Took a trip to Mozambique this June. Hunted on some private ground owned by a Portuguese company called SAPAP. 30,000 hectares fenced, but with elephant and buffalo traveling in and out of the property.
Had the luxury of two PHs, Edgar Cordeiro and Manuel Vassalo, both of who I have hunted with from huntwildportugal. Also a young PH Christiano furtado from Brassil that followed along when he could and took all my awesome photos!
My main goal was a Bush Pig, but I also shot a blue wildebeest, Kudu, Zebra and an Impala. All hunting was done walking, or in the tree in the case of the bush Pig. Also seen but not hunted were Southern Reedbuck, Steenbok, common and red duiker, ostrich,hare, and buffalo, as well as various birds.
Took one day to visit Kruger, will post some of those photos later.
rifle was Blaser K96 30-06, 220 nosler partitions. Also as a side note, I flew United Tap from Boise ID to Maputo. Even with a 12 hr layover in Lisbon my luggage was checked all the way through. On the way back (12 hr layover in Lisbon) luggage was checked through to Newark. There is a nice hotel 5 min walk from the airport in Lisbon call TRYP that I used both ways. Made the trip very pleasant. Also my ammo was in the gun case both ways. TAP prefers it this way.
Enough writing, I'll let the photos tell the story.



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sorry for the repeats, hate photo bucket!

Nice

Does this area have an un fenced border along Kruger?

Thanks

No, it is a bit south of Kruger, but right on the border of SA.

Neat area. I stumbled on to a You Tube video taken on this place in 2012. Lots of wildebeest, kudu, Impala and zebra that appear not very spooky. Interesting scene of buffalo being loaded on to a trailer with a tractor front end loader.

Are the buffalo resident or transient?

Looks like the area has been well rehabilitated.

Nice trophies and that is an impressive bush pig, seems you had a great time, congratulations and thanks for sharing!

Nice. Love the choice of rifles...

Great hunt and trophies. MJines likely appreciates you not blocking out your face, but some may have preferred you to block out that Blaser! All jokes aside, very nice.

Thanks for the nice comments.Yes I'll own up to the Blaser, it starts with a k though, not an R. Just over 6lbs all dressed and a little tricky to shoot if I don't practice. got my first scope tag ever twisted around shooting behind me out of the hammock. was so excited about the pig I never knew it till someone asked about the blood an my forehead

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Originally posted by eny:
Thanks for the nice comments.Yes I'll own up to the Blaser, it starts with a k though, not an R. Just over 6lbs all dressed and a little tricky to shoot if I don't practice. got my first scope tag ever twisted around shooting behind me out of the hammock. was so excited about the pig I never knew it till someone asked about the blood an my forehead

Great job. I'd shoot one of those K Blasers. Heck, I'd shoot any of them.

Nice hunting!!!

Stay in company a nice PH and friends....

Wow, some great photos and some very nice trophies!

Congrats, looks like a lot of fun!

Yes, a Blaser K-95...quite an elegant rifle!

Looks like you had a great time. Thanks for all of the photos!

Seems like you had a fantastic adventure. Thanks for the story and the great pics!

BH63

It´s great to see this report ! Outstanding pictures !

Hope you had a great time with Edgar, Manuel, and my friend Cristiano.

How was the experience of using the hammocks ? I could bet this idea came from a young PH mind....

The hammocks are very quiet, you just need some place to put your feet to steady for the shot.

Glad you enjoyed. I had very nice hunting days (and nights) 
Thanks for the post!

Very nice photos. Glad you had a good hunt.

Tremendous bush pig and very well done.

The accommodation looks a bit basic.

I sure enjoy your photos and story. Well done and thank you for posting. I feel like I was there. Brian

Excellent pictures. Great trophies. Beautiful rifle. Congratulations.

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Originally posted by fairgame:
Tremendous bush pig and very well done.

The accommodation looks a bit basic.

They said it was safer that way, but they brought me food and water every morning

Damn, those Ostrich look lost and out of place in their new element.

Nice Bushpig though.

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Originally posted by fujotupu:
Damn, those Ostrich look lost and out of place in their new element.

Nice Bushpig though.

The lowveld always had ostrich occurring naturally .

a great report and thank you for sharing.

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The lowveld always had ostrich occurring naturally .

Was under the impression it was somewhere in Mozambique and even so, heavily forested areas such as the photo depicts, are not a typical Ostrich habitat so leaves one to wonder.

Nothing wrong with it though so no reason to jump to conclusions.

I think these were reintroduced to this property. Generally we saw them in more open areas, such as the zebra photo.

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Originally posted by fujotupu:

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The lowveld always had ostrich occurring naturally .

Was under the impression it was somewhere in Mozambique and even so, heavily forested areas such as the photo depicts, are not a typical Ostrich habitat so leaves one to wonder.

Nothing wrong with it though so no reason to jump to conclusions.

Back in the early 90's I did a lot of hunting in the mwenezi area of Southern Zimbabwe lowveld. This is Mopani veld . Yet we saw sign and actual cheetah multiple times on hunts. Also not a typical environment to expect them in . Yet they thrived. I wonder if these areas still have the cheetah numbers as prey animal numbers must surely be down.

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Back in the early 90's I did a lot of hunting in the mwenezi area of Southern Zimbabwe lowveld. This is Mopani veld . Yet we saw sign and actual cheetah multiple times on hunts. Also not a typical environment to expect them in . Yet they thrived. I wonder if these areas still have the cheetah numbers as prey animal numbers must surely be down.

If there were sufficient plains game as a food source Cheetah would survive; the same however cannot be said about Ostrich within a forested area in Mozambique (totally environment unfriendly) which strongly suggests these were transplanted, seeing Mozambique is not an African country known for Ostrich populations.

If there are predators around (very likely) those Ostriches will not thrive, least survive, as their entire clutch of chicks wouldn't last a day.

And the chicks would survive in the savannah ? I really don't know ostriches that well other than they occur naturally in the Kruger National Park.

QUESICO, MOZAMBIQUE. Tribeswomen wear headdresses of ostrich feathers during a war dance. O. W. Barrett

Super pics of the birds and kudu!!!!

a very interesting bushpig set up. I thought I had seen it all. Well done. Great report.

Great looking bushpig. Thanks for the report

Great pics & report from a very good hunter & two very good PHs & it's a pleasure to know all three & to be able to count them as my friends.

For that don't know, Edgar & Manuel also run a very good hunting operation here in Portugal as well.

Super hunt. Nice photos for sure.

Good work! You could pass for Pete Pearson.