abenson229
AH member
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2016
- Messages
- 28
- Reaction score
- 47
- Location
- Massachusetts, USA
- Member of
- NRA, Safari Club International
Hello All,
Was happy to find this site, I'm just starting to collect information for my first Africa trip, hopefully in 2018, we shall see.
I've never hunted any truly big game; primarily I hunt whitetail deer and black bear in my home state of Pennsylvania and here in New England, plus small game and birds.
I want to do the 'standard' first trip, plains game in either South Africa or Namibia and have just started looking at guides...there are so many to choose from, more than I expected. Costs of course are significant, but, from what I've seen on various outfitter websites, less than I anticipated so that was a pleasant surprise. I haven't decided if I want to book the trip myself or go through an agent, but I'm leaning toward using an agent since I've never taken a guided trip anywhere before and have no idea what I'm doing. If anyone has worked through an agent that they're happy with I'd like to hear about them.
Was happy to find this site, I'm just starting to collect information for my first Africa trip, hopefully in 2018, we shall see.
I've never hunted any truly big game; primarily I hunt whitetail deer and black bear in my home state of Pennsylvania and here in New England, plus small game and birds.
I want to do the 'standard' first trip, plains game in either South Africa or Namibia and have just started looking at guides...there are so many to choose from, more than I expected. Costs of course are significant, but, from what I've seen on various outfitter websites, less than I anticipated so that was a pleasant surprise. I haven't decided if I want to book the trip myself or go through an agent, but I'm leaning toward using an agent since I've never taken a guided trip anywhere before and have no idea what I'm doing. If anyone has worked through an agent that they're happy with I'd like to hear about them.