Firearms & Ammunition

Upon your arrival in camp, your will be required to sight in your rifle. Suitable rifle ranges with solid shooting benches are available. Prior to your departure from home be sure to practice with your chosen firearms so you are at ease with their features and operation. We suggest your plainsgame rifle to be sighted in two to two and a half inches high at one hundred yards – this will in effect enable you to comfortably take shots out to two hundred and fifty yards without having to compensate for distance. For your heavy calibre big game rifles, dead on at one hundred yards is recommended.

Inferior quality bullets have been the cause of many wounded animals and unnecessary hours spent following up. Compared to the trophy fees and cost of a safari, bullets are cheap. Of the best available, Trophy Bonded Bear Claw and Swift A Frame would be our first choice for soft points. Barnes X and Nosler Partitions are also very good – but at times the Barnes tend to perform like solids, while the Nosler Partitions lose the front section and seldom retain more than 60% of their weight. Stay away from Hornady, Sierra and the likes - although very accurate, these bullets do not hold upon tough thick-skinned game.

Generally solids are much the same – in all the high-powered bolt-action rifles, good monolithic solids work best. Once again, Trophy Bonded Sledgehammer or Barnes Super Solids will work well. Monolithic solids do not bend or fishtail. On slower, large bore double rifles we have found full metal jackets such as Woodleigh bullets to be best.

Do not hesitate to discuss individual calibres, bullet weight and make or other relevant items with your professional hunter. He knows the area, game and conditions and will be able to recommend to you not only bullets, but also calibres suitable for the game to be hunted.