Monte,Bill & Randy arrived at Johannesburg International Airport on Sunday evening 13 September 2009. We cleared the weapons and transferred South to World to Africa’s Hunting lodge in the Free State. We had a late dinner and the next morning we checked the rifles and discussed the plans for the week ahead of us.

Bill & Randy hunted in Africa many times before over the past few years and they were looking for specific animals to compliment their trophy rooms. They were very well prepared and informed about hunting conditions in Africa this could be seen in the hunting grounds and with their shooting ability at close or far range.

Monte was new to hunting in Africa, but addapted very quickly and bagged his 1st trophy animal a magnificent Black Wildebeest bull the Monday morning. He went on and bagged a total of 10 animals in just 7 days. The “Grey Ghost” or Greater Kudu,got the better of him on his first safari, but that is a very good reason to return soon for more adventures in Africa.

Below are photos of the animals they took on the Safari.

We had a great hunt with them and hope that they will return to Africa soon. From all of the WTA Hunting staff thank you again for your friendship and all the best for you the rest of 2009!!

Canning is a process whereby the animal is caught or bred and raised as a domestic or caged animal and then is released only a few hours before the hunt begins. Other forms of unethical hunting practices which should be avoided in trophy hunts include for instance, the use of spotlights to blind the animal or to severely affect its night vision and then to shoot it is in the state of blindness or semi-blindness. Using of glue to kill birds and making use of traps to catch the animals also form part of unethical hunting practices. Internet hunting is one of the newest forms of unethical hunting practices. Webcams are used as well as remote controlled guns to locate and then kill animals. Make sure that you only use outfitters and professional hunters such as WTA that will never participate in unethical hunting practices.

Fabio Zuccaccia - Hunting in Free State April 2009

Fabio Zuccaccia from Italy and our agent Eugenio Franzoni arrived at the Free State lodge on 26 April. They are making another DVD video for Ars Venandi Video owned by Fabio. After sighting the rifle when they arrived at camp we settled and went through the planning for the week ahead. Early the next morning Fabio and his PH, Phillip Theologo went hunting on the farm and saw a beautiful big Black Wildebeest bull, with a well placed shot at 280m the bull went down after only 40m. They then continued after lunch and found a herd of 6 springbuck rams and waited patiently for the biggest ram to move away from the rest. With another fantastic shot at 300m the Springbuck ram dropped in his tracks.

Black Wildebeest

Fabio & Eugenio

White Blesbuck

Red Hartebeest

Fabio and Phillip Theologo the PH

We then continued with the Safari to Limpopo were Fabio hunted a Zebra and Klipsringer with well placed shots. Eugenio hunted a Common Reedbuck, Blesbuck and Impala. They returned to Italy on 4 May and Fabio will start producing the new DVD of the hunt soon.

Andre & Fabio

Klipspringer

To buy any of Fabio’s previous DVD Videos about hunting please visit www.arsvenandivideo.com the unique style of the productions will be a favourite to any hunters collection.

Book any of our packages which include blesbuck hunting in South Africa, Namibia or Botswana for an exiting hunt. The blesbuck came near to extinction not so long ago, but thanks to large scale re-introduction on farms in the mentioned countries, their numbers have increased considerably over the years. The meat is tender and tastier than most of the antelope species. Most of the blesbuck hunting in South Africa takes place in the Karoo and the grassland plains of the Free State. Long shots may be required and as such the calibres suitable range from 2.70 and 30.06 to 300 Magnum rifles. Only dare to shoot the animals with a .22 calibre if a close shot can be taken. There are no CITES restrictions on blesbuck hunting in South Africa.