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The drive back and the flights back were uneventful.

I forgot to mention other guests. There were four Hungarian hunters there for a few days. There was Lazlo, 68, and his two grandsons, Pieter, 17, and Andrash, 13, and Gabor. Also, John, from Pennsylvania, came for lion in company with outfitter Clive Perkins and Clive's son Tristan, 17, the...

Dogs:

My room:

Some ostrich eggs. There were six female ostriches on the 1000 acre place with no males and these girls were starved for affection. They came up to us repeatedly, asking for sex, I think!

Tracker on the first day, Nao:

My digs:

The lodge dining area. John, was a great cook.

Another PH, Ian, plus Ray, Brendon, and Justin:

The campfire:

Ray Moher, Justin, Brendon, and Francois Dorfling:

Cloete Hepburn:

One day we came up on a mongoose killing a puff adder:

Bullets from the kudu:

And finally, I shot another kudu at 40 yards. It ran 200 yards and gave me a standing broadside shot. I fired off-hand and he came down. The first shot had hit him just inside the near shoulder and didn't exit. The second shot hit the opposite shoulder and also didn't exit. I recovered both...

On the last day, I shot a Red Hartebeest and 100 yards. Perfect shoulder shot and he went 50 yards before crashing down.

Later, we bumped a small herd of youngish eland. I took aim at the largest of the males and fired. The group went off but it was obvious he couldn't keep up. The group went back to him and ran past and he turned but didn't go far before stopping. I fired again and he went right down. My...

While scouting for the lechwe we came across a nice gemsbok. I took a slightly hurried shot and hit him in the upper neck. I don't think he even knew he had been hit and ran about 100 yards and turned and looked at us. I made another hurried shot and hit his liver but he went right down. He...

I'm losing track of the days but I know each morning we went to the 1000 acre side to try to find the big lechwe. He was very smart and we would bump him and he would run off and not give us a chance at a shot. On the last morning we admitted defeat and he's still there waiting for another...

In the afternoon we hunted the 7000 acre side. We saw a good duiker which I shot at 60 yards. It dropped but as I walked up to it it ran and I had to give it another shot. This had good horns at 5 2/8 inch.

The next morning we decided to make another search for the big lechwe we had seen on the first morning. While driving around we came across another nice impala which I shot at 60 yards, it dropped in place.

Late that afternoon, Cloete excitedly yelled "big kudu bull". We jumped down and went about 100 yards before getting a shot at 80 yards. The kudu ran about 200 yards before collapsing. This animal had a very large body and was old. His horns went 51 3/4 inches.

On the ride back, we saw a jackal that I shot. The next morning I shot an impala ram on a hill at about 40 yards and even though my shot took out both shoulders he still ran about 15 yards before coming down. As we were hauling him back to the truck, the tracker noticed another impala down...

We had so far not seen any Black Wildebeest, so the next morning we drove up to a cattle ranch on the Botswana border, and found one. We did what I call sight trailing, and went after him about 3 miles before I got a shot. He was at 80 yards and ran another 80 yards before crashing down.

That afternoon I shot a nice springbuck, facing, at 75 yards, and he dropped in his tracks.

The next morning was lion day. The way they hunt lions here are to find their tracks entering a block, circle the block to make sure it is still in that block, and then track. I really, really, didn't want to blow my shot because I didn't want to endanger anybody with a wounded lion and also...

I also took at 4 1/2 inch steenbok:

I took a blesbok at 120 yards with him facing and he went about 200 yards before collapsing.

The next morning we went back in search of the lechwe. We didn't see the big guy though. After driving around quite a while, we began what I call a cold track. That is, we found tracks crossing the road and began tracking. Nao is a great tracker, plus the sand was moist, which helped. We...

I should add here that this section of the Kalahari has received heavy rains the last two years. Normal rainfall is about 10 inches and they had already received 24 inches this year. Because of that the grass was long and plentiful -- really a great time to visit.

Well due to my originally scheduled hunt with Graham Sales being put on hold, I kept my airline reservation and scrambled for a replacement. My friend Stuart Williams at Tallyho suggested Umlilo Safaris which he has used for CBL hunts before and I contacted Francois Dorfling and he was able to...

It was 104 yesterday, which is hot for southeast Texas for June, but I remember it getting up to 107 back in 1980.

Watch the Umlilo Safaris 2022-2023 promo video:

Very nice!

At this point I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude for a few days.