Field journal 52
AO - Dande
PH Comment - Dean
AO primary goal was lion, so we took a hippo with a clean shot, as bait. Once bait was up, we had some fantastic long tracking sessions on old dugga bulls, covering some serious mileage before taking a super old bull in some heavy cover, providing some anxious moments! A fantastic old male leopard hit one of our lion baits and we were fortunate enough to be offered a tag for him, and we ended up with this stunning old cat, a trophy leopard of note! Unfortunately the two very old lions I was targeting both eluded us, cats being cats, they went on a walkabout! The younger males we did get on bait, we passed on, they will be the lions for the future! We will try again! Thanks AO for a wonderful hunt!












