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    AUSTRALIA: Just Returned From Aussie Buffalo Hunt

    Just returned from a water buffalo hunt in the Northern Territory of Australia with Aaron Corbett of Australian Outback Buffalo Safaris. Aaron has several hunting camps and we hunted at the Moroak Station camp. Moroak has been operated as a cattle station for a hundred years and encompasses...
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    My 2021 Mounts Arrived

    Conroe Taxidermy delivered and installed my 2021 taxidermy yesterday. Pics below of the walll of euro skulls that include mounts from four different hunts. The smaller of the two buffalo skulls is from 2021 along with the wildebeest skull on lower left. Also my giant nyala and a really big...
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    Chapuis event at Beretta Gallery Dallas

    Thanks to Tom and Pierre from Chapuis for putting on a great event at the Beretta Gallery in Dallas tonight. Great turnout and fun to hang out with Craig Boddington and other writers who came to see the full line of Chapuis rifles and shotguns and the amazing Manurhin (I know this spelling is...
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    August 2022 Limpopo Buffalo

    My third buffalo and the biggest yet. 45 inch spread and bosses just under 17 inches.
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    Anyone else on Delta 200 Atlanta to Jo'burg this Friday, July 15?

    I am connecting in Atlanta Friday afternoon for the evening flight Delta 200. If you are on that flight and would like to have a cocktail while we wait for the flight, let me know. Heading to Limpopo to hunt the Manketti Reserve.
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    SOUTH AFRICA: Just Back From Limpopo Province With Quagga Safaris

    I just returned from 2 weeks in South Africa. Flew United Airlines non-stop Newark to JNB. Nice flight, but limited food/beverage service even in first class. No issues with clearing rifles (I use Go2Safari Concierge). Our group overnighted at the Intercontinental Hotel at the airport (again...
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    Wheels up to Limpopo

    Heading to the airport shortly for takeoff to Newark then on to Joburg and up to Limpopo. Buffalo, Roan and Golden Wildebeest on the list. Report when I get back on the 15th.
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    United Airlines Newark to Jo'burg

    Anyone have any experience with United's non-stop service from Newark to Jo'burg? I'm booked on the flight DFW to Newark to Jo'Burg June 28 after British Airways cancelled flights from London to Jo'Burg. Keeping my fingers crossed that the flight goes as scheduled.
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    Help! American/British Airways has cancelled my flights

    I need some help from my AH brethren. Since Delta stopped the Atlanta to JNB service, I booked on American from DFW to London to JNB with service by British Air. Now BA has cancelled my flights at the end of June. I've seen postings from others about a great travel agent who took care of...
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    Exotic Game in Texas hit hard by the big freeze

    There have been several news reports in print and on television about the record low temperatures in Texas in February and the sad result of exotic game freezing to death in the cold. Hardest hit have been black buck, axis deer, wildebeest, gemsbok and scimitar oryx. If you have personal...
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    My Covid vaccination experience

    I got my first Covid vaccination on Jan. 15. (I'm 71) Moderna vaccine administered by Dallas Parkland hospital at a drive through location. No issues and I was in and out in about 30 minutes. My second vaccination was on Wednesday Feb. 10. Much longer lines at the drive through location and...
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    Federal Premium Ammo Production

    If you haven't seen it yet, the CEO of Federal Premium has posted a youtube video explaining that their factories are making as much ammo of all calibers as they can make, but demand is outstripping supply. I'm not tech savvy enough to post the link to the video, but maybe someone who know how...
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    Dove Season in Texas just around the corner!

    Dove season in Texas opens on Sept. 1. I'm headed to Corsicana (40 miles south of Dallas) to hunt on a big sunflower field that has been great dove hunting for the last 3 years. I will be going back on the weekend to entertain clients at a dove hunt. Many are bringing sons and daughters and...
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    Hunting Lord Derby Eland in Cameroon

    Anyone have experience hunting in Cameroon? I've been looking online at Lord Derby Eland hunts in Cameroon and was having sticker shock at the cost. Outfitters are quoting 12 day hunts at $37,000 plus trophy fees. I looked at three or four different outfitters and all were about the same...
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    2019 skull mounts arrived!

    My skull mounts from a hunt in Limpopo July 2019 arrived yesterday and I've attached a pic of one wall in my living room with skull mounts from 1987, 2018 and 2019.
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    Just joined the Big Bore Club

    Just got home with my new John Rigby Big Game 416. It's a rifle I have always wanted and it will be a great complement to my Chapuis 375 H&H double. Haven't shot the Rigby yet, but will be going to the range on Thursday to try it with iron sights, though I've already ordered a Leupold VX-6HD...
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    New Member in Texas

    Greetings hunters! Glad to be a part of AfricaHunting.com. Finished my third safari in Africa in August and I'm admiring my Cape Buffalo and Sable and other plains game mounts from last year while I wait on this year's Eland, Waterbuck, Kudu and Nyala to be shipped. I finished my Spiral Horn...
 
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