - Camp Mimbizi (great service, great food = the chef knows what to do!!!
12.08. = 1st day of hunting = test shots with rental guns - Bruno 375H&H and a Winchester Coyote in .300 Win. Short Mag. = everything ok - continue to search at waterholes for buffalo tracks, for getting an overview where the buffalo prefer to stay (due to heavy rain in rainseason still good and sufficient food everywhere, therefore buffalos are spread over the whole area)
12.08. = 1st day of hunting = test shots with rental guns - Bruno 375H&H and a Winchester Coyote in .300 Win. Short Mag. = everything ok - continue to search at waterholes for buffalo tracks, for getting an overview where the buffalo prefer to stay (due to heavy rain in rainseason still good and sufficient food everywhere, therefore buffalos are spread over the whole area)
2nd day of hunting - also looking for fresch trecks - PG and Giraffes every where - lunch spent in the camp
3rd day of hunting - fresh tracks found right away in the morning - we decided to follow. Unfortunately lost track after good a hour - found again after 11/2 hours - after founding tracks again we was shortly on at 3 Dagga Boys. In the dense mopane bush they saw us coming befor we had a look on them and escaped - after 1/2 hour waiting we started tracking them from new - good 1 hour and we was on the buffaloes again - this time we worked up around 50-60 meters and I was in shooting position. Unfortunately the wind changed or they saw any movement from us before we get a closer look at them = the 3 Dagga Boys runs away. After good 4 hours and 8km tracking we decide to let them go …
Lunch in Camp - after a short nap out again. A lot’s of Impala, Kudus arround - in the last light we spotted 2 nice Nyala Bulls in thick bush on a riverbank, one of them shootable = we decided to let them go - if not founded before darkness in the bush, the hyenas would do their job during the night …
continue as soon as possible …
Traveling: Start 09.08. my son and I with Qatar (= great service) from Munich via Doha (31/2 hours stopover) and Lusaka (1 hour stopover) to Harare
Attention: existing EU arms embargo against Zimbabwe (= unfortunately also hunting weapons affected) - entry with your own weapon is therefore only possible with a special permit from the respective EU state or via a 3rd state (e.g. South Africa) (= see various threats in this forum )
Arrival at Harare Airport on 10.08. = immigration/custom formalities therefore completed in 1/2 hour (by helping hands organized by Richie Schultz Safsris) - luggage all arrived.Overnight stay in BB Woodland (highly recommended = very nice and helpful owners)
11.08. Drive with our PH Richie Schultz to the hunting ground = 71/2 hours - an experience (charter flight to the hunting ground = $ 4000,- = we prefer waste this money for hunting)
Around 5:00 pm arrival in Nuanetsi - Camp Mimbizi (great service, great food = the chef knows what to do!!!
12.08. = 1st day of hunting = test shots with rental guns - Bruno 375H&H and a Winchester Coyote in .300 Win. Short Mag. = everything ok - continue to search at waterholes for buffalo tracks, for getting an overview where the buffalo prefer to stay (due to heavy rain in rainseason still good and sufficient food everywhere, therefore buffalos are spread over the whole area)
12.08. = 1st day of hunting = test shots with rental guns - Bruno 375H&H and a Winchester Coyote in .300 Win. Short Mag. = everything ok - continue to search at waterholes for buffalo tracks, for getting an overview where the buffalo prefer to stay (due to heavy rain in rainseason still good and sufficient food everywhere, therefore buffalos are spread over the whole area)
2nd day of hunting - also looking for fresch trecks - PG and Giraffes every where - lunch spent in the camp
3rd day of hunting - fresh tracks found right away in the morning - we decided to follow. Unfortunately lost track after good a hour - found again after 11/2 hours - after founding tracks again we was shortly on at 3 Dagga Boys. In the dense mopane bush they saw us coming befor we had a look on them and escaped - after 1/2 hour waiting we started tracking them from new - good 1 hour and we was on the buffaloes again - this time we worked up around 50-60 meters and I was in shooting position. Unfortunately the wind changed or they saw any movement from us before we get a closer look at them = the 3 Dagga Boys runs away. After good 4 hours and 8km tracking we decide to let them go …
Lunch in Camp - after a short nap out again. A lot’s of Impala, Kudus arround - in the last light we spotted 2 nice Nyala Bulls in thick bush on a riverbank, one of them shootable = we decided to let them go - if not founded before darkness in the bush, the hyenas would do their job during the night …
continue as soon as possible …
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