Have any of you hunted with Lash Le Roux in the Northern Cape of South Africa for plains game? If so I would be interested to hear about your experience there and your impressions. Thanks, Rufous.

Sounds more like a dominatrix!

Mac, you can still catch Lash on the westerns channel ever now and again. I also hunted on a property in RSA named the Ponderosa. The woman who owned it had received the property from her father who loved horses and years ago the property was a horse ranch. All the areas of the property had wild west names.

Lash Le Roux is one of the people Tony da Costa uses. I am thinking about doing a hunt with him and would like some feedback on his operation from some folks who have hunted there. Rufous.

I also hunted on the Ponderosa Game Reserve outside Potgeitersrus and shot a very nice Klipspringer there.







Buks Botha of Bateleur Safaris was my PH and another PH who lived on the property accompanied us. A predator call was used to call the Klipspringer. He came running to see what was getting eaten alive and took a .338 solid in the chest.

I remember the old westerns well with Lash Hop along Cassidy Lone Ranger & Tonto etc, we used to go to the Bioscope / flicks, every Saturday morning in OLD RHODESIA days and swap comics and stars picture cards with other friendly kids, it was the highlight of our day stuffing ourselves full of sweets / candy to those in the USA and then watching the old movie classics and screaming like mad when the hero looked in imminent danger, but at the last minute he always seemed to get out of the tight situation .... dream about those simple days when MEN were MEN and WOMAN used to appreciated us, not the new age bulls..t people we are trying to be, where one never knows whom is man or woman, or what the world is trying to make us to be ...



keep taking the nostalgic medicine and dont deviate from your old principles, even if others dont like it, let them be dammed and remain vegetarians or vegans or whatever the modern crazy world is turning out of the production line (-:



Peter

Mark, question was the owner around when you hunted? The local PH was it the Barefoot Hunter? Nice Klippy, I got mine there also.



The old westerns shown on the western channel are rated R for violence, this from the days when six shooters had a hundred rounds in them and speaking of ratings I saw this morning the AMA is pushing for any movie with smoking in it to be rated R.

No, I didn't see the owner while I was there, but Buks said she was quite a colorful person!

Yes, the resident PH was the barefoot guy. I'm sorry that I don't remember his name right now, but we enjoyed hunting with him.

The Ponderosa was a beautiful property with lots of rough, rocky areas full of Klipspringers. Klippies were all we hunted there; it only took 1 morning to get a good one.

Peter,

Damn, you must be almost as old as Ray!!!....... he probably remembers the first silent movies and by the sound of it, you're not too far behind him.

Mark, the young PH is Phil and he is trying to get a start, but the owner isn't investing in the property, in fact she is trying to sell the property. I hunted there for 5 days with Mark DeWet, I had a 3 day green Rino hunt and added a couple of days, good I did as the owner had screwed up and didn't have all the proper arrangements for the green hunt so it was the fourth day until I got the Rino. I also got a nice Klippy and S Mt Reedbok. You are right it is a great property for the Klippy and Mt Reedbok very rocky and great Koppies to climb and glass from.

Hi Steve

Ray beats me, I am only 60 so have a few years to catch up Ray on age and experience ... He was proberbly IN the silent MOVIES if the truth be known .... What the hell is is age, AGE is when everything gives into gravity and gets closer to the ground with every year that passes ...

Hope all is going well with yourself this season and that you are enjoying Africa ....

Take care, Peter