HENRY GRIFFITHS SAFARIS hunting/trailcam pictures and hunting/tour updates

Big old Eland spotted yesterday!

We are super busy with maintenance and upgrades! Next hunt starting Saturday!

 
We had a big fire started by lightning yesterday on the large cattle area where we hunt kudu, all the neighbours came to help and we got it under control pretty quick!
 
We had a big fire started by lightning yesterday on the large cattle area where we hunt kudu, all the neighbours came to help and we got it under control pretty quick!

Glad you all pulled together as neighbors to get the fire under control and hopefully fully out soon.

Bigger question from those of us "arriving soon": How will this tragedy affect the hunting and game habitat and conservation on your property?

Will young grow immediately start to grow and flourish? As some plants are known to require fire in order to grow and produce sustainable forage for wildlife.
 
Glad you all pulled together as neighbors to get the fire under control and hopefully fully out soon.

Bigger question from those of us "arriving soon": How will this tragedy affect the hunting and game habitat and conservation on your property?

Will young grow immediately start to grow and flourish? As some plants are known to require fire in order to grow and produce sustainable forage for wildlife.
Its been raining since 6 am this morning, a hunter coming in the 2025 hunting season will not be able to tell there was a fire at all,

Fire can be a tragedy but mostly its a good thing! It opens up the bush , kills ticks and regenerates new growth and game will be found in recently burned areas after good rain, this fire wasn’t on the Wild Goose area but on the adjacent 40000 acre cattle ranch and only about 500 acre’s was burned…
 
Its been raining since 6 am this morning, a hunter coming in the 2025 hunting season will not be able to tell there was a fire at all,

Fire can be a tragedy but mostly its a good thing! It opens up the bush , kills ticks and regenerates new growth and game will be found in recently burned areas after good rain, this fire wasn’t on the Wild Goose area but on the adjacent 40000 acre cattle ranch and only about 500 acre’s was burned…

I'll be holding you to that, as I will be seeing you, your family, and crew at the end of April through the 2nd week of May 2025.:A Shades::E Dancing: To complete my Springbok slam and a long with "a couple" of other animals.:giggle:

Do love the reduced tick population, I hope that also means less mosquitoes.

My Very Best Regards to All

Paul
 
Here is a rough plan so far for our marketing trip to the USA for 2025, these dates might change and we might ad a few places to travel to.

if you are interested to meet with us please let me know and we can set up a time and place

Itinerary



8-02 Depart Johannesburg

9-02 Arrive Memphis.

10-02 will be near Jonesboro AR

12-02 Richmond Texas

14-02 Sapulpa Oklahoma

16-02 Tulsa Oklahoma

18-02 Glenwood springs Colorado

19-02 Montrose Colorado

22-02 Mayville Iowa

26-02 Paragould Arkansas

we will also make a short trip to Salmon Idaho and to South Carolina dates to be confirmed
 
Glad you all pulled together as neighbors to get the fire under control and hopefully fully out soon.

Bigger question from those of us "arriving soon": How will this tragedy affect the hunting and game habitat and conservation on your property?

Will young grow immediately start to grow and flourish? As some plants are known to require fire in order to grow and produce sustainable forage for wildlife.

@Ridge Runner, I’ll let you know in the next few days what the impact was ;)
 
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We are finally done hunting for 2024! Good news my visa for My USA trip has been approved!

I will be spending a bunch of time now on the forum to talk to future and old clients and will be posting a allot of pictures and video's !

Watch this space !
 
we have had some good rains! here is a herd of gemsbok seen yesterday!


 
Here is a rough plan so far for our marketing trip to the USA for 2025, these dates might change and we might ad a few places to travel to.

if you are interested to meet with us please let me know and we can set up a time and place

Itinerary



8-02 Depart Johannesburg

9-02 Arrive Memphis.

10-02 will be near Jonesboro AR

12-02 Richmond Texas

14-02 Sapulpa Oklahoma

16-02 Tulsa Oklahoma

18-02 Glenwood springs Colorado

19-02 Montrose Colorado

22-02 Mayville Iowa

26-02 Paragould Arkansas

we will also make a short trip to Salmon Idaho and to South Carolina dates to be confirmed
Looking at this, just wondering if you mean Maysville, Iowa? If so that is a crazy coincidence as I am booked with you in May, 2025 and I live 20 minutes from Maysville. And if that’s the case I’d love to meet up!
 
Looking at this, just wondering if you mean Maysville, Iowa? If so that is a crazy coincidence as I am booked with you in May, 2025 and I live 20 minutes from Maysville. And if that’s the case I’d love to meet up!
let me double check might just be a typo (something I am very good at;) )

but yes we should for sure set up a meet!
 
Unwounded Buffalo cow charge!

We had a very exiting thing happen this past week , hunting a buffalo cow with a hunter from Norway.

We have some old Buffalo cows that we are in the process of culling and offer them to hunters as cull animals. A very good Friend of mine who owns Unzwa Safaris in Limpopo had a client that was looking for a late season buffalo experience that would not brake the bank and the date was set!

This part of the Kridyn area that we hunted is mix of open savanna and some clumps of thick bush mixed in, we found the herd pretty easy and made several stalks trying to pick out and old cow that did not have a calf and was loosing condition due to the drought and not having ant teeth left to feed on the limited short grass that is available currently

We came close to getting a shot a few times stalking to less than 20 yards from the herd, and spend many exiting moments on the shooting sticks waiting for a clear shot opportunity but every time the old cow was covered by others or was behind cover. the herd spooked a few times and would move of a short distance and we would follow. the old cow was struggling a little bit to keep up with the herd and eventually broke away from the herd we followed but could not get a shot as she kept eluding us in the thickets

We eventually broke for lunch as it was very hot! South Africa is experiencing very high summer temps right now and its very dry!

We headed out in the afternoon and I was thinking we were headed out to early as it was still very hot and was expecting the Buffalo to be laying down, but we got lucky and found he herd in a fairly open bit and was able to see the entire herd and could easily spot the old cow in the herd, while planning a stalk and getting close to the herd we briefly lost site of the cow and once we were in a good position we could not pick out the cow. I assumed she had laid down with a few others on the edge of the herd. Then there was movement on the far right of the herd. The old cows was heading into some very thick vaalbos breaking away from the herd, we checked the wind and planned a go around paths to were we last saw the cow.

It was just the hunter and me that went in, I was carrying my shooting stick in one hand and my 375 Ruger in my other hand and the hunter was following close behind me with my CZ 375 H&H client rifle.

a short ways in we spotted the cow laying down in some thick vaalbos under a camelthorn tree, it was to thick for a shot and she was up and gone pretty quick, we followed in the direction she went but lost her again, we looked around a bit and did not see anything.

We decided she had to be there in one of the thickets and made another loop trying to catch the wind, we walked through an open spot with some thick vaalbos on our right, the vaalbos was less than 10 yards from us, something caught my eye and I could just barely see the cow standing up from where she was lying, she stood up real quick made that typical buffalo grunt when they charge! she came straight for us with no hesitation!

The cow charged from less than 10 meters she came out of the vaalbos into full view at about 7 or 8 m By that time I had dropped the shooting stick and and had my rifle up and ready, I could see that the hunter that was slightly behind me had his rifle up and ready, as the Buffalo came from the side and the direction we were walking we both had a clear line of fire.

I was about to shoot when the hunter fired and hit the cow just below the eye and the shot went trough into her neck and she dropped right there, he reloaded super fast and I said to put one into the chest just to be sure!

When the dust settled and we processed what just happened, we made the rifles safe and I stepped over the where the hunter was standing, and told him to pace of from were he was standing. he took 5 steps and put a foot on the chest of the buff!


here are a few pictures

one fast shooting client and a happy Ph in this pic

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first shot that dropped the cow!

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I took this pic on my iPhone from were I was standing

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Do you have any cull hunts available? 7 days, daily rate plus per animal price?

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