I'm just about over my jet lag and finding it very hard to be enthusiastic about being back at work. Still reminiscing about Africa and already thinking of another trip in the near future. Blake, thanks for your time during the 10 days. I appreciate all your effort and enthusiasm towards all of our hunts and myself. I could not have wished for a better experience than you gave me, I can't thank you enough. Would have been great to get that zebra and kudu but I think we had already exceeded our expectations so I will forgive you for drop kicking those shooting sticks haha

I have so many amazing stories that I have been telling everybody and can't believe what a great experience it was. So thanks again for spending the time to make sure I always had the perfect camera shot and a safari filled with great hunts and memories I will never forget.
I am currently writing a story for Trophy Hunter magazine so I will send you a copy when it is finished.

If you ever decide to come over to oz maybe I can take you on a Safari!

Seth was accompanied by his parents and Laura. We had a blast of a hunt together. Seth being an excellent shot bagged everything with one shot kills. Ending up taking a hyena, duiker, buffalo, tuskless, PAC ele, kudu and a few impala and baboons. The team was kept busy as we hunted until the end trying to bag an eland. Compliments to Ned and Laura for the hard kilometers they walked accompanying Seth on his hunting experience. Great hunt with great folks.

Day one on Clint's hunt, we followed 3 dagga boys, bumped them a couple of times in very thick jesse, came to an opening late afternoon and one good bull was standing +/-150 yards quartering on the shot went a bit low as we did not realize the distance, wounding it in the legs. We followed it for a day and a half and eventually killed it at midday. Tuskless was shot on day 5, a frontal at +/-10 yards. Perfect brain shot. There were +/-100 elephant. We saw on one walk on the Kamzidzi, 2 leopard, bushbuck, warthog, grysbok, 4 wild dogs and baboons.

We then tried for a leopard that was feeding on Blake’s hyena bait. It came in the morning and Clint had a shot at it. Unfortunately he missed due to a fault with his Swarovski scope/mounts. We tried the next evening and morning, without luck.

On the last afternoon we walked the Kamzidzi. Towards the end of our walk we flushed a 16” bushbuck which ran into two wild dogs, which chased it back down into the river bed giving us the chance to shoot it. Wild experience.

It was a pleasure to have Joseph a 2nd time. Joseph’s objective was to see lots of elephants, before shooting his. This is exactly what happened as we tracked and looked at 40 bulls which Joseph did in style with his new Verney Canon.

Joseph did himself proud with his walking on this hunt, and I enjoyed very much getting an insight into his very exciting and varied life between Japan and USA. We look forward to hunting again with Joseph.

A good hunt with Jay, 41.5” buffalo bull on day one. Then baiting for Mr. Spots. Zebra on day 3, only 1 female on the baits but with a few nice toms hanging around where we had baits. Day 4, big tom on bait, blind built and waited in the blind at 4:30 pm. Leopard in at 5:45pm and Jay whacked him standing on the bait with a perfect shot, perfect footage by Justin again and a 7ft, 16” skull male leopard. Rest of the hunt was hyena on day 7 then down to the river for hippo and croc. Day 10 big hippo bull down, once again a perfect shot by Jay and footage by Justin. Then to the crocs. We saw lots of good crocs, 12-13ft models and one which I think would have been close to 14ft but he evaded us. We it was a pleasure to hunt with Jay and a good hunt with lots of success.

Arild & I had a great hunt, very good organisation, camp food, staff etc

Charlie was a great person to take care of the logistics, and keeping the camps in top shape. We were specially satisfied that this was a REAL HUNT and we had to work for our trophies. Both Lance & Luke did an excellent job and everything worked out real well.

Dugga Boys Hunt - Dande - hunt summary
Hunters - Mike Jines, Guy Gorney, Kelly Gill, Casey Terry, Bob Schofield, Russell Marshall, Rob Jolly. Special Guest - Richard Harland.
PH's - Buzz Charlton, Myles McCallum, Alan Shearing, Blake Wilhelmi

i am sending this email to thank you all for the great experience and all the organization and attention which you guys presented me with.

Since my arrival in Harare until my departure home everything was according to plan, no surprises and all and all an awesome experience. Lance was an great company to have with and a very knowledgeable PH. We had a fantastic time and Blake and Jonathan , who were with us for the hole experience , just added more to the memories and fun that we had.. Thank you!

We enjoyed a wonderful hunt with Myles, Justin, Bongi, Eddie,and Criton the first 2 weeks of April. We started in Dande East for Laura's elephant bull. She was successful on April 3 after tracking the bull for 37 miles over the 3 days. Laura stepped up and made a perfect off-hand side spine shot at 30 yards as the bull walked out of the Jess. 375 H&H Mag with a 300gr North Fork solid passed completely through.To see the trunk go up and the butt go down was the culmination of 2 years of planning, shooting practice, apprehension, and dreaming! We will especially remember Day 2 when we walked with, and in and out of a large elephant herd for over 5 hours. We shouted down a cow charge and saw bulls fighting-great theater!!

After Laura's elephant, I started buffalo hunting.We tracked dagga boys daily and found my big boy on the 3rd day. He was bedded with a small herd in very thick jess that Bongi and Criton led us to. We waited at 30 yards for 45 minutes before they got up and started moving. As the bull's black silhouette passed through a tiny jess tunnel I shot and then chaos as the rest of the herd ran past us at 5 yards! Laura and the trackers had crawled into the jess behind us in the mayhem. It was all over in less than 30 seconds when we heard the death bellow. The bull had gone less than 40 yards in another direction and folded up. He was killed with a 416 Rem mag using a 400gr North Fork soft.

A nice duiker finished our hunting in the East and we moved west to the Makanga camp. The Zambezi Valley is spectacularly gorgeous in April as everything is green and blooming.However, antelope don't come easy as it's very difficult to see anything. A young impala ram for the table ended our shooting as kudu and warthog continued to elude us.

This was a great trip without a hitch from start to finish and we feel blessed to have been able to do it. Thanks to Myles and all the staff at CM Safaris and a special thanks to Justin Drainer.