Recent content by bakerb

Looks the same to me. According to my taxidermist it's pretty common for some of the African trophy places to overboil trophies and damage the bases. He showed me some bosses that had been heavily damaged that he would have to repair. Looks to me like that gap was widened up by overboiling...

4 trips over, I don't remember having a discussion about it any of those times. I always hunted with a round in the chamber, or with rounds in the chamber of the double. Everything is unloaded or unchambered before it goes in the soft gun case. My last two trips were after elephant. My PH...

I'm just hopeful we see some benefit from our $200 tax. We have a couple trips coming up and I guess we'll see if we get through quicker

Holy cow! We got ours in 1 WEEK. We applied on May 5 of this year. Got our email with conditional approval on May 6. Two days later I got us scheduled for May 12 interviews in Kansas City. We each got emails that we were approved within a couple hours of our interviews. I don't know how...

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