All,
I thought I would take a few moments to reintroduce myself as I have just signed up as a trade member. I don't actually intend to start selling you anything, but as a few people have approached me about hunting safaris, it felt only fair to get The Stalking Directory in on the action.
My name is Carl Williams and I divide my time between Herefordshire, UK and Manica, Mozambique. I co-own and operate a wild, one-million-acre conservation and hunting concession in the Macossa district of Manica.
In our area, we have four of the big five plus most of the usual soft-skinned game. The place is wild. No fences; no humans; nothing except untouched wilderness. My primary objective in life is to protect African wildlife. We employ a large local workforce of gamescouts who are in daily pursuit of both bushmeat and ivory poachers. We also invest heavily in building dams to fragment water-sources during the dry season (and thus game) in order to frustrate poachers. Similar levels of investment in local communities give them a stake in looking after an asset which, after all, belongs to the people of Mozambique.
We offer a small number of hunts for both dangerous and soft-skinned game, but conservation (and the continued protection and growth of game populations) is our goal. We are expensive compared to the fenced hunting countries of South Africa and Namibia. I make no apologies for that: we are in a different business altogether. We are for wild hunters who aren't afraid of the dark.
Back in the UK, stalking red deer in the Highlands of Scotland is my passion. I love that country more than any other place on earth, and there is no beast more majestic than a Scottish hill stag.
My career in fieldsports started as a child when a local keeper apprehended me, spade in hand, digging out my ferrets from a particularly torturous warren on his master's estate. Rather than beat me (as was his reputation), he taught me to shoot. I still think of him today when we hire former poachers into our team of game scouts.
Calibre-wise, I use .500 NE, .375 H&H, .300 Win Mag, .308 Win, and .22 LR.
Best wishes,
Carl
