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Thank you for the advice! Can you send me more information trough PM? I am trying to understand what could be the total cost of my african safari. I think it will be so much more of what I expected. There is people that talk about thousand of dollars of gratuities, trophy mounts that will cost...

thank you I'll try to inquire!

I think the customs broker will know what authority here in Italy deals about that, because I really don't know. But according with what I am reading on internet I think that bringing the skull of the lion in my luggage will not be possible because lion is in the CITES list, so it will need a...

Thanks you again Pirkan! I talked with a taxidermist here in italy and he adviced me to talk with a customs broker specilized in hunting trophies (he adviced me one), next week i will call and i will ask him if what you did is possible also here in Italy. I will ask also to the PH if will be...

Hello thanks for the answer! Did you bring the skulls in the hold luggage? Can I ask you how did you process the skulls aside boiling them? And how did you pack them? May I could ask to the skinners to do that? Did you get any document for the skulls? My local taxidermist adviced me to...

Hello I will have my first african hunt in SA in September, I booked for a lioness hunt and I will add a blesbuck and a wartogh. I would like to bring the skin of the lioness in my country (Italy), i sent an email to the taxidermist that the otfitter adviced me "splitting image taxidermy"...

It's my favourite reel despite many experts asserts the Abu Cardinal 44 as the best reel ever made

Hello everyone, I also enjoy fishing in my country. On fresh water I use only vintage gear and I love split cane rods paired with my favourites reels Mitchell Garcia 300/400 series and Abu Cardinal 44, I fish for carps and tench: I also love to fly fish for trouts on the small streams...