Awesome question and yes quite thought provoking..

I grew up on a farm in North Dakota--we had a dairy farm, small grains, etc.. we were quite a ways from any town so to keep ourselves occupied we shot ground squirrels by the bucket load.. seriously, we were shooting .22 single shots at 5 and 6 years old so I have always loved to shoot and hunt. remember this was before all this polictical correctness bs you see now..

As to AFRICA, after I moved to Montana, one of my clients is an avid hunter and he invited me to go along back in the late 1990's however I could not afford to do so at that time..however the seed was planted.. and the business has since done much better.. so I was able to go with another friend in 2004 on a buffalo/plains game hunt--went again in 2005 for buffalo/leopard and am booked to go in May of 2008 for lion,hippo,buffalo and croc....

Everyone is correct about the bug..as it appears during any of my free time I am either reading, watching a dvd about Africa.. Once she gets in your blood its hard to get rid of..but then, who would want to...

Ripp