I am thinking of booking a leopard and plains game hunt with Wayne Grant, who hunts the lowvelt/Plum-tree area of Zim. I have heard that he is a pro on cats, and gets monsters every year. Have any of you ever hunt with Wayne, and if you have, I would appreciate hearing anything that you might have to say about him, accommedations, area, good,bad, and the ugly too. Thanks Wolf

He's a top PH and respected locally

I hunted with him fifteen years ago, which is irrelevant now, but the last I heard he had a big conservancy with big leopard, so it is probably a high success hunt. Good luck.

Ganyana,
Could you give me any other details about him, what his area is like, what animals I might see there (elephant, lion??) etc. I'd appreciate hearing that you might have to say. Wolf

Wolf

Don't see much of Wayne. He hunts arround the Matopos and Plumtree areas (where I grew up - but haven't lived for 20 years). I belive he has also tied up hunting on one of the ranches in the Save conservancy and also buys quota off HHK if the client wants something his own concessions cannot provide.

As I say, See very little of him, I see his name in the "trophy awards" lists at the association, know he is a member in good standing and get on fine with him when we meet at the AGM.

What does the terrain look like in those areas? I have only been to north-western Namibia.
What animals do you think that I will see there...any bis stuff? THANKS!! Wolf

Matopos is magnificent. A broken jumble of granite kopies. As a kid growing up there, you could always find a new cave to explore within an hours walk of the house. no man will ever know them all. Good leopard and sable area.

Plumtree- appart from the school- which I loathed and detested- is on the edge of the kalahari. Still some kopies arround but mostly sand velt which rades into real desert just over the border. Leopard/plainsgame and some ele. We erradicated the buffalo from there in the early 1980's in the name of disease control. Bull- but that is where I learned about shooting buff.

Save? Fantastic lowveld area. Plenty of kopies but mixed soils and very mixed vegetaion. Ele buff, Black Rhino, lion and leopard in fair numbers. Plainsgame good, and the wild dog's are comming on.