Typical Hunt

On your safari

You’ll have trained professionals meet you at the airport in Johannesburg or Cape Town to assist you in clearing your weapons through Customs without headache and stress.  If you’re archery hunting, your bow is considered to be nothing more than luggage.  Once through Customs you’ll be escorted to your connecting flight.

Once at your final destination (Bloemfontein, East London or Port Elizabeth), you’ll be met by Arnold and driven to the lodge.  Quality lodging, a well-trained camp staff, skilled guides, trackers, skinners and most importantly, great hunting concessions have been acquired to insure YOUR safari will be the trip of a lifetime that you’ll always remember fondly.

You see, it’s the belief of OutdoorFrontiers Africa that there’s enough stress in “The Real World” and that tension should be left on the plane.  Our safaris are designed with you in mind, believing that you should have a good time and a great hunt.

The first day in Africa is a travel and rest day.  After a long flight, you’ll need a day to take it easy, rest up and get your rifle’s zero checked for the coming days of hunting.

Each day will start with a light breakfast and coffee or tea.  Then you and your PH will head out, either to a water-hole blind, jump in the bakke (small pickup truck) and scout for game to stalk or you might even begin your walk & stalk hunt directly from the lodge.

A midday break will find you back at the lodge, for lunch and a well deserved rest (if you’ve been out on walk & stalk).

The afternoon will find you back out in the field, viewing, stalking and hopefully taking game.  You’ll have skilled trackers to assist you in finding your game, and once all the photos are taken, your trophy will be loaded and taken back to camp.  A skinner will then cape, flesh and salt the hide to insure no hair slippage.

When the hunt has concluded for the day, you’ll be met at the lodge with a braai on the lapa (a campfire in the patio area).  There you’ll kick back and relax with a “sundowner” and share the day’s experience, smiling, laughing and sharing memories.

Dinner will be tasty and filling, sometimes it will be traditional African dishes, other times it will be the wild game you took earlier in the hunt.  If you like wine, South Africa has world-class vineyards and great wines.

Then it’s back out to the braai until you feel the need for sleep.  Now, can you think of a more relaxing way to spend a day?

Your last day will also be a rest and travel day.  Making sure everything is packed, you’ll also meet with the representative of one of our taxidermy/export companies where you’ll make arrangements to either have your trophies mounted and shipped, or dipped, packed and shipped back home, to be mounted by your taxidermist, depending upon your wishes.  But once again, careful planning on our part insures few surprises on your part because you’ll leave for home knowing how much it will cost to get your trophies home, and when they’ll arrive.

You’ll then be driven to the airport in plenty of time to catch your flight home.

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