When to hunt Mozambique Short Answer

[AZDAVE]

We hunted the L9 block in september,. was dry and in the mid to upper 90's.

The tent had a overhead fan which made sleeping a bit easier, but after 8-12 miles on track each day you will be tired.

 

[AZDAVE]

@Red Leg That is a very interesting and deadly looking snake. In 9 safari's I have only seen a african bush snake, a python, spitting cobra, and black mamba.

 

[Hunt anything]

I don’t know the laws but I know no one is going to consider shooting a snake they could simply quietly step away from while on a long track. You’d also regret the extra 2 lbs after tracking 8 or 10 miles in the hot sun. I can still count the snakes I’ve seen on my fingers after a number of late and a few early season hunts.

I came across a couple of gaboons, we just walked around them and went on our way. Very sinister looking serpents but actually beautifully marked. I don’t think anyone gave any thought about killing them, we went our way and left them to their business.
To OP’s question, the later the better if you can handle the heat. As others have stated lots of mosquitoes, in the forest lots of tetse flies and the snakes are always there but not very visible. (This pertains to the Delta.)
I would probably choose late September or October if I had a choice, it’s hot but not much different than my home in coastal Alabama, Hot, humid mosquitoes, biting flies and snakes.

 

[Red Leg]

@Red Leg That is a very interesting and deadly looking snake. In 9 safari's I have only seen a african bush snake, a python, spitting cobra, and black mamba.

During that two weeks, we saw two very impressive mambas (more brown than their Namibian cousins), a 10 or 12 foot python that was surprisingly fast, a very elegant Boomslang in the thatch of the common area of one of the camps, and the Gaboon viper. We simply avoided all of them except the python which I attempted unsuccessfully to grab by the tail before he made it to a hole. As I said, fast. I think that just about equals the total I have seen during all of my other hunts in Africa combined which all occurred earlier in the year.

Sebastian Wicker, a terrific young Mozambique PH, was killed by a cobra in late September of 2022 while guiding a client for buffalo in the Delta. It was a sad tail of out of date anti-venom at the provincial clinic which the staff refused to administer, and too much time elapsing before reaching the hospital in Beira.

 

[uplander01]

Hunted there in October once, it was 113 degrees F half the trip, I can take some heat as long as I have hydration, but let me tell ya, that was f'n hot.

 

[Rattler1]

Hunted there in October once, it was 113 degrees F half the trip, I can take some heat as long as I have hydration, but let me tell ya, that was f'n hot.

That kind of heat sucks the life out of you. Sleep would be laying in a pool of sweat. Drew a limited draw tag for archery elk in Missouri River Breaks a few years back it was over 100 F in the shade every day. Tent was too hot slept in the truck with AC running...........

 

[AZDAVE]

@Red Leg Very sad on the loss of the PH. I bet that a fair number of villagers in Africa and India die for snake bites. The true number is probably staggering.

 

[Altitude sickness]

It would need to be a minimum of a 50% discount for me to go in November

I read about the Bataan death march. No thanks.

 

[Brod]

Every time I'm interested in traveling to Mozambique, I read a thread like this and think, what a miserable place this must be. Where is the love?

 

[IvW]

Just hunt the right place at the right time. Northern Moz in Nov us not the right place or time....as for snakes they are all over the world and if you spend enough time outdoors you will encouter them.
Moz is a great hunting experience

 

[AZDAVE]

@Brod There is beauty in that you are in a true wilderness area and the effort you put into the experience of the hunt is second to none.