Still Hunting
New member
I have heard of this forum from my adult son. We decided to attend Safari Club International at Las Vegas in 2018. Looking for a guided hunt in Alaska or Canada. We soon found SCI overwhelming. Four days proved One thing. Africa gave more animals for the money. A moose hunt with caribou or bear was too much compared to Africa. In 2019 we went to Vegas again. This time we narrowed our choices of Guides to those that could give us Eland Kudu Nyala and Bushbuck. We selected 5 companies and got bids on our animals. One company stood out in Quality and variety, along with reasonable prices. We put our deposits down for a hunt on my birthday in 2020. We know that year as Covid year. From March of 2019 to May of 2021. We worked through it all! Beginners, Travelers, Getting geared up to go wait on a list! Finally it came, finally for real. Our safari company promised us a lot! They delivered as promised. My son his wife and I were the first hunting group in over 14 months for our safari company, Somerby Safaries in South Africa. Terrible flight, plane canceled at last moment. There went a hunting day even before we got there. Next alternate route now was through Europe instead of Direct Flight. so Almost 30 hours in route picked up at airport just fine but only 4 hours sleep then 10 hour drive to Orange Free State and Two Rivers Meet hunting area. I took 7 animals over 5 days. All ended up in SCI record books. My son took 5 all better than mine except Eland. Then 10 hours back sleep one night in town then to Limpoppo. Our animals there right down to last afternoon. But we got them, again all SCI worthy, All fair chase and only one from the truck. Our beginning to Africa.
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