Want To Sell The Nicest .505 Gibbs In South Africa?

[Laniarius]

Ok, you got me curious about Robertson on the Big Game Hunting podcast. Episode 329 is about .50 calibre + hunting rifles, and around 48:00 Robertson says he's sorry he had to sell it but he didn't want to shoot it again out of concern for needing "a shoulder replacement". It suited him well for 30 years but I guess it got to be too much in recent years.

The host John McAdams talked about how he liked the rifle when he handled it (in the US I think). It sounds like Robertson imported it to the US, but then sold it. This may have been pretty recently because the podcast I'm referring to was this past August. (Shako Badhan, you were perhaps thinking of an earlier episode with Dr. Robertson.)

 

[Piet-Vis]

Just saw this thread.

I'm curious why Doctari decided to leave Africa and move to the US?

And does this signal the end of his writing or perhaps a new beginning? I have a number of his books - my first was the Perfect Shot Mini Edition - I bought it at SCI when I first began hunting Africa. Another hunter in a camp in Zimbabwe asked if he could look at it overnight. I said sure, and when I got up the next day it seemed he had left early for Namibia - with my book! I was particularly chuffed to buy a new one at the next SCI from Kevin himself - told him the story and he was equally chuffed that he could sell more books this way!

I don't know Kevin. But the general feeling is that that the African trajectory is heading down. It's no place for old people.
In Zambia we have 3 hours of electricity a day due to the current drought, and the national power supplier has no real plan to prevent it from happening again in future.

 

[Frederik]

I don't know Kevin. But the general feeling is that that the African trajectory is heading down. It's no place for old people.
In Zambia we have 3 hours of electricity a day due to the current drought, and the national power supplier has no real plan to prevent it from happening again in future.

PIet, I heard that Solar Plants are the way going forward for th industries in Zambia with a bunch of people moslty electricians with solar experience being head hunted here to get them going. Might be that the Industries are bypassing the governemnt mainly which is mainly farming and minning.

Kevin Robertson was the first person who did an indepth assesment of vital organs inside the animals we hunt and created a few wondeful books for it. He also helped us at a stage with our targets that we use at BASA.

The Perfect Shot book being the most famous of his books.

 

[Piet-Vis]

PIet, I heard that Solar Plants are the way going forward for th industries in Zambia with a bunch of people moslty electricians with solar experience being head hunted here to get them going. Might be that the Industries are bypassing the governemnt mainly which is mainly farming and minning.

Kevin Robertson was the first person who did an indepth assesment of vital organs inside the animals we hunt and created a few wondeful books for it. He also helped us at a stage with our targets that we use at BASA.

The Perfect Shot book being the most famous of his books.

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Hi Frederik

Please of small and medium sized business invested in solar recently. It does not make sense for large consumers, I had a host of "solution" providers see, but the numbers don't add up when you run a plant 24/7. We ended up going the diesel route.

I doubt if we will see major private sector investment in the solar industry feeding into our national grid. Zambians still have a socialist view and electricity must be cheap, and hence no real profit is to be made selling it

 

[Certus]

Hi Frederik

Please of small and medium sized business invested in solar recently. It does not make sense for large consumers, I had a host of "solution" providers see, but the numbers don't add up when you run a plant 24/7. We ended up going the diesel route.

I doubt if we will see major private sector investment in the solar industry feeding into our national grid. Zambians still have a socialist view and electricity must be cheap, and hence no real profit is to be made selling it

Solar is extremely common on houses in Australia. If your energy source is unreliable it seems a very good option. I don’t know the availability of panels in the various African countries but I’m pretty sure they get just as much sun as here.

 

[Piet-Vis]

Solar is extremely common on houses in Australia. If your energy source is unreliable it seems a very good option. I don’t know the availability of panels in the various African countries but I’m pretty sure they get just as much sun as here.

Yeah, my brother is engineer that works on Power Factor correction in Sydney. He says at peak time there is over production in Aus.
Solar production during the day is fine. Industrial batteries for backup is not, those goes for millions of USD and African companies does not have those lying around.

 

[spike.t]

Also bit buggered here in the rains when you can go days with thick cloud and no sun....

 

[ActionBob]

Yeah, my brother is engineer that works on Power Factor correction in Sydney. He says at peak time there is over production in Aus.
Solar production during the day is fine. Industrial batteries for backup is not, those goes for millions of USD and African companies does not have those lying around.

Also bit buggered here in the rains when you can go days with thick cloud and no sun....

Solar works really great!

As long as you turn the lights off when the sun goes down.

 

[Northern Shooter]

Whoever bought this now owns a piece of African Safari History, very cool.

Dr. Robertson has done a bunch of great episodes with John on the big game hunting podcast. I particularly enjoyed their discussions on all the >0.40 and >0.50 cals.

 

[Certus]

Solar works really great!

As long as you turn the lights off when the sun goes down.

That’s why you have the batteries on the house. It’s not that expensive to do.
Having said that we don’t have solar on this house yet.

 

[sgt_zim]

Just saw this thread.

I'm curious why Doctari decided to leave Africa and move to the US?

And does this signal the end of his writing or perhaps a new beginning? I have a number of his books - my first was the Perfect Shot Mini Edition - I bought it at SCI when I first began hunting Africa. Another hunter in a camp in Zimbabwe asked if he could look at it overnight. I said sure, and when I got up the next day it seemed he had left early for Namibia - with my book! I was particularly chuffed to buy a new one at the next SCI from Kevin himself - told him the story and he was equally chuffed that he could sell more books this way!

According to what he's said on John McAdams' podcast, the family farms were seized in Zim, and his daughters live in Texas. With the farms seized and his getting on in years and probably having a harder time beating the bushes, between family and lack of economic opportunity in Africa, it was a good time for him to move.