I am hunting Argentina in March for 2 Reg Stages, Black Buck, Boar and a day or doves; a late May trip (I leave the day before the airfares skyrocket) with Wesley van der Veen for an archery Green Hunt for Rhino and the north to hunt for a mature male lion (with a Zebra, Gemsbuck and Kudu hopefully in for good measure along he way); then its to Zim with Nixon Dinzgai in late Septemeber throgh mid-October on a 16 day safari from Big Tuskers (they shoot some real nice tuskers on the Malapati Concession in southern Zim late in the year), Cape Buffalo and Leopard. Time permitting, he has great Nyala and common Buskbuck as well.
I started booking almost 18 months ago at my SCI chapter dinner, then in March I booked ZIM and and I made the final booking for 2010 in May. I thought that I was cutting it too close but the bad year for some outfitters (most ???) outfitters it seems. made it possible for me. Some very good prices this year, the best I have ever seen, and I am limited by time at this point.
Will book for 2011 but I am looking for something with a combined hunting/fishing mixed bad type of trip somewhere as my wife really likes to fly fish and while she will be trying for her first big game animal (Zebra) and will probably shoot doves every day we are in Argentina, 3 trips with basically a non-hunting companion just running a camera is stressing things a little.
And yes guys, no doubt about it, I am one of the luckiest guys in the world. If it makes you feel any better at all, I came from a family with 5 kids, my dad worked on the line at GM, I worked through college at minimum wage so I had no school loans, made "it" on my own and married the coolest women there is (and yes, I am sorry to say, but she is very good looking too!)
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