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We have one baited leopard hunt available for '08 in Zimbabwe due to a cancellation. 1x1 14 days at $600 per day Leopard trophy fee $3750 1x1 10 days with dogs $15,000 (2) 1x1 7 day buffalo hunts $9500 Extras: Dip/pack Road transfer 2% Zim tax MARS CITES Additional animals Contact me anytime for further details. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | ||
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Mark, I have read on your web-site about Leopard hunting with dogs in Namibia. Can you explain how this hunt is going? Which weapon is preferred? | |||
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Roman, Basically you hang baits and check them daily. When you find a big track near the bait you release the dogs. When they bay the leopard you try to shoot it. If the cats bays in a tree or in the open you can use a rifle but if he is in heavy bush or a cave a shotgun might be better. The Namibia hunts you mentioned are done by Norman Crooks of Pro-Safaris and he is excellent. He has 8 leopards per year on 3 ranches and guarantees to bay a big tom for you. I've seen the pictures of these leopards and they are the biggest on average that I've ever seen. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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Mark: Okay, just a ballpark estimate: Approximately $10,000 for baited hunt, $15,000 for hunt with dogs. What would you think are the chances of coming home with a leopard from each hunt? For example, some say the chances with dogs is nearly 100%. Thanks. Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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PSmith Baited hunts in good areas with real cat men are going to be 75%-90% plus successful in getting you a shot at a nice tom. A dog hunt in a good area with good handlers should be nearly 100% successful. The key here is you have to have lots of leopards and people that know how to hunt them. Also in areas where they have been heavily persecuted for year they have become very sophisticated and wary. Leopards do not need to be extrememly difficult to hunt if you do your homework. I'm not the most lucky of hunters and I've kill 3 and only set in the blind a total of 6 times and shot all 3 in daylight. These were all in wild areas and as soon as the leopard was feeding he returned to the bait readily. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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PSmith; I just returned from a hound leopard hunt in Namibia. I was told at least 90% success rate when I booked. In fact, the safari company credits you back $3500 bucks if you DON'T get your cat. sounds good at booking time.. I never saw a cat in the 14 day hunt and only few tracks. reality can be quite different than what is promoted  good luck nothin sweeter than the smell of fresh blood on your hunting boots | |||
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quickshot, how many baits were there? Which weapon you used? | |||
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Roman, We had 8-10 baits out. We added some and changed some as the hunt progressed. Cats in Namibia notoriously don't come to baits. What you are doing with the baits is attempting to draw the cat near them in order to find a fresh track to put the dogs down on them. You really don't care if they feed on the baits--just what them to come near them to determine what track is fresh etc.. All hunting has proportion of luck, lady luck didn't smile on this trip but she has in the past. So I am not complaining. I look at it this way, now I have an excuse to go back for another try nothin sweeter than the smell of fresh blood on your hunting boots | |||
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What other plains game is available on either of these hunts? H Kittle | |||
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Hi Mark.I was always under the impression that hunting in Nambia with dogs was illegal.I remember reading somewere that cheetah hunting with dogs was illegal.Is it only for cheetah | |||
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jimmara, Cheetah maybe as they can run incredibly fast for a short distance but they have no long distance endurance. I think hounds could catch one quite easily. Leopards definitely are legal with dogs. Norman Crooks who may be the most accomplished dog/leopard hunter in southern Africa is offering a guaranteed dog hunt there and the leopard are like nothing I've ever seen. Everyone is a toad. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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Quickshot, Whom did you hunt with? I am looking at one of these hunts in the next few years. Northway | |||
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Mark, what plainsgame is available on the Zim leopard hunt? I assume the hunter will have to pay a trophy fee on some bait animals, right? ______________________________ "Truth is the daughter of time." Francis Bacon | |||
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Mark -- can you explain what you mean by a "guaranteed" leopard hunt with dogs? Does it mean if a leopard isn't bayed you get your $15,000 back? Or does it only mean he'll refund the trophy fee? DB Bill aka Bill George | |||
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Forrest, The area has the common species you will find most everywhere in Zim like impala, warthog,kudu and on the Shashi river there should be good bushbuck. However I would not expect great plains game hunting there. You will need to pay for baits for pre baiting any other baits as necessary. Bill, Truthfully I did not press Norman on the guaranteed part but he said he guaranteed to bing a big tom to bay for every client. He was 100% last year and is so far this year. If a 180 pounder bays in a small cave and you choose not to go after it that is your business. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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Mark --- don't mean to press you but don't you think when someone "guarantees" something there should be a clear understanding of what the guarantee involves in both performance on his part AND what the consequences are for lack of specific performance .... and no I'm not a lawyer, but I did say at a Holiday Inn Express one time. I know he can't guarantee how well you shoot but I would think a guarantee should entail an opportunity at a reasonable shot - don't you? And, incidentally a leopard brought to bay, unseen inside a cave, isn't much of an opportunity. DB Bill aka Bill George | |||
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I hunted with SMJ safaris my hunt was "guaranteed"--meaning that they would guarantee a cat to be treed or bayed into a rock ledge/hole/cave etc. if they didn't tree a cat, then I would get $3500.00 back or discounted of the package price which was $12K Some say the cats in Namibia run smaller in size--don't know if that is true---it might be in some areas of the country. good luck nothin sweeter than the smell of fresh blood on your hunting boots | |||
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Bill, How's this? I did some checking. Norman will get you a shot at a leopard or you get the trophy fee back or you can stay longer until you do get a shot. Sounds pretty fair to me. My understanding of these hunts in Namibia is that the leopard often do bay in the rocks or a cave. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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I'll bet that could be interesting  | |||
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I like the last part of the guarantee -- stay until you get a shot. DB Bill aka Bill George | |||
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Long and pretty interesting story, short version. Quite a few years back, I had a friend kill a jaquar in Mexico on a pick up hunt. One beat up Winchester .30-30, a pack of the village hounds, most of which quit when they hit the cat track, and a Smith and Wesson .38 special, with some world war one age bullets, was all they had. Big cat bayed up in a small cave with an entrance about 3x3 feet. They tried to smoke him out, no go. Finally, my friend, who I seriously suggested go see a psychiatrist after this episode, decided to crawl in after him, with a machete in one hand, the pistol in the other and a mini-mag-lite (this was pre Sureshot days) in his mouth. His thinking was he could hold him off with the machete if he charged and shoot with the other hand. I don't think much of his theory, but in fact, he shined the cats eyes at about 20 feet, shot between them with the pistol and came out with a big and very dead jaguar. I don't know if there was any tequila involved in this effort BEFORE the kill, but I'd have needed quite a bit afterward myself. Of course, I have to admit, I seriously doubt that I'd have crawled into that cave even if I wanted to kill a jaguar which I don't. xxxxxxxxxx When considering US based operations of guides/outfitters, check and see if they are NRA members. If not, why support someone who doesn't support us? Consider spending your money elsewhere. NEVER, EVER book a hunt with BLAIR WORLDWIDE HUNTING or JEFF BLAIR. I have come to understand that in hunting, the goal is not the goal but the process. | |||
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Mark, Is Norman Crooks the dog handler/PH in the video titled, I think it's called, "Leopard Charge"?? In the video, a leopard is bayed in a cave, at which time Norman? initiates a comedy of errors which results in him being mauled on camera, by the wounded cat, until a cool-headed PH named Mark Butcher shoots it off of him. I hope that this is NOT your guy, and if it is, you had better take a look at that video before you send any clients to him! That guy is a joke....he reminds me of Ned Beaty (Squeel like a pig!)in Deliverance! Hey, if it's not him, take a look anyway for a good "How Not To" video. | |||
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You can't get me drunk enough to do that. If I drink enough to start thinking that that's a good idea, I'm at the point of passing out. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Wolfgar, Perhaps you should be careful about your implications. The video is done by Buck Rogers and Roy Sparks is the guy that gets mauled. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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Mark, If you RE-READ the FIRST SENTENCE! of my reply, you will see that I was ASKING YOU! if the PH/handler was your guy, one Norman Crooks. I didn;t think that I was, as you said, "implicating" your guy...I was just asking you an honest question and was not picking a fight with you. For what it's worth, take another look at you last post and you might realize how your aggressive rhetoric got you pretty well beaten-up...not a good way to book clients! As the American scholar, Rodney King, so eloquently put it, "Can't we all just get along?" | |||
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