Hunters With Disabilities

Many hunters with disabilities, have stored away their hunting rifles, due to various reasons.

We would like to invite all those hunters to reconsider. Take an about turn and try us as your next hunting destination. You can still have a lot of fun!

We have a lot to offer hunters with disabilities like:

Wheelchair Hunters
Hunters with limited heart function
Vision impaired hunters
Parkinsons (both types)
Amputees with / without prosthesis
Older hunters of 80-90 years with their normal challenges to health and ability

If the hunter still has a clear mind, we can do wonders with him/her in the hunting field. We like challenges, and be sure, we are strong creative thinkers!

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The Max Otto Krause Story - 28 Year Diabetic in Wheelchair

Max Ottos Krause, from Wiesbaden, hunted with us in the period 1989-1991. He died 1991 in Wiesbaden, due to diabetic related illness. He had been a type 1 diabetic for 28 years, when he did his first safari with us in Zululand in 1989, and 79 years old.

In the 3 years he hunted with us, he did 5 safaris. On his first 3 safaris, he still had the use of both his legs. His mobility was affected by old age and being a diabetic for so many years.

Already on his first hunt in Zululand, Stefano offered him the opportunity to hunt sportively, carrying him piggy-back whilst stalking the animals. The trackers, being semi-Bushman, couldn’t carry Max, but carried the rifles. When we were near enough, Max was put down, took aim over Stefano’s shoulder. He liked it so much, that he did most of his animals in a similar way, being carried piggy-back by Stefano.

On his second safari, he hunted a leopard, and a buffalo. Also on his buffalo hunt, he was carried piggy-back. The leopard was a challenge, as he could only see thing when in strong contrast. We shot the leopard male with a white light, and all went well.

His third hunt he hunted in the Semi-Kalahari, and here we hunted all his animals being piggy-backed. .

On his 4th safari, he one leg was amputated, and arrived with a wheel-chair. He hunted 2 lions on a giraffe kill in the Timbavati Game Reserve. He wounded the first lion, which was found in a thick bush, partially eaten by spotted hyenas the next day. Going after the wounded lion, another lion charged Stefano, which he killed, but not the wounded lion.

The next night, Max hunted the second lion, also on the giraffe kill.

On his 5th and last safari, Max focused on hunting a good warthog, which he did. Unfortunately the safari was affected, partially, due to bad health. He was hospitalized in Pongola in Zululand. He died about 8 months after his return, in a hospital in Wiesbaden. Stefano visited him shortly before his death.

In all 5 his hunts, we hunted in as sportive a way as possible. His 3 children, all stayed within 5 minutes drive from his house. His personal secretary, mentioned that he always longed to come back to South Africa to come for the next hunt, as he was given special attention on safari, than from his children, and he enjoyed the sportive way in which we offered the hunt.

If Max’s story relates to your story or your dream, please Contact us.

35% Heart Function on Elephant and Buffalo

Another German hunter, Bernd Töpper, had to get special permission from his physician to come on an African safari, for elephant and buffalo.

Over years he honed his 470 NE shooting skills on wild boar in Germany, to prepare for this eventual safari in Africa.

He had only 35% heart function coming on safari.

He hunted both a very old elephant and very old buffalo, both on foot. We managed to find ways for him to do so.

He did exceptional shooting on both animals. He put 4 bullets into the sleeping very old bull elephant, which just toppled over, and the very old buffalo bull with completely worn down horns, on a side on shot, back tracked as if hit by a head on collision, after Bernd put two quick bullets into him.

His children tried to convince him not to come to Africa, telling him he will not return alive. He not only return alive, but he returned home with a dream fulfilled. In his very own words….

“ A very old German hunted a very old elephant and a very old elephant. I am truly overjoyed. I was a dream come true….”

Semi-Blind Leopard Hunter

Antonio Ugolotti, had only very limited vision, but his dream to hunt a leopard was always bright and clear, in his mind.

A close, mutual friend, Dr. Ugo Cavallini, who already shot a leopard with Stefano, brought Antonio with on a later safari.

Thinking out of the box, Stefano worked out a plan how to offer Antonio his dream to hunt a leopard. Through years of experience with leopards, Stefano knew, if he could strap the bait into a certain position to a tree with a certain branch configuration, then, when you hear the leopard feeding, stretching down, then the shoulder of the leopard could only be in one position.

Knowing the size of the leopard, based on tracks (this was before trails cameras), the correct point of shot was determined. Antonio’s rifle was set fixed, focused on that critical position of shot placement, where the shoulder should be, when feeding.

Antonio's vision was impaired, but not his hearing. The instruction to him, was – “ when you hear the leopard feeding, you can shoot!”

The leopard came into the tree and started feeding. Antonio waited for the feeding sound to be regular, and pulled the trigger. The leopard dropped out of the tree like a bag.

Antonio used his ears to shoot his leopard, instead of his eyes. In an innovative way, we made his dream came true!

In a similar way, when we know about your challenge/s, we are sure to find a creative solution for you to hunt in a sportive way, and make your dream come true.

Hunter with Parkinsons

The idea of developing a way to stabilize a client with Parkinson rifle, was borne in 1989, when client Carlo Cogliati, gut shotted his buffalo at close range, purely due to not being stable handed.

Since then Stefano innovated and fine-tuned a system with a buddy rifle, in such a way, fixed to a stable tri-pod, which allows the client’s rifle to be stable when shooting. It works well enough to hunt in a sportive way.

On mobility, we have various solutions.

If your challenge with Parkinson’s is preventing you from the joy of a dream hunt, Contact us!

We have a wide list of species for the Hunter with Physical Callanges to choose from.