Fellow SDers
A PH friend of mine in South Africa is looking to establish chapters for SA Sport & Hunt Federation in countries all over the world. As a means to this he has invited the UK to field a 3 man/woman team to compete in a competition. The details are below. Its not my sort of thing but does sound quite good fun so I thought would post on SD to see if anyone would like to lead on this. If so PM me and I will pass on his details I asked a few obvious questions and have posted his replies at the bottom of this. Please don't fire more questions at me as I don't intend to operate as a post box If genuinely interested PM and I will pass on his mobile and email and you can chat direct
Herewith a brief summary of how the competition will work. It won”t necessarily be in the same order but the disciplines will probably all be included
By law, each International participant will be escorted & assisted by a proffesional hunter.
The dicciplines will be as follows:
Day 1 : Arrival, Transfer to shooting venue & introductions
Day 2 : Wingshooting competition – wet, and or dry as the season allows
Day 3: Range shooting competition which will consist of:::
Day 5: Transfer to Bushveld
Day 6 & 7: Tipical Bush hunt & Price giving
Day 8: Transfer to airport & departure
Dates: We are looking at possibly May/June 2018
Fire arms Import Permits : Will be pre-arranged
Cost to participants: Will be at an estimated £2000 – which will include meals, soft drinks/beer & water , laundry, accommodation, transfers & animals taken
Just te re-emphazise – our main goal is to establish chapters for SA Sport & Hunt Federation in countries all over the world
I will be glad if you can assist me in this, or if not, to put me in contact with someone else who would be able to.
My questions and answers
Wingshooting. Assuming Francolin or Guinea Fowl? Anticipated bag? Driven or walked up
The plains game hunt Target species? Impala springbok etc or bigger. E.g. Wildebeest?
Can hunter take additional animals. Are they trophies or cull animals?
How does scoring work across the disciplines
How many in each country team?
Your concern about sustainability is that we have grown slowly over 25 years to 2000+ members but we are stable. Once you see the whole concept it may make more sense.
To answer some of your questions,
We do mainly doves on what we call a dry hunt and waterfowl as a wet hunt and 2 of each over 2 days. Francoline ang Guineafowl also happens from time to time. You only have 25 shells per competition. The scoring is alittle complex to explain but you get points awarded for the amount of bird shot and also for the amount of ammo not used.
Target species will vary from Blackwildebeest, Springbuck and Blesbuck on the open plains to Warthog, Impala, Bluewidleebeest, Eland etc depending on what is available in the area that we hunt and what the farmer makes available. Scoring is determined by 1. shotplacement- head, neck and heart gives 5 points, lungs shot 4 points and any other shot 3 points. 2. Trophy quality 3. Amount of ammo returned as you get 5 marked rounds for each competition and obviously the less ammo you use the more you score. Your final score is then a combination of the 3.
You may only hunt one competition species per day but we do make exceptions.
If the international hunters want to hunt more we can let the do so after he has hunted his competition animal at an agreed rate or even extend their stay after the competition if they would spend more time trophy or social hunting. If they do shoot agood trophy duting the competition they can export that.
We would like 3 members per team.
The goal is to start chapters all over the world where they can compete against each other with their spesific circumstances to then select a team to compete in SA anually
A PH friend of mine in South Africa is looking to establish chapters for SA Sport & Hunt Federation in countries all over the world. As a means to this he has invited the UK to field a 3 man/woman team to compete in a competition. The details are below. Its not my sort of thing but does sound quite good fun so I thought would post on SD to see if anyone would like to lead on this. If so PM me and I will pass on his details I asked a few obvious questions and have posted his replies at the bottom of this. Please don't fire more questions at me as I don't intend to operate as a post box If genuinely interested PM and I will pass on his mobile and email and you can chat direct
Herewith a brief summary of how the competition will work. It won”t necessarily be in the same order but the disciplines will probably all be included
By law, each International participant will be escorted & assisted by a proffesional hunter.
The dicciplines will be as follows:
Day 1 : Arrival, Transfer to shooting venue & introductions
Day 2 : Wingshooting competition – wet, and or dry as the season allows
Day 3: Range shooting competition which will consist of:::
- Hunting rifle – shooting targets @ 25m intervals – up to 200m. In different positions – i.e. free hand, sitting, resting on a post, prone and from the bensh
- A varient of English sporting clays
- .22 Rim fire – free hand
Day 5: Transfer to Bushveld
Day 6 & 7: Tipical Bush hunt & Price giving
Day 8: Transfer to airport & departure
Dates: We are looking at possibly May/June 2018
Fire arms Import Permits : Will be pre-arranged
Cost to participants: Will be at an estimated £2000 – which will include meals, soft drinks/beer & water , laundry, accommodation, transfers & animals taken
Just te re-emphazise – our main goal is to establish chapters for SA Sport & Hunt Federation in countries all over the world
I will be glad if you can assist me in this, or if not, to put me in contact with someone else who would be able to.
My questions and answers
Wingshooting. Assuming Francolin or Guinea Fowl? Anticipated bag? Driven or walked up
The plains game hunt Target species? Impala springbok etc or bigger. E.g. Wildebeest?
Can hunter take additional animals. Are they trophies or cull animals?
How does scoring work across the disciplines
How many in each country team?
Your concern about sustainability is that we have grown slowly over 25 years to 2000+ members but we are stable. Once you see the whole concept it may make more sense.
To answer some of your questions,
We do mainly doves on what we call a dry hunt and waterfowl as a wet hunt and 2 of each over 2 days. Francoline ang Guineafowl also happens from time to time. You only have 25 shells per competition. The scoring is alittle complex to explain but you get points awarded for the amount of bird shot and also for the amount of ammo not used.
Target species will vary from Blackwildebeest, Springbuck and Blesbuck on the open plains to Warthog, Impala, Bluewidleebeest, Eland etc depending on what is available in the area that we hunt and what the farmer makes available. Scoring is determined by 1. shotplacement- head, neck and heart gives 5 points, lungs shot 4 points and any other shot 3 points. 2. Trophy quality 3. Amount of ammo returned as you get 5 marked rounds for each competition and obviously the less ammo you use the more you score. Your final score is then a combination of the 3.
You may only hunt one competition species per day but we do make exceptions.
If the international hunters want to hunt more we can let the do so after he has hunted his competition animal at an agreed rate or even extend their stay after the competition if they would spend more time trophy or social hunting. If they do shoot agood trophy duting the competition they can export that.
We would like 3 members per team.
The goal is to start chapters all over the world where they can compete against each other with their spesific circumstances to then select a team to compete in SA anually
