Nitro Express
AH member
Greetings! I am new to this website but have been semi-active on the "other" widely-read African hunting website since 2000.
I'm a retired Army officer; also spent nearly 20 years in the real estate business and then taught in a public high school for a couple of years. Now, at 65, I'm "retired," which mostly means I am unemployed and a house-husband, as my wife is still in the workforce.
My first trip to Africa was in 1996 when I hunted the East Cape, up near Cradock, with Southern Cross Safaris. I took two of my sons, who were in high school at the time, and they ended up shooting about half my license.
My youngest son really enjoyed the 1996 trip and wanted to go back for dangerous game, so when he graduated from college in 2002 and got accepted to law school, I took him the summer after graduation to Zimbabwe, where he killed a decent Cape buffalo and a nice sable. We were hunting near Hwange and, unfortunately, about six weeks after we left the landowner's property was seized and he and his family thrown in jail.
I've also hunted free-range hill stags (red deer) in northern Scotland and was on a televised whitetail hunt in Texas some years ago.
Two of my military assignments were in Alaska, and I was fortunate to be able to hunt there on a resident license.
I live out in the country on four acres near Atlanta; we are just 30 minutes from the airport but can (still, for a while) legally gun hunt where I live, so my hunting these days amounts to going down to the creek on the back of our property and trying to ambush a deer for the freezer. I also try to quail hunt one a year but of course even in Georgia it is put-and-take; not many wild coveys left. And then there's dove season every September, but it's getting hard to find a good shoot these days.
Guess that's about it--my good friend Terry Blauwkamp recommended this site, and I'm glad to be here.
I'm a retired Army officer; also spent nearly 20 years in the real estate business and then taught in a public high school for a couple of years. Now, at 65, I'm "retired," which mostly means I am unemployed and a house-husband, as my wife is still in the workforce.
My first trip to Africa was in 1996 when I hunted the East Cape, up near Cradock, with Southern Cross Safaris. I took two of my sons, who were in high school at the time, and they ended up shooting about half my license.
My youngest son really enjoyed the 1996 trip and wanted to go back for dangerous game, so when he graduated from college in 2002 and got accepted to law school, I took him the summer after graduation to Zimbabwe, where he killed a decent Cape buffalo and a nice sable. We were hunting near Hwange and, unfortunately, about six weeks after we left the landowner's property was seized and he and his family thrown in jail.
I've also hunted free-range hill stags (red deer) in northern Scotland and was on a televised whitetail hunt in Texas some years ago.
Two of my military assignments were in Alaska, and I was fortunate to be able to hunt there on a resident license.
I live out in the country on four acres near Atlanta; we are just 30 minutes from the airport but can (still, for a while) legally gun hunt where I live, so my hunting these days amounts to going down to the creek on the back of our property and trying to ambush a deer for the freezer. I also try to quail hunt one a year but of course even in Georgia it is put-and-take; not many wild coveys left. And then there's dove season every September, but it's getting hard to find a good shoot these days.
Guess that's about it--my good friend Terry Blauwkamp recommended this site, and I'm glad to be here.
