Hello Mike, we never will export something that isn't worth of it. We taked care of all trophies. We use the same agent as MontanaPat outfitter, it wasn't a problem from our part. It was a goverment issue. Federico Testa can explain a little bit better than me, because he the one who do all the paperwork.
Outfitter could keep the client updated for one
How is that government action when others here and myself imported trophies from Argentina in the last couple years and his trophies are still in Argentina???
Completed a wonderful Argentina hunt the last week of March 2023, 1 stag, 1 blackbuck, 1 feral goat. Despite repeated communications directly with the outfitter and with the booking agent, no word on the status of the trophies. It's quite frustrating. Have had trophies from Namibia come over four separate times without incident.
Still waiting for mine from March 2023 but even more frustrating is no one can tell me what the situation is....never had this happen in four safaris in Namibia. In fact, trophies from my last Namibia hunt in October arrived at my taxidermist a week ago. Still waiting for any word at all on my trophies from Argentina after 16 months...different outfitter than others in this thread. Both outfitter and booking agency are well known. No one seems to be able to tell me or the other group of hunters that were there and who are also waiting for their trophies anything...
That’s really unfortunate! Sorry to hear this…for you and anyone else in the same predicament. Argentina has always been on my list to hunt, but I’m going to wait a bit to see if this gets fixed.
i just had an email conversation with the outfit handling our groups trophy export and things are on schedule for shipment. I'm no expert but it seems to be an issue with just that exporter. We hunted in April. It was my second hunt there and used the same export group as before. Great communication and no issues.
So everyone knows by now I hope that Caza Y Safaris and Federico Testa of Logistic Solutions SRL have been arrested for illegal animal trade. My trophies from a March 2024 hunt with a great outfitter (Patagonia North) were with Logistic Solutions when they were raided. They are pretty much the only game in town to get your trophies exported. Unfortunately, now most of us will never see them. A lot of $ down the tubes. To make matters worse I lost my iphone on Day 1 hiking about 20 miles in search of red stag, so I have very limited photos. It's up to the hunting community to pressure the Argentinian Government to release all legal trophies expeditiously or face a total backlash of hunting/tourism income. If anyone remembers during Zimbabwe's political turmoil 25 years ago they treated hunters well for the tourism dollars. I'd hate to see such a fantastic hunting destination, great outfitters (most) and good people miss out because of government red tape. It doesn't help with the tree hugger liberal news outlets claiming everything hunted is illegal...wild boar, red stag, water buffalo, black buck. All non-native species! Idiots.
Ouch, I'm guessing you're feeling differently now they've all been arrested!
