Kafue

[Gemsbok45]

Does anyone know who has the Lunga Luswishi concession in Zambia. Looking at Sable and Sitatunga? Thank you!

 

[Cme1983]

It may be one of the concessions that hasn’t been opened up for hunting after the last tender. @spike.t may be able to answer this question.

 

[375Fox]

It may be one of the concessions that hasn’t been opened up for hunting after the last tender. @spike.t may be able to answer this question.

Hunting is occurring there. It’s current lease ends in 2027.

 

[Cme1983]

Well there ya go. Who has the lease currently?

 

[DLSJR]

Richard Bell-Cross held Lunga Luswishi for a long time and produced excellent results. However, I was told about a year ago that Paul Tudor Jones had purchased Lunga Luswishi from Richard, to add it to his holding, Mushingashi, which sits directly across the river, just upstream from Richard’s camp.

It a wonderful area with great Sitatunga and Sable, but my understanding is no commercial safaris are run there now; only hunts by PTJ and his friends. I hunted Sitatunga there with Richard in 2018, it’s a wonderful place.

 

[spike.t]

Does anyone know who has the Lunga Luswishi concession in Zambia. Looking at Sable and Sitatunga? Thank you!

Hi just spoke to Brent who runs the operations for Jones...

Yes the quota is open to being booked by anyone who is keen to hunt on KLL pending quota availability.... it's never been closed for private use only..

 

[DLSJR]

It’s probably one of the best places for a truly big sable. And I recall Richard telling there are isolated marshes across the area that they barely hunted for Sitatunga, so should be excellent quality. Tons of Puku! I don’t know if they allow either cat to be taken by a sport hunter, but KLL holds some excellent lions and leopards. Could make for an interesting place to hunt. I loved my time there.

 

[Gemsbok45]

I have Already done the cats. Sable is really what I’m looking at. Sitatunga is also high on the list. Just wild Africa!

 

[375Fox]

It’s probably one of the best places for a truly big sable. And I recall Richard telling there are isolated marshes across the area that they barely hunted for Sitatunga, so should be excellent quality. Tons of Puku! I don’t know if they allow either cat to be taken by a sport hunter, but KLL holds some excellent lions and leopards. Could make for an interesting place to hunt. I loved my time there.

Something interesting. I hunted there in 2006. They had only recently started hunting sitatunga there then. They weren’t previously on quota. They increased their anti-poaching and found poachers with sitatunga. They were able to identify where they lived and get them on quota after that. The poachers actually did some good for once.

 

[DLSJR]

I have Already done the cats. Sable is really what I’m looking at. Sitatunga is also high on the list. Just wild Africa!

Ask about the possibility of spiking out near one of the remote marshes that seldom get hunted. That’s how Richard got the 35” World Record with one of his hunters. His father, Barry, checked out some remote places they seldom hunted and he told Richard about some big Sitatunga so Richard hunted there until they killed that big bull.
Where they did, probably still do, most of their Sitatunga hunting is right along the Kafue river in a small marsh that’s directly across from where Andrew Baldry had his camp on the other side of the river. It’s about a 2 hour drive from camp each way, so we were driving out of camp around 4:00 AM to get there while still dark. There is a lot of wildlife along the river.

I passed up a 25” bull on hard, dry ground At 40 yards; as we were looking for a specific bull we thought might go 30”, and we never found him till the last morning but didn’t get him killed. I never got my feet wet in a week of Sitatunga hunting! If you take a flat shooting rifle you can cover most of that marsh from one spot, and easily access the farther spots just by walking a few hundred yards. Finally, the Sitatunga there will go bed down in the Miombo forest, over 1/2 mile from the river. We saw several a long way from water, in areas you don’t expect to see Sitatunga.

 

[Scott CWO]

Open to other areas bordering Kafue NP?