Mac, Mike and others

No one is pointing fingers at anyone here!

I started this thread to discuss how hard is say 80% of safari hunting in Africa, and the guys that brag "I'm so experienced having been on 9 safaris" etc etc.

They are certainly more experienced than me. I've only booked two or three so far

You have to admit these safaris are really hand holding exercises compared to if you had to,or could do it yourself. Imagine wounding a buff. No one to help out the follow-up except a tracker you hired. I think the nerves would be 100 times more wound up.

In most cases though this is not possible now.

But I am surprised no one has brought up the more difficult hunts - 20kms after elephant in the heat and again the next day. Bongo. Situatunga. The mountain zebra was great!

GREAT fun and great holidays, but an industry is involved and employment creation.

I know from stories of some hunts in the USA,somtimes the client must be 'professional' otherwise you won't get a shot. One mate described his hunts where the guide was more interested in sipping coffee in the tent, than chasing a sheep or goat in plain view. Because it was too high up the mountain, "we'll find another one"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My mate said, "you just sit here, I'll go and get it". And he did.

What you have to realise (and probably do

from whom you've hunted with) is the traditional Aussie deerhunter was a 'amateur hunter' but 'professional poacher'. Go back twenty or thirty years and scratch a deerhunter and find a ........... Nuff said on that.