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hoppdoc
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Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When??
      #111299 - 08/08/08 06:44 AM

Some folks are fortunate to go on a major hunt away from the ole homestead occasionally--truly Lifetime experiences to be remembered with fondness and enjoyment.

Any big hunts coming up for forum members out there??
I think Bigmaxx has one in Zim shortly. Ripp has one in 2010? Are there any others in the works?

Wish I could chime in but nothing is in the works,and a hunt won't be any time soon--

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: hoppdoc]
      #111302 - 08/08/08 07:07 AM

im going to SA in to weeks for my first 6-days taste of africa.

best regards

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: peter]
      #111303 - 08/08/08 07:17 AM

Yes, final preparations are being made. I leave the 29th for Nyakasanga for buffalo, and then down to Humani for plains game. I am now in the packing and weighing stage. I am very excited! Thanks to Ripp everybody here for all your encouragement and help!

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: hoppdoc]
      #111304 - 08/08/08 07:27 AM

I leave in eight days for Namibia's Caprivi Strip for a Cape Buffalo hunt with Vaughan Fulton.

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: hoppdoc]
      #111315 - 08/08/08 09:46 AM

If I recover well enough by winter's bear season I'll go after California Black Bear again.

Been injured and out of work since mid march, that's the most my physical and fiscal condition will likely be able to handle.

Still a bear hunt though, and I'm definitely looking forward to it!



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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: hoppdoc]
      #111318 - 08/08/08 11:05 AM

I do have a bull/tuskless hunt planned for 2010 with my step-son. He has a severe illness and hope all things will work out for this to happen..

BigMax---wish you nothing but the best---its been great writing pm back and forth with you --one can feel the excitment in your messages...you will have a great time..

Peter,--your first time too Africa will not be your last---once that bug sets in its aweful difficult to find a cure--not that you'd want too..

Mike--your buffalo hunt should be awesome--I hear/read the Caprivi is a great place...

Hoppdoc...great topic...and I am sure you will be heading back as well..all those things seem to sort themselves out sooner or later..good luck..

While not a big game hunt of the magnitude discussed above--couple of us are heading out in 10 days for opening of antelope archery season here..can't believe where the year has gone..wow..fall is around the corner...

Good luck to everyone...hope it turns out better than anticipated..

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: Ripp]
      #111320 - 08/08/08 11:17 AM

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Mike--your buffalo hunt should be awesome--I hear/read the Caprivi is a great place...



Ripp



Ripp, I was sent a photo last week of a bull taken two weeks ago with Vaughan. It was 37", with 16" bosses! What a monster! The skinners couldn't get the blade of a filet knife between them. That's the kind of old boy I'd love to take.

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
      #111324 - 08/08/08 11:26 AM

Wow...16" bosses is a hog...Hope you do as well...I have always heard that was a great area...

What you taking for a rifle??

Ripp

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: Ripp]
      #111325 - 08/08/08 11:40 AM

Will be in Namibia about a year from now.

May be going to West Africa next spring as well. Have gotten involved in trying to develop the trophy hunting industry in a newly opened country there so this would be an exploratory hunt. Hope to have more details on this at a later time.

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: pinotguy]
      #111331 - 08/08/08 01:07 PM

Quote:

Any big hunts coming up for forum members out there??


Nah, restricted to jumping the back fence for buffalo and boar for the remainder of this year, with one 2-week pig-culling trip coming up in September.

I'll have to live vicariously through you guys' reports posted here!

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: Marrakai]
      #111339 - 08/08/08 05:48 PM

Would love a Ele / Leopard hunt at the end of this year or early next.

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: ozhunter]
      #111341 - 08/08/08 08:02 PM

Zambia in early october for buffalo.Next year, same time frame, brown bear in ABC islands alaska.
I will use 404 jeffery for both hunts.

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: 404]
      #111383 - 09/08/08 12:04 PM

Zimbabwe, August 18th I leave Dullas next Wednesday. Chifuti Safaris for cape buffalo and tuskless.

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: Marrakai]
      #111391 - 09/08/08 03:38 PM

Quote:

Quote:

Any big hunts coming up for forum members out there??


Nah, restricted to jumping the back fence for buffalo and boar for the remainder of this year, with one 2-week pig-culling trip coming up in September.

I'll have to live vicariously through you guys' reports posted here!



However Marrakai lives in "Aussie safari country".

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: NitroX]
      #111405 - 09/08/08 09:23 PM

Unfortunately, I think it is going to be awhile for me. My area just suffered huge flash floods due to a month of rain. My property was greatly affected where I lost the bridge on my driveway. I got my car out in time and can at least make it to work but the tractor is trapped up at the house. That means trouble when winter snows come. Then this last Thursday I found out the cartilage on one of my knees is gone. Not sure that can even be fixed? It sure hurts.

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: 1peggy]
      #111424 - 10/08/08 02:24 AM

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Zimbabwe, August 18th I leave Dullas next Wednesday. Chifuti Safaris for cape buffalo and tuskless.




Who is your PH going to be? What area are you hunting with Chifuti??

Just curious

Ripp

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1peggy
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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: Ripp]
      #111433 - 10/08/08 05:10 AM

Ph is Kevin Du Boil (hope I spelled his name right) and I will be in Dande north I think. I hear that they have several camps in the area and Ivan Carter was unsure where I would be the last time that I spoke with him about getting in on dvd.

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Ripp
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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: 1peggy]
      #111437 - 10/08/08 06:25 AM

I was curious..as I met 5 of their PH's where I was there in June...

thanks--you will have a blast..no pun intended..

Ripp

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: AspenHill]
      #111450 - 10/08/08 11:21 AM

Ann-

Your knee has hope!
I'm currently recovering from knee surgery.
Part of the process was repair to the cartilage, along with a ligament replacement.

Ann said:
Quote:

I found out the cartilage on one of my knees is gone. Not sure that can even be fixed? It sure hurts.



I'm not sure what other procedures there are or exactly what your diagnosis is, but for me they went in with punches and hammers, 'microfracturing' the faces of the bone. This instigates new cartilage growth.

It's not a quick *in there and back into the field* kind of thing, but it's a solution none the less.

PM me if you want and I'll get you contact information for someone to discuss this with, or at least get a referral from.




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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: tinker]
      #111476 - 10/08/08 05:18 PM

Off to Southern Africa with the whole family on 21/09/08. Will be varminting and hunting Springbok for three days in OFS with Andrew McLaren.

http://www.mclarensafaris.com/

Then off to Limpopo for six days Plains Game hunting, up to Kudu in size. We will be visiting friends near Bulawayo towards the end of the six weeks.

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: tophet1]
      #111743 - 13/08/08 04:12 PM

hows the load developement for the CZ coming along, toph?

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: saladin]
      #111813 - 14/08/08 01:11 PM

First two weeks of September in Zimbabwe's Matetsi Unit Four with PH Mark Dewet. Going for buffalo, zebra, hyena, and warthog. Can't wait!

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: ArizonaHunter]
      #111815 - 14/08/08 01:39 PM

Cameroon. 2010. Unguided. Just me, my rifle, and a dozen or so pygmy porters on a foot safari. And a very good friend to share it with.

"Chasse libre," or "free hunting" as they call it in the former French colonies of Africa, before I'm too old to do it.

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: ChinaFleetSailor]
      #111828 - 14/08/08 11:51 PM

We were planning a July 2009 hunt in Zimbabwe but now I'm waiting on final pricing for a Caprivi Strip buffalo hunt in Namibia. We will be going buff hunting somewhere in July 2009.

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Re: Your next Big Hunt/Safari?? Where, When?? [Re: ChinaFleetSailor]
      #111841 - 15/08/08 04:03 AM

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Cameroon. 2010. Unguided. Just me, my rifle, and a dozen or so pygmy porters on a foot safari. And a very good friend to share it with.

"Chasse libre," or "free hunting" as they call it in the former French colonies of Africa, before I'm too old to do it.



Sounds like an excellent plan. A lot of guys dream of it, but few actually end up doing it for real.

Could you fill us in in more detail about where in Cameroon you will be going?

I presume since you mention pygmy porters, it will be a jungle hunt for forest elephant, bongo etc, and not in one of the northern chasse libre concessions?

Don't forgot a good stock of Cipro, Flagyl or similar for the inevitable stomach troubles when eating together with locals every day far away from civilization. Been there done that, and Giardia over and over again isn't much fun...

I'm pretty sure a lot of us would enjoy hearing a bit about your planning up till you leave. How long you'll be gone, what you'll bring with you from the US, what you plan to buy in Cameroon, gear, guns etc.

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