South Africa Mixed Bag Adventure

Using 25 years of experience, our South Africa wing shooting trips offer professionally guided hunts for waterfowl like the Yellow-billed Duck and Red-billed teal in thatched blinds along small marshes and ponds as well as pit blinds for giant Spur Winged and Egyptian Geese. Those who like to shoot, our volume hunts for flighted birds like the decoying Rock Pigeon and the zig-zagging Cape-Turtle dove are sporting and numerous in the harvested grain fields. Upland species like Spurfowl and Francolin are hunted on the edges of grain fields using well trained English Pointers, while the Guineafowl are driven to hunters European style using the colorful and cultural Zulu natives as beaters and breakers.

Our bird hunts are generally customized depending on where the birds are concentrated and if the group consists of non-hunters. Generally we hunt the flighted birds near Bloemfontein and stay at the De Oude Kraal Country Estate, a 12-room hotel and spa on a Merino sheep farm with excellent food and service headed by Gerhard and Marie Lombard.

Our waterfowl hunts are headquartered from Baynesfield Lodge just outside the town of Hilton. This lakefront facility has been recently renovated and consists of five cabins and a main lodge/dining center and its own museum, a Victorian splendor built in the 19th century by namesake Joseph Bayne.

Near the town of Dundee, you will be staying at the Ingudlane Game Lodge for our upland hunts that houses guests in beautifully decorated chalets offering views of the Natal bush that is home to many indigenous animals of Africa. For those who want a break from the hunts and see some real wildlife, we have contracted the deluxe Umzolozolo Safaris Lodge and their own fleet of Land Rover’s