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A New Area In Cameroon That Offers Chasse Libre
Published: May - 2007
Still in West Africa, long-time subscriber Cam Greig tells me he has found a new area in Cameroon that offers good chasse libre potential. Chasse libre means, roughly, on-your-own hunting in French, and that is something Grieg has done for many years in both Cameroon and CAR. In fact, he makes a small sidelight business out of helping mostly Hunting Report subscribers put together old-fashioned on-your-own portered safaris.
At any rate, here is an edited version of the note Grieg sent us about the new area: I have just discovered a new area in the north of Cameroon. It's snuggled in between several hunting blocks, but is still large enough to hold a significant amount of game. It was left as a zone banal, or free area for chasse libre hunters because of its mountainous and rocky nature. It would be almost impossible to put roads in it.
I took a fishing guide from Alaska with me into this area this winter. He shot a very nice old harnessed bushbuck the first day. The second day he shot a big western hartebeest and followed up on the third day with a red river hog. Over the course of the next week, he added a nice western roan and a northwestern buffalo to his tally. He turned down opportunities at oribi and warthog, as well as at bush duikers and baboons. There is a significant presence of elephants in the area, but he was not interested.
To experience this kind of success on a hunt conducted on foot, with porters carrying all of your gear, is nothing short of remarkable. Although we were both anxious to find a Lord Derby eland, we only found tracks of such an age that it did not make any sense to follow........(continued)
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