Safari Season 2024 Has Started - Where We Going?

[Mtn_Infantry]

Who are you booking with? You can easily get the Kafue lechwe in one day from Lusaka at the end of your trip and they are the biggest species of lechwe.

He’s booked with Strang Middleton. Strang has been someone I’ve talked to a bunch of times about planning a hunt in Zambia with. We’ve talked about Ele with the bow a few times and were discussing Moose Hunting in Canada together at DSC this year. When the opportunity to tag along on a hunt with him came up, it was a no brainer.

 

[MontanaPat]

30 Days out from Botswana with NKWE. Kudu, Kudu, Kudu (no, this is not a misprint) of course my son will be taking one of them. Lol
Also, Eland, Gemsbok, Red Hartebeest, Blue Wildebeest, Zebra, Impala, Springbok.

@Mac13 when do you arrive at NKWE? I will be there from May 26th to June 4th

 

[Mac13]

@Mac13 when do you arrive at NKWE? I will be there from May 26th to June 4th

Hey Pat. We fly into Maun on June 3rd. Might get to spend a night in camp together and tell some stories. I believe @MattVejar is their right now. His hunting report last year is one of the reasons I booked. Looking forward to his report this year when he gets back.
If wifi is good, I am planning on doing a live thread on here during the hunt. It's a way to journal the hunt for myself and everyone else on the forum can join along. If you did the same thing, we could have almost 3 weeks straight live thread with NKWE which would be pretty cool. I'm not going to get supper detailed with it, just pictures and a brief description as I don't want to be on my phone all the time. Leave a few Kudu for me! LOL

 

[TheRealHorskin]

I am doing my first ever safari as well, actually my first time leaving North America. I depart the US on June 9th to hunt with @Nick BOWKER HUNTING SOUTH AFRICA. My menu currently consists of Zebra, Kudu, Black Wildebeest, Blue Wildebeest, and Impala.

 

[MontanaPat]

@Mac13 attaching a picture (with hunter cut out) that I got this morning from NKWE, They took this 63" kudu yesterday. You will likely see 25+ kudu bulls daily that will go into the mid 50" range or a little bigger, but the key is you have to let the 55-57" bulls walk if you want to get the 60"+!

 

[MontanaPat]

Well I see that NKWE has posted the full photo now as well

 

[Mac13]

@Mac13 attaching a picture (with hunter cut out) that I got this morning from NKWE, They took this 63" kudu yesterday. You will likely see 25+ kudu bulls daily that will go into the mid 50" range or a little bigger, but the key is you have to let the 55-57" bulls walk if you want to get the 60"+!

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@ MontanaPat, That's why you budget more than one, LOL. Hopefully we will just have the opportunity to just see one over 60". Such a majestic animal.

 

[375Fox]

That's why you budget more than one, LOL. Hopefully we will just have the opportunity to just see one over 60". Such a majestic animal.

Whether it’s in your budget or not, you see that kind of kudu free range you shoot it!

 

[Denvir Tire]

In 10 days I'm off to the Khomas Highlands bringing a friend who's never hunted Namibia. He'll be looking for Mountain Zebra, big Kudu and whatever presents itself. I'll spend my days calling Jackal's with electronic call. Then we're off to the Eastern Cape for a cull shoot for a week after which my friend returns home.
I'm going to stay in the Eastern Cape and night shoot Jackals with thermals.
This will be my first safari with my own rifle. I've always been wary of the hassle that might occur however a post by Phillip Glass regarding this convinced me to try.

 

[Northern Shooter]

Not Africa this year however 2024 does kick off my North American safari. I plan on taking everything with my 375, 416 and 458.

 

[Tra3]

I started 2024 with a hunt in England in early January: Muntjac, Chinese Water deer, Fallow and Red deer, and pheasants.

September I’ll be in Namibia with Jamy Traut Safaris. My big sister is coming along with my dad. Sister has never hunted. My dad and I have an estimate of 90% that she will hunt something.

Montana for deer/elk/antelope in the Fall. Minnesota for deer and Turkey. And, a perennial favorite: archery squirrel hunting.

Looks like we (Dad and I) have a return trip in the works to go bird hunting again in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, but that might be in 2025.

My dad is 80. He is still moving quite well and very sharp. I’m trying to cherish these trips with him because it is unknown how many more I will get. A major reason for taking my older sister along is for us to get uninterrupted family time.

BTW: you can call them hunts, but I think most of these trips are exploring adventures with some hunting mixed in. Or, even more enticing: exploring adventures, with guns.

 

[Hornyman]

I am doing my first ever safari as well, actually my first time leaving North America. I depart the US on June 9th to hunt with @Nick BOWKER HUNTING SOUTH AFRICA. My menu currently consists of Zebra, Kudu, Black Wildebeest, Blue Wildebeest, and Impala.

You'll be right behind my group. I head back to Nicks June 1-10.

 

[Houston Bill]

This July I am taking family to Vic Falls and Chobe National Park for some site seeing and then everyone is off to Zim for buffalo and maybe tuskless elephant and possibly leopard, we shall see. Then later this fall I have a mule deer hunt in Colorado.

 

[Cleathorn]

Love this post. This is the same line of thought I've been on lately...add in some buff and ele...and some buff and banteng in Oz and that covers a lot of my interests. Capra and DG are my favorites...and turkeys...and Tiny 10!

I just landed in Beira to hunt a Livingstone Suni and wrap up a Tiny Ten. I need to add Oz to the list - been there 3x and still haven’t hunted, but love the fishing, golf and people of Australia.

 

[Cleathorn]

Came across my own thread this morning at breakfast at City Lodge at Tambo. I was sitting here wondering where everyone else was hunting.

I thought I was done for the year after hunting Uganda in January and then Cameroon and Uganda again in March. Well, it turns out, I have issues…

But they are good problems to have.

I’m on my way to Mozambique with Grant Taylor at Mashambonzou Safari’s to hunt a Livingstone Suni, a Bushpig during the day (that will be cool), a Lichtenstein hartebeest and hopefully a Sharpes grysbuck (always hoping but never connecting on a Sharpes).

This trip wasn’t planned when I started this thread back in January, but I’m pretty excited about the prospect of adding to my Tiny Ten pursuits.

And I booked a Carpathian Chamois trip with Marius at @HUNTROMANIA for November. Been meaning to do that, and I can visit 2 of my daughters that are now at University in Europe (UK and Netherlands).

I have to start thinking about 2025. I would ask you guys for suggestions, but you’re all just bad influences.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

I started 2024 with a hunt in England in early January: Muntjac, Chinese Water deer, Fallow and Red deer, and pheasants.

September I’ll be in Namibia with Jamy Traut Safaris. My big sister is coming along with my dad. Sister has never hunted. My dad and I have an estimate of 90% that she will hunt something.

Montana for deer/elk/antelope in the Fall. Minnesota for deer and Turkey. And, a perennial favorite: archery squirrel hunting.

Looks like we (Dad and I) have a return trip in the works to go bird hunting again in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, but that might be in 2025.

My dad is 80. He is still moving quite well and very sharp. I’m trying to cherish these trips with him because it is unknown how many more I will get. A major reason for taking my older sister along is for us to get uninterrupted family time.

BTW: you can call them hunts, but I think most of these trips are exploring adventures with some hunting mixed in. Or, even more enticing: exploring adventures, with guns.

Well done taking your family Bill

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Well done taking your family Bill

Tra3!

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Our big hunt happens in late October is the Save and it will be three Buffalo, eland, and heaps of impala. This will be with our Carruthers hunting group. Hopefully the first Buffalo with my Heym double.
Then the kitft tiger tournament is the fist week of October and we will be entering four teams as usual, my brother and two daughters will be along.
Right now the wife and I are touring in South Africa in our 1954 series 1 Landy and currently back in Johannesburg having done the southern Dragensberg and the Eastern Cape. Will begin the journey back to Zimbabwe via the Botswana swamps and Victoria Falls soon.

 

[Mtn_Infantry]

Came across my own thread this morning at breakfast at City Lodge at Tambo. I was sitting here wondering where everyone else was hunting.

I thought I was done for the year after hunting Uganda in January and then Cameroon and Uganda again in March. Well, it turns out, I have issues…

But they are good problems to have.

I’m on my way to Mozambique with Grant Taylor at Mashambonzou Safari’s to hunt a Livingstone Suni, a Bushpig during the day (that will be cool), a Lichtenstein hartebeest and hopefully a Sharpes grysbuck (always hoping but never connecting on a Sharpes).

This trip wasn’t planned when I started this thread back in January, but I’m pretty excited about the prospect of adding to my Tiny Ten pursuits.

And I booked a Carpathian Chamois trip with Marius at @HUNTROMANIA for November. Been meaning to do that, and I can visit 2 of my daughters that are now at University in Europe (UK and Netherlands).

I have to start thinking about 2025. I would ask you guys for suggestions, but you’re all just bad influences.

Following this closely and looking forward to your hunt report. I’ve looked at Grants area several times and have narrowed it down to his or Marks area to finish my Tiny 10 (Suni and Red Duiker).

 

[dchum]

In 10 days I'm off to the Khomas Highlands bringing a friend who's never hunted Namibia. He'll be looking for Mountain Zebra, big Kudu and whatever presents itself. I'll spend my days calling Jackal's with electronic call. Then we're off to the Eastern Cape for a cull shoot for a week after which my friend returns home.
I'm going to stay in the Eastern Cape and night shoot Jackals with thermals.
This will be my first safari with my own rifle. I've always been wary of the hassle that might occur however a post by Phillip Glass regarding this convinced me to try.

Did your buddy get his zebra!