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Elite gundog training and bespoke Wingshooting Experiences in the Highlands of Southern Africa.

Developing gundogs, and my own line of Pointers exclusively on wild birds, whilst showing guests the beauty and mystique of the Eastern Cape Highlands.

04/06/2025

A small collection of recent moments in time. Just a glimpse of the blur that has been thus far. There is a reason we refer to our way of doing things as experiences. For they are much more than a ‘hunt’. Constantly evolving, always striving to provide more than the mere trigger pulling experience. Anyone can throw a hunt together, but it’s the details, it’s the attention to the art within the process and each day that truly matters at the end of a trip.

I had this vision decades ago, and it is has all slowly come together like a fermenting barrel of wine. Every year we will level up, in all aspects, whilst stealing a sip to see how the vintage is slowly coming along. But never drinking it all, or bottling it just yet.

Reminding guests of the beautiful, intricate connection to the very hills and streams that we get to explore is very close to my heart. This symbiotic relationship is far reaching, and I feel that in its entirety, this painting is only just beginning to take its own unique shape. We all think we are the artists, and oftentimes we are not wrong, but when you are out here, in this patchwork of green, rust, and ochre yellow shades, you soon realise that you are actually the canvas…

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Always chasing the horizon.

12/05/2025

A hard earned lunch high up in the icy winds
With each bite a different type of appreciation
Charcuterie boards representing the season and the slopes
A spicy samoosa to warm you from the inside
Smoked trout pâté from the bountiful streams
All washed down with a crisp white wine
And off we go again

Always chasing the horizon

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06/05/2025

A fine Charles Boswell in 16g, and a walks harvest of the grand Greywing Francolin.

Always chasing the horizon.

15/04/2025

An excerpt from our feature in the Shooting Sportsman:

“If I had to pick a single highlight from the trip, it would have to be spending time with arguably the best set of pointers I’ve hunted behind. The image of those dogs streaking across wild country under endless skies is enduring, as is the memory of waking after a nap to find a sleeping pointer’s head nestled under my arm.

One way or another, we expect to return.”

~Robert Parvin Williams, outdoor writer and sportsman.

Come and experience what truly class Pointers pursuing wild, wily gamebirds is all about in the mystical Highlands.

Get in touch to design your very own Highland adventure!

www.ouranopointers.com
[email protected]

Love what you do, do what you love.
Always chasing the horizon.

10/03/2025

"The ideal life would be one where you had a hobby that as a byproduct made you money, you had a hobby that as a byproduct kept you healthy, you had a hobby that as a byproduct made you smarter and more creative."
~ Naval Ravikant

Get in touch with us at [email protected] or visit us at www.ouranopointers.com to plan your very own Bespoke Wingshooting Experience and Highland Adventure!

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06/03/2025

An excerpt from the featured article in The Shooting Sportsman, the enigmatic Robert Parvin Williams wrote on us after their trip with us last season:

“If I had to pick a single highlight from the trip, it would have to be spending time with arguably the best set of pointers I’ve hunted behind. The image of those dogs streaking across wild country under endless skies is enduring, as is the memory of waking after a nap to find a sleeping pointer’s head nestled under my arm.

One way or another, we expect to return.”

It is still so humbling to page through the publication and see my dogs and I featured on such a global platform.

Always chase your dreams.
And always chase the horizon.

Please get in touch to enquire about your very own bespoke Ourano Experience with my world class team of Pointers, and explore some untouched Highlands with us.

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25/02/2025

Care more about one thing.
Care less about everything.
When you find what works, but doesn’t feel like work - you’ve won.
Through expression and creation we meet ourselves.

Life on the road lately has been productive and magical.
This season promises to perhaps be our most life defining one yet, with lots of growth and exciting changes on the cards.

I believed in myself, in my dogs, and I stuck to a vision that most said wouldn’t work. And with plenty of boot mileage and even more paw mileage we’ve carved our own little existence in the very mountains we find strength, inspiration and guidance in.

The Ourano Greywing Experience is about to become even grander than ever before.

Get in touch to chat about your very own Highland adventure with us at [email protected] or visit our website www.ouranopointers.com and ask us some questions via our enquiry page.

Always chasing the horizon.

14/02/2025

Journal Entry:

We had so many poignant and beautiful moments from last year, the season that was. So many perfectly captured professional photographs even, and I’m forever grateful for all of those moments. But this still stands out as one of my favourite moments and images that I will hold onto forever. Hopefully as a really tired, stiff old man one day I’ll look at it and remember everything about it.

A photograph is a powerful thing. I’ve always said such. It can transport you right back to an exact moment and time. I personally remember every detail about any capture; the smells, the weather, the exact scene and moment that unfolded, what I was dealing with personally, where I was internally, and how content and happy just that moment in time left me - even amidst the stresses of life. The present moment is all we have. The past and the future both don’t ever exist, they merely exist in our minds. Truly inhabiting the present moment, in surrender is enlightenment enough sometimes I feel. As it allows us to accept everything we are dealing with. And the secret is, it’s all good, no matter how ‘bad’ it seems at the time…

Bulton of Oscar high up in the snowy capped peaks, like a white beacon, my white beacon of hope - amongst the tangerine, rust, apricot and ochre yellow shades of grasses. It was a large covey of Greywing Francolin, 17 birds. We were high up, 2600m up to be exact. I was hunting Bulton and his daughter Bianca as a brace. All three of us were tired. Our legs were weary. There are no roads up here. It’s all negotiated on foot. The type of hunting i truly revel in. It had been a long season already. But this was our time. Our time to enjoy one another, without the pressures to deliver and without any time constraints. To find Greywing Francolin who have barely seen man before, especially man and dog, really gets me going. It is an untouched wilderness up here. I’ve always said that, perhaps one of the very few remaining areas like this in South Africa. To find startled Greywing Francolin up here, bright eyed and bushy tailed, hurtling in all directions like mortars making their escape, with only the Black Eagles as your spectators and company, and the odd Vaal Rhebok or Mountain Reedbuck is something truly special. Bulton is the old man of the show now, but he still doesn’t act like it, and I love him for that. I hope to be as he is one day when I’m an old man.

Always chasing the horizon.

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09/02/2024

Random Journal Entry:

2570m up with Aera and Baggio of Ourano Pointers.
Behind us is the old Transkei. Just beyond that is Lesotho. It’s a hard slog up, but it is always worth it. Lots of Greywing Francolin. And just plain beauty as far as one can see.
We sat there a while amongst the natural splendour. With various Martins, Swallows and Swifts, gliding around us just above our heads, showing incredible feats of aerial acrobatics in their aerial predation pursuits. Such interesting birds, and so hard to identify each one at times. It’s unreal to think that some of them (the Swifts) sleep on the wing at high altitudes. Interesting birds. Aera found the first covey a couple hundred meters upon being on the top flats, a second a few hundred meters after that, and then Baggio got in on the action too with a third covey, all within 1km of one another. Good start.
A kettle of Cape Vultures circled a bit beyond us, no doubt with some carrion on the ground. Such a pristine, prime, Afromontane biome and environment. The variety of grasses, shrubs, and flowers is magical, and the stretches of vistas and views is bewildering at times.

Do less with more, and more with the less.

Always chasing the horizon.

01/02/2024

When you find what works, and doesn’t feel like work, you’ve won. Block out the world, create your own world, obsess over it, iterate, believe, live.

“The ideal life would be one where you had a hobby that as a byproduct made you money, you had a hobby that as a byproduct kept you healthy, you had a hobby that as a byproduct made you smarter and more creative.” - Naval Ravikant

For all enquiries please visit www.ouranopointers.com or send us an email to plan your very own bespoke wingshooting Experience at [email protected]

Always chasing the horizon.

17/01/2024

This is my response 99% of the time to people.
Yes you need a knack. Yes you need good genetics. Yes you need birds. Yes you need the passion. Yes you need many things, but there’s one variable that nothing can replicate nor substitute, and that’s good ol’ boot mileage. You will walk, and climb, and walk a whole lot more, and you will probably need to walk a bit more still after that.

Clients always know I put in the mileage, because certain telltales, or giveaways, just don’t lie.
“Look how fit Chris is, you can see how much he walks and works with the dogs, unlike others.”
“Chris your boots are always in ‘work mode’. “
And my personal favourite, how every single dog prefers my vehicle to their owners, especially if I pick them up, they clammer and jump, going looney to try and get in (much to my insurance excess dismay for all the scratches I keep having to remove. I must start factoring this into my pricing I think 😆).

I will work with your dog every single day that it is with me, this is a guarantee, and a promise I not only make to a client, but most importantly to myself.

This season is going to be another special one. The boot mileage is accruing nicely… 🥾⛰️

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