Has anyone hunted with Mr Crooks? I am planning another venture to Zim for Leopard and I hear he is great on cats.

Thanks

Die Ou Jagter,
You have heard right Norman is an expert on cats and his area in Zim is perfect habitat for big leopard. Beautiful country with lots of kopies for rock rabbit and klipspringer. The leopards diet here is 75% rock rabbits. Give me a call I book hunts for Norman. 281-228-2533. He also does some leopard hunting in Namibia with dogs. I was there this May when a client took a nice tom. This picture is a cat I took with Norman in Zim last May. We saw leopard tracks everyday while hunting plainsgame.

On top of a kopie with Norman and Leopard.

Die Ou Jagter,
The 10 day Leopard with dogs is $13,500 includes trophy fee and dogs. The 14 day blind hunt would be $11,900 with trophy fee.
Thanks, T

I have hunted several times with Norman, although not for leopard. You can do no better, his passion is cats, he has taken some monsters out of West Nicholson. I have watched him run leopard hunts for other clients, he really, really knows cats, you will do well.

Great leopard!

T, I think we have been playing phone tag. Ed. Maybe one of us will be sucessful come monday, eh.

This a real BIG TOM LEOPARD

Congratulation to a Trophy of a Lifetime

Seloushunter

T

The head size is enormous! Congrats on a great trophy

Dak

Just cut the deposit check for 10 days with Norman using dogs in SE Zim for Mr Spots.
T has promised a big tom like his.

T,
That is an incredable cat!! Is it the same cat in both pictures?? What did he weigh??
I also took my cat in West Nick area, but with John Hunt.

Die, you still there??

Wolfgar, you have PM.

Hang on now. T is standing 3 feet behind the leopard in the 2nd photo and it makes it look bigger than it is. Shame on you.


I apologise for the sarcasm - just kidding of course. That is a superb leopard

wow what a nice, big old stocky looking leopard!!!! he's built like a pit bull.

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Just cut the deposit check for 10 days with Norman using dogs in SE Zim for Mr Spots.
T has promised a big tom like his.

Die If I could promise you a cat that big it wouldn't be a real hunt. Although to date Norman has been 100% on leopard with dogs. You can be more selective on this type hunt and not go after small footed cats that indicate young males or females. The way it works is the mornings are spent checking baits. Hopefully a big tom has filled up on impala or zebra quarters and is sleeping it off close by. If not the rest of the day is spent hunting bait or plainsgame trophys.

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Originally posted by Head Trauma:
I have hunted several times with Norman, although not for leopard. You can do no better, his passion is cats, he has taken some monsters out of West Nicholson. I have watched him run leopard hunts for other clients, he really, really knows cats, you will do well.

Head Trauma thanks for the report on Norman. He is the real deal. Born and raised in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Served as a sniper in the army. He lost his farm just like everyone else in Zim but has not fled the country. He lives in Bulawayo along with his wife and two daughters and there husbands and granchildren. Normans son in laws Frike and Louie are professional hunters as well and have partnered with Norman. Norman is certainly a dymanic person. Head Trauma if you have hunted with
Norman then I know you have heard some colorful
storys around the campfire that cannot be repeated here.

Mr.T and Head Trauma,
T...tell me more about that cat! What did it weigh? and where did you get it?

I also got my cat this August out of West. Nick, but with John Hunt. Not as big as that one, but a mature male. I would post pic's if I could figure it out!

You guy;s are correct about that area...tracks all over, and pleanty of dassies and Klip's to eat.

The cat weighed 211 and was killed on Normans Riata concession. Wolfgar glad you got your Tom.
video- http://www.texaslso.com/leopardshotedit.wmv

T

I drank many adult beverages with Norman and Ronnie Roland on Gunar Voights' farm in Namibia this June. Ronnie was doing a leopard hunt for some Yugoslavian clients on the north end of Gunar's farm. Ronnie is another Rhodesian war vet, to sit and listen to them share their wealth of knowledge and experience was a memorable experience. Love it when Ronnie gets a few under his belt and starts referring to women as "flatheads". Quite a cast of characters.

I hunted buff with Norman three years ago, and was a guest in his lovely home in Bula coming and going. He's the real thing. Do ask him about the client in the blind who had sleep apnea, the one with the unusual wife.

Norman is an amateur herpitologist. He has a story or two about the war and his snakes.

I most certainly would hunt with him again. My only issue was his wild driving, but that's not uncommon with PH's. I told him that if was to die in Africa, I didn't want it to be under a bakkie, even a new Cruiser with AC.

Brice, get Norman to show you his video of him catching a mamba. Bare handed with a stick. He moves pretty good for an Auld Fhart.

DOJ,
I have hunted with Norman three different times, including this past month. He is tops on cats and quite a character. His tracker Dumoss is simply incredible.

I can highly recommend Norman. I have friends who have hunted with him more than I have and everyone has been happy. I see him when he comes to the states and have even gone hog hunting with him in central California. The only problem is his love of snakes and my dislike for them. Ask him about his Gaboon vipers. I think thats what they are called.

I plan on hunting with Norman next year. Lastly, his favorite drink is a double rum and coke.

Regards, PG

My God snakes and double rum and coke, he must be a great cat hunter to off set those other qualities.

Head Trauma,
indeed Ronnie is quite a character. He served with Koevoet in Namibia back in the old days. He is the best nurse when treating your blisters. First he sucks out the fluid with a syringe and then injects methylated spirits. Burns the shit out of you but it works like a bomb.
'Good fun having a glass of milk with him now and again.

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Ask him about his Gaboon vipers. I think thats what they are called.

PG I took a couple pictures of them. Norman thinks they are pretty. I grew up around rattlers, copperheads, and cottonmouths so snakes don't usually bother me but these things seem pretty fierce the way they puff up and blow out loudly. No come to think of it I really don't like these thick stubby triangular headed slit eyed scaley serpents.

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I drank many adult beverages with Norman and Ronnie Roland on Gunar Voights' farm in Namibia this June.

Head Trauma I was in Namibia this May at Gunar's. While there one of my clients killed this leopard with Norman.

That's a big old warrior, who has seen better days!! How big?? 160-170??

Wolfgar somewhere around there I don't know the exact weight but he had a head like a bastard alley cat.

His hindquarters look too thin for his body, coat is all beat, and just the overall look of a tough, old, beat up alley cat! I like that cat.....been there and done that!