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As with all businesses, there's no such thing as a free lunch and if there were, the company would go out of business. It all depends on how each company decides to price the package they're presenting but rest assured that it's EXTREMELY rare for someone to want to rip you off.... it's just...

Reviews for How to Become A Professional Hunter In Africa With Jerome's kind permission (what a nice man he is!), here's a few extracts from the reviews: What the reviewers and other Professional Hunters say about the book: This book will be referred to in the future as the PHs ‘bible’ -...

How To Become A Professional Hunter In Africa by Steve Robinson This book teaches the multitude of skills and trade secrets required for the reader to operate efficiently at the very highest level of the African Professional Hunting industry in the continent’s finest true wilderness areas...

The lulu.com site seems to be having problems with posted links today so probably the best thing to do is go to Lulu.com and then enter 'How to Become A Professional Hunter In Africa' into the search box and the book will come up. Sorry about that chaps!

Just launched my book 'How to Become A Professional Hunter In Africa' in hardcover! Thought I'd let you know that the 2nd edition of my book 'How to Become A Professional Hunter In Africa' is now available by clicking HERE or How to Become A Professional Hunter In Africa How To Become A...

Mate, you're supposed to shower in it, not drink it! :)

You can buy a product here called Bayticol that you spray on your clothes and is good for about 6 washes.... and it works brilliantly. You might also consider swapping your shower gel for dog tick and flea shampoo. soap yourself absolutely all over, step out of the water for a few minutes and...

Louis What I reckon we need is one set of game laws and one PH licence for the entire country but of course, that would knock an awful lot of GD staff off of their pedestals so they don't want that to happen.

Marius, As much as I'd like to say England will get to the final, I reckon they don't have a chance. My money would be on two of either RSA, NZ & Oz making it to the final. And of course as RSA is my adopted country, I'd like to see them take the cup...... but of course, it'll depend on...

As I understand it, the whole thing is a right stuff up and that's why I reckon a degree of caution is advised. Not only do different provinces each seem to have different rules, they also (to the best of my knowledge) seem to have different names for the different permits. For example...

So, we're all in agreement then? The males are generally darker but some are darker than others, the old bulls stuckin' fink? (bit if English humour on that last bit!) and the females and young are lighter in colour. Glad that's settled then.

Marius, No doubt that some get darker than others and I fully understand and agree that a landowner would want to encourage that variation but I'm sure that if you check ANY species book or zoological site, you'll find confirmation that the mature bulls are considerably darker than the females...

Greybird, Oops, guess I had a senior moment there and didn't express myself quite as well as I should..... sorry about that! :D As you guessed. What I should have said is the mature male giraffes stink. Which is why they're often called 'old stinkers' Sorry about that!

FWIW, the dark ones are the mature males and the lighter ones are immature males or females. Other give aways for the mature males is the top of their 'horns' (for want of a better term) are bald and they STINK!

Hope nobody minds me pointing out that PHASA is not the governing body of hunting in SA. I've been a member of PHASA for many years and their name describes their function perfectly. They are the Professional Hunters Association of South Africa. They're an excellent organisation (most of the...

From one deaf old bastard to several others, you might like to consider buying yourself a set of game ears. I've lost over 40% of hearing in one ear and 60 odd % of hearing in the other ear (through rifle fire) and bought myself a set of game ears about 18 months ago........ it's one of the...

Here's one of the very best reasons for flying BA: Airline accident ratings

Marius Thanks for the welcome.... I signed up a while ago but sometimes don't have as much time as I'd like to visit here.

In RSA, the Aliens Act of 1937 forbids a non resident of RSA to sit the exams or be issued with a PH licence. However, It's not impossible for someone who is not a resident of Africa to become a PH but it's not easy and more importantly, it's not easy to get the relevent wide ranging experience...

PHASA have had a moratorium on hunting leopards with hounds for many years so although it's not technically illegal, if you do hunt them with hounds in RSA it'll either be with a non PHASA member or with one who is breaking the moratorium and I think you'll find that Namibia banned hunting with...

Bundu, If you've done some or all of the Zim learners course or some or all or an apprentiship, you will have a head start on many people. If you are interested in the book, email me at shakari3@mweb.co.za and I'll be happy to let you know when it's available. :wink2:

Now I'll give you the good news..... there are countries where it is possible for an overseas resident to become a PH and in fact, that's exactly what I did. I'm currently working on a book about how to do this and feel free to PM or email me about it if you wish.

If you don't have residency in SA, you can attend the PH training course there but you are not allowed to sit the exams or conduct safaris because they now apply the aliens Act of 1937 or so. However, if you pick the right course, you will learn a great deal about the business. It should be...