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You deserve the best, so book with the best. Our professional experience, knowledge and commitment will ensure that your expectations are exceeded. Your hunting experience will leave you with deep and fond memories of Africa.
Plains Game
Piet Otto Safaris offers Plains Game Hunting in all of our concessions in South Africa and Mozambique. Dependant on your requirements we will put together a custom hunting package to suit your needs. Visit our kudu hunting page for more information and photos!
If there are specific plains game you wish to hunt please contact us with your requirements and we will return with a costing and full details.
Big 5
Piet Otto Safaris offers several Big 5 hunting packages using our concessions in the Cahora Bassa and Zambezi Delta areas of Mozambique. Dependant on your requirements we will put together a custom package to suit your needs. Examples of the type of hunting packages we put together include :
14 day leopard, hippopotamus and crocodile in Mozambique. Refer to Cahora Bassa for price list.
If there is a specific Big 5 hunting safari you wish to put together please contact us with your requirements and we will return with the cost and full details.
Bow Hunting
All of our South Africa concessions are fully equipped for archery and bowhunting, and are waiting for you to join us for your ultimate bowhunt safari.
You may prefer the thrill of actively stalking your game. Or you may enjoy sitting in the hide, appreciating the African scenery as wildlife and birds come in for a drink or a bath. Either way, when the big trophy arrives, you will feel your heartbeat start to drum in your ears.
Pricing on archery / bowhunting are the same as the rifle hunts in the 3 South African hunting areas.
Wing Shooting
South Africa boasts some of the best wing-shooting in the world. You’ll find a great variety of species, and you can enjoy several different wing shoots in one safari. Choices include high volume dove and pigeon shooting, waterfowl, hunting over decoys and on flight lines, or upland bird hunting over pointer dogs.
South Africa sports a great variety of game birds including 3 species of francolin, helmeted guinea-fowl, rock pigeon, a number of dove species, common quail, as well as 2 species of geese and 1 each of duck and teal.
Francolin (Orange River and Swainson’s), and common quail are hunted with pointer dogs. They hold well to the point, allowing the guns to get up in time for the flush. When flushed they offer challenging passing and overhead shots.
Francolin coveys consists of between 2 to 6 birds while guinea-fowl are found in flocks sometimes more than a 100 birds strong. Guinea-fowl offer good driven shoots or are walked-up in dense cover where the dogs normally flush them singly or in pairs. Shoots take place in open grassveld, thornveld, along riverbanks and corn or maize fields. Shoots continue until late morning and resume in the late afternoon.
The bag limit is 10 birds of a species per hunter per day.
Pigeon (Rock) and dove (Laughing, Cape Turtle and Redeye) hunting is mainly restricted to sunflower fields where they congregate in huge numbers, thereby allowing hunters some volume shooting the whole day. There is no bag limit when hunting pigeon and doves. One can expect to shoot 250 shots and more per client per day.
Waterfowl, mainly Egyptian and Spurwing geese are hunted using decoys and blinds, on their flight lines to corn and maize fields and while flying in and out of nearby lakes. Red-billed teal, and yellow-billed duck hunting is mainly restricted to lakes and small pans where they are hunted over spinner ducks from blinds. These waterfowl shoots are restricted to early morning and late afternoon.
The bag limit is 10 birds of a species per hunter per day.
Hunting Season
The wingshooting season starts on 1 June and continues through to 30 September for most game birds and waterfowl. Dove and pigeons can be hunted year-round, although the best time is from the end of February to the end of September.
Crocodile
Crocodile Hunting in South Africa!
Crocodile hunts have gotten so popular in the past 10 years that it has now became a hunt hard to find, with good trophy size. Piet Otto Safaris has the best area with a 100% success over the last 6 years. We were able to achieve an average croc size of 14.6 ft over the 16 crocodiles that were hunted in the 2010 season. This is a phenomenal average that we are very proud of. Do not hesitate to contact us for more information.
