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Bowhunting

Eight blinds, rested on rotation, set for the wind.

Most outfitters sell bowhunting as a rifle safari with a bow in it. Here it is a different operation entirely: different blinds, a different daily rhythm and a tracker who has spent fifteen years following archery blood.

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Why this concession works for a bow

Water is scarce here, and that is the whole advantage.

From May to October this part of Limpopo gets almost no rain. By August every animal on eighteen thousand hectares is committed to a handful of drinking points, and we control all of them.

That is the difference between hoping for a shot and planning one. We rest each blind for two days between sits so the animals never associate it with pressure, and we only ever hunt a blind on the right wind, even if it costs us a morning.

Realistically, expect a shot opportunity inside thirty yards on four or five of seven days. Some of those you will pass on because the animal is young or the angle is wrong, and your PH will tell you so from the blind.

Bow-huntable species
Close detail of an old warthog boar's tusks
The setup

Three kinds of blind, and when each one earns its place.

Elevated water blinds

Four platforms at eight to ten feet over year-round water. Best from September through to the first rains, when everything on the property has to drink daily.

Pit blinds

Three sunken blinds dug at ground level with the shooting window at eye height. Nothing beats them for warthog, and they put you inside twenty yards on anything that commits.

Green-feed hides

One brush hide set over a lucerne patch, used in the wet months when the animals stop needing the waterholes and the elevated blinds go quiet.

Equipment minimums

What your kit has to do before we hunt.

These are not arbitrary. African plains game carry heavier bone and tougher hide than anything in North America at the same body weight, and an underspecced arrow turns a clean kill into a two-day follow-up.

  • Minimum 55 lb draw weight for plains game, 65 lb for eland and zebra
  • Fixed or mechanical broadheads, minimum 1 1/8" cutting diameter
  • Arrow weight of at least 400 grains, and we will weigh it on arrival
  • Every bowhunter shoots a 3D session on arrival before hunting
  • No bowhunting of dangerous game, without exception
Bow-huntable on this concession
  • Greater Kudu$4,250
  • Cape Eland$4,500
  • Nyala$3,100
  • Limpopo Bushbuck$1,850
  • Blue Wildebeest$1,450
  • Gemsbok$2,150
  • Common Waterbuck$3,000
  • Impala$625
  • Red Hartebeest$2,000
  • Burchell's Zebra$1,400
  • Warthog$600
  • Common Duiker$600
  • Steenbok$600
  • Sable Antelope$6,000
The bow package

Seven days built entirely around archery.

7 days1x1
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The Bowhunter's Waterhole

Seven days over water and green feed

From$7,500per hunter, all in
Trophies included
  • Impala
  • Warthog
  • Blue Wildebeest
  • Kudu (cow or bull)
What the price covers
  • 7 hunting days, 1x1 with a bowhunting professional hunter
  • Trophy fees for the four listed animals
  • Exclusive use of eight elevated and pit blinds
  • Pre-hunt range session and broadhead tuning
  • Full board in an en-suite chalet at the camp
  • Dedicated tracker experienced in blood trailing archery wounds

Bowhunters who want genuine 20-to-30-yard opportunities every day rather than one chance a week. Blinds are watered and rested on rotation, so the animals stay relaxed.

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Bowhunters

Tell us what you shoot and we will tell you what is realistic.

Send your draw weight, arrow setup and the species you are after. If we do not think your kit will do the job on eland, we would rather say it now than at twenty yards.

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