Lower lupande. GMA 20.

Hunted with Butch Coaton & local PH.


Shot the dugga boy first morning. Cut some tracks off the road. Trekked 1.6k. 100y stalk. 35y shot.

Hippo on day 3. 70y stalk on the sand. 30y shot.

Croc 14' on day 6. Second blind. Nothing on first one. 32y shot.

Day 7. Tuskless. 100y stalk. 25y shot. (For obvious reasons, no pic and I won't respond.)

Then we had 8 days to fuck around and go after the difficult stuff to stalk: puku and warthog.


Unfuckingreal!!!


4 out of the 7 in 7 days. All first stalks and with a bow. Impressive to say the least (NO. Not me. I'm just the dumbass who shot 'em). This is all about Butch. Who else could do that, in an area he had never seen, at the end of the season, with animals all skiddish..........the man is a living Legend and I've been absolutely fortunate to hunt with him!!!

An absolutely fantastic safari with a gun. With a bow...it is legendary! Well done!

Great report!

Lower Lupande is also supposed to be a great lion and elephant area?

Outstanding! I had a couple of plains game hunts in Namibia with a bow and then wanted to hunt buffalo, elephant, and cats. My children were still young and my wife suggested (strenuously) that I shouldn't go sticking something that can kill me with a sharp stick. I thought that was sound reasoning and shifted to a rifle and have never gone back to a bow.

But you stuck some serious stuff with a sharp stick! That's awesome. Great animals as well.

Yeah a bunch of ele there crossing back & forth to the park.

Was told they had some good cats. We saw a fair amount of cat tracks and one lioness.

Incredible success with a bow!
Please share some of the specs of you gear (poundage, arrow, broadhead, etc) for the rest of us envious bowhunters out there!
Tell us about the croc. That is super difficult with a bow!

JCHB

Very well done with a bow. Lower Lupande is one of our prime areas and the hunting is not hard

Well done sir!
Looks like a Darton?
I, too, am interested in your specs and arrow/broadhead performance. I shot 720gr arrows out of an 82#, 31.5" bowtech with single bevel 2 blade iron wills in july for a buffalo and eland. Buried to the fletch in the buff and zipped right through the eland.

But a Hippo!?!?, croc, and ele?!!!

That's awesome!

Well done! The Luangwa is fertile ground.

Mark

Darton Preludes
PG: 70# Sirius Gemini 300, 150 gr VPA 3 blade, 75gr HIT @ 496gr
DG: 75# Sirius Apollo 200, 250 gr Cutthroat, 200gr half sleeve @ 830 gr. First two buff I shot also had a 75gr HIT behind for a TAW of 905gr.

Didn't make a dedicated ele arrow as it was an add on. But.....not needed; bottom line is you either hit rib or don't in which case you won't go through as they are solid with no medullary canal.

Need to ask Lane about tranquilizer tips.

Shared a camp with Butch in 2018 in the SVC where his clients were hunting multiple animals with bows. This may be his niche.

That's amazing success stalking with a bow.

Congrats!

Just have to agree with the rest, fantastic job with a bow.

I'd like to hear more. About the croc in particular, but also the buff and hippo. Bow, arrows, broadheads, etc.

Yeah! I've shot a couple of crocs I can't imagine where you shoot a croc with a bow without risking him getting in the water and disappearing. I don't feature doing a brain or spine shot with a bow but I could be wrong.

Mark

The beauty of crocs is you double lung them with a bow. They’ll beach themselves when you do that. Then it’s patience til they die. But they don’t like water entering their pleural space.

If that's true, I wonder if we've been going about this all wrong. Why try to hit a golf ball sized brain or the spine at the base of the skull if all you have to do is double lung them and they'll climb up on the beach and die? I've got two on license next year. I may try that with one and see.

Congratulations and thanks for posting your proper bow hunt!

Serious stuff there Frank... well done my friend.