ZIMBABWE: 2024 - My First Trip To Africa, Dalton & York

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Great hunt @deewayne2003, congratulations!

 

[revturbo9967]

I’ll tell him he owes me a beer! Scott is a very good guy. I enjoyed having him in camp on my two hunts with D&Y. I left him some ammo last year that I hand loaded myself. As you know, they have a tough time getting ammo over there.

He is fun to hunt with that's for sure.

He brought his shotgun one day for guinea fowl and on the way back from Zebra hunting spotted a bunch. He jumped out running toward the pack and they all took to flight. He raised the shotgun and then we heard nothing, only for him to turn and shake his head and the truck erupt laughing. He didn't have a round in the chamber.

 

[Slickshooter]

Great hunt and thank you for sharing

 

[PARA45]

Wow, what a great trip, congrats to both. Any pictures of Mr. T?

 

[meigsbucks]

Sounds like a great hunt. I like reading about hunts with D&Y as I hope to hunt with them soon.

 

[Goat416]

Looks like @abnhog has posted both the story and pictures on a new thread.

https://www.africahunting.com/threads/dalton-and-york-safaris-and-mr-t.84058/

Congratulations to both hunters and sounds like a great hunt.

 

[deewayne2003]

Wow, what a great trip, congrats to both. Any pictures of Mr. T?

Yes I have pics... but post mortem and I wanted to respect Dan @abnhog, incase he wanted do his own write up.

Which looks like he has
https://www.africahunting.com/threads/dalton-and-york-safaris-and-mr-t.84058/

 

[SamHuntVic]

Fantastic report Davin and congratulations.
We all knew you would like those great Aussie Hydros.
Grant.

 

[gillettehunter]

Congrats on a great hunt. We appreciate the hunt report. Everyone is envious.
Bruce

 

[deewayne2003]

Fantastic report Davin and congratulations.
We all knew you would like those great Aussie Hydros.
Grant.

Agreed! I believe the 6gr loss of weight was due to an axe hitting the tip of it during meat cutting.

Especially considering it went through a 3” branch before hitting a big cows front shoulder, heart and break rib on the off side… yeah I’m a believer now having used Woodleigh .470 Hydros now on elephant and the assortment of game I got with @264 during the epic NT hunt with .404J 350gr weldcores and 400gr Hydros.

Glad to see Geoff has things up and running again.

 

[buck wild]

Was Stan your chef? He made some great meals while we were there in '21. There must be "local fishing areas" and "non-local areas" because when we were there our game scout kept running off the locals with their can poles saying that wasn't their area and they knew it !

Congrats.

 

[deewayne2003]

Was Stan your chef? He made some great meals while we were there in '21. There must be "local fishing areas" and "non-local areas" because when we were there our game scout kept running off the locals with their can poles saying that wasn't their area and they knew it !

Congrats.

I'm not sure of the chefs name but I know he took great care of us, my favorite was the Impala Schnitzel(Chicken fried steak) and he makes amazing gravy to go with it.

Field lunches were equally amazing.... Chef made chicken quiche and we added fresh grilled buffalo steak, roasted elephant & mealie meal.

As for this fishing areas - I found it odd that the rangers were charging the locals $1 each to fish by the discharge port for the croc farm and not letting us fish there but then again this is Zimbabwe.

 

[Rich s]

They charged my buddy $10 to use the restroom in the international welcome center at the crock farm. . Lol. We weren’t about to tell them we all used it.

 

[Nyati]

Great hunt, congrats !

 

[JerBear8]

Congratulations! Incredible trip. Ele as your first African animal?! Awesome!