Can anyone tell me anything about Unit 5 in the Beria(sp?) Mozambique area?
From the research I've done on AR, I've learned that some of Moz's areas are rather spotty but some are excellent. Just couldn't find any info on this particular area. Thanks for you help.

Hi

I know Coutada 5 very well the area is not too close to Beira but on the north side of the save river 6800 km/2, some beautiful country no animals to speak of, lots of people in areas, no management for the last 30 years and not a hope in hell that it will get better without spending large sums of money and many years of proper management to save at least some of the area. Used to be once a Safarilanda Concession and people like Ruark Alversleben etc. hunted there. But this was long time ago. What is it you would like to know? Better PM me!

Cheers

I hunted Coutada (concession) 12 last year. The Portuguese company that holds the concession will not ship my trophies. I learned that they have done this previously. The game was scarce and jumpy. Poaching is rampant. I would be quite careful anywhere in Mozambique.

Brice

Your statement is right. You have to be careful with who and where to hunt!


Sorry to hear about this I seen the writing on the wall once the old management was replaced by Bean counters (I think that is the expression you use in the states?) I just did not think I would go this quickly. Coutada 12 used to be a excellent area for PG and leopard it was always a difficult area for Buff. But I remember a post early last year about new partnership with Kevin R. and what they all had to offer. I was wondering at the time how they would deliver the goods.

Now the Portuguese company sold you the hunt or the new partner? If the Portuguese company sold you the hunt demand your trophies from them delivered to a ship and pack company. If the new partner sold you the hunts get on to him and demand your trophies.

I am involved in Mozambique since 1993 and see people coming and going all the time promising fantastic hunts in areas which do not exists or are marginal at best. We even got outfitters offering protected animals on hunts such as Roan and Klipspringers. PAC hunts, for elephant, hippo and Croc which is illegal.

Some outfitter / ph selling hunts in areas which do not belonging to them without knowledge of the concession owners.

Jumping borders without legal gun permits and operating without Moz. PH licenses.

I say we got about 5 people that working in the government that got any clue about hunting, we got provincial directors that never seen the hunting law and that a the people which should oversee the hunting operation I could carry on for pages.

As the end result we got all sort of fly by night’s type PH’s and outfitter which causing these problems. No one walks in to Mozambique overnight and can offer good hunts it takes years of battling, fighting poachers, incompetence, corruption, stupidity, ignorance and mountains of paperwork before you get any operation going.

Operating cost in Mozambique are extremely high if you add it all up.

At the moment I would book as a client with one of about 15 operators / areas in Mozambique and two new potential good areas will be added this year in niassa, I would not book with any of the others. Do a internet search on hunting Mozambique you get plenty and only about 15 are worthy to consider.

However I would be unfair to the serious operators which we got in Mozambique and which offer very got hunting in wild areas some are unique, some are comparable or better to any other areas on the continent.

It is just very difficult to separate the good ones from the no good ones because of a lack of information. And things can south in a short time!

PM me I can give you some contact which perhaps can help you with your trophies!

Cheers

bluefin, we will be operating in one of the new areas in Niassa this year. Our Outfitters are three generations in the hunting business with plenty of references. Email me if I can assist you with planning your hunt.
Good hunting,
David