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Thor Wildlife Safaris, F/2062/C/sub8, Ngwerere, Lusaka (2026)

05/12/2025

When you hunt true wild, free-range Africa — nothing is guaranteed.
You can be in one of the best buffalo areas on the continent and still find yourself fighting for every inch of progress. This safari was exactly that. Lady Luck packed her bags and left us early.

We had two buffalo on the list. What we got was one of the toughest hunts I’ve ever done.
October heat. Out of camp before first light. Back after dark — sometimes past 20:00.
Day after day we found buffalo, and day after day something slipped away…
Wind wrong, bull too young, cover too open — always one thing between us and success.

But we didn’t quit.

On day 8 of 10, after miles of tracking, sweat, blisters and frustration, things finally broke our way. Not the monster bull we imagined — but one we earned. A hunt built on grit, patience, and stubbornness.

Blood, sweat and beers — and a buffalo we’ll never forget.

04/12/2025

One of the real highlights for me this season was taking this absolute tank of an eland. On this safari with in Nyaminga, a mature bull was high on the priority list for our hunter—never an easy task, especially late season when cover is scarce.

We shadowed the herd for nearly a mile before they moved out into a wide open plain. From the last bit of cover, we just couldn’t close the gap any further than 290 yards—a long shot for a .375 with low-power optics. Luckily, we had shooting sticks which gave the hunter the stability and confidence he needed.

The shot broke clean, the unmistakable smack echoed back, and the bull covered less than 50 yards before he went down. An incredible animal, a special moment, and as anyone who has hunted eland knows… we ate like kings for days.

30/09/2025

The Valley Heat & the Grey Bull

There’s something unforgettable about following kakulis from first light, only to find success as the sun begins to sink.

It’s late September, but the October heat has already arrived. The valley feels like an oven. We tracked a group of seven kakulis all morning until they caught our wind and vanished. We gave them space, resting through the sweltering heat of midday beneath a shady tree. Sleep was impossible — 40°C, with tsetse flies piercing skin and mopane flies crawling for every drop of sweat.

By afternoon we picked up the tracks again. There they were, sleeping in open mopane. My tracker’s eyes caught a flash of pale grey — almost white — a bull both old and heavy. Something spooked them, and the chase was on. A hundred meters at full sprint, then the bull stopped, broadside. The shot was well placed. He ran another hundred meters before the .470 Westley Richards insurance shot finished the story.

A hunt of heat, endurance, and respect — ending with an ancient bull whose time had come.

27/09/2025

KAMPATA — a proud and professional skinner — posing with a big elephant we hunted in Kambombo yesterday. He is one of dozens of people from the Tembwe and Kambombo communities who are able to support their families through the opportunities created by trophy hunting.

This area had been dormant for many years before an operator took it on and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into anti-poaching, community projects, and creating employment where there was hardly any.

Now, six years later, Kambombo is producing exceptional trophies while also generating vital funds to protect wildlife, drive community development, and provide much-needed protein.

A big thank you to Kazumba Safaris for their ongoing work and for giving me the opportunity to hunt in their area.

12/09/2025

The reason I posted the photo of the chewed baobab tree is because it reflects a reality many don’t fully understand. Recently, an anti-hunter shared a number of my photos along with others from the internet, and of course used them as an argument against trophy hunting. I don’t mind engaging with these discussions — in fact, I welcome them — but I prefer to do so calmly and with facts.

Anti-hunters often claim that trophy hunting is devastating wildlife populations. The reality on the ground tells a very different story. My home ground is Munyamadzi and Kazumba — private reserves that, together with neighboring reserves, have built one of Africa’s most successful conservation models. Where once wildlife had been depleted, today these areas are thriving havens for species, including elephants, lions, and leopards. Populations of endangered species here are not only stable but actively growing.

The real challenge we face now is not decline, but habitat pressure caused by recovering populations. Every year, I see more signs of elephant impact on habitat as their numbers grow. While we are not yet at unsustainable levels, we are certainly on a path toward that point if populations keep expanding at the current rate.

What anti-hunters often overlook is this: in the majority of regions where regulated trophy hunting takes place, wildlife populations are stable or increasing. Conversely, in areas where hunting is prohibited and no alternative management or funding model exists, wildlife populations are in steep decline. Trophy hunting provides both the financial means and the management structure that allows conservation to succeed where it otherwise fails.

So when someone says “trophy hunting is bad for wildlife,” I can only point to the living proof around me. Without regulated hunting, Munyamadzi and Kazumba would not be the wildlife sanctuaries they are today.

10/09/2025

Back in Munyamadzi and Kazumba for the first of two leopard hunts this year.
We hunted out of Kazumba Camp with client, and on day six we had this huge tom on bait.

The hunter, who has been on 41 safaris across Africa, was astonished by the sheer abundance of wildlife in Kazumba and Munyamadzi. That richness is thanks to hunters like him, who, through sustainable hunting, have contributed vital funds that allow us to protect these areas and turn them into one of Africa’s most successful conservation models.

The first evening he never showed. On the second sit he came in just in time for a shot. Unfortunately, the bullet struck a little low.

When we checked under the bait there was no blood. After some searching we eventually cut his track, only to lose it again about 50 yards from the bait. While we were checking around, my tracker Boyd suddenly heard something—just five yards from where I had been standing moments earlier. We backed off and could clearly hear the cat breathing with that unmistakable bubbly sound.

We couldn’t see him and I braced for a charge at any second. We were down in a gully, and he was hidden behind a bush on the bank above us. We managed to slip across to the opposite bank, and from there I caught a glimpse of a few spots through the brush.

Using the client’s scoped rifle, I aimed and fired—striking the leopard in the back of the head and killing him instantly.

Hunting always carries an element of luck. Had I taken just a few more steps up the bank before we heard him, there’s little doubt he would have been on top of me.

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02/09/2025

On day four of our safari we got a second good tom on bait. And this tom was also misbehaving. On our first sitting he came in 15 minutes before closing time but walked past the bait and only jumped in the tree after closing.

We had confidence he would come in same time next day and we were now prepared to shoot him on the ground. After 3 evening sittings and 3 morning sittings we had not seen him except on the trail cam.

My hunter was now determined that she wanted this specific leopard, because it had messed us around so much.

We decided to move the bait further into the thicket and shift the blind to a new position, then do a walk in. First evening still no show. Next morning we walking in, in the darkness only to find lion tracks on the road as we started our walk. Luckily the lion did not find the bait. The Leopard was in the tree when we got there but left 15 minutes before shooting time.

That night a injured young leopard female had found the bait and hung around feeding. This obviously was our luck and the Toms brains went somewhere else. For that evening he came in 15 minutes before closing time. He didn’t make it to the tree before his days were counted.

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01/09/2025

On the last safari and I were fortunate enough to get the opportunity to take our clients to a new area we had not hunted before. We were hosted by Kavango and Epic Safaris in the Chifunda hunting block. This area is considered to be one of the best area in Zambia for big game. We were doing a double his and hers leopard safari and had a long list of other species to hunt.

Needless to say Josh and I had expected hunting 2 leopards would be a walk in the park. Well that just goes to show that leopard hunting can be unpredictable. We got some baits out. First night one good tom hit one of the baits. Josh started off with his client. After several sittings with no luck the cat went on a walk about. He then hit another bait. He would feed at night and at odd times during the day.

Finally on the 9th sitting he came in at last light and fell out the tree to a perfect shot. Leopard hunting can be tricky even in the best areas of Africa.

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14/08/2025

On the previous elephant safari we got lucky and found a monster bull on the first day. Elephant hunting is rarely that easy, requiring many days of looking over hundreds of bulls and many miles on foot.

As I have said to many, I was not interested in elephant hunting when I started my professional hunting career in Zambia and for the first many years I was hunting it didn’t say me much. As a coincidence I got roped into doing an elephant hunting career some years back. And after that I got the elephant fever and now hunted quite a few since then.

I must say it is the most exciting, intimidating and humbling hunting I have ever done. I shed a tear every time one of these magnificent beasts drops to the ground.

However, I also know that where I hunt them the elephant population is rising, we only hunt a small number of older bulls, it brings in significant conservation funds and feeds hundreds of people for a long time.

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09/08/2025

My next safari has taken me just slightly south in the Luangwa Valley. Again to a new fly camp where we are the first to hunt out of. The luck got shoved down our throat on this one.

Looking for elephant we didn’t see much on first morning. In the afternoon we found several promising bulls but not quite what we were looking for.

But then half an hour before sundown we saw this magnificent bull. After a bit of bouncing around to get into a shooting position we got in the initial shot plus a couple of follow ups and he was down.

This is one of the oldest elephant I have hunted. In this Northern part of the Luangwa Valley the elephant population is growing at 7,5% which is as fast as possible for elephant. The HWC is steadily increasing and a farmer had been killed by an elephant in a nearby village the day before we hunted this bull.

On the age I’ll share photos of the lower jaw once clean to show why I believe it to be so old.

With these simple statements/facts no one in their right mind would be brave enough to tell me what im doing is wrong.

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08/08/2025

My previous safari took me back to the northern part of Luangwa in Tembwe/Kambombo. Our main target for this safari was a big tom leopard using bow and arrow to hunt it.

The operator had the year before decided to open a new fly camp in the far north part of the concession. It is so far north that the Luangwa river is marely a little shallow stream.

This part of the concession has not be hunted professionally for decades. Needless to say I was excited to explorer this new area, well knowing hunting could be hard and game spars. However I knew the chances of finding a big tom were good.

And I must say I was positively suprised about the Kambombo area.It will not be the last time Im going there.

The operator had to make a significant investment to open up this part of the concession. A new camp, with tents, power, staff housing, skinshed watersuply, over 150 miles of road and a bridge over a river and employment of 18 new staff plus created part time work for 30 people to make this part of the concession huntable.

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