What follows is a fairly long report of my hunt 7-16 Aug 2026 in the Magoe / Panyame region, along the shores of lake Cahorra Basa. Concession operator is Safaris de Mozambique, booked through outfitter CMS, guided by PH Alan Shearing.

We made it to Johannesburg with no trouble, and enjoyed a much needed layover for a day. We’ll catch up on sleep and reduce jet lag before continuing on tomorrow with another flight to Tete Mozambique, then a bush plane charter, and finally arrive at our...

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I’ve contemplated a 500 Jeffery off and on including the similar in power 505 Gibbs. Both vintage rounds with lots of wonderful history for use against the biggest and toughest African DG. Many of the rifles chambered for the aforementioned cartridges are really excellent rifles and many are custom rifles from notable makers.

But, is the 500 Jeffery (including 505 Gibbs) really superior to the 458 Lott? The 458 Lott will launch a 500 grain bullet at 2300 FPS and the 500 Jeffery launches a...

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When we started planning our first safari Last winter, we heard to book gracy travel agency to make things easy. So we decided to book them and at first our contact Gio at was very responsive. He got our flight and gun arrangements put together but we can't even get a call back now. We leave for our trip at the end of September and just have random questions. For the last couple weeks my girlfriend has tried multiple times with no call back and I tried a couple days ago with no...

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my best regards to Kenny

I’m always on the hunt for a new knife, especially folders. Only have close to a hundred probably but who cares? Currently carrying the Spyderco Metropolitan right now. Highly recommend.