Zambia style

02 November 2017, 12:10

fairgame

Zambia style

A great piece of film showing the north Kafue National Park which is adjacent to the Kasonso and Lunga Luswishi hunting concessions. Red Lechwe only occur in the Kasonso game management area.

The Kafue region is noted for its heavy maned Lions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmysHCQoyYs

02 November 2017, 16:21

Nakihunter

Cool

02 November 2017, 16:52

bwanajay

very cool!

02 November 2017, 20:01

D. Nelson

02 November 2017, 21:43

Bud Meadows

That first lion was simply unbelievable- jet black mane and huge body. He looked like a domestic cat out there mousing.

02 November 2017, 22:10

fairgame

quote:
Originally posted by Bud Meadows:
That first lion was simply unbelievable- jet black mane and huge body. He looked like a domestic cat out there mousing.

What happens if you leave these cats to get of age.

This one was behind my camp the other week.

03 November 2017, 03:42

Aaron Neilson

The Kafue had big maned lions.....now way!!

03 November 2017, 04:21

jeff h

Andrew good stuff. You have a PHD in marketing.

03 November 2017, 04:21

jeff h

Andrew good stuff. You have a PHD in marketing.

03 November 2017, 21:54

DLS

Very good video. Andrew, do you have anything to do with this company, Wilderness Safaris? Looks like a quality outfit.

Actually, AFTER I posted this, I visited their website. Quite the large operation. Impressive, but I do wonder what sort of reception and hospitality a hunter would experience.

04 November 2017, 20:31

fairgame

quote:
Originally posted by DLS:
Very good video. Andrew, do you have anything to do with this company, Wilderness Safaris? Looks like a quality outfit.

Actually, AFTER I posted this, I visited their website. Quite the large operation. Impressive, but I do wonder what sort of reception and hospitality a hunter would experience.

They are pretty much anti hunting but their presence in the Busanga region of the Park is important to conservation. The Busanga plains extend into Kasonso GMA which has witnessed very heavy investment by Ntengu Safaris. It is the most wonderful of areas.

05 November 2017, 17:59

bwanamrm

Wow... looks nothing like the part of the Park I was just in. Fishing villages and sprawl of people with little game. Glad to see this part of the Park... gives me hope it isn't all like I witnessed. I did get my lechwe around 3:30 that afternoon but looked at only around 100 animals with 5 or 6 shootable rams spread out over miles. Not what I expected.

On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling

Life grows grim without senseless indulgence.

06 November 2017, 10:28

fairgame

quote:
Originally posted by bwanamrm:
Wow... looks nothing like the part of the Park I was just in. Fishing villages and sprawl of people with little game. Glad to see this part of the Park... gives me hope it isn't all like I witnessed. I did get my lechwe around 3:30 that afternoon but looked at only around 100 animals with 5 or 6 shootable rams spread out over miles. Not what I expected.

Were you in the Kafue Flats - Blue Lagoon or Lochinvar? If so that was a fair description. The film depicts the Red Lechwe in the north Kafue National Park.

06 November 2017, 18:05

bwanamrm

Lochinvar...

06 November 2017, 19:08

fairgame

quote:
Originally posted by bwanamrm:
Lochinvar...

How dreadful. The north bank of the river is somewhat better and the Cheif is cleaning up the fishermen and addressing encroachment.

The film was made some 300 miles north of where you are and if you look at the map it is the area at the top of the Kafue National Park.

Otherwise I hope you enjoyed Zambia.

06 November 2017, 20:48

bwanamrm

I did. I was in Tondwa and took a superb sitatunga and an excellent puku and bush pig. I really enjoyed a day on Lake Tanganyika fishing for ncoupi(?) out of Ndola Bay Lodge. A good time for sure...