Bowhunt: Zambia's Luangwa Valley

[rladner]

wow, I am extremely jealous. If I could win the lottery I would be doing exactly that. You are living my dream Oscar. Will be following and rooting for you.

[Landrover]

I will! Gator season opens in two weeks too.

I'm in if you see "the one!"

Oscar, my guide in Zambia was Andrew Baldry. He pretty much knows everything you can about hunting Zambia. If you want, I can introduce you to him. One of the wildest places I’ve been. No fence, dangerous game, black mambas, hippo attack, lions outside of camp. I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

Kevin

That's what everyone is telling me, it is no joke! Heck, the charter flight to camp is almost 3 hours.........or 12 hours by Land Cruiser! Thanks for the offer and I will let you know if I hit some snags.

This will be awesome hope we can follow along Oscar!

I will be looking into getting an IN-REACH or something comparable that I know alot of guys are using. My Global Rescue membership is all paid up so at least I know i can get evacuated if something goes awry while there.

[az2tx]

I hunted there in the mid 90's, if you are looking for big croc's, they were plentiful back then. The river has cut banks in places where you could get within a few feet of some of them, which I didn't want to do.

[PondPopper]

I had the same question also.
The PH said, "ZERO" and I have the CITES import permit."
But, I had to check with my long time local expediter last week just in case:
No problem at all. Remember you need a CITES import permit for your leopard.

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We'll Lynette will definitely know.. I've dealt with her many times over the years.. She's on top of it..
She used to be with World Wide Logistics I believe..

[Landrover]

We'll Lynette will definitely know.. I've dealt with her many times over the years.. She's on top of it..
She used to be with World Wide Logistics I believe..

Yessir, I have been working with her since 2008'..........lots of good times during show season!
I also sent SCI's Barbara Crown an email to give me the latest lay of the land there.
I also just talked with my longtime agent Patrick at "Travel with Guns" travel agency in San Antonio and looks like the best route is thru D.C. and then Ethiopia. Gonna be a ugly price tag but I kinda expected that. Few more loose ends and I am wiring my deposit!!!

[HUNTIN HARD]

Dang Oscar sounds like a great trip!!! Best of luck, can’t wait to follow.

[CEO]

Dream adventure no doubt. Look forward to the post-hunt write up.

[roberts]

Good luck and safe travels. I will be following this and waiting for the writeup.

[Landrover]

Man, I can’t wait to follow along! I had a trip booked to Zambia for my 40th birthday. Was going to do elephant, hippo, and croc with a bow. I got a call about 6 months out from the hunt that Zambia was closing their elephant hunting. I didn’t know which route to go and I moved the hunt to Zimbabwe. I never got an elephant and the hunt wasn’t that great. I did kill a hippo with a bow so that was a plus. One day I will make it to Zambia. Trying to make that happen for my 50th.

You whipper snapper! I am 56 and just getting enough nerve gathered to get this done.

[Buff]

Pure Greatness.

[Rcole1310]

This will be one for the books I bet!!! Can’t wait to hear about it. Hopefully there is cell service so we can follow along. I’m assuming the croc shots will be on sunning crocs. Not sure how you’d drill a submerged one.


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[GarGuy]

This will be one for the books I bet!!! Can’t wait to hear about it. Hopefully there is cell service so we can follow along. I’m assuming the croc shots will be on sunning crocs. Not sure how you’d drill a submerged one.


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Oscar wont have a problem drilling a submerged one.

Oscar a gator will do exactly as you described if you poke his lungs.

[Mudslinger]

Oscar i will volunteer to be your weapons carrier if need be! I am Retired so just let me know!

[Burnadell]

Livin' life large, Oscar! Looking forward to following along!

[az2tx]

I bet it has changed a lot since I was there, I sure hope so.
One side of the concession was bordered by the Nat Park, their were several villages in the area and lots of meat poaching everywhere. Lions and leopard were plentiful along with hippos and crocs, plains game not so much.
It was a wild place for sure armed bandits, tsetse flies galore and mosquito's, definitely a malaria area. We had to be very careful around buff and ele's they were very aggressive, most likely because they had a poachers snare on them at one time or some lead in them from a muzzle loader or and AK.
In the mid 90's it hadn't been to long since the instability of gov and the purge of white business owners so it was pretty much a lawless area but since then a lot of safari operators have moved in there so I'm sure it is much better.
You doing this trip brought back a lot of memories for me