Dear friends and Ar members- here is our mid season hunt report- I hope you enjoy it!!

July has come and gone and with it comes our mid season newsletter! The thick bush that had restricted visibility and opportunity in the early part of the season is a thing of the past and we can see that with the increased numbers of plains game that are coming into the skinning shed!



The buffalo have also been excellent and Dande continues produce the results on buffalo that has gained it the reputation as the best buffalo area in the Zambezi Valley.
From when we took over the area 3 years ago we have voluntarily reduced our buffalo quotas from a crazy 120 bulls a season to a very conservative 55 a season. This combined with intense anti poaching and shooting a few lionesses the last couple years, is really showing positive results with lots of mature bulls in the herds and dugga boys popping up everywhere!




While we normally do the majority of our elephant bulls early season we have done a few mid season hunts with very good results as seen below.



Our predator hunts have also been excellent with leopard hunts in particular being very easy in the last few months. Norman Parker even shot 2 leopard on one hunt. Thankfully a few hyenas have also found their way into the skinning shed as well.



On buying out the whole of Dande North, we have the inclusion of 10 km odd of Zambezi River and the beautiful Matombo camp! With it has come has come some super croc and hippo also!




While a lot of clients want buff that have big bosses and nice matching horns we put a lot of emphasis on the “older the better”. It is after all these old bulls that have lived their lives, shared their genes and are the wiliest of them all having outwitted hunter and lion alike for their whole lives! These to us are the worthy trophies and as a result we have decided to present a prestigious prize to the oldest ugliest buffalo shot!

“The Dande Dugga Boy of the Year”

Below are the front-runners in the run for 2014!



Look out for our next newsletter, filled with more superb trophies.

Cheers!
Buzz, Myles and team

Awesome Buzz - great stuff!

Orvar

Buzz, lots of good trophies - congrats man!!!

A great selection of trophies, especially the dugga boys! well done team CMS!!!!!! See you guys in a few weeks.

Cheers

Nick

Very nice.
My vote for the Dande Dugga Boy goes to Edward
Kreps. Awesome old warrior.
Cheers
Steve

Awesome trophies! Love the cats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buzz

Super trophies and just as important; hunted like hunting should be done - fair chase!

Can´t wait to be back.

CF
Good Hunting

Nice first half of the season, Buzz and Myles!

Great report

Very good Buzz. Nice trophies all around.

Hoping to put another nice ele bull into the end of the season hunt newsletter! I'm starting to count the weeks now!

Looks like the start of a great year. Congratulations.

Good on you sir

Excellent, as usual. Well done CMS and congratulations to all the hunters.

Job well done....as always! Congrats!

Thanks for the update! These quarterlies help the counting down process!

I thought it would be all down hill after my hunt the first quarter, but apparently not. Congrats to hunters and CMS both!

Congratulations CMS. Keep up the good work.

John

I appreciate the vote Steve416. Hope you were referring to the Buff as an "awesome old warrior" and not the hunter...
Had a fabulous time with CMS. They deserve their reputation.
Ed

Buzz, good on you for the self-imposed buff quota reduction, it is so nice to see that wildlife management is alive and well!!!

Great trophies, congratulations to the hunters and CMS!

Guy

Good on ya, Buzzer!

Well done Buzz. Some proper trophies there.

Well done so far , Buzz and the crew. You guys need a norwegian client soon. A proper viking.

Thanks for the nice comments guys! I am happy to say that the winner of " The Dande Dugga Boy of the Year competition " will win a signed copy Of Kev Robertson new revised Perfect shot, 3 of my dvds and a very ugly Dugga Boy Cup!" There are a few new contenders in the last two weeks so will up date the pics.

The winner will be decided not only on Pics but since we age all our buff it will be on age also! Cheers Buzz

Have you considered an ugly PH competition?
An ugly client competition could get really interesting for the operator.

To Kev- thanks for the kind gesture and also appreciating and realizing the value of focusing on old bulls rather then just the inches!

Fantastic Buzz!

I love those old broken horned bulls!

Beats a 45 inch young bull any day

Well done boys! Keep up the good work. Good to see the wild stories of you lot just sipping Castles on the banks of the Zambesi is not true!

Brilliant season Buzz, enjoyed the photographs, Ali

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Originally posted by infinito:
Well done boys! Keep up the good work. Good to see the wild stories of you lot just sipping Castles on the banks of the Zambesi is not true!

Always a pleasure to look at the rewards from hard hunting.

Mike

One of these years Buzz...

Well done CMS and the Hunters