Newsletter 97
DEAR HUNTING FRIENDS
I trust this newsletter finds you well. Please allow me to take this opportunity to wish you all the very best for 2026 and the years ahead.
As we approach the 2026 hunting season, I am pleased to share some exciting news and a few important updates. We invite you to review our attached 2026 hunting brochure, which includes Lotsane Safaris plains game hunts as well as CT27 elephant hunt pricing. These represent some of the best-priced, fully exportable elephant hunts available in Botswana, offered in one of the most scenic and rewarding hunting areas you will ever experience.
Take Aim Safaris has now entered its fifth year of operating in Botswana. During this time, our Botswana plains game hunting property—operated through our sister company, Lotsane Safaris (www.lotsanesafaris.com) has officially been graded as a five-star tourism destination by Botswana Tourism and is fully operational. Bookings continue to perform exceptionally well, and the 2026 season is almost fully booked. We encourage you to contact us as soon as possible to secure your preferred dates.
We are also pleased to report strong progress and growing interest in our full-title, full-ownership farm sales project. Currently, four exceptional farms are available for sale within Lotsane Safaris. Each farm is approximately 450 hectares and includes traversing rights over 11,000 hectares of established hunting game ranch. To learn more and view the site map, please follow the link below and feel free to email me directly for additional information: https://www.
Please note that investing in Botswana at this level provides the opportunity to apply for residency and work permits. Once approved, these permits allow extended stays beyond standard visitor limitations. The Lotsane team will assist you throughout the process and facilitate engagement with the relevant government departments.
We look forward to welcoming you to Botswana and sharing an exceptional hunting experience with you.
BREAKING NEWS…
We are pleased to share exciting news for serious big game hunters: we have secured an exclusive 15-year agreement with local stakeholders to operate within Botswana’s CT27 concession. The concession term commences in 2027. The current CT27 hunting quota includes 30 elephant bulls per annum, four leopards, and a variety of plains game. In addition, an excellent selection of plains game is available on our privately owned ranch, conveniently located near the CT27 concession.
CT-27 – BOTSWANA HUNTING CONCESSION
The CT-27 Hunting Concession is the largest hunting area in Botswana, covering over two million two hundred thousand hectares (more than five million four hundred thousand acres) in the country’s eastern region within the renowned Tuli Block. This vast, unfenced wilderness stretches from Tonota near the A1 road outside Francistown, south along the Shashe River on the Botswana–Zimbabwe border, extending behind Mashatu, through Sherwood, and toward Palapye.
CT-27 is defined by a diverse landscape of mopane woodlands and open savannah, with permanent and seasonal water pools that support high elephant densities as well as a healthy population of plains game and leopard. The Shashe River forms a natural wildlife corridor, contributing to excellent game movement throughout the concession.
The area is managed under Botswana’s Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) program. Following the lifting of the national elephant hunting ban, CT-27 was tendered for elephant hunting in 2020, ensuring sustainable use while delivering direct benefits to surrounding communities, including revenue generation and meat distribution to villages.
EXCLUSIVE MANAGEMENT
We hold a 15-year exclusive hunting agreement for CT-27, commencing with the 2027 hunting season. As part of a long-term conservation and development commitment, we will begin constructing a permanent safari camp in 2026, along with drilling boreholes and establishing water pans to enhance water availability for elephants and other wildlife.
We also offer hunting at Lotsane Safaris, a privately owned hunting ranch in the Tuli Block of Botswana.
CT-27 Hunting Season: 1 April – 31 October annually.
Lotsane Safaris Private Game Ranch: Hunting available year-round.
On a personal note, I must add that in all my career hunting Southern Africa I have never hunted a more beautiful area than CT27, the mountains, rivers, valleys are exceptional even beyond belief, truly the best topography I have ever seen in my extensive hunting career.
For those that like to work out boundaries, here are the CT27 boundaries:
CT 27 lies from Tonota (next to the A1 to Francistown) all the way down the Shashe River (Zimbabwe border) to the Backline behind Mashatu going to Sherwood and from there to Palapye.
Hunters, Agents, Operators and Outfitters: We are currently open for bookings into CT27 for the 2027 hunting season, we are not only looking for clients/hunters to book and hunt with us, we are also looking for Professional Hunters, Agents and Outfitters to market and share this exciting area and hunting quota with us, the area is huge 2,200,000 hectares which is bigger than the Kruger Park, there are lots of hunting options, lots of hot spots and lots of potential for camps. Infrastructcure, investment, community development projects and community employment projects are all going to be rolled out, we are going to empower, train and uplift the community in CT27 through hunting and we invite serious partners to join us, please contact me to further the discussion and explore opportunities.
As always thank you for reading our newsletters and thank you for passing them onto your hunting friends.
PLEASE VISIT US AT THE FOLLOWING HUNTING EXPOS IN EUROPE IN 2026
- Jagd & Hund in Dortmund from the 27th January to the 1st February Hall 7 stand A49.
- Die Hohe Jagd & Fischerei in Salzburg from the 19th to the 22nd of February stand 09-0420 Hall 9.
- The Jagt & Outdoor expo in Odense from the 17th to the 19th April. (hall number and stand number will be sent on a further newsletter before the expo)
Hunter’s best wishes.
Carl Knight
WhatsApp: 0027-82-749-1747
Email: carl@takeaimsafaris.com
Web: www.takeaimsafaris.com
