EBJ - Dande

Ph Comment - David

Dande can always be a challenging hunt. We set out the morning of the first day in search of bait for our leopard and got lucky with a buff cow. We strait away started hanging bait. Day two we had 6 baits in good places and fortunately another hunter got a zebra. We topped some bait after getting activity and set 2 new ones, with 8 baits up we were in a good place. Around day 5 we had found our cat and started sitting for him. We sat 5 times unsuccessfully and he left to another bait 12km away. Built another blind and on our 6th sitting, 16hours in the blind he jumped into the tree at 600pm. We got our leopard! Plains game was good, we saw bushbuck, warthog, kudu, impala and shot a baboon.

Client Comment

Really enjoyed my leopard hunt in Dande. On the first morning we got our buffalo cow for bait. Set them up and got activity very quickly, but the leopard we were chasing was a hard one, we got in the blind for several days, eve walking in without shoes to keep the noise down with now luck until day 7. We found out he had walked 14km from that bait to another bait. So we built a pop up blind which cover us more than the previous one and after 16 hours of sitting in the blinds and waiting. At 6pm of day 8th he appears on the tree and we got him in the perfect position for a heart shot. On the next days of hunting looking for civet and klipspringer with no luck but we saw kudu, buffalo bushbuck, impala, warthog and at the last day shot a baboon. Dande can be a challenging place to hunt but thanks to the amazing work and effort of my PH David, it was very successful hunt and a really fun one. Hard to forget.