Charlton McCallum Safaris
2024 archive

Field journal 52

GW - Nyakasanga

20248 photographs2 field notes

PH Comment - Alan

A lovely time spent with the Woodman’s. We saw a lot of ele, turned down a few tuskless. GW shot a dagga boy on the first day. We saw it from the vehicle, so drove on and walked back. Some good shooting and a tough buff that took a good 6 or 7 shots before giving up. Day 3 GW shot a good hippo bull in the afternoon. Perfect frontal bran shot. Day 5 we found a big old tuskless. GW made a perfect frontal brain shot at 20 yards. We saw lots of game. 2 lion, we also had an amazing experience whilst walking late pm along the Nyakasanga River. We flushed an impala ram, which ran straight into a big leopard at 10m from us and killed it. Great hunt.

Client Comment

Great trip indeed - my wife really enjoyed it which was major important! Alan did a great job putting up and taking care of us. Not really sure as to the why (think sitting on my ass to long) but my back issues flared up which made walking a bit of a challenge but we got it done! Camp was really great and the food was exceptional - camp staff did a really great job in all. It is truly difficult to rationalize that the leopard hunt was 17 years ago - does not seem possible to say the least! Good to hear the soccer balls will be getting used.