Diary of first african safari for Herve, 47, Marie, 47 and Pierre-Antoine, 14, in August 2013

What wonderful photography. Heartfelt congratulations on what had to be an amazing adventure.
 
Day 2 - 4th animal of our safari, my second one

Day 2 - 4th animal of our safari, my second one
 

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Felicitations, merci pour le partage de l'histoire.
 
Awesome hunt. Glad to see the smiles from you and your family.
 
Congrat's Herve on the first of probably "more" safaris. Getting one's self hooked is bad enough, now you have your son and girlfriend hooked also! Truely not a bad problem to have. Great pictures by the way!
 
Congrats to all! Fantastic safari and Pictures, Thanks for sharing them with us.
 
Congrats, what a excellent hunt report. Fantastic pictures. You will never forget this trip! That is one fine oryx!
 
Day 3 - 5th animal of our safari, my third one, the emblematic animal of our safari
 

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Thank you all for your warm messages. I really appreciate that you post a comment.

In fact, I imagined the post cards so that, without a word, a hunter like you guys could figure out from the set of images what happened during the hunting action, from beginning to end. Well, I guess it worked!
 
Herve Fantastic job on those post cards love it keep up the good work and Congrats on your Kudu. :beer:
 
I spend more time getting shadows out of the picture. Very creative to get them in the picture.
AWESOME!

 

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Day 3 - 6th animal of our safari, the second for Marie


This was not really a trophy animal given the broken tuss. Marie was very disapointed. The PH, very Professional, acknowledged that he made a mistake in judging the trophy and took this one for him (he was also the owner of the ranch were Marie shot the warthog).
I will translate her reaction and the discussion that we had tomorrow. It is so funny to listen to it on on the video!
 

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I did some minor translation for myself and it is pretty funny.
The look on her face when she is assessing the boar says it all.
 
Congrats to Marie nothing to be disapointed about an awesome stalk, a perfect shot and an animal is down showing respect for the animal with a quick clean kill thats a trophy in itself. :thumb:
 
Day 4 - 7th animal of our safari, the second one of Pierre-Antoine my son.
I was sooo proud of this one!
 

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Hi There - We were 3 hunters, myself (herve, 47), Marie (my girlfriend, 47), and Pierre-Antoine my son, 14 years old. I would like to congratuate you three, glad everybody got some nice animals, and that you lot are enjoying my beloved country. Now look I know everybody at the moment is well done, I also say well done, but I want to thank you and your family for teaching me more of my country , the places and things i never knew of, I can relate to now.

If you ever make a DVD of your hunting holiday, I would be honourd to buy the second copy, from you to watch it whenever I miss the bush, keep the stories and fotos coming,

Enjoy LIFE AND SHOOT STRAIGHT AND ALWAYS TEACH PIERRE the rights and wrongs of the bush

GOOD LUCK
BAAS303
DRIES
 
Day 4 - 8th animal of our safari, my 4thone, my best hunt

and...

and finally
 

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Day 5 - 9th animal of our safari, Marie third one - Perfect heart shot
 

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