Your avatar and user name

Hi,

My avatar "company logo" was designed by my late wife which obviously holds a certain amount of sentiment for me.

As for my Company name, the Arc in Arc Africa Hunting Safaris refers to the ballistic trajectory of a projectile.

Regards

My avatar picture correlate with one of my hunting philosophies-'Observe' carefully all the time..
.[TO BE SHARP OUT THERE..]

observe said:

My avatar picture correlate with one of my hunting philosophies-'Observe' carefully all the time..
.[TO BE SHARP OUT THERE..]

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@observe now i always thought it was one of those selfie things.........

observe said:

My avatar picture correlate with one of my hunting philosophies-'Observe' carefully all the time..
.[TO BE SHARP OUT THERE..]

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glad that is cleared up as it might have confused some of us who thought it was another word for " hey hold my beer and watch this"

observe said:

My avatar picture correlate with one of my hunting philosophies-'Observe' carefully all the time..
.[TO BE SHARP OUT THERE..]

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Should be about time for you to head back to S A and try to spear something. Ramadan is just around the corner.

Sand Rat said:

Should be about time for you to head back to S A and try to spear something. Ramadan is just around the corner.

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thanks for reminder sand rat , the price of squid , octopus and cuttlefish , is just about to double/ triple......

I really enjoy this post. Its nice to get a little insight into every ones personalities.

Von Gruff said:

glad that is cleared up as it might have confused some of us who thought it was another word for " hey hold my beer and watch this"

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I like the way you think.

When I moved to a new school in grade 4, there were 5 David, 3 Chris and a Trevor in my class. So any time I write my name it's Chris P. I'm going to have to get my kids to help me with this picture thing, I like all the pics every one posts

Sand Rat said:

Should be about time for you to head back to S A and try to spear something. Ramadan is just around the corner.

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Sandrat,I'm going home next month leaving this sand land for a while so they can enjoy their own Ramadan [and 50 C heat!] --for another spear hunt attempt on warthog---maybe a change of profile picture if i'm successful! ??



Spike, nah,a selfie would probably do the observe image some damage! lol

You are the man!

Von Gruff said:

glad that is cleared up as it might have confused some of us who thought it was another word for " hey hold my beer and watch this"

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Used to work in the emergency room years back.....that statement was usually that last one (hold my beer and watch this!!!) prior to some of the patients I saw! (Man, I could tell you some stories!)

observe said:

Sandrat,I'm going home next month leaving this sand land for a while so they can enjoy their own Ramadan [and 50 C heat!] --for another spear hunt attempt on warthog---maybe a change of profile picture if i'm successfull!

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I'm headed home myself next weekend for three weeks of great Texas summer, sure beats the hell out of the weather here in KSA.

Have someone meet you are the airport in a boat ... it is raining like hell in most of Texas!

My avatar is a picture of me and the first gemsbok I took in Namibia in 2008. I had a good time on that hunt, I learned a lot...but the learning curve would grew 10x after the next hunt a year later. I never changed the picture just because it's highly recognizable by the people that show up to AH. My user name is my first initial in my name (Eric) and my last name is Nysse. I pretty easy to find and don't hide too much.

Scott Slough said:

Have someone meet you are the airport in a boat ... it is raining like hell in most of Texas!

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I can attest to that!!! I'm not complaining though. We've been in desperate need of rain for the last 7 years.

My avatar is a movie poster. The movie is form 1973 titled Electra Glide in Blue. The protagonist is a short cop played by Robert Blake. I'm a police officer and I am also 5'6". Often I feel this way at work as well. I try to have a sense of humor about it. I don't want to be a stereotypical short cop with a Napoleonic complex. My user name is the first letter of my first name and my last name combined.

My avatar is me right after I shot my Giraffe in Namibia no more than five hundred meters from the Botswana border line. It was all over, we were just starting to position the Giraffe for the photo and the PH's wife snappEd the shot. This was such a great trip, my son I had the time of our life. I dreamed of hunting Africa since I was a kid reading Field & Stream and here I was. It was kind of a reflective inner pride moment. As for my name it's who I am and where I live.

Avatar: Chas. A. Heyer & Co, Nairobi, British East Africa, well known arms dealer in the colonial days....some are proudly showing some big ivory outside their premises.

Nickname: From John "Pondoro" Taylor....ivory hunter and writer.

My avatar is a photo of me after digging out my house and my wife's car, after a good old fashioned January Canadian prairie blizzard a few years ago. Three days of blinding snow and high winds, and temperatures -20 to -35°C and windchill you don't ever want to experience. I figured it was about the most contrast I could have compared to African weather.

My member name is one I chose because of several reasons:

- my favourite all-time activity is to leave the house, rifle in hand, with no particular goal in mind, and go for long walks to explore, hunt, and find what's out there.

- And because one of the best huts I've had required a 32 Km hike cross country during one day in the extremely remote and trackless tundra, forest and mountains of the Yukon territory where I realized my dream of bagging a Dall ram.

- And because my wife and I ( both in our mid 50's) decided two years ago to walk the Camino Santiago pilgrimage in Spain, which is the ancient pilgrim route from St. Jean Pied du Port, France, 800 Km over the Pyrenees mountains, through the Basque country and the favourite haunts of Hemingway, the Rioja wine region, across the meseta (plains) and wheat fields of Northern Spain, through the wet and mountainous coastal region to offer a prayer and pay our respects at the burial place of St James the Apostle.
We went during March, carrying everything in our backpacks, and after 25 KM or so stopped in whatever village we were in that evening. We experienced many cherry blooms and 3 blizzards, olive groves, vineyards and alpine tundra, castles and cathedrals, huts and hovels. Dirty busy cities and wild alpine ridges and forest glades. Luxurious meals and hungry bellies, cold crowded albergue dormitories and wonderful companions from 28 different countries who we met in the bars and on the Camino. It was physically challenging, spiritually uplifting, culturally educational, and something that resembles the completely fulfilling experience I get while hunting interesting game in wonderful new and exotic country, like Africa.