While I was in Omay last week there was a night time shoot out betwenn Zim National Parks, National Safaris anti-poacher personal, an Omay Rural district Game scout and a group of 4 poachers from Gokwe a couple of clicks from National Safari's Manuli hunting camp. Results were one poacher DOA, another wounded and captured, a third captured and one wounded and lost. Althouh police and ZNP officers are hot on his trail. No injuries to the good guys.

465H&H

The one that was "wounded and Lost" did he provide leopard or lion bait????

You'd think in Afrcan hunting areas, even if the animals didn't get the wounded guy he wouldn't be hard to find. A good game tracker woul probably find him in no time.

7mm. guy

Maybe they don't want too!!

Sounds like an ambush to me. Rather one sided result!
Peter.

Chalk one up for the good guys... I hunted on the Gokwe north... Good for the animals...

Mike

Klips? Short for kilometers?

clicks is military jargon for kilometers.

This is the very best type of news to come from safari aras. I for one am glad to hear of one for the good guys.

Did they have to pay the trophy fee on the wounded/lost poacher?

I also heard but can't confirm that the KIA was a Zambian.


465H&H

In October 2001 Brent Hein encountered three guys walking down a road in Chete during the day. Two were carrying ivory and one was armed with an AK. As Brent rolled to a stop some distance away from the group, the armed poacher opened fire on his cruiser and the three ran off into the bush, with one guy dropping the 40# tusk he was carrying, which Brent later recovered. Brent and his tracker, Friday grabbed rifles and chased after them. The poacher fired more rounds, missing again. At one point, Brent told me, he could have shot the armed poacher but did not because he didn't have a scout with him and was afraid of being accused of murder despite the circumstances. When I arrived for a hunt a few days later, we went to see the Warden. He was on the well-fed side, with heavy lidded eyes and a huge dent in his forehead where a wife had planted a demo (axe) during an argument some years before. He asked Brent about the incident with the poachers. After hearing a brief version of the story, the warden very deliberately said, "You should have killed them." During the course of our hunt, we heard that two of the poachers had been caught and that they were from Zambia.

The poachers are very active in that area. Last fall I hunted out of this camp and we found many poachers camps and many stashes of snares and knives. The afternoon I got my Buffalo they set a fire between us and the road. Lucky for us the grass was down comming out of winter and we drove back thru with no problems.

As a follow up to the above thread i was told of another problem that occured at the Manuli camp. I'm not sure when this happened but apparently the camp gaurd caught a thief coming out of one of the clients tents and fired a shot over his head. The miscreant jumped off the cliff in front of the camp. The next day they went down the hill and found a few bone fragments, a lot of blood and many hyena tracks.

465H&H

That is one hell of a jump!

Sure is!!