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After taking elephant on a hunt, I was able to add on a buffalo as there were a few extra tags at end of season. One day we seen a few right out of camp and went after on foot, but they were in some stupid thick stuff and when we could just see glimpses they'd run again. After a couple hours...

I've shot plains game in Dande as well. Shots won't be far in general, we've always worked in close as that's what I prefer. I think the longest was Hyena on bait at maybe 100yds? Honestly if the Norma is shooting well already, why complicate things? It's the shot placement that counts. I...

Well done as always both the hunt and the writing.

Congratulations on the retirement. I’m getting real close myself and already consigned the guns i didn’t want to move and kept very few. Now I’m onto a shop full of tools and toys. It’s just stuff, maybe you get the itch you buy something in the future. I had to liquidate my dads 70+ years...

Depending on expectations for elephant, and wanting a 21 day hunt can easily be north of a $100k. Would be money well spent talking to outfitters. ^And this guy would be right there on top of a list to visit for the many options available.

One contact you can also ask about typical import costs you should have anyway is Matt Meyers from Genus Logistics, import broker. If you decide to ship stuff back it’ll be through JFK and it’s a good company to have working for you. https://www.genuslogistics.com/ I would suggest a ride to...

I got a good chuckle out of this as I have been a high end residential carpenter near 40 years now, much of what i do doesn’t lend itself well to nail guns at times.Zero “union labels” allowed,ever. A union label is when you miss and leave that nice hammerhead dent in the wood. But you can put...

These older HP’s have a cult like following. Theres even a guy who can repair the lcd screens running an online store. I just sold my 11c complete with the faux leather slip case,manual and box for more than new. Still had the receipt from the university book store in the box. It was mandatory...

Pretty standard stuff here in NY to hunt with slugs. Only in the last 15 years have many counties now allow rifles to be used, but my county with a couple dense population centers will not. Mossberg 500, Remington 870 and 1100,Browning A5 and bolt action,Ithaca 37,NEF single shots were all...

First hunt was 20 years ago, and about the time I started following posts on different social media. Big change i see is quality of buffalo off private land in South Africa. Even 10 years ago you'd see quite a few soft bosses or just getting there buff. Now I see some really hard older...

Welcome to this forum. Your hunting reports are terrific on another site and enjoy reading them from all the places you go. I'm sure others here would too.

I have a 375hh on Jarretts action and athough not near as pretty as yours, it shoots one ragged hole. The fact that they do a full load development and supply that info and targets is why I bought from them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_white_deer In NY during ww2 around 10,000 ac was fenced and isolated a group of deer with white genes. That herd grew and about 40% are white. They’d hunt “normal” deer but leave the white ones alone. People would drive by and look through the fence for...

Custom 375hh with 4 down plus one. I have been able to top off before running out, and never used them. Needing 6+1? At that point I would think the PH better be firing too.

Thanks for the report, good pics too! I did an Amazon trip in 2018; centered around multiple species including peacock bass. Did a seasonal lodge with chalets that slept 2 each, kitchen,dining area on the water; very similar to any safari camp. I’d preface it by saying I’m not really a die...

I think this is a good lesson to come out of these discussions, done the same thing and subsequent hunts I try to keep aware of the whole situation. Two smaller groups of 4 Black Wildebeest each and some clumps of brush between us and them. I’m laying prone with the landowners manager between...

I would NOT use the HF ammo cans if checking separate. I would use the HF Pelican copy “Apache” as an ammo case with some sort of ammo specific boxes inside, MTM slip cases, factory types etc I have been using the Apache case that would typically used for ammo in construction industry for my...

Welkom USA is another place to buy import SA products. I buy Freshpak brand rooibos tea from there; they also carry some of the infused flavor rooibos teas you normally dont see in safari camps but in SA shops.

I've done exactly what the OP is asking about, as I booked a hunt with a pair of outfits who had a partnership on two properties. I had a rough list of priorities for 14 days split between the two, and an expected budget to spend. It was enough that they gave a healthy discount in trophy fees...

It can be, but as usual its in the details. For a 7 day hunt in Zimbabwe; management bull with well established outfit, no export at all and a drive to camp, no charter; off season airfare, ie sept/oct. Thats not what many want because its hot and especially not getting taxidermy; but if I had...

That steenbok is crazy long. Never seen anything like it. I'm not one for scores, but that has to be close to record book ? Damn.

Well over 100 plains game with my 375 and 300 a frames. I shot a warthog twice, poor first shot, flinch on my end. Shot an eland 4 times, first two broke the front legs. At that point I put one in the heart and the forth not really necessary but bullets are cheap. Everything else from duiker...

fwiw, I have taken a couple of tuskless with the traditional woodleigh solid with a 375 and complete strait line pass through on skulls. I am however using the 300gr paired with a 300gr A frame with same poi.

Harry Selby joined another forum that's Africa safari centric and a bunch of know it all holiday hunters challenged his opinion of ballistics too. Guess 50 years of safaris he didn't know as much as those that post on internet forums. He stopped posting, so did his daughter that made a few...

Grow some big rattlesnakes here in NewYork and border with Connecticut. Worked at a custom home build where a den was located and tagged along with a herpatoligist who was doing a study on rattlesnakes in the area. A few years ago this same thing happened on the trail I took this Pic, but an...

Occasionally some of the capes get used for replacements, theres no market for left behind trophies to be made into mounts. Flat skins go to tanneries in general. I havent mounted anything last 4 trips. Although I appreciate what I did mount prior; they hold no value to anyone else, and I’d...

I think it’s dependent on time of year and popularity of outfitters. I tend to book shorter than most, the last few hunts I have done in Zimbabwe has been as short as 6 weeks as much as 12 with a popular outfit. All late season for what I wanted for primary animal and plenty of plains game...

I have never had an issue with laundry in any way shape or form, just my experience in over a dozen camps in SA,Namibia,Zimbabwe.Tourist and hunting over last 20 years. Not a cotton fan at all, I dont wear the stuff at home either. Hanes mesh boxer briefs, Thorlos wicking socks, Wrangler ATG...

I’ve hunted right next door in Dande twice at the same time of year into early October. Highly suggest several things. The head net as suggested above, never wore it walking but sure did when stopped for a break. A small battery fan, I bought something off amazon, like 4”, runs on AA...

Ask Buzz Charlton about bullets and ballistics and his eyes glaze over. Couldn't be more bored. Lol

First trip I had a Canon 35mm film camera body stolen in J’berg on the way home. I was stupid on that first trip carrying rifle scopes, camera lenses, and all manner of extra crap in my carry on and with too much extra stuff I put the body in a boot inside my checked bag. It was a good...

I put a link to that recall in this thread (post #7). As far as I know there have been no others.

Maybe more like; WOW! But even bigger font? Thats a hell of a hunt.

wow.

My first hunt was just OK. Just overall not what I had in mind for this grand first trip to AFRICA. I had a PH that wasn’t really all that experienced and looking back should not have even been in the business.The outfit he worked for had burned so many landowners over game payments they had a...

Len has a ton of experience, and is about as calm, cool , and collected of any ph I have had the pleasure to hunt with. He also won't shoot unless he knows he has too, and will let a client as much as possible finish the job. I put 2 good hits in a buffalo and short stroked my 3rd when we were...

if for some reason your sale doesnt go through, I’d take seconds on this.

CITIES export quota is fixed for the year, so there is little desire to use that number for female animals in general.

I live in the Hudson Valley and have done mine at Stewart also, super easy.

I take one of these and store all of my long guns in my safe with these. Good product.

Only hunt with slugs where I am in NY, Ive shot over 150 whitetail with a 20ga 870, most with a smooth bore bird barrel with foster slugs, add some with a rifled scoped barrel, then add some more with a Savage 220 with sabots. The 220 shoots one ragged hole, its stupid how accurate it is for a...

i’d say skip taking shit, and take more money. trackers/skinners/camp staff/locals have school fees to pay. cash is what changes their lives, not cheap trinkets. its short satisfaction feel good but thats just me

I have bookended hunts with photo camps several times. If you coordinate it right you can be hunting the day you leave a photo camp. Might want to look into one of the larger private camps in the East Cape (like Keriega that has big 5) That could be combined with a day at Addo and could meet...

I use lightweight zippered packing cubes of various sizes for clothes. Have a Nalpak set up for another when using it for camera/fishing gear.

Attendance at the convention was so poor they can't afford to be a sponsor and their posts deleted as would be considered advertising? LOL

Newark is in New Jersey. Any imports at JFK that would be going on to different final destinations other then NY state wouldn't be effected either.

This similar bill has gone onto a NY Senate floor vote and passed before. It has, however, died as the companion bill in the State Assembly at committee level in that same time frame. For NY'ers, and I'm one, it will get bad if it ever passes at Assembly committee level and more importantly...

I have been fine with tipping in general and would say even a bit pro tipping. I have received a few nice tips from clients at the end of big jobs and its always a surprise and a nice jester. Last two hunts I had the PH and truck crew(2 trackers and 2 game scouts) thank me for the tips I gave...

I would look at it from an outfitter point of view in that someone taking the time to set up bait, possibly arrange multiple properties to hunt and have a high success rate needs to be compensated. I have seen some pretty high trophy fees though, well more then basic plains game like...

Thinned 2 troops in Namibia, a dozen including a big male. Had a good elevated set ups with the terrain near water holes both times and I set extra rounds out so I could single reload pretty fast. 30 to 200yds or so, some would tree at the first shot but had to be quick at finding a target. Got...