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Zambia wingshooting 2007
The vast wetlands
of Zambia are home to some of the largest populations
of ducks and geese anywhere, and have remained largely
untouched due to the remote nature of these areas.
2007 sees us doing
exploratory work here to set up a first class wild
bird shooting operation for 2008. If you are interested
to be part of this exploratory trip please contact
me for further information.
Species here include:
Spurwing, Egyptian, knob billed and Pygmy Goose. Red
billed teal, hottentot teal, yellow billed duck, white
faced duck & fulvous duck.
Also on the itinerary:
Guinea Fowl and various francolins and spurfowl and
doves.
If you want
more information about this trip please do not hesitate
to email me.
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Premier
wingshooting located in the heartland of South Africa.
Enjoy a full compliment of mixed bag shooting with
beaters, over pointers and from flighted butts.
Guinea
fowl, Francolin, doves & pigeon, ducks & geese.
If you want exciting
choice African wingshooting then this is the best
property in the country.
Typical
hunting day
morning
shoot
Normal wake up
for a mixed day is 6:00 with a light breakfast at
6:30 to depart at 7:00. Guineafowl and francolin are
driven over the guns by singing and chanting African
beaters. The guns stand at numbered pegs. About four
formal drives are done in the morning session. The
walked up shooting on guineafowl, francolin and quail
involves driving from one flock of guineafowl to the
other, which might total as many as 150 birds per
flock. We shall have a good idea of where the birds
are and what their line of movement will be under
pressure. Scouts with two way radios are put out before
sunrise to monitor the birds’ movements. That
is apart from the intimate knowledge obtained by counting
and managing the populations throughout the year.
We put the guns out for a short drive, or we walk
them up behind well trained German Shorthaired Pointers.
All depends on where they are, how much cover we have,
time of day etc. Another method employed by us, is
to encircle the flock in thick cover, and slowly closing
the circle, flushing the birds in ones and two’s.
Only birds going over your head out of the circle
are shot. For safety reasons and for good sport. Swainson’s
francolin, Orange River partridge, Natal francolin
and African quail are encountered during the guineafowl
shoot, both driven and walked up. We know where their
coveys hold too. About 50 shots per gun during this
session is average. We break at about 10:00 for a
hearty brunch in the field, at a farm house, on a
pontoon on the river, or wherever the hunt has dictated.
A lot of preparation and hard work goes into our catering.
afternoon
shoot
At
12:00 we enter the dove and pigeon blinds. These birds
feed on harvested grain fields, and the butts are
built on the flight lines. We also decoy them in,
and they offer very challenging high volume shooting.
The species we shoot here will be the redeyed dove,
laughing dove, turtle dove and the rock pigeon. The
rock pigeon is the most challenging one. This session
lasts until 16:00 and you can expect to fire about
150 shots.
At
16:00 we move to the duck and goose blinds, built
from natural vegetation or dug into the ground. The
duck and geese also come into harvested fields, and
are decoyed in. The butts would have been built weeks
in advance, right on the flight line. A large variety
of waterfowl can be shot, ranging from the gigantic
spurwinged goose, which can reach a weight of 25 pounds
with a wingspread sometimes reaching two metres, to
the Egyptian goose, the shelduck, the knobbilled duck,
the yellowbilled duck, the whitefaced duck and the
redbilled teal. The shoot lasts until it is too dark
to see, and about 125 shots per gun seem to be the
norm. |
