Safari Bound Southern Africa - Northern Kwa Zulu Natal

Todd Lutman Owner/Guide of Safari Bound Southern Africa invites you to experience the highest quality "Wild Game Bird" Wing Shooting Africa offers.

Safaris areas situated between the Free State Province and Natal’s Agriculture areas, roughly in the middle of South Africa. Due to a diverse habitat and mixed farming practices, we pride ourselves in offering some of the largest variety and quality game birds in the country. These birds range from the humble common quail to the impressive spur wing goose.
We shoot the following game bird species in our part of the country: Guinea fowl, francolin (two species), quail, Egyptian and Spur wing geese, three species of duck, rock pigeon and three species of doves. We start shooting rock pigeons and doves from the beginning of February and continue to do so right through the shooting season. We start shooting the upland game birds and waterfowl from the middle of April and up to the end of August.
The pigeon and dove shooting is high volume stuff. One could expect clients to shoot between 300 and 800 shots per day, with a kill rate of 20% to 60%, depending on the skill of the hunter. The best time of the year to shoot pigeons and doves is from the beginning of March to the middle of June. For the Egyptian and Spur wing geese one could expect a bag of between 5 and 10 birds per hunter per outing, with the official bag limit of 10 birds /gun/day. We shoot them from pit blinds and decoy them in to the guns. With ducks, once again, one could expect a bag of 5 to 10 birds/gun/day. Ducks are shot on and near smaller dams and pans, from hides, and sometimes decoyed. The best time of the year to hunt ducks and geese is from May to end of August.
The francolin and guinea fowl are either walked up over German shorthaired pointers or driven, especially towards the end of the season. Although the driven shooting can be very spectacular and successful, we prefer to walk them up over the dogs. One could expect a bag of 7 to 10 birds /gun/day. The best time for guinea fowl and francolin is from end of April to the end of August.
I would recommend 5 to 6 shooting days per safari..