SOUTH AFRICA: KoringKoppie Hunting Safaris *Warning* Stay Away

[LP67]

Just a update for everyone. PHASA will has emailed me that they are having a disciplinary hearing for the Outfitter/PH on July 8th. I have never heard anything from him about the hunt other then in March he emailed me saying he wanted me to drive 5 hours to sign the common reedbuck permit. I emailed back that he could mail it to me and I would mail it back. After 3 emails and a WhatsApp message I got a email a month later with the permit scanned saying to sign and email it back. The permit was for a completely different Providence then we hunted. It also has an expiration of 2020. So I didn't sign it or return it. I feel this was done intentionally so that when my animals hit the USA that the whole crate would be seized for bad paperwork. That's my guess at least.

If you want the reedbuck then take it , sign the permit and be done, you not signing it be for the wrong date/ province/ area will have no effect or legal implications on your side . Let SA Nat conservation / phasa deal with the Outfit.
Many outfits will " burn" a permit in one area to help a client in another, is it legal? No.

 

[Sabre]

Just a update for everyone. PHASA will has emailed me that they are having a disciplinary hearing for the Outfitter/PH on July 8th. I have never heard anything from him about the hunt other then in March he emailed me saying he wanted me to drive 5 hours to sign the common reedbuck permit. I emailed back that he could mail it to me and I would mail it back. After 3 emails and a WhatsApp message I got a email a month later with the permit scanned saying to sign and email it back. The permit was for a completely different Providence then we hunted. It also has an expiration of 2020. So I didn't sign it or return it. I feel this was done intentionally so that when my animals hit the USA that the whole crate would be seized for bad paperwork. That's my guess at least.

Thanks for keeping everyone updated. Quite a fiasco.

 

[Sabre]

If you want the reedbuck then take it , sign the permit and be done, you not signing it be for the wrong date/ province/ area will have no effect or legal implications on your side . Let SA Nat conservation / phasa deal with the Outfit.
Many outfits will " burn" a permit in one area to help a client in another, is it legal? No.

Your advice to someone dealing with a sketchy outfitter who has screwed them over a bunch of times is to sign a document that doesn't match their hunt at all and that you say you know is illegal?

This seems like bad advice.

 

[archer36]

WOW. Never have I seen a review like this. I always brag about the quality and ethics of South African outfitters. You hear lots of horror stories about North American hunts.

 

[leslie hetrick]

their every where, their every where ! rotten eggs in the box.

 

[hoytcanon]

I would not have shot any of those animals under those conditions and would have left the operation by day two...