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- Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, South Africa (Limpopo, Northern Cape), Namibia
We finally got to meet up with Jacques and Elleni in Africa instead of Dallas!
@BJONES and I booked our Namibian hunt early in January of 2018 at DSC. With the help of advice from this great forum and friends we have made both here and at DSC we settled on @Kowas Adventure Safaris. After meeting Jacques and Elleni in Dallas we felt great about our upcoming hunt. We were booked for May 2019 and already excited.
Then, I won the hunt giveaway here on AH (my luckiest day ever) and needed to schedule that in 2019. Ansie Strauss was extremely understanding and helpful and we rebooked for May 2020. We all know what happened to that hunt but Bobby and I couldn't believe COVID would last more than a few months so we rebooked for September of 2020. Obviously COVID blew that up as well and we got the next dates available- September 2021. Through all of these postponements and rebooking, Ansie as well as Lori and Jennifer @TRAVEL EXPRESS were great to get us new dates and new travel arrangements as needed. I think our flights changed 3 or 4 times due to routes being closed or changed due to COVID. We finally settled on Qatar Air (DFW-DOHA-JoBerg-Windhoek). The time spent on a plane and in an airport was incredibly long to me but Qatar was the best company I have flown.
Finally on Sunday, Sept 26 we landed in Windhoek and met Ansie in person. She helped us get our rifles checked in and headed to camp. After 3 1/2 long years we were in camp at Kowas! We met Danie and baby Joshua at camp and were introduced to Matheus- who would be my PH for the week- and his brother Michael- his driver. We unloaded our gear and headed to the rifle range. I was not real happy with the groups my 300WSM was printing (2-3 inch groups from a rifle and load that always prints 1/2 to 3/4 inch) but wrote it off to being up for 52 straight hours (turns out I should have paid more attention to it). But we finished with a beautiful game drive and the first of Elizabeth's wonderful meals, then hit the sack for some much needed rest to begin hunting in the morning. The view of the waterhole from our bedroom was a big distraction and we watched Waterbuck, Impala, Lechwe and a Bat Eared Fox in the light at the water until we were nodding off in our chairs, then finally turned in and crashed.
@BJONES and I booked our Namibian hunt early in January of 2018 at DSC. With the help of advice from this great forum and friends we have made both here and at DSC we settled on @Kowas Adventure Safaris. After meeting Jacques and Elleni in Dallas we felt great about our upcoming hunt. We were booked for May 2019 and already excited.
Then, I won the hunt giveaway here on AH (my luckiest day ever) and needed to schedule that in 2019. Ansie Strauss was extremely understanding and helpful and we rebooked for May 2020. We all know what happened to that hunt but Bobby and I couldn't believe COVID would last more than a few months so we rebooked for September of 2020. Obviously COVID blew that up as well and we got the next dates available- September 2021. Through all of these postponements and rebooking, Ansie as well as Lori and Jennifer @TRAVEL EXPRESS were great to get us new dates and new travel arrangements as needed. I think our flights changed 3 or 4 times due to routes being closed or changed due to COVID. We finally settled on Qatar Air (DFW-DOHA-JoBerg-Windhoek). The time spent on a plane and in an airport was incredibly long to me but Qatar was the best company I have flown.
Finally on Sunday, Sept 26 we landed in Windhoek and met Ansie in person. She helped us get our rifles checked in and headed to camp. After 3 1/2 long years we were in camp at Kowas! We met Danie and baby Joshua at camp and were introduced to Matheus- who would be my PH for the week- and his brother Michael- his driver. We unloaded our gear and headed to the rifle range. I was not real happy with the groups my 300WSM was printing (2-3 inch groups from a rifle and load that always prints 1/2 to 3/4 inch) but wrote it off to being up for 52 straight hours (turns out I should have paid more attention to it). But we finished with a beautiful game drive and the first of Elizabeth's wonderful meals, then hit the sack for some much needed rest to begin hunting in the morning. The view of the waterhole from our bedroom was a big distraction and we watched Waterbuck, Impala, Lechwe and a Bat Eared Fox in the light at the water until we were nodding off in our chairs, then finally turned in and crashed.
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