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Judson
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Reged: 21/09/05
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Loc: St. Albans Maine U.S.A.

Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?
02/06/06 09:15 AM

When a person goes to Africa they do not come back the same. Africa is a place that changes the way you look at the world. Barbara, my wife and I found that leaving South Africa hurts deeply and she summed it up rather well when she said ; "I feel like I am leaving a part of my heart behind"
Our first trip was in 2001 and it seemed like everything was against us going. 21 days before we were to leave I was told I had cancer. 14 days before the trip I had surgery for the cancer. The doctors told me to cancel the trip and Both Barb and I said no!!!! Cancer was not going to rule our lives and we had been planing this trip for three years it would happen. 7 days before we leave Barb gets a chemical burn and we are concerned it could get infected, it did not. ! day before the trip Barb breaks a tooth and a sharp edge is cutting her cheek. We can fix that, into the gunshop and with a bit of work with a stone that I use for trigger jobs she is fine for now.
I was going to field test a cartridge I developed in a rifle I built for my self so this added to our trip. The cartridge is the .366DGW which is a neck down of the .416 Rigby. The cartridge and rifle performed better then I could have expected. (If you want info on the cartridge you can find it at customguns.us)
Our second trip was in 2004 but this time it was smooth sailing getting there. This trip was planed for 7 days at Kruger Park then up to the Waterburg Mountains for 10 days of hunting. From here we went to the Kgalagadi which is unforgetable. One evening we were driveing down a track (Dirt road) and came across a pair of lions just off the edge of the road. (They were actually a breading pair and we even got that on the cam corder, is that kitty porn?) We were maby thirty feet from them and for a time they seemed to find our truck very intresting as we did them. I must add that the truck was enclosed. The lioness got to the point where she indicated that we should leave and we took her hint as our P.H. explained that the windows on the truck would probably not stop her if she decided to push the issue.
The male lion was better tempered and seemed to get bored with us before we left.

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Edited by Judson (02/06/06 09:43 AM)

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What are your favorite memories of Africa?	mikeh416Rigby	22/03/03 09:33 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	Judson	02/06/06 09:15 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	DPhillips	05/06/06 01:30 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	SAHUNT	27/05/06 08:19 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	DoubleD	28/05/06 02:42 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	mikeh416Rigby	28/05/06 03:32 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	DoubleD	28/05/06 02:06 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	mikeh416Rigby	28/05/06 03:55 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	DoubleD	28/05/06 04:57 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	BFaucett	29/05/06 12:10 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	shakari	29/05/06 03:36 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	NitroX	30/05/06 02:14 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	mikeh416Rigby	29/03/03 02:46 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	NitroX	27/05/06 06:55 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	mikeh416Rigby	24/03/03 08:05 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	AspenHill	24/03/03 08:19 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	mikeh416Rigby	24/03/03 08:46 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	AspenHill	24/03/03 08:59 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	mikeh416Rigby	24/03/03 11:04 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	NitroX	24/03/03 01:21 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	AspenHill	25/03/03 12:08 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	NitroX	26/03/03 08:40 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	Mpofu	26/03/03 08:48 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	NitroX	24/03/03 01:27 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	gryphon	24/03/03 02:39 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	AspenHill	25/03/03 12:05 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	gryphon	25/03/03 10:07 AM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	SafariHunt	26/03/03 08:00 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	AspenHill	25/03/03 11:25 PM
Re: What are your favorite memories of Africa?	AspenHill	23/03/03 07:01 AM

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