Charlton McCallum Safaris
2026 archive

Field journal 11

FW - Dande

20268 photographs2 field notes

PH Comment - Amin

FW and I had a truly amazing and wonderful hunt. FW is one of the nicest person I have ever met. FW’s key species that he wanted on this safari was tuskless, sable and baboon. We were fortunate to harvest all three species by day 7 of a 12 day hunt. Thanks to FW remarkable shooing. We both enjoyed our safari so much with lots of laughter and great fun!

Client Comment

The was my 5th hunt with CMS. My first one with Amin. From day one or better the first second we met, I had a wonderful feeling of being able to hunt with him. A true gentleman! We drove into Karunga Camp on the 10 August. Wonderful drive with a stop at the Zambezi Escarpment for tea and scones. Same day in camp we check the rifles. All in perfect working order. Started hunting in Karunga. Got my baboon on day 2. The trackers Jimmy and Albert spotted a group whilst we were driving around in the area, and we were checking for fresh elephant tracks. After a short stalk, I was able to shoot an old baboon at about 80m. Again, on day 4 we spotted a herd of sable bulls and were able to approach them so that I could take a shot at nearly 100m. At day 6 we changed to Mukanga Camp. The next day we found fresh tracks of a heard of elephants just 30 mins out of camp. Unfortunately, that group moved towards the boarder of the hunting area, so we gave up. And just shortly after we found more tracks and I could down the tuskless with a side brain shot. While still in camp I already started to plan my next hunt with CMS and Amin.