MOZAMBIQUE: BOTSWANA: SOUTH AFRICA: Mozambique, Botswana, & South Africa - In Progress

Dinner was served in a separate hall that has a bar and lounge:
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The bar is well stocked and the staff are friendly and helpful.

We had steak (beef), gravy, baked root vegetables, and beets.
 
Hunting Elephant Day 1:

Up at 2:30am, coffee and light breakfast by 3:30am.

Loaded and on the road towards the Zim Boarder
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Made a couple stops for local intel and headed into the hunting concession:
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Not far and fresh tracks:
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More to come…
 
Saw at least one good bull, but couldn’t get to it. Lot of driving, glassing, and walking. Another guy that got into camp yesterday at the same time we did got his bull today. A nice bull for the area and likely in the 35lb class.

New plan for tomorrow as new intel from the locals have another heard located…

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Hunt anything said:
Good luck!! Anything else on the menu during the Botswana leg of your hunt?
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No, Heading back to the Waterberg Mountains after to do a little more hunting. There is another problem Hippo we may look at.
 
NIGHTHAWK said:
No, Heading back to the Waterberg Mountains after to do a little more hunting. There is another problem Hippo we may look at.
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Could you write a little message about the timeline/flow of this trip? I think I keep getting confused about where you currently are. I feel like you said in South Africa, then Botswana, then back in South Africa, then driving back to Botswana. Are you driving back and forth a lot?

Could you map it out like this:
South Africa --> Botswana --> South Africa --> Mozambique
Something like that to help clarify for me.

Thanks so much. Enjoying your report, have a great time!
 
Sabre said:
Could you write a little message about the timeline/flow of this trip? I think I keep getting confused about where you currently are. I feel like you said in South Africa, then Botswana, then back in South Africa, then driving back to Botswana. Are you driving back and forth a lot?

Could you map it out like this:
South Africa --> Botswana --> South Africa --> Mozambique
Something like that to help clarify for me.

Thanks so much. Enjoying your report, have a great time!
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He has completed his hunt in Moz. So Flew back to SA so he could drive across the Limpopo river into bots to hunt elephant where he is currently.

After hunting in Botswana he will then drive back to SA and hunt for some more PG
 
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Hunting Ele Day 2 (Bots):

Up at 2:30am breakfast at 3:30am. 2 Hour Drive +\- to section of Tule Block we will be hunting.

Current Location:
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I don’t have a specific writing style, but it could be best described as “Technical”. I write to be helpful and offer details that I would have looked for as a hunter going to a new place for the first time to hunt animals that are unfamiliar to me. I don’t write with “Poetic License”…

Breakfast is light, yogurt for me. Granola, yogurt, and/or toast for others, because it’s early and most of us aren’t used to eating a big breakfast at 3:30am.. They have a nice auto espresso machine that grinds the fresh beans and make all kinds of fancy drinks. Lunch is in the field. Not fancy but plenty of choices from meat pies to grilled chicken. All served cold, but good. Plenty of snacks, water, and cold drinks.

I go to the field with my rifles in soft cases (which my outfitter always provides because I use a dedicated 2 rifle case with inserted form cut foam with no room for soft cases) and the same backpack I fly with. I usually bring a pair of shorts, short sleeve shirt, and other necessities. It isn’t a dedicated hunting pack. My Bino case carries the critical items into the field beyond the truck. Water is carried by the trackers or one in my pocket.

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I also appreciate that a lot of hunters here, with far more experience than I have, don’t need to know what kind of boots or socks I wear. :ROFLMAO: Surprisingly, I’ve been asked and it makes sense. Go on a hunt, where you are walking or hiking miles with warm boots and cotton socks, and you may end up with a foot problem…
 
Sabre said:
Could you write a little message about the timeline/flow of this trip? I think I keep getting confused about where you currently are. I feel like you said in South Africa, then Botswana, then back in South Africa,
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You are following along…
 
Weather here is similar to Limpopo areas I’ve hunted, including the Waterberg Mountains. Warm and dry. Cool in the mornings. Quite the contrary to Coutada 10 (Moz). The humidity there is noticed immediately…

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We did not see other animals yesterday. We are told they are here. Including Kudu. Hyena seem to be a problem, but they are not allowed to be hunted now. I would like to have hunted one.

We are hunting the Tobane area today.

I was offered a Leopard hunt here this morning that would follow my Ele hunt. I declined for several reasons. I had not considered the opportunity would have been an option…

I get home Sat Oct 24th and Leave for Canada for a 5 day Duck and Goose hunt on Tuesday Oct 27th.
 
George our PH for TG Safaris picked us up at 4:00am after breakfast and we drove 2 1/2 hours to get to within about 5 miles of where yesterday’s bull was killed and based on information given by a local (Small farm) farmer living in the bush who said he heard elephants near by crashing trees and trumpeting.

We get there with our team (8 of us) Myself, 2 PH’s, 1 camera man, 3 trackers, 1 wildlife officer and hike 2 - 3 miles in. Trackers glass, scout, check tracks, and after about 90 minutes it’s determined the elephants moved out likely due to the carcass of the bull from yesterday.

George said they probably caught wind of it, went to investigate, were upset trumpeting, and moved on.

Made it back to the Land Cruiser with a new plan to drive an hour or more north depending on where the elephant moved to.
 
Still driving on a many miles of Mopane woodland tracks that are rutted and washed out at times. Breaking through brush and bushes, dodging goats and cows that pop out of nowhere… This new Land Cruiser is earning it’s stripes. So am I…

Forgot to mention we saw a black mamba yesterday while driving. I forgot how big they get! And this was a younger one…
 
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Made it down to the lake, checked tracks and dung along the way. Nothing fresh. Had lunch at the lake. Beautiful clear lake with no hippo or crocks.

The Dikgatlhong Dam is a dam near the village of Robelela on the Shashe River in Botswana, completed in December 2011. When full, it holds 400,000,000 cubic metres of water. The next largest dam in Botswana, the Gaborone Dam, has a capacity of 141,000,000 cubic metres.
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New intel has us driving back around the lake where it’s been reported a lot of elephant are breaking through fence the last few days. All information has to be investigated, but we are in an area of millions of acres that make up the Tule Block… So it takes a while.
 
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