ZIMBABWE: Short Zimbabwe Hunt

[Firebird]

Loved your adventure-thank you for sharing it with us!

 

[375Fox]

Thanks for sharing your hunt. Was this same ranch you hunted your sable on?

 

[cls]

Enjoyed, thanks for taking us along.

 

[C.W. Richter]

Very nice! (and good to see the vintage metal, too!)

 

[Doug3006]

What a blessing it must be Kevin, to just strike out and hunt in a place like that! In Africa! You are a lucky man. Looks like you had a great time.

 

[CJW]

Kevin, I, like all other AH readers. appreciate and enjoy your wonderful writings. Plus the enhancement of your great photos. I speak with the experience of some fifty years of almost annual pilgrimages to all parts of huntable Africa. Must confess I read with nostalgia and yearning for, just one more African adventure. I am 83 and my wife and middle age children are not encouraging this. My wife reminds me when I was in Tanzania for my 80th birthday I took ten head of plains game with ten shots, plus four Cape Buffalo with four more rounds. She thinks that was a good time to hang up my guns. she may be right. But maybe I will head back and just leave my rifles home…..

again thank you so much.

Nobody likes a quitter. Go back to Africa.

 

[IdaRam]

It is always a pleasure reading about your adventures in Zim. Thank you for taking time to share with the rest of us and huge congrats on that magnificent waterbuck!

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Kevin, thanks for another great tale from the Zim bush. Congratulations on your waterbuck, and hopefully someday soon I can make it out to Zim.

Edit: Ps. I’m a fan of the Landies. No matter how much they leak.

Hope to see you soon BT, keep in touch on your trip, maybe we can share a Flying Bantu.
Oil is cheap and we have friends in Saudi who have a fair bit of it...

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Thanks for sharing your hunt. Was this same ranch you hunted your sable on?

No, that place was seized. This is the place next door.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

What a blessing it must be Kevin, to just strike out and hunt in a place like that! In Africa! You are a lucky man. Looks like you had a great time.

Yes you are right Doug, it is very special. It is here for all of us, there are no barriers other than time and money, two of the few things we can control.

 

[CoElkHunter]

It is always a pleasure reading about your adventures in Zim. Thank you for taking time to share with the rest of us and huge congrats on that magnificent waterbuck!

+1. What an awesome adventure. Thanks for sharing!

 

[WAB]

Well done Kevin!

 

[Brandon.Gleason]

It looks like a great time was had by all. Thank you for sharing and congratulations on a successful hunt!

 

[Rare Breed]

Kevin I absolutely love your landi!!! Can you tell us it’s history. Wish I could one like yours in the states

 

[AZDAVE]

Kevin Thank you for taking us all along on your hunt. well written and i enjoyed the nice pics.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Kevin I absolutely love your landi!!! Can you tell us it’s history. Wish I could one like yours in the states

Hi RB, mine is a 1954 Series 1, 86" wheelbase. It was thought to have arrived in Zimbabwe in a big batch of similar Landies that were brought in for the Kariba dam project. When that was completed in 1960 most of these Landies ended up on farms and were not even licensed, so there is little to go on. Mine then pitched up on a smallworker mine in the Mount Darwin district about 20 years ago. The miner went bust and emigrated to Botswana and the vehicle was paid in as a settlement to a rigger in Msasa where it lay for a few years in the open. I bought it from him about 5 years ago in a sorry state.
Wood's is more interesting, it is a 1950 80" wheelbase, not gashed in any way. It appears to have never been in an accident at all.
Daniel's is almost identical to mine, was bought off a farm perhaps 10 years ago and slowly restored. It is a 1957 vehicle, so probably Kariba related too. We bought it recently off the restorer.

 

[Uncle Sauce]

Thanks for sharing Kevin - looks like a great time was had by all! Congrats

 

[Randy F]

Another great read Kevin, thank you once again for taking us along.

 

[Mark Biggerstaff]

Thanks for sharing. Great read! Like your writing style sir!

 

[Nyati]

Nice waterbuck Kevin, congrats !