What an amazing hunt!! Long story short we compressed a 21 day full bag into 10 days. We hunted July 23nd - August 1st '10 We hunted the Selous LU5 concession of Tanzania. I hunted with PH Brian Van Blerk, and 2 amazing trackers with Tanzania Bundu Safaris. The other PH's with the 2 trucks were Wayne Clark and Shawn Kelly. We had a full bag permit which amounted to about 60 animals for our group. We were on the cats the last few days but was never able to take a shot, however the 2nd group took 3 leopards. We saw too many animals to list and even had the opportunity to watch a small pack of wild dogs on 2 occasions. We took 6 Buffalo, 3 hippos, crock, kudu, Baboons, Duiker, Hartebeest, Hyena, Warthog, Waterbuck, Wildebeest and Impala. I took a very nice Wildebeest, a hippo, a baboon and on the last full day a nice Cape. I should have had a Kudu, but dummy me had not turned my hunting brain on yet,I had left a glass bottle on the truck seat and just as I was picking my gun up, it fell in the truck. So needless to say a kudu has my name on it in a few years! Everything about the trip was top notch! Considering the remoteness of the concession the camp was great and camp food was excellent(however I never partook of the Buffalo testicles). Adam Clements and his team behind the scenes deserve a great amount of credit! We are a very satisfied long time client!


~229 yard frontal chest shot. I was back at the truck and had to squat run to get up to the gun. Heart pounding, hold breath squeeze..




~30 yard shot right between the eyes looking at us, the 300gr Sledgehammer dropped him straight down.


Had to take a spine shot, tall grass blocked heart/lung shot.

Beautiful trophies, congratulations. Really bad mojo you didn't eat the buff balls though.

Congrats on a great trip!

Congratulations on a great hunt !

More great memories:

The landing strip in the bush:


what a view from camp:


Doto with his Tanzania toothbrush:


Bush TV:


How to load a complete uncut cape into a Rover:



Close-up of my cape


Close up of my hippo:


another cape:


lunch time:


Now that is an idea, a portable cat blind. haha actually used to build a road.


3 on the right were our PH's:

Very nice!
thanks for the report

Congrats.Looks like you really enjoyed yourselves.

Outstanding hunt! Congratulations!

Jason

That's a group of outlaws in that last picture. Brian, Wayne and Sean! That should have been a great safari even without the great hunting.

Mark

great safari ,congratulations i envy you .Juan Pablo Pozzi Zurbriggen MD.

Jealous with a capital J!!!!

Looks like a great hunt!

Nice write-up and excellent photos, thanks for sharing.

Cape buffalo is one of my dreams, hope to make it come true in the next couple years.

Nice photos. What type of wildebeest has the white stripe across the nose?

samir,

It is a Nyasa wildebeest and as far as I know it is only huntable in the Selous.

Mark

Nice hunt... I still need to get to the Selous one day!