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My wife, daughter and I returned from South Africa on the 15 of July 2024 and our taxidermy is scheduled to fly out on Monday the 14th 2025. 364 days after we left. We have two crates coming with all our animals. It is mostly euro and flat skins with 1 shoulder mount impala. I’ll pick up from...

Awesome. I’m really hoping you have wifi in camp to keep us updated in almost realtime. Good Luck!!!!

Love the rangers. I’ve had a pair of the regular buffalo rangers that I have been on a lot of success hunts from South Africa, here at home in Georgia, Illinois, and Qubec Canada. I’ve also wore them to work and shooting archery tournaments. I picked up a pair of the barefoot ones this January...

Loving the report. The writing style is wonderful. Cant wait until the next installment.

That’s awesome. I love hunting with my 17 year old daughter.

Here is the clip of Sara bear

Well we are all tagged out in Quebec. The rain stopped last night about 6:45 and the sun popped out about 7. We started seeing squirrels, birds and chipmunks. It was not until 8:38 that a black head popped up right behind the barrel. We get both of the cameras rolling as it cautiously circles...

Thanks for the kind words @HankBuck We weigh him on a digital scale in the skinning shed. The second biggest that was killed so far was 165lbs. We are back in the blind at the same spot a last night. We relocated the blind about 90 degrees from where it was because last night we had one come...

After pictures this morning we weighed my bear at 245lbs. Out of the 26 shot this season it is the second largest with 303lbs being the biggest. We also seen 3 snakes under the porch on our cabin. We relocated them to the woods well away from our steps. I didn’t expect to see and snakes this...

It was a late night and an early morning. We were up past midnight and up at 6:30 to take pictures with my bear and go look for Sara’s. Where she was hunting is about an hour from camp. With the overnight temps in the 40’s leaving the bear overnight should be fine. After our ride we are back...

Service is slow and hard to get picture to upload. I’ll keep trying to add pictures but might have to do them at the end when I get wifi. Well we had an exciting first evening. Sara was the first to see a bear at her blind. It came in at a little after 7. She sent me pictures and video trying...

We have punched a tag on the first night. Will tell the story and post pictures tomorrow. We have work to do.

My daughter and I both use the legend Everest 40 with the cover. We went last summer and I shot a 450 grain arrow at 70 and she was a 410 grain at 60. We started with Iron Will heads but stuff didn’t bleed great. Swapped to 3 and 4 blade heads and had better blood trails. I like trying lots of...

No doubt she is spoiled. But she is the baby of the family with the older brother and sister out of the house and becoming successful in their own right, Sara is reaping the benefits. But she will be the first to admit it. We are hunting. And have good cell service. Both of us are in ground...

We have made it halfway to Bear camp. We are overnighting in Saint Sauveur. We have taken our time driving from Albany. Had a little hiccup renting our truck. It was posted that at the counter to let them know if traveling to Canada. We did and then the guy at the counter said they can’t let any...

Congratulations!! Ready to see what else unfolds

Sara and I are off again on another adventure. I was inspired by @Green Chile and his recent trip to start our own thread. I enjoyed his updated and all the helpful information he shared. We have just left Atlanta and headed to Albany New York and will pick up a rental truck to drive into...

If we have good enough service in camp I’ll try to do the same thing as you and post a somewhat live hunt report. This will be her first bear hunt and I’ve been on a few but never killed one.

Congratulations on a great hunt. My 17 year old daughter and I are headed to Quebec Friday morning with our bows. I really appreciate the gear list on the first page. It pretty much matches the one I made for us and keeps me from over packing.

Mine will be something little different than most. While I love firearms and have plenty of them I prefer to bow hunt. I have a matching pair of 2007 Bowtech Allegiance that have been on a lot of adventures. I’ve killed well over 200 animals with the pair, from alligators to wildebeest and a...

My 17 year old daughter and I are headed to Quebec for her first bear hunt. We will both be bow hunting. Hopefully we are both able to get on a good one.

Awesome. What a wonderful trip.

Here is a list of the legal cartridges in Illinois. The .500NE would make the woods rattle. Most laws when it surrounds guns don’t make since.

I’m mostly a bow hunter and have hunted illinois for the last 20 years. This year I’m thinking about getting a gun tag and hanging around for the first gun season. It is a shotgun season but in recent years straight wall single shot are are legal. So I’m looking for options. I already own a TC...

Take a bunch of American junk food in single serving packages. We got them out one evening around the fire before dinner and everyone enjoyed trying different and new things. Also made goodie bags for the trackers.

I’ve shot the same arrows for the last 20 years. Easton A/C/C’s in a 3-71 spine. The finished weight is 445 grains with a 100 grain head. I’ve hunted all over North America and went to South Africa last summer and shot PG. I will continue to use the same setup. It has preformed well for me all...

We got back a couple of weeks ago. Contact Gracy Travel to handle the travel. Well worth every penny. We took some small things for the ph’s and trackers( outdoor edge knifes, rechargeable flashlights, American junk food, and portable chargers for their phones). They all loved everything and...

Day 6 the last day of our hunt found us back at the place where we have had the most success. Sara is in the blind I killed the kudu and I’m in the one she’s shot the gemsbok and eland and I had the bad luck on the warthogs. We hadn’t been in the blind for more than 5 minutes and the amount of...

Day 5 found us all back at the place we hunted on our first full day. Sara is in the blind where I shot the impalas and wildebeest and I’m in the blind where she shot her blesbok. The night before we had stayed at the lodge bar pretty late and my wife and I may or may not have enjoyed to many...

Well day 4 found us headed to a couple of new places about 45 minutes west of the lodge. Divan and I set up in an elevated blind over a water hole looking down a long opening. We see impala, wildebeest, eland, warthogs, vervet monkeys, duiker, and probably a few more. But they were all super...

We have been back home since Tuesday but part of me will always be in Africa. Sara is out of school for the summer and is working with me. I’m an electrical contractor and while we are on job sites with tool belts on our minds are trying to think how we can get back to Africa. She is a pretty...

Meanwhile at Sara’s blind she is seeing a pile of animals to. There is a couple of eland that are in the cull list including a big old female with a mismatched set of horns. And while we are on the way to recover my kudu the old eland shows up in front of Sara’s blind at 24 yards. Sara makes a...