NAMIBIA: Caprivi With Thormälen

Luederitz

Luederitz

AH veteran
Joined
Jul 27, 2019
Messages
228
Reaction score
681
Location
Germany
Media
44
Hunting reports
Africa
3
Hunted
Germany, Austria, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
This August a hunting friend and myself, we had a great week in the Thormälen camp in the Caprivi hunting for non-trophy buffalo.

The camp was really good, real Hatari feelings...

Speisesaal.jpeg
Zelt1.jpeg
Zelt2.jpeg
Zelt3.jpeg
 
Last edited by a moderator:
The stalking took place in the flood areas, we approached a really big herd with more than 300 animals.

Within one and a half hours we managed to shoot two buffalos which qualified themselves as non-trophy.
My friend used his Rigby chambered in .416 RIgby, I used my Mauser 66 in .450 Rigby.

Buff11.jpeg

Buff22.jpeg
 
Our friend Sven, owner of the Stolzenberg hunting farm joined us in the Caprivi and Vic Falls.
After leaving the Caprivi we spent one week at Stolzenberg hunting Zebra, Oryx, Impala, Springbock and Eland.
Eland3.jpeg
Oryx.jpeg
 
At Stolzenberg you can hunt on 21.000 hectares, thereof 7000 ha fenced. I shot my game in the unfenced area, they perform only trophy hunting on mature animals, the experience and trophy quality is really good. For plainsgame I can recommend Stolzenberg.

Also the Caprivi trip with Thormälen was very satisfying, much fun and success for not too much money.
Hunting beside of a couple of hundred Elephants is an experience I did not have so far...

Elefant1.jpeg
Elefant2.jpeg
 
Nice buffalo. Do you know what concession you were hunting?
 
Beautiful camp and very good examples of non-trophy buff. What kind of ivory did you see...anything that excited the PH?
 
Luederitz said:
Our friend Sven, owner of the Stolzenberg hunting farm joined us in the Caprivi and Vic Falls.
After leaving the Caprivi we spent one week at Stolzenberg hunting Zebra, Oryx, Impala, Springbock and Eland.
View attachment 790139
Click to expand...
Congratulations Jens, looks like an excellent hunt. Of course you took a brace of Mauser 66.
What caliber is the one with the eland?
 
Great hunt, congrats !
 
Very nice! The buffalo look ugly and ratty, whitefaced - absolutely perfect! Cool eland as well
 
375Fox said:
Nice buffalo. Do you know what concession you were hunting?
Click to expand...
I hunted out of this camp last year. It’s in Kabulabula, I think that is how you spell it. Very open flood plain area on the chobe river, right across from Chobe NP in Botswana. I had a fantastic hunt there. Congrats to the OP on a couple of great buffalo.
 
JPbowhunter said:
Excellent sir!

I especially love your eland too. Was it a tracking hunt?
Click to expand...
I would describe it more than "spot and stalk".
The hunting itself was not really difficult, but overall a great experience.

Stalking in Makuti / Zimbabwe was more difficult.
 
Green Chile said:
Beautiful camp and very good examples of non-trophy buff. What kind of ivory did you see...anything that excited the PH?
Click to expand...
The ivory we have seen was not really big, we expected larger ones in the Chobe area.
 
BC Tal said:
Congratulations Jens, looks like an excellent hunt. Of course you took a brace of Mauser 66.
What caliber is the one with the eland?
Click to expand...
I took my Mauser 66 in .450 Rigby
For buffalo I used 500gr A-Frame, for plainsgame I used the Degol 500gr semispitzer heavy jacket bullets.
 
Luederitz said:
The stalking took place in the flood areas, we approached a really big herd with more than 300 animals.

Within one and a half hours we managed to shoot two buffalos which qualified themselves as non-trophy.
My friend used his Rigby chambered in .416 RIgby, I used my Mauser 66 in .450 Rigby.

View attachment 790135
View attachment 790136
Click to expand...
Very nice result. We'll done.
 
Luederitz said:
I took my Mauser 66 in .450 Rigby
For buffalo I used 500gr A-Frame, for plainsgame I used the Degol 500gr semispitzer heavy jacket bullets.
Click to expand...
Of course. The sunlight makes the stock look much lighter, i thought a second rifle.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Members online

... and 1227 more.
Total: 263,477 (members: 1,277, guests: 262,200)

Forum statistics

Threads
70,029
Messages
1,562,350
Members
166,550
Latest member
JasonDethr
 

 

 

Proudly sponsored by

Latest posts

Latest profile posts

A
autofire wrote on Dr Ray's profile.
Hi Dr. Ray, I will be in Cooktown from Oct 16 to Oct 23 fishing Lizard Island Black Marlin Tournament.

I have several "slack" days after fishing before I head for stay in Sydney and Fiji.

Do you have any recommendations for 1 or 2 day hunt near Cooktown?

I've hunted both DG and PG in 4 different countries in Africa.
Thank you,
Bob
•••
A
Alex Sniper wrote on Bynotic's profile.
Good morning. I see that you had a Sauer 202 for sale for $3,000. Did you sell it at that price?
I have one for sale as well. I listed it (on here ) at $3,000 as well. Is the price high, low or right where it should be?

Thanks. Alex. [redacted] in case you want to call me to discuss further. I appreciate your time help and support.
•••
The Don
The Don
I broke my cherry, August 2026, 41" Cape, hooked for life.
•••
S
Schaapen
Member of the South African Hunters and Game Conservation Association
•••
S
supergrizzly wrote on AZDAVE's profile.
Dave, I could use both of them if still available. I just picked up a new .22 mag and a .22 pump that they would be perfect on.
•••

Share this page

 
Top