The Gonarezhou Safari areas are hunting areas that are open/un fenced areas adjoined to the Gonarezhou National or the Kruger National Park or the Mozambique National Park, these are massive areas made up of different concessions that form part of the collective Gonarezhou Hunting concessions, the ones that TAS offers are as follows from North to South.

The Sengwe 1 and 2 TTL (Tribal Trust Land) hunting areas are open and adjoined to the Gonarezhou National Park, the Kruger National Park and also Mozambique, Crooks Corner on the Zim side is in our concession and a real hot spot for dagga boys. Sengwe is well known for top trophy quality Elephant and Buffalo. There are people living in and around the Sengwe areas in a low population density scenario. Hippo and Croc are available and on quota in Sengwe.

When you hunt the Gonarezhou you are primarily hunting for trophy Elephant bulls in the +70 pound per tusk weight range and also for dagga boy Buffalos that are 12 years old and older, like these beautiful dagga boys that were all recently hunted. In addition to Elephants and Buffalo, we have Hippo, Crocodile and Leopard on quota. Our Leopard hunts are amongst the best in Africa, come and hunt with us Bwana. Not many trophy Elephant bull areas also offer the possibility of Buffalo, Leopard, Hippo and Crocodile on the same hunt.

For those of you that don’t know about the Gonarezhou hunting areas in Zimbabwe allow me to offer you more information please, for those that do know, here is a refresher:

The Gonarezhou National Park (GNP) is situated in the South Eastern corner of Zimbabwe (SEE ATTACHED MAP), the GNP is open and unfenced to the Kruger National Park (KNP) and also open and unfenced to the Mozambique National Park (MNP) these National Parks are collectively known as the TransFrontier National Park, wild animals roam freely between these National Parks, the Gonarezhou safari areas/hunting areas are adjoined directly to these national parks, there is no fence between the parks and the hunting areas, the gene pool that exists in these National Parks, especially for Elephant and Buffalo is the best in Southern Africa.

When you hunt these areas, especially in the case of Elephant you are hunting for 70 pounder + bulls with unbroken, long, thick and symmetrical tusks, the kind that look beautiful in your collection room, other areas that offer you a chance at a big Elephant bull mostly have short thick tusks that are often broken, again I say it: We offer you a chance at a typical looking traditional Elephant bull with LONG, THICK and SYMMETRICAL tusks, what I refer to as the Kruger gene in Elephant bulls, magnificent bulls with beautiful tusks.

When it comes to Buffalo, you will be hunting for dagga boys that live in bachelor groups, they live comfortably in these bachelor groups since lion populations are very low in our areas. Buffalo bulls leave the safety of the big herds that they would otherwise live in in areas with lots of Lions, hunting free range dagga boys from bachelor herds is the purest form of Buffalo hunting.

We hunt for Buffalo bulls that are 12 years old and older, we often shoot bulls in the 42 to 46 inch range and we don’t charge more for them when we do, we have one price for Buffalo and we want the biggest and best age appropriate bull we can find for you, it will not happen that you see the bull of your dreams and you are told you can’t shoot him because he is too big… That is not how we hunt and not what we sell, this applies to Buffalo and Elephant.

The Gonarezhou hunting areas are flat ground, no mountain climbing is required, if you can walk 2 hours in the morning session and 2 hours in the afternoon session at a relaxed/hunting/tracking pace then you are fit enough to hunt the Gonarezhou safari areas.