Nick,
No worries about lions, this property is only fifteen minutes out of town but has not been developed as the former presidents retreat borders this land, so in the past it was sort of a restricted area for "security reasons".
If I may say so it is a pristine plot with a stream acting as a border. This stream is fed by a spring and runs throughout the year. There is some fish as my son catches and releases most weekends. He normally catches small Tilapia which we call bream here, I am going to construct a weir system and stock it, but at the moment there are other pressing expenditures so my personal fishing hole is on hold.
We do have some resident wildlife, I have seen duiker, lots of snakes,plenty of birds but my bird spotting skills are zero,I have been told by the staff that there is Kudu but I have not seen any myself.
NitroX,
I would love to do one of the helicopter captures, sounds like fun. Unfortunately those sort of captures are for the big boys. My game is coming from game ranches owned by friends and mostly surplus to thier holding capacities.
But then again beggars cant be choosers I guess.
The money changing hands is really minimal and I am grateful to have friends that are doing me a huge favor as if I had to pay the going commercial rate, I doubt I would be able to afford it.I am still hurting and sore from the cost of fencing.Anyways maybe in time it will be my own eden

Zambian:

Certainly I wish you luck. It does seem to me that you should be able to get older hunters who no longer want to kill anything but would enjoy a stalk and firing the "shot". (One time I read in the Izaak Walton magazine {an American publication}a remark that I never forgot: "In 40 years of hunting I enjoyed everything -except the killing".

Good luck. It's a novel idea of a "safari", certainly. (BTW, I shot a zebra with a 375 H&H at about 80 yards, hit him in the collarbone and we were after him for the next nearly 8 hours before catching up. A tough critter! And a drug will bring him down? Just asking.

gerald416,
I am not too sure on what the drug is called,but apparently if you even pricked yourself by mistake with the dart and delayed in injecting the reversal drug your family would be planning a funeral in less than five minutes.
The chap doing the darting actually carried a loaded syringe of the revesal drug in his shirt pocket.
The sedative does not knock out the game completely, they are still awake,that is why the capture team cover its eyes and ears once it is down to reduce the stress.
There is some sort of science to it as the weight of the animal is estimated and the dosage adjusted accordingly.
I agree with you on the tenacity of Zebra, I shot a stallion on the Kafue flats two years ago.
I was using my 300winmag, He dropped on the spot and I assumed my shot had gone high and hit the spine.
As we walked upto the downed animal to our surprise he stood up and galloped off with full steam, luckily I had reloaded after the shot and I managed to put a shot into his rear as he ran off.
The orignal shot had hit him through both lungs and he still managed to take off, the second shot slowed him down and when he turned I put another round into the neck which kept him down finally.

Hi,
Is land privately owned in Zambia or do you only hold a hold lease?
By the way, is this area going to be your little hunting reserve or do you hope to bring in foreign hunters?
Lots of luck!
Gabriel Boghossian

I am just getting into the darting and probably know just enough to make myself look like an idiot or just enough to get someone hurt. Usually, that person getting hurt is me! SO, take my words with a grain of salt.

I have been in on dartings, and they are quite entertaining. The drugs used in Texas are Cycosterin (sp?) or maybe rompum (sp?) The first is cheaper than the second, quicker, but more tempermental.

Guys here in Texas use both for Axis, Red Deer, Aoudad or whatever. Rompum takes a lot longer to work, but it is more "idiot friendly". From what I understand, it is more tolerant of variations in doseage.

Would love to hear more about the darting. I would imagine a Zebra would be one of the most difficult plainsgame animals to handle.