Serval Safaris: January 2008

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Trophy Room Peet van Zyl

This is the trophy room of my father ( stepfather ) Dr. Peet van Zyl.He is one of a few hunters that hunted 53 out of 54 species south of the Zambezi river and 95 % of them is in Rowland Ward. He holds a few South African Records and in Rowland ward a couple in the top 5. He was the winner of the Musgrave Award in 1991 ( The highest award in hunting of South Africa ) and was the President of the S A HUNTERS ASSOCIATION.He climed Kilimandjaro on the age of 54.He is the one that taught me everything about hunting.I started hunting in 1987 with him and were very fortunate to do a couple of hunts with the old guy. I hunted a lion,girraffe,red duiker,bushpigg,serval and other species with him. He is a perfectionist in and out of the field. He has a rare rifle collection that consists collections of old english rifles to makes of Manlicher,Bernadelli,Ferlach and some with Mauser Actions.

He started to hunt in 1970 in South Africa and also hunted almost 30 times in Botswana,Zimbabwe,Zambia and Namibia.
He hunted the big five( 7 Elephants, 17 Buffalo, 3 Lion, 1 White Rhino, 1 Leopard) and got all the rare species like sitatunga,red lechwe,kafue lechwe,chobe bushbuck,suni,cape and sharpes grysbok, and puku

He is one of my great mentors and will always love and admire him.

THANX DAD.

World Hunting Award Winner Stephen C. Slack

Stephen C. Salck is one of not many to win the SCI World Huntung
Award. He was guided by Dave Davenport from the Eastern Cape
(Tygerkloof Safaris) a very good outfitter and profesional hunter, and
came to us to hunt all the small cats.

Stephen and Judy (His wife) is two people that u can describe as
generous and humble. We enjoyed it a lot to host them. Stephen liked
all the types of water fowl that he hunted and was spectacular on
these events. He later shot a couple pheasants, guinefowl and doves.
He also shot a nice honey badger.Judy shot a nice blesbuck and very
good Serval cat.

Me and Dave had a great time with them and hope to see them soon.

Trophys Hunted in 2007

Cuople of nice ones in 2007.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

The Enslin's

Willem and Amy Enslin lives in Stoffberg,Mpumalanga in South Africa.
They own and manage their own 1000 acre gamefarm. Willem is a profesional hunter and game capturer by proffession.Amy is a beautician and does the lodging part at the the lodge. They have a new member in the family WJ.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Bushpigg Hunting

One of the most adrenelin pumpinng hunts that u can get is bushpigg hunting. W e shot a couple this year and boy did we enjoy it.............

A bushpigg that is wounded can hurt u if u are not carefull while hunting them.

Here is a couple of pictures of nice piggs we shot the year 2007.

Graig Boddington

GRAIG BODDINGTON

I had the opportunity to hunt with Graig a few years ago and did enjoy
it very much. We hunted Klipspringer and Mountain Reedbuck on our
ranch in the mountains. Did this old bloke astonish me…

KLIPSPRINGER

He shot a nice ram laying flat on his belly, and shot it over a 400
yard canyon downhill.I was amazed when iI saw the ram dropped from the
rock.

MOUNTAIN REEDBUCK

We drove around and searched for a nice rams and as we found them we
got of and set on foot after them. After a while of stalking and
mountain climbing (downhill) he shot a nice ram on the slopes of the
mountain. I went back to fetch the vehicle and drove to the edge as
near as I could to retrieve the animal. I was amazed when I got out of
the vehicle when I saw this man in his fifty's ,carrying this buck
,and two guns ,and his backpack on his shoulders up the mountain.
RESPECT!