Re: Home At Last...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: AverageJoe</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Central Africa is a whole different world. I too have come across a few people with stories that just make you say wow..
I am actually a certified hunter in South Africa thus explaining the amount of time additionally I have a number of very good friends that I stay with between hunting and traveling. There is really only a concern about time spent if a foreign citizen is staying in country for more than 6 months per excursion.
I did have to apply for a Study Permit from the South African Embassy in DC before taking my PH classes but other than that a laundry list of vaccinations and some good malaria pills and your fine..
Read the book "I Married Adventure" as that is what my wife compares to our life together.. but my favorite by far is "Death in the Long Grass" </div></div>
"Death in the Long Grass" IS a bad ass book, it is what got me back to reading a lot, just one of those books that you can't put down and leaves you hanging on every word. Capsticks' book "Warrior" is the one I would rank as his most interesting book that I've read, especially if you like history. I just finished reading "The Last Ivory Hunter" for the first time and really enjoyed it, I imagine I will be cracking it back open in a few months to enjoy it again.
I take it you come from a family that got you into hunting Africa? I grew up hunting ducks, pheasant and grouse with a little bit of deer hunting for a while. Dad wasn't ever really big into hunting, just enjoyed going out a few times a year and watch the dogs work. I tried and tried talking him into Africa but that just wasn't his thing. He'd win trips through work every year for sales, pick from a catalog of very elaborate vacations. There was always a section of hunting and fishing vacations to choose from with Africa, South America, Canada, Alaska, New Zealand and others that he could choose from but always ended up going to Europe with my mom or later my step mother.
My buddies that I duck hunt with have no interest in going to Africa for some reason, I have a hard time understanding anyone that hunts not wanting to go, but.... If I can talk my cousin into it I'll start putting some money away for a trip otherwise I'll just go it alone, I'm not the kind that begs someone to have a good time, I'll have a good time anyways. I hear you can have a pretty good plains game hunt for $10k-15k, so not much more than some pay to hunt one species in Alaska or out west. Plus, it'll give me an excuse to buy that Winchester 70 pre '64 375 H&H I have no use for...