Is this, perhaps, what separates the modern day sportsmen from the true hunters of the past?
Having a PH to 'baby sit' a hunter is something people like Oswell, Selous and Cornwallis Harris did without.
One would fully accept the fact that for a hunter/trophy collecter with little or no bushcraft, on a short hunt for DG ,stepping off a plane in Africa, perhaps once a year, a PH is essential for a multitude of reasons, personal safety being one of them.(I include myself in this category).
The most important person to have along is a good tracker, or a good team of trackers. Every hunter in the past and every good PH relies on these guys, in fact it would be fair to say that a PH is to a larger extent, only as good as his trackers are.I have seen these guys sense danger or potential danger long before the PH becomes aware of it.
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