PL - DSA

PH Comment - Myles McCallum

This was a safari I had been looking forward to since my last hunt with PL! We had a really good fun group, PL with two other hunters, all “return clients” and good friends! So for PL and I obviously, May is quite a tough time of the year for Buffalo, sable and plainsgame. By no means impossible just tougher than it would have been later in the year due to unseasonal late rain and very thick bush and abundant water. It turns out that finding buffalo was no problem at all. The bulls in May are still with the herds as it si the tail end of the breeding season. Anyhow we followed one nice big herd in rolling country, and whilst getting around in front if them, happened upon an excellent single bull off by himself perhaps half a click from the main herd. PL was onto sticks and took the shot in no time at all. The shot looked good, but we waited half an hour and went to have a look. Soon we were onto blood and then another 50 yards and a snort and here comes the buffalo in a full charge! PL and I were able to stabilize the situation in short order thankfully! With buff in the bag, we shifted focus to the sable. We kept seeing tracks on the Mozambique border and after about 5 days of going back again and again looking for the sable … we finally bumped them late in the evening! PL took a frontal shot at an excellent old bull at 150m. A solid hit but just an inch or two off center. We followed until dark, no luck and then retuned in the morning. Kept going on the bull but he was on to us and kept moving ahead of us downwind. At last, after 8 hours, we go our chance and were able to finish him off. PL is always allot of fun to hunt with – never a dull moment and it was so good to share a campfire with him again! I hope that we do not have to wait another five years to do the same again!