MOZAMBIQUE: Very Successful Safari With KWALATA SAFARIS 2024

[Safari1]

Awesome...did you see many elephants?

 

[Frederik]

Great stuff super Suni and great Red Duiker.

 

[BRICKBURN]

With a 0400 wake-up call (For those that don't know my better half ISN'T a morning person) 0430 breakfast and 0500 in the cruiser and headed along the road north looking for 1-3 bull tracks. Once we found a suitable set of tracks, everyone loads up and we get on track and start off after the buffalo. we would follow tracks till the wind shifted or we caught up with the animals and evaluated them for a shooter. Along the way we would keep a eye out for the animals on my list. Since @BRICKBURN requested "Get a monster Suni to make me envious!" I will start with that hunt. The morning after my wife harvested her buffalo, (She slept in) Headed out with Jaco and team and were looking for Suni. We started in the riverine areas slowly stalking along the elephant trails. This is one of my favorite ways to hunt the small antelope that inhabit this area. WE had been moving slowly and quietly for a couple hours when the tracker gave us the hand signal to stop. Jaco evaluated a Suni that was slowly feeding our way, (which was nice as all we had seen before were going mach 1 trough the bush). he asked me if I was comfortable take a free hand shot shoot trying to get the sticks set up was going to spook the little guy. Since I practice bench, sticks and free hand all the time I gave him a north south shake of my head. So each time the Suni had his head behind some brush I moved into a patented One foot 10 inched higher than the other, 3/4 squat shot above a branch and below another waiting for Mr Suini to walk into the opening. One 400gr northfork solid a couple inches behind the shoulder and we have a Suni DRT. Hand shakes and congratulations we head the couple miles back towards the truck looking for a suitable place to take photo's. after my wife's buffalo stalks this hunt was my favorite of the trip for my list animals.

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Holy hell, that worked. Look the thickness and that growth at the bases.
Congratulations.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Well lets talk about Sharpes Grysbok

Well we saw a fair number of these little guys, most were doing about Mach 3 with their tails on fire, couldn't even attempt a running shot due to under growth. However on day 6 came across a very nice ram while on buffalo track. We got into position, on sticks and Jaco said he is about 70 yards away 1/4 away beside the big rock. I relaxed and made a perfect shot. However I needed to be about a foot and a half father right as I saw the head and neck and mistook a smaller rock for his body. So the bad news was I shot a rock! The good news is it was a clean miss and he was headed to Tanzania very quickly and I shot the rock exactly where I was aiming. The better news is that the goddess of the hunt directed my bullet into the center of the rock and we were back on buffalo tracks. Which untimely lead to my wife making a perfect shot on her buffalo about a hour later.

OUCH!

 

[AZDAVE]

I had planned on at least one more animal than what was on my list, would see what Africa provided. I shot two animals that Africa gave me and didn't get two that were on my list. I wasn't able to connect on the Sharps Grysbok and Hyena.

We had been out all morning on track for buffalo and made it back to the truck, Jaco and the Tracker wanted to check out a remote spring that was close then go find a shady place to have lunch. parked about a 1/2 mile away and slowly approached the spring, there were baboons, a couple kudu cows and some impala at the upper spring they moved off as we approached. This spring hand a couple of small pools it fed going down a small ravine. Checking for buffalo tracks (There were a couple but were a couple days old) we made a small turn to the left and Jaco stops and asks if I have any interest in a Bohms Zebra. (The two animal I was interested in not on my list was Eland and Zebra). I gave him an affirmative answer and the sticks went up and I put a 400gr Aframe into a high shoulder shot that dropped the old stallion DRT. (Shot was 92 yards) We sat him up for some pictures and the tracker and Jaco went back for the truck. about a 20 minute road building session and the stallion was loaded into the truck. So we headed back to camp to get him in the skinning shed since it was 95 degrees. On a short historical side note my first safari in 2013 I took a Burchell Zebra at 92 meters with a 450 NE double.

 

[AZDAVE]

The second animal I took not on my list was the great grandpa of bushpigs. We had been out tracking a herd of Niassa wildebeest that just never stopped! We were driving around looking for some shade to have a nice relaxing lunch and see if we could fins a grysbok that would stand still for at least 2 seconds after lunch. As we were looking the tracker spotted a bushpig laying in the shade with a sow. How he saw that I have no idea. We drove past and made a plan to get the wind in our favor and moved out. He was resting with his nose in the wind, we were able to get within 65 yards and he was quartering away. Put a northfork solid through the boiler room and he never moved. As we walked up to him it became obvious that he was ancient The hair on his head and down his spine was gray white, his teeth were at the gum line. What a hammer of a pig.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Great picture of great grandpa and the Krieghoff

 

[Fatback]

Congrats on a fine safari and some wonderful trophies to remember it by. Appreciate you taking the time to share with all of us here.

 

[Nyati]

Ah ! I´m jealous of that bushpig