24 hour campfire members blackdogsrule & myself just returned from a 2 week hunt with Kambako Safaris in Northern Mozambique. We hunted Block B abuting the 10 million acre Niassa Reserve. We had originally booked a Cape Buffalo and plains game hunt. Just before our departure Kambako called us and said they had 2 leopards still available on quota. Kambako offered us an additional PH and his 2 man crew at no charge designated to do nothing but the baiting & checking of baits while we were hunting buff & plains game. They reported their progress and findings to us each evening back at camp so we could make plans to build & sit in blinds when it was the right time. They also offered us the leopard upgrade at a price that was just too good to pass up. We knew it was a risk but after talking to several hunters who had hunted with Kambako before we decided it was a risk worth taking. We figured we had a reasonable chance of one of us harvesting a leopard. It was a long shot that we might both pull it off.

To say the hunt was a spectacular success would be quite the understatement. Kambako was 1st class in every way. The PHs we hunted with were absolutely the best hunters & guides I have had the pleasure of hunting with anywhere.

The country was wild, free, harsh, and spectacular. The hunting was challenging and not easy by any means which we liked. The PHs & the trackers worked their azzes off trying to put us on game from sun up to sundown every day. It was real hunting in real Africa.

I'll post a few pics and add comments as I can. Thanks, 163bc

daylight Hyena

Bush Lunch every day


Cape buff were hunted by tracking old dugga boys that had separated themselves from the herds. Blackdogs buff taken w .375 H&H with 300 grain Northfork solids.


My buff also with 375 H&H 300 grain Northfork solids.

Great hunt! I've heard good things about Kamabako!

Bushpig



A couple salty old dugga boys

spectacular bush buck

Spectacular EVERYTHING! (even the two old Dagga Boys! )

We both took spectacular leopards at last light on the last day of our hunt. We both threw up blinds with our PHs on the last afternoon on fresh intel from the baiting PH who had seen big tracks at baits in 2 different areas. The 2 baits that had been hit were about 25-40 miles apart. Blackdogs took the one closest to where he was hunting and I took the one closest to where I was with my PH. It was a last ditch try after coming up dry for 2 weeks. We both shot at last light. It was kinda like scoring a touchdown for the win with no time left on the clock from 80 yards away. It touched off quite a celebration in camp and was the hunting thrill of a lifetime for 2 old hunting buddies.

Wow, congratulations, outstanding hunt, it doesn't get any better then that! Thanks for sharing!

Wow! Freaking fantastic hunt, and fantastic pics. Congrats to you guys!

Sam,

Wonderbar! Man, that's awesome!
Congrats!

two cats: TOO COOL FOR WORDS!

I think you pushed this hunt into solid UBER territory!! What an epic trip. Congratulations!!

Eric

WOW! What an awesome trip! Coupled with some truely awesome trophies...Lucky bastids!!! And everything shot with the queen of Africa, 375 H&H Magnum, to boot! OUTSTANDING!!

Congrats to both HUNTERS!!

WOW WOW WOW!!! Congratulations Gentleman!

Congrats guys!!!

WOW!

Amazing hunt with some incredible animals taken.

That bushbuck is a hog!!!!!!

Great job, I've heard a lot of good things about Kambako.

Amazing hunt, great trophies it just doesn't get any better than that. Excellent job. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks so much Sam for taking the time to post these pics. Excellent job and it truly was a spectacular hunt. We are truly blessed that we got to share such an experience like that together. We have hunted together for many years but I don't think we will ever top this one. I for one won't even try.

Man! Thank you so much for taking the time to share.

What an inspiration!

Calvin

Absolutely incredible adventure!

Anchored by an insane bushbuck!

Congratulations guys.

Unreal trophies...

here are a couple more pics

A tree limb and an old truck leaf spring.





Lugenda River






Male Leopard track

female leopard, came to feed at 5 pm about 1 hour before dusk. Slept in this tree nearby after feeding briefly. Probally 40 yards from our blind.



elephant

Man oh man these pics are killin' me!

Great hunt.

Some very good trophy's.

Last day cats truly a great safari...

Great pictures! Looks like y'all had a great time as well.

Last night I finished Capstick's book about Wally Johnson. The book ends in late 1989 with Johnson saying that Mozambique was basically dead as a hunting destination. What a difference 25 or 30 years makes!

M+

Well, the world that Wally Johnson knew is dead and gone, but fortunately, we don't know the difference. That looks like they had a great safari!

Absolutely!

Actually, I think Johnson would be delighted. His concern was that the combination of the political revolution of the 80s, combined with the famine that followed, would decimate game populations. These pics would warm his heart, I'm sure.

I'd love to see more pics if there are any.

EPIC!


Many congrats to the hunters!

Lovely Pootty Tats! You're killin' me with these pics!

WOWWW!!!! I'm smurf piss green with envy.


Thanks for taking us on this once in a lifetime adventure Men!

Here are a few more. Thanks for all the kind words guys. It was an incredible adventure. We both feel quite blessed to have had the experience.

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I am lovin' these pics and report...but you are giving me a serious case of the 'I wanna go backs...."

Well that's exactly what I was hoping they would do for someone.

Bastid!

Congratulations on what looked like a great hunt.

Ditto here. Really awesome pics!!

Congratulations on the hunt of a lifetime and thanks for sharing it with us.

I would dearly love to have the Cruiser sitting in my garage!

Heck man, I am here in Africa hunting now... in the middle of a 28 day Safari for DG and PG and Tiny Antelope yet these guys are turning me green with envy!

What a great trip!

They are impressive vehicles. I would like to have one too but in left side drive. Not much will stop them. Matter of fact in my limited experience with them nothing has.

When I got out of college the first thing I did was buy a new 1983 Land Cruiser wagon - the 4 door. I got it entirely loaded with all the options available, which at the time was a radio and air conditioner! I got really stupid in the late 90s and gave it to a friend of mine. I regret that still today.

Come on Poobs! I'm up for next year!


Great hunt!

Congrats you guys........ Great trophies....
If you want us t do your leopard permits which we do every day we will be glade to do it.....

Please go to our website.....

www.safarispecialtyimporters.com

The Best
Robert

Where do you want to go and what do you want to hunt?

Go for it guys. You only live once. It would be an honor to know this thread stoked the fire and got you started on your way back to Africa.

ENABLER!

Congratulations to you both! Thanks for sharing your hunt. It's a dream that some of us still aspire to realize - we all dream of Africa it seems.

Cape and leopard are high on my list!!!!!!! You know you wanta go!

I will be taking a 350 Rigby!!!!

I like the way you think!!!!

Jason: I already shot a Buffalo and a Leopard. I highly recommend it....but I was thinking more of a cull hunt in the Kalahari.....

We's can do both!

I like an optimist!


But I just checked the Market this morning. All I can say is NO, we's can't!

Hey Ingwe, what are you going to sell to help fund this experience? You know you don't need that decrepit old Ingwe Special anymore.

Cant sell that. Its my 'big' rifle and will have to go with me....again.

Absolutely!

I just finished Captick's book about Wally Johnson, PH in Mozambique a few decades ago. He (Johnson) tells the tale of taking a German/Austrian(?) lady hunting and she downed not one but two Cape Buffalo with, as he put it, a "pipsqueak" 7x57. One shot each. She obviously knew how to use her 'big' rifle as well.

It wouldn't be my first choice for buffalo, but if someone would let me do it, I'd give it a go!

You could always sell those photos of you in the thong to Playgirl!

I'll let you choot the 350!

Can you tell me the name of that book please? Thanks, Sam

"The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson" Great book, although it ends on a pretty down note since Johnson didn't live long enough to see Mozambique's hunting tradition revive.

OK Poob's, let's get this ball rolling!

Great is an understatement.

Great job guys! Congratulations to both of you.

donsm70

Fantastic,man!

That leopard double at last light on your last night is utterly amazing. The kudu and waterbuck are beauties, as well.

Good on you both. Spectacular hunt and pics.

By the way 163,what was the regimen you guys undertook for malaria protection?

Isaac, Good to hear from you again. I believe we both took Malarone. It was one pill a day for a couple days before, during and a week after we returned. I had no issues with it. Went to a travel clinic in Centreville for most of the shots and prescriptions. Piece o cake.

Spectacular trip by the looks of it - jealous as hell - congrats!

Thanks for sharing, simply superb!

Fabulous Sam! Glad you had a wonderful hunt. Love that sable!

excuse me if i missed it but what make is your 375? beautiful rifle

Blackdogsrules rifle is a Winchester Custom shop M-70 in 375 H&H. it is a beautiful rifle with exceptional wood. Very accurate too. Mine is a Winchester Safari Express re-stocked in a McMillan McWoody. Both rifles shoot at the exact same POI with Barnes 300 TSX & Northfork 300 grain solids. 163bc