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Post by MartyB on May 16, 2022 15:37:09 GMT
You might recognize the guy at the 18:30 mark.
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Post by MartyB on May 16, 2022 23:36:25 GMT
There's all kinds of good adventure in there.
It looked Like the elephant was trying to smell Joel's ankle.
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Post by Nathan on May 17, 2022 3:59:27 GMT
I'll watch it when I get a minute. Never had a desire to hunt Africa, until lately.
get Joel on here to talk about his safari and I bet things fire up
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Post by Nathan on May 17, 2022 4:07:21 GMT
Very disappointed
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Post by MartyB on May 17, 2022 12:48:29 GMT
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Post by JRB on May 17, 2022 23:44:36 GMT
Oh well, don't go then. I had a blast, great thatched roof house to stay in, clothes laundered every day, skinners come take the animals right after they were shot and they would have them hung up, caped out, and in the cooler within short order. Hides and horns all salted, crated, and arranged for transport back to the states. Tenderloins on the barbee from the game we shot every night, Zebra was my favorite and most of the Africans favorite as well. Impala a close second, buffalo tasted just like beefsteak. Absolutely great service from the planning in the states to getting us around for the required covid tests and whatnot to get home. I made lifelong friends that I still communicate with. It's all private land hunting, we traveled to seven different ranches from the Botswana border all through South Africa mostly in the Limpopo province. The cost is very reasonable, I shot 8 animals for less than an Alaskan moose hunt. Probably more big game in 10 days than I will shoot the rest of my life in the states. I resisted hunting in Africa for years because I thought it was a hot humid jungle. I found out that it was anything but that. More like the oakbrush forests of Colorado, Northern Arizona, and Utah. I'll probably return to Africa every couple of years even if just to explore. I'd like to see the great rift valley, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Capetown, and many other places. I'd like to get a big kudu, black wildebeest, and possibly a leopard. That is still possible but there are only a few that they let into the states. Lions can't be brought back so they are pretty cheap. If it wasn't for trophy hunting money the big game would likely be confined to parks. The antis don't understand that, they think it's still a frontier, there are huge tracts of uninhabited land but it's mostly private. Game is a commodity, for the time being it makes a profit so it still exists. |
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Post by outlaw99 on May 18, 2022 0:20:47 GMT
Joel, that dude talking over the fire while they cook your back straps………..was any, and all of his success a direct result of his head to toe kuiu vias? He never would have succeeded without it right?
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Post by outlaw99 on May 18, 2022 0:29:03 GMT
Ironically, I was at my taxidermist today picking up a deer. He was just finishing a Cape buffalo. It was as close as I’d ever been to one. They are incredible animals. Every part of them is massive and mean. Really cool bovine
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Post by Tatonka on May 18, 2022 3:53:59 GMT
Yep that kuiu obviously kept him from getting trampled by the buffalo.
That buffalo only had one eye so he must not have seen him kneeling down shooting at him. lol
Ironically the guy he tossed in the air only had one eye as well.
They are huge, 1800-2000 pounds.
Some huge animals over there, everything I shot was at least as big as and elk except for the impala.
The elands are bigger than moose.
Tough SOBS too, I shot everything but the impalas with a .375 holland and holland and it wasn't too much gun for any of them.
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Post by Nathan on May 19, 2022 21:18:06 GMT
Guess I finally figured out how to get some action over here.
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