Roland Robinson
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Greetings all,
I’ve enjoyed researching and lurking this forum for a year or two.
My wife and I are fortunate enough to be able to hunt deer, turkey, grouse, coyote without ever stepping off our farm’s woodlot. While Vermont has gone mad politically and most of the farms have disappeared in recent decades, there’s still a backbone of rural people that work and hunt the land. We raise beef here and there’s land around. Some of you would make good neighbors if you like the cold! Come on up.
More germane to the forum, we are in the earliest stages of planning our first African hunt (my only prior experience in Africa was a one-off work project in Uganda 15 years ago). I’ve itched to hunt Africa for about twenty years. I read Ruark’s Something of Value in a sitting long ago. My wife’s pistol instructor put the bee in her bonnet a couple years ago and suggested some friends in SA. As total neophytes, we didn’t understand the stocked and fenced practices there and quickly balked at that idea.
Now a prompt for all of you. Suggestions and reality checks are most welcome.
We’re both in our 40s and remain physically tough, accustomed to navigating rough up and down terrain daily.
Wildness, remoteness and a sporting hunt matters far more to use than any one particular trophy. We are interested in Plains Game with Cape Buffalo becoming a budding interest for me.
We’re clear-eyed about all-in costs but we’re not particularly affluent people. The stated desires need to be balanced with budget implications.
All of that being said, we’ve tied ourselves into knots! Mozambique, Zambia, Selous, Namibia for economy’s sake?
Where to sharpen our focus!?
Thanks for reading.
I’ve enjoyed researching and lurking this forum for a year or two.
My wife and I are fortunate enough to be able to hunt deer, turkey, grouse, coyote without ever stepping off our farm’s woodlot. While Vermont has gone mad politically and most of the farms have disappeared in recent decades, there’s still a backbone of rural people that work and hunt the land. We raise beef here and there’s land around. Some of you would make good neighbors if you like the cold! Come on up.
More germane to the forum, we are in the earliest stages of planning our first African hunt (my only prior experience in Africa was a one-off work project in Uganda 15 years ago). I’ve itched to hunt Africa for about twenty years. I read Ruark’s Something of Value in a sitting long ago. My wife’s pistol instructor put the bee in her bonnet a couple years ago and suggested some friends in SA. As total neophytes, we didn’t understand the stocked and fenced practices there and quickly balked at that idea.
Now a prompt for all of you. Suggestions and reality checks are most welcome.
We’re both in our 40s and remain physically tough, accustomed to navigating rough up and down terrain daily.
Wildness, remoteness and a sporting hunt matters far more to use than any one particular trophy. We are interested in Plains Game with Cape Buffalo becoming a budding interest for me.
We’re clear-eyed about all-in costs but we’re not particularly affluent people. The stated desires need to be balanced with budget implications.
All of that being said, we’ve tied ourselves into knots! Mozambique, Zambia, Selous, Namibia for economy’s sake?
Where to sharpen our focus!?
Thanks for reading.
