“If I could shoot a game bird and still not hurt it, the way I can take a trout on a fly and release it, I doubt if I would kill another one. This is a strange statement coming from a man whose life is dedicated to shooting and gun dogs. For me, there is […]
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26/07/2025 Saxo’s first whiff of Greywing Francolin at 2600m. I decided to run him for the first time in the mountains finally. He took some time to put it all together, which is very much understandable, but with the help of the team, we got him into some birds soon enough. It’s always special watching
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. He must be true to his own nature. A small collection of recent moments in time. Just a glimpse of the blur that has
To find yourself, you must first be lost. To feel happiness, you must experience pain. Pretty accurate sentiments that someone recently relayed to me. My life has been a bit of a rollercoaster of late. A white light blur if you will. I can’t really recall all of the powerful, beautiful and even humbling moments
You go to a place that not many that you grew up with will understand. But you understand this place is where you are meant to be. You learn here, you break here, you maybe even cry a little here, but most importantly, you grow here. You face demons here. You pray here. You carry
A pressing matter that seems to be lost in translation at times with many international clients and or enquiries is that of the hunt/shoot dynamic. Many first time clients from abroad that hunt all around the world have a skewed view – which is often through being spoilt on these ‘shoots’ – on what real
The clinking and clanking of the spades and picks keep me in reality. They keep me from being completely absorbed by the fictional world I find myself relating to more than I should. They keep me alert but strangely satisfied too while ploughing through yet another riveting Wilbur Smith novel. Satisfied because the manual labour
“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else – he never dares cut the rope and be free.” ~Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek. I read an article about a 94 year old Czechoslovakian grandmother who turned her small village into her living art gallery by painting flowers on
Many clients have expressed a keen interest to hunt on horseback. And, it is understandable as it provides a completely different perspective and experience, as well as the obvious reason, to not have to walk as much on foot whilst hunting. I am not too sure these people grasp all of the dynamics of this
The world is vast and huge. Big doesn’t really do it any justice in truly describing it. It’s almost an insult to call it big. I started grasping just how vast it is in my own personal travels. And I think that is key when you start to truly understand that yourself, from your perspective