Howdy everybody.
I write from NB, where I live for almost 18 years now, originating from Germany.
In my heydays (1980 - 2000), I founded and run for 20 years a forwarding company and customs brokerage at Frankfurt airport, specializing in shipping and clearing hunting trophies. I had a monthly average of about 5 metric tons trophy cargo, equalizing approx. 120 trophy import shpts. monthly. I was well known to hunters, safari companies, outfitters and taxidermists as well as to airlines and game authorities worldwide, and well respected for knowledge, skills and trustworthiness. Many import shpts. from all over the world, addressed to German taxidermists, I cleared and re-forwarded to the final owners after processing, no matter, if antlers only, shoulder mounts or even full mounts, by air, sea and surface shipping.
Back then, I was in close touch with so many people working in the hunting business and visited many countries in the West and South of Africa. For a couple of years I even had a branch office in Windhoek/Namibia.
Since I retired, those connections disappeared over time, I assume many then outfitters etc. run out of business and the current ones I don't know. But my remembrances and experiences are still livid.
I hunted in different African companies a couple of times (Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia). A handful of my trophies (shoulder mounts, antelopes of all sizes and bush pig) I brought along when I moved to New Brunswick.
Currently, I don't hunt but prefer to explore my area on horse back.
So log and Good Pad.
Gustav Trinkaus
I write from NB, where I live for almost 18 years now, originating from Germany.
In my heydays (1980 - 2000), I founded and run for 20 years a forwarding company and customs brokerage at Frankfurt airport, specializing in shipping and clearing hunting trophies. I had a monthly average of about 5 metric tons trophy cargo, equalizing approx. 120 trophy import shpts. monthly. I was well known to hunters, safari companies, outfitters and taxidermists as well as to airlines and game authorities worldwide, and well respected for knowledge, skills and trustworthiness. Many import shpts. from all over the world, addressed to German taxidermists, I cleared and re-forwarded to the final owners after processing, no matter, if antlers only, shoulder mounts or even full mounts, by air, sea and surface shipping.
Back then, I was in close touch with so many people working in the hunting business and visited many countries in the West and South of Africa. For a couple of years I even had a branch office in Windhoek/Namibia.
Since I retired, those connections disappeared over time, I assume many then outfitters etc. run out of business and the current ones I don't know. But my remembrances and experiences are still livid.
I hunted in different African companies a couple of times (Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia). A handful of my trophies (shoulder mounts, antelopes of all sizes and bush pig) I brought along when I moved to New Brunswick.
Currently, I don't hunt but prefer to explore my area on horse back.
So log and Good Pad.
Gustav Trinkaus
