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It is booking time for this once in a lifetime hunt. Arrival in RSA will be 9 May 2008. We wil be visiting the AIM show on the 10th May 2008 and set off for the hunt on 11 May 2008. We depart on the morning of 19 May 2008 back to JHB. The price per hunter for the whole trip on a 2x1 basis will be $2600. This includes 2 nights in a guesthouse in Centurion, entry into the Aim show, AR/ AIM party, 8 nights on the Pongola game reserve, 2 days traveling and 7 full days of hunting. The price for an observer is $1100. A minimum of 6 hunters is needed to host this hunt. I can only accomodate 10 persons on the hunt, hunjters and observers. Bookings are now open. I must have the deposits paid by the latest on 7 November 2007. You are welcome to contact me via email or pm. I would like to make this hunt an annual event. Life is how you spend the time between hunting trips. Through Responsible Sustainable hunting we serve Conservation. Outfitter permit no. Limpopo ZA/LP/73984 PH permit no. Limpopo ZA/LP/81197 Jaco Human SA Hunting Experience jacohu@mweb.co.za www.sahuntexp.com | ||
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Jaco, I'm in, you only need 5 more. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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Thanks Wink, I am looking forward seeing you again. Life is how you spend the time between hunting trips. Through Responsible Sustainable hunting we serve Conservation. Outfitter permit no. Limpopo ZA/LP/73984 PH permit no. Limpopo ZA/LP/81197 Jaco Human SA Hunting Experience jacohu@mweb.co.za www.sahuntexp.com | |||
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The AIM show will be hosted at the War Museum in Johannesburg, it promises to be a bigger and better show than in the past. The deposits that will be payable is only $1000 per hunter and $420 per observer. The balance will be payable a month before the comencement of the hunt. Deposits will have to be transferred to my bank account. I will only accept deposits once I have enough hunters that booked. We will be staying in the Sondaba camp. The camp is hidden in the rolling hills of KZN. Electricity is supplied by solar energy and gas is used for the geysers. The camp have a wonderful atmoshere. You can forget about the city life and experience true nature. Our camp cook Duppie is well known for exelent South African dishes. His food is out of another world, he is a real master with venison. I have tried to keep the trophy prices as low as possible. Here is the list. Blue Wildebeest - $535 Bushpig - $225 Cape Bushbuck - $625 Girafe - $1480 Grey Duiker - $225 Impala - $225 Kudu - $895 Mountain Reedbuck - $405 Njala - $1370 Ostrich - $320 Red Duiker - $535 Reedbuck - $625 Steenbuck - $225 Warthog - $225 Waterbuck - $1455 Zebra - $895 This prices will be very hard to beat. There are plenty of animals on the Pongola Game Reserve, it is a beautiful place. My intention is to offer a value for money hunt to the AR members. It will be a wonderful experience to meet fellow AR members and some personalities like Kevin Robertson on the AIM show. Life is how you spend the time between hunting trips. Through Responsible Sustainable hunting we serve Conservation. Outfitter permit no. Limpopo ZA/LP/73984 PH permit no. Limpopo ZA/LP/81197 Jaco Human SA Hunting Experience jacohu@mweb.co.za www.sahuntexp.com | |||
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Jaco if I was not managing the Aim Show at the time I would have joined you. PGR is one of my favourite hunting haunts. Hunted there first time in 1982 when it was still primitive. High class these days. The Aim Show will indeed offer more than ever before. For about US$7 the guys will get to see the show and the museum, while the stargazers have asked to join us. Saturday apparently is some international stargazer day and the guys can explore the southern hemisphere. We plan to keep the Aim Show open till about 21h00 for the stargazers. On Sunday we might well have Terry Wieland there - if his flights etc work out. That means your annual Saturday nigh bash for your clients will probably also be even bigger than ever and they can have stars in their eyes. Chance for your hunters to rub shoulders with the local guys and make friends. It is always an honour for Aim to enjoy the support of industry leaders such as yourselves. Guys like you are the heart and soul of hunting and shooting in Africa. I am bloody happy that Wink will be there. I missed him last year and this time round I want to bash his head in for the Frogs letting the Poms through to the RWC final! Would much have preferred to play good guys who have not gone to war with us and won! Argh hell - the English are great guys too - sometimes.... Pierre van der Walt | |||
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This is a great value and a good opportunity to meet some wonderful people. I hope some others will sign on. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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Damn - too late. Are there any plans on doing this again in 2009? Also, can anyone tell me more about where the Game Preserve is located (what part of RSA?) and what style of hunting? Is it more "put and take" or is it more reminiscent of the old-style African safari hunt, where you truly feel like you are in Africa in the early 1900s vs. being on a farm with fences? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt | |||
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The area is in Kwa Zulu Natal and although fenced is pretty damn large and I doubt you would know your in a fenced area once you were in there. The bush is fairly dense mixed acacia woodland and you could expect shots to be less than 100 yards most of the time. Camp is very comfortable, but don't expect early 1900s Africa..... if you want that, you need to go to East Africa. Don't see that as a criticism though. Why not contact Jaco and ask if its not too late to add your name to the list.......... | |||
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Its a really fantastic area...no-one could be disappointed with the area/location | |||
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What is the lodging like? Is it modern or more rustic? Are we staying at a lodge or a fixed camp in the bush itself? Anybody have pictures? I am not looking for creature comforts I am more looking for the opposite. I have stayed at a lodge with a pool once and I didn't care for the resort feel. But if Wink is going, I may be tempted... How big is the property? Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Mike, here's a link to the original post which shows some of the accomodations and terrain. https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1411043/m/661109646 I get the feeling not too many committed on this in the early stages. There may still be time but of course Jaco needs 5 more people after me. I don't think anyone should confuse this kind of a hunt with a 1 on 1, fly camp kind of hunt. It will be peaceful, remote and comfortable. Hopefully this would be a group of people who like to meet others, including some of the pillars of the hunting and shooting community in South Africa, visit the SA equivalent of an American shooting/hunting show (AIM) and also do some hunting in an area very different from the veldt. I still don't have a Nyala, so other than finding out what new pranks Jaco can pull on me, I do have a specific hunting goal as well. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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Jaco, You out there... Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue. What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Mike, I think he's away hunting but you'll findthe answer to your question in the previous threads. If I can give you any info, just let me know...... | |||
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