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With the Covid shutdowns disrupting lives, we all realize how quickly events can change and simple things we once enjoyed are now forbidden. I have stayed in contact with my many friends around the globe and times are difficult for those in the hunting business. With countries slowly opening back to tourism, the adventurers are once again pursuing their dreams and traveling.
With hunting season is coming to a close in many countries, unused quotas abound and outfitters are trying to find clients so 2020 is not a total loss.
Strang contacted me a few weeks back about a Lion Safari in the Luangwa Valley so I mentioned it to my wife Debra. She was with me in the Valley in ‘96, right by my side making a video of the hunt. I was Blessed to take an outstanding mature male with my old friend Rory Gellatly. It was a fourteen day Safari for the books, I shot my Lion on day 7 along with the ancillary plains game and Debra took a great Leopard and a 14’+ crocodile. She expressed her interest in hunting a Lion one day and we made a solid attempt in Tanzania in ‘07 but she passed on a middle aged male.
So, the hunt Strang contacted me about sold before I could make arrangements but he made some calls and found another outfitter with Lion left on quota and we booked it. Ironically, the hunt will take place in the same concession where I shot my Lion 24 years ago! The Chanjuzi Concession was an amazing place in ‘96 so we are excited to revisit it again. Funny thing, Debra’s birthday is the 28th and a few days before Strang contacted me I said to her, “sorry but I just don’t have anything special planned for your birthday this year”. Well, that quickly changed!
Steve Turner at Travel with Guns got us booked on Ethiopian (the only carrier that could get us there) and we are off to Dulles today and will overnight. Tomorrow Morning we will board Ethiopian Airways for Addis Ababa and after a 13.5 hour flight, a 1.5 hour layover and a 6.5 hour flight we will be in Lusaka.
We got our Covid test last Friday, results on Monday then put our gear together for the trip. Travel from San Antonio to DC was smooth as there is so little traffic in the airports.
With hunting season is coming to a close in many countries, unused quotas abound and outfitters are trying to find clients so 2020 is not a total loss.
Strang contacted me a few weeks back about a Lion Safari in the Luangwa Valley so I mentioned it to my wife Debra. She was with me in the Valley in ‘96, right by my side making a video of the hunt. I was Blessed to take an outstanding mature male with my old friend Rory Gellatly. It was a fourteen day Safari for the books, I shot my Lion on day 7 along with the ancillary plains game and Debra took a great Leopard and a 14’+ crocodile. She expressed her interest in hunting a Lion one day and we made a solid attempt in Tanzania in ‘07 but she passed on a middle aged male.
So, the hunt Strang contacted me about sold before I could make arrangements but he made some calls and found another outfitter with Lion left on quota and we booked it. Ironically, the hunt will take place in the same concession where I shot my Lion 24 years ago! The Chanjuzi Concession was an amazing place in ‘96 so we are excited to revisit it again. Funny thing, Debra’s birthday is the 28th and a few days before Strang contacted me I said to her, “sorry but I just don’t have anything special planned for your birthday this year”. Well, that quickly changed!
Steve Turner at Travel with Guns got us booked on Ethiopian (the only carrier that could get us there) and we are off to Dulles today and will overnight. Tomorrow Morning we will board Ethiopian Airways for Addis Ababa and after a 13.5 hour flight, a 1.5 hour layover and a 6.5 hour flight we will be in Lusaka.
We got our Covid test last Friday, results on Monday then put our gear together for the trip. Travel from San Antonio to DC was smooth as there is so little traffic in the airports.
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