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I’m a ball cap guy. Partial to this Kuiu hat currently but just bought a nice Stetson. I might wear the cowboy hat if I ever get to go back

You'll never be the same. Most of my idle thoughts are schemes on how to get back to Africa. It's an addiction for sure

Yep, lost luggage would be my concern. I lost luggage going to Russia in 2018, and my rifle made it, but no bullets. I was shooting a 300 RUM. I bought 10 rounds from a shifty-eyed Russian in a dark alleyway for $300 US. I don't think mailing it will work. In early December 2023 I mailed...

I took Malarone last year in Botswana, broke out in little red pustules within 2 days all over my arms. Stopped taking the meds and went on with the safari. I went back in July and on doctor's advice didn't take anything. I did have a prescription for Doxy and had the meds with me, but didn't...

That’s awesome. Spain is on my list to hunt someday. My wife and I are going next March to tour for her 40th birthday. No hunting this trip. We’re doing a few days in Lisbon then a 10 day tour through Spain. Ending with a few days in Seville on our own. We’re stoked

Same for me. Heym 89B in either 470 or 500, and either a Heym 404J or a Martini 404J

I was coming home from Petropavlovsk and getting on a plane there, when I was pulled out of line by a 6'3" recruiting poster Russian military guy. I must have looked scared, because he tried to smile (the only Russian official I ever saw smile), and kept saying "S'okay. S'okay." I kept...

This is a worry of mine. I recently bought a new backpack just for traveling. The worst thing is I have a Maxpedition "man purse" that I use for both. Guess I just need to get a second one and use one for traveling and one for hunting. This crap is too scary to risk it.

Safari is an African word. So to me, safari is an African adventure, whether it be hunting or photography. Hunting trips are anywhere else.

Ostrich. You see them in boots all the time. I actually have an ostrich hide right. And need to find a custom boot maker to make me some boots

Vorster

I was the lucky winner of the 2023 SCI Foundation $100,000 drawing. Elephant was my dream, but well out of my financial ability. After consulting with Corey Knowlton and Greg Brownlee, I was booked for Botswana. I’m not exactly sure how the partnership works, but I was booked with Mike Murray...

Mine were true to size. I normally wear a 9.5 and ordered that size. They fit just fine as far as size.

That's awesome. Hope I get mine that quick. I too am curious about ivory weight, as I just like to work on my judging skills (or lack thereof). Heck of a hunt. Man I'd love to go back. . .

I don't know anything about 10 gauges. However, I wonder if the 3.5 12 guages have the shot stringing issues that 3" 20 gauges have? I've wanted a SXS 16 gauge. The 16 guages disappeared with the advent of the 3" 20 gauge, but my belief is that a 16 gauge will still pattern better and not...

So far, I'm a little mixed, but I haven't worn them much. Just while doing some yardwork and this morning I wore them on a short turkey hunt where I didn't have to walk very far from my ebike. The heel rubs a little different, which is my only complaint. Maybe I'm not tying them tight enough...

I prefer light hiking boots. I’m always on the lookout for a new pair of boots. Just bought some Ariat Lookout boots and giving them a try. Those LEM boulders posted above are very intriguing. I’ll have to try them for sure

Cape kudu

Love your story. I’ve been to Scotland twice and it feels like home to me. I guess some genetic throwback as most of my ancestors were Scottish. They emigrated (or were transported maybe ) in the 1700s. Besides return trips to Africa, I really badly want to hunt Scotland someday. Stalking is...

I don't watch enough TV to know, but it would be an elephant hunt somewhere.

I think the minimum requirements above are a pretty good place to start. My arrow weights are around 550 grains, and I shoot 70 lb draw. I didn't shoot an eland or anything bigger with a bow, but I had zero problems with waterbuck, kudu, oryx, zebra and the smaller plains game species...

Dang I wish I could!

My theory on black bears was to carry my .40 caliber auto, as I figured I'd be more accurate and could get more rounds downrange than I could with a big revolver. Now when I bowhunt elk in black bear country, I don't even carry a sidearm anymore. Too much of a hassle for such a little risk...

I can’t believe still available. Beautiful rifle.

I have 94 pieces of once-fired .300 RUM brass, Nosler trophy grade. I have 75 pieces once fired R-P stamped once fired .300 RUM brass And then 4 pieces of once fired 300 RUM brass stamped “F C” Comes with 3 20 round cabelas ammo boxes and 1 MTM 20 round ammo box. $250 shipped to lower 48...

I can't tell you to stop. I'm currently lusting after some type of double square bridge in 404J with a gorgeous piece of wood on it. And I've lusted after a double rifle for most of my life it seems. I can't afford either. And I don't have another hunt booked where either of those rifles...

I know a couple guys that either just completed or are close to an archery super slam. Polar bear is already done for them. The repo mounts are very realistic. There were several at SCI and I don’t know if I would have been able to tell without signs

I guess I’ll put in my .02. I was never interested in hunting a giraffe. But my wife saw a picture of a big dark bull and wanted a rug. So in 2021 I was in RSA bow hunting and made a giraffe a priority so that my wife could have a rug. We tried to bowhunt these giraffe but we just couldn’t...

I would like the list as well please. Thanks!!

It was really interesting with the dog. My PH had a young beagle as a blood tracker. He helped with a kudu and a couple other animals. As soon as he got the scent he started a trailing bark, and then he'd bark "treed" (as I would call it), when he found the animal. With the bushbuck he got...

I definitely need more of them myself. This is a cape bushbuck taken with Crusader Safaris in 2016 with a .338 Win Mag. I missed one a couple inches longer just 20 minutes before I shot this one. We weren't sure about the shot, and my PH was ultra cautious on the track. And the...

I have a giraffe rug, it was expensive to ship and tan over here, and I still haven't found anyone that will stretch it. But I can't remember that it added a ton of expense to the shipping to US. Nothing more than the usual robbery anyways. . . .

I prefer solids from Kuiu. Brown. And brown shirts from Icebreaker Merino Wool. I wear this stuff at home while bowhunting, turkey hunting, etc. I have camo, but I try to buy everything in brown so I can wear it day to day as well. Wrangler makes some good lightweight brown shorts too...

I prefer Kindle especially when traveling. The following is a list of Africa books I have on my Kindle for your consideration: The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter, James Sutherland. Elephants, Ivory and Hunters, by Tony Sanchez-Arino Horn of the Hunter, Ruark Africa Bites (photo safari...

https://www.trophyroombooks.com/pages/books/6176/kai-uwe-denker/about-the-spirit-of-the-african-wilderness Denkers other book is even better I think. He wrote another one that’s only in German. Wish I could find it in English

Denker’s books are good enough I’m always tempted to buy extra copies

https://www.trophyroombooks.com/pages/books/3169/kai-uwe-denker/along-the-hunters-path Along the hunters path link

There's a definite sportsmanship component. Some species will stand still and you could bow shoot one from the back of a truck. Some run as soon as they see the truck. I don't have a problem with people doing it for plains game where it's legal, but I prefer not to do it. Predators at night...

My daughter is 11. She's killed a turkey and two deer already. She really wants a kudu and I badly want to take her. I want to wait until she's 13-14 at the least. My reasoning is twofold. 1. She's little bitty and has needed quite a bit of help with her deer and turkey. She's mentally...

This thing has been around a good long while and I've always thought it was complete BS. I'm 42 years old and have gone through and around all 5 stages, sometimes in the same hunting season. Recently I went through several stages over a three day period. Last year I went through several...

That is gorgeous!! I’m envious. How long did it take to get from when you ordered it?

Global Rescue is worth the $250. My last trip over I came within feet of stepping on a puff adder. I saw a mamba, and a tracker was killed by a mamba while I was there. Also, just a couple days before I got there, a charter had crashed out of Maun, killing the two American hunters on board...

That's a beautiful rifle! Congrats

I like new custom stuff and create the wear and patina myself

My first two safaris were primarily bow hunting. I shot a few animals with rifle on both of those safaris. My last two trips were dangerous game and I didn’t own a dangerous game caliber. The dream was to shoot an elephant with a double and I couldn’t afford a double. (I won the dangerous game...

I feel bad. Zero. 4 trips to Africa and still haven’t taken my own rifle. But I’ve used a .577, .500, 375, 416, a 338 and a 7x57. I really want a Heym 450 NE and a custom 404 Jeffery with killer wood. Then I’d start taking my own :)

I don't want to appear to be claiming I'm an expert, having been on one elephant hunt in Botswana, but I don't think the burning carcass thing is uncommon. My PH reported to me that they commonly burned carcasses of elephants legally hunted (after trophies and meat had been removed), as a way...

I don’t know how practical it is but I’ve always wanted a little double in 30-30. That would be fun!

I've only hunted elephant and leopard, but I can't imagine any hunt topping an elephant hunt. Not only the method of hunting, but everything else as well. I've not hunted a ton of plains game, and a lot of my plains game has been with a bow. But I really enjoyed hunting kudu in the eastern...