Raw From The Field: Hunting Dangerous Game in Mozambique
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We're live in the tropical forests of Mozambique, in one of the most remote safari camps in the world. This episode was recorded right after hunting two magnificent old dagga boy cape buffalo bulls in the floodplains of the Zambeze River delta, while the experience was still fresh and raw.
One buffalo was taken with a 125-year-old Westley Richards double rifle in .450/400 Nitro; the other with a Winchester Model 70 .375 H&H. Early November heat combined with unseasonal rains combined to make it both humid and torrid... a proper tropical experience. We waded waist-deep through crocodile-infested swamps, bled on the head-high sawgrass, and walked miles across broken, crusted mud flats. It was an experience we'll remember for a lifetime, and here we share the stories. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this. |
| 0:00.7 | You're in Mozambique. |
| 0:01.8 | Belly deep in the sawgrass. |
| 0:03.8 | Crocs around and leeches up my shorts. |
| 0:09.0 | Why not? |
| 0:10.1 | Imagine this, folks. |
| 0:11.7 | You're in the swamps of Mozambique with a hundred and twenty-five-year-old, very special |
| 0:15.9 | double rifle, up to your nipples in mud and crocodiles. |
| 0:21.4 | And you're really worried you're going to fall over with that fine double rifle. |
| 0:25.4 | So you give it to your tracker and you hold on to your pal and you make it across. |
| 0:29.9 | What do you see there? |
| 0:31.3 | Well, what we saw when we got over there was you guys were already on the bank and defending us. |
| 0:37.4 | So that's why I was able to give the rifle up |
| 0:39.0 | and talk a little more comfortable. |
| 0:41.0 | That's why just before we went across |
| 0:42.9 | when Funn and the track started going across |
| 0:44.7 | like if you guys on a cross this is the right time |
| 0:46.9 | don't want to be walking over alone. |
| 0:51.0 | I think one's favorite part was when |
| 0:53.2 | the little dogs come up behind you and the junk. |
| 0:57.4 | You know, that was twice |
| 0:59.0 | because you gave him a little startle earlier in the day as well. |
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