Professional Hunter
Alan Shearing
A Zimbabwean professional hunter whose lifelong connection to ranch country developed into a career across some of the country’s most demanding hunting areas.
Contact UsBorn
Mutare, Zimbabwe
Professional career
Since 1994
Field experience
Elephant and dangerous game
The story
A life shaped by wild country.
Alan was born in Mutare in 1973 and grew up on a cattle and game ranch near Kwekwe, where his love of hunting first took hold. He began hunting professionally in 1994 and started his apprenticeship with Russ Broom Safaris the following year.
His career has included time with Russ Broom, Ken King and Bill Bedford’s Ingwe Safaris. Alan first joined Charlton McCallum Safaris in 2007 and returned to the team in 2011 after a brief break from hunting.
Elephant remains a favourite pursuit, although buffalo, leopard and lion hunts in Dande have provided many memorable seasons. In 2017 he received the ZPHGA award for the year’s most outstanding dangerous-game animal for a Dande lion.
The CM Safaris team