Recent content by ECHIV

I have a brother in Law there who is USCG. Never been there but lived in franklin Parish for a couple of years. ECHIV

Welcome Arinjit! Where are you thinking of going for Plains Game? What part of Louisiana are you from North or South of I10?

Sometimes an airline will overbook the economy section of a flight and then bump some lucky passenger up to business class. I have been bumped to First class a couple of times. When the airlines bump someone a major factor in who gets offered the bump is appearance. The airline would rather...

Pilot friends in Alaska always told me " if you've got time to spare, go by air".

Twigs and sticks in the way deflect bullets, period. THey do not care about the caliber of the bullet. How far away the twig or stick is will determine wether the bullet wounds, kills or misses the animal. I have hunted with a .308 Win, 30-06, .300 win mag and a .338 win mag. I was...

A man who had recently retired bought a new Sprts car with the some of his savings. On the way home from the lot he decided to try it out and see what it would do. What it did was go past a speed trap at 95 Miles per hour in a 70 MPH zone. WHen he saw the flashing lights he made a quick...

Gotta love little Johnny!

After all, an evil overlord is nothing if not obsessive compulsive about the details.

A client on a river raft trip on the Gulkana River asked me about bear safety, and how to tell the different species of Bears that might be in the area. It's simple I told him, for safety stay in the boat. If you need to get out and go on land carry pepper spray and make lots of noise, even...

LOL Before we got married my wife shot a moose in a walk-in only, no motorized vehicles hunting area. They packed it out on bicycles after the hunt.

I have heart shot several different animals and seen a variety of reactions. One wyoming pronghorn dropped in it's tracks years ago while another in the same herd ran in a big circle before succumbing. An 8 Ft Alaskan Brown bear shot through the heart became quite perturbed at the notion and...

LOL. I have to put my wife and Son up in a hotel here in town while I am in the field.

Mubarak, Karibu, Habari ya safari? Good to meet you. I will be hunting on a resident permit. I am here on a resident visa. I am not sure which area we will hunt as I am going as a guest of a friend here in Dar. There are church members at my church who are chagga from Moshi. I just...

Uh Yeah, that scares me too. Thanks.

Code4, Thanks for the input. I drink about 3 liters of filtered water a day just to stay hydrated over here and take a regular prophylactic anti malarial daily as well. Meds in TZ are different than in the USA. I can buy the equivalent of Tylenol with Codeine over the counter. Thanks for the...