Recent content by cptkirk

Love that baboon! Awsome pair of Kudus. That is quite a trophy room you have there. Thanks for the pictures.

This is one I owe my wife for big time. Love you dear!!!!! She allowed me to hangs these trophies in our living room at home. It was the only room in our home with a vaulted ceiling high enough for the Kudu mount. I had planned on having skull mounts done on all but the Kudu and Gemsbuck. She...

When I saw the shields in the Highveld catalog I thought they were teak and was worried about the weight and trying to hang them on a drywall wall. They are wood but whatever the species is it is a lighter wood like pine.

I hunted with an outfit called Warthog Safaris in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. I you do a search for my Posts you will see the write up I did for the hunt and an additional run up to Zimbabwe and Botswana to see Victoria Falls and some other sight seeing type stuff.

I saw that post you were talking about too. If it is the one I think it is it was about the insurance coverage. His mounts were badly damaged by some idiot with a fork truck in the USA. I used Oxi-logistics to ship my mounts to the USA and their paperwork clearly states that the insurance...

Got a nice and long awaited surprise right before Christmas. Had some spare time today to share a few pictures. The work was done by Highveld in South Africa. Outstanding!!!!!! Now I can see them anytime I watch the boob tube. Took me the better part of a day to reverse engineer that crate, but...

Ananja of Warthog Safaris mentioned they had a client that wanted to hunt a black rhino in SA next year(2015) and she said 1 of the two tags that were available each year cost 250k.

That is one handsome mount. I never realized how colorful their ears were on the inside. I think Nyala just got promoted to the top of my list for trip #2 some day. Great work!!!!

Never too many pictures. I am jealous, never got to see a lion on my trip. Keep it coming.

Yes I had a rifle with me. I left my rifle and some excess baggage in the secure storage area in OR Tambo airport. They charge like 5 dollars per day per item so the cost is minimal. Everything seemed to be fine when we picked up. I did have TSA type locks on all my bags too.

Here is the link. http://www.africahunting.com/threads/the-other-half-of-my-african-journey.18103/

I ended up with Warthog Safaris by pure chance. I was at a Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation fund raising banquet and part of this safari was a donation that Tienie and Ananja made to the RMEF while they were in the USA doing marketing at a few of the sports show convensions on the east coast. I...

I would be up for some white water rafting except for one small detail. This guy would be waiting for me when I fall out of the raft.

Yes it is a long drop and I did walk right up to the edge for some of the shots. 300 feet from top to bottom. At least I had my feet on solid ground......Not like some other crazies were doing. These nuts were swimming right on the edge.

Yes I drank the local brew they were handing out. It was not that bad, a little yeasty tasting but okay. I also earned my official certificate by eating a Mopani worm. When in Rome do as the Romans do! Should have had a beer in my hand for washing that down though.:p