A typical days shoot will start with Tea or Coffee at 6.00am brought to your tent. Assembling with the rest of your party at the Mess for some breakfast before heading for a nearby waterhole, where you will be placed in pre selected hides or natural blinds.

Each gun will be accompanied by their own gunbearer who will help spot and collect incoming and downed birds. You can expect to shoot both sandgrouse, pigeon and dove for the following 1 – 2 hrs, an average mornings bag will come to 50 or so sandgrouse and dove per gun. After a mid morning beverage you will head out across the plains searching for both Guinea Fowl and Francolin. The Francolin once spotted can be flushed from the safe harbor of small thickets and bushes flying low and away in a similar fashion to the Bob White Quail, they hold easily in the short grass plains that cover much of East Africa.

The Guinea Fowl are better as driven birds and will inevitably fly with the wind behind them. Placing the guns downwind in good cover or behind a line of trees and then circling around the Guineas and flushing them with the help of several Masai Morani (warriors) normally yields good results. Several drives later and you will be back in camp enjoying a welcome lunch, either in camp or in the shade of a picturesque acacia tree.

Following a rejuvenating siesta during the heat of the noonday sun we once again set out in search of Guinea Fowl and Francolin before picking a different waterhole for the evenings shoot. As the sun sets there is the chance of encountering the Liechtenstein’s sandgrouse, certainly the most entertaining to be had in East Africa, a low flying bird that comes to water in the late evening and shoots past you in a similar fashion to a F16, two boxes of shells later and even the most prolific of shots will only have a couple of birds down.

An evening game drive back to camp can be rewarded with sightings of some of the more unusual big game species such as leopard, Aardvark and Genet cats In camp a welcome cocktail awaits the thirsty hunter and a fulfilling dinner in the comfort of good company, Cuban Cigars and tall stories!!!