We are able to offer you a full bird shooting safari or combine it with your buffalo/plains game safari.
We shoot the following game bird species in our part of the country: Guineafowl, Francolin (two species), quail, Egyptian and Spurwinged geese, three species of duck, rock pigeon and three species of doves. Our season starts at the beginning of May and ends on the 15th of September, except for the pigeons and doves, which is open all year, with no bag limit.
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 Spurwinged 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 September.
The francolin and guineafowl 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 guineafowl and francolin is from end of April to the end of August.
Huntable Game Birds
- Southern Pochard
- Redbilled Teal
- Cape Teal
- Cape Shoveller
- African Black Duck
- Yellowbilled Duck
- Whitefaced Whistling Duck
- Egyptian Goose
- Spurwinged Goose
- Rock Pigeon
- Cape Turtle Dove
- Laughing Dove
- Redeyed Dove
- Common Quail
- Harlequin Quail
- Orange River Francolin
- Swainson’s Francolin
- Helmeted Guineafowl
