Recent content by Connor Baumgarten

Lots of mosquitoes, after my hunt my left hand was completely swollen

McAllen Texas. You can hunt free range Nilgai on public land and you can hunt them at night because their nocturnal animals. My guides name was Tony, I didn’t set up the hunt I went on so I don’t know his information but if you can find him he’s very experienced at hunting Nilgai and he’s, I...

A saddle or a pair of boots would be some cool things to have.

For me I would either go with J Alan Smith going for a big old safari in Tanzania, or I would go with Jim Shockey for some mountain hunting. I would also like to mention TIA(This Is Africa)

To break your boots in. Fill them with water, then you walk a mile in your boots. Another thing I like to do is apply a thin coat of neatsfoot oil(olive oil works too) on the inside of the boot in the area that is giving you some pain, and then walk a mile. However if you apply too much it will...

The Infighting between hunters decently gets me scared for the future of hunting as a hole. So often I see hunter vs hunter arguments that get way to nasty and it makes hunting look bad to everyone outside of the hunting world.

He’ll make a nice wallet

Personally I would do one as taxidermy and the other as a skull mount.

That would make for a very unique mount on the wall

I’ve heard eland is crazy good eating. my dad would vouch for zebra, nyala and kudu. From what I’ve had, I really like gemsbok and sable.

I wasn’t there, but Ron Spumer made a video short about a boltless bolt action rifle from Bally Bradshaw

I once talked to a guy with the skull of a cannibal in his trophy room(I’m pretty sure he got it from an auction). He had some pretty incredible stuff in there.

I like to endure the majority of the flight awake(with the occasional Power Nap). you loose two cups of water for every hour your on a flight so I stay up and take every advantage for water I can(it’s important to stay hydrated while on a flight).When it comes to food it’s important to eat, but...

Man that is depressing.

So you know that feeling of something watching you? Turns out you already saw the thing looking at you, but your subconsciousness doesn’t know that yet. It makes for good hunting knowledge, there might be a animal you saw but you don’t know, so it makes you stop and take a more careful look...