Lets see your journal

[johnnybow]

I am looking to purchase some type of journal for my African safari. I'm not looking to spend alot on one but wanted to get idea on what's out there for sale. Thanks

 

[Betterinthebush]

I liked this one from Walmart. I like top flip notebooks. I think it was $7 and a two pack of comfortable pens were $9

 

[K-man]

This is my hunting journal. A fathers day gift almost 20 years ago. It was a thoughtful gift and really seems appropriate. I've put a lot of personal feelings and details in there, sort of like a diary. Someone will have an interesting read after I'm gone.

 

[Hunt anything]

I picked this one up at a Books a Million back in 2014.
It’s almost full now after 5 safaris. I take it out once or twice a year and read it, the memories come flooding back.

 

[Pheroze]

I have gone through a few. I try to keep to the style Pepys used - short entries that give a view of the times. This is my latest one that was actually a gift. It took a few years to finish the previous one, and I just got to filling its pages over the last couple of years.

 

[Red Leg]

I do mine after the fact (though there is nothing wrong with contemporary notes). I use Shutterfly and the photos of the trip ( I always take several hundred) to create a photo journal of the adventure. My expectation is that the dead fauna on the wall will be a burden from which to be divested. But a photo journal of the adventures of a previous generation might just be a treasure.

 

[Drywaller44]

Well I was just going to take over a regular old notebook to journal in before my first safari but my wife surprised me with this before I left. I consider it one of the best gifts she ever got me because of the thought she put into it and the memories it now holds.

I’ve never been one to keep a journal but I’m so happy I did for that safari and plan on doing it for any future hunts. After a few days of hunting all day it’s easy to start forgetting some of the small details that make the hunt so special. It’s nice to look back on once in awhile and it’ll be something for my kids to remember me by once I’m gone.

 

[Mark458]

 

[Adam Stevens]

I do mine after the fact (though there is nothing wrong with contemporary notes). I use Shutterfly and the photos of the trip ( I always take several hundred) to create a photo journal of the adventure. My expectation is that the dead fauna on the wall will be a burden from which to be divested. But a photo journal of the adventures of a previous generation might just be a treasure.

Same for me, I pretty neat coffee table book.

But honestly once people read it or look, I end up putting the film on too! haaaaaaa

 

[Hunt anything]

I actually take a separate notebook with me and write in it daily and when I get home I’ll sit down and transcribe and elaborate on each daily entry. Sometimes it’s even hard to decipher some of my own notes so I try to write as clearly and neatly as I can on the final product.

I do need to dedicate a couple of rainy days to sit down and do the Shutterfly thing.

 

[gcbailey]

I don’t write as much as I’d like or should. I have a few notebook covers, but these two are my favorite. Easily holds moleskine notebooks. I prefer leather because I love the way it looks when it’s been worn in and aged.

 

[Fordy]

Gday
I like to record things basically for my own use on what patterns occur from moon phases , rut times , critter movements & behaviour and where I learned something new etc which I’ve Had a few over the years & here’s some

The leather one is one that holds special meaning to me as my pa picked this one up in Egypt in 2nd world war while not being a true journal I just take it & insert a note pad into it
The bottom right one I use it in the field on culls & it’s a little different than others as has all weather pages that dosent matter if totally wet one can still write on it so great for record keeping

also used diaries over the years

Cheers

 

[Tanks]

I use extra wide leather folio from Galen leather and a Leuchttrum 1917 notebook which works well with fountain pens.

 

[odonata]

I have a friend who works for a large industrial machine shop who gave me some corporate swag a few years ago in the form of a free compact hardback journal with a bookmark, an elastic loop to keep it closed & a nice open binding that allows a pen to be slid down into a notch. Since I've had it, it's been a great scratchpad for everything I've wanted to scribble a note about or draw a schematic sketch of.

If you go to Google & type "journal with elastic", you'll probably find something similar.

 

[jcs271]

I have wanted one of these all my life and last month I found and ordered this one in the 6x8 size. It's also available in 5x7 and 8x10. The leather is thick yet very supple and it is loaded with very high quality paper. It has a 4.8 rating on Amazon which is quite High and is why I picked it in the first place. I would actually give it a full five stars. One heck of a great value for 25 bucks delivered, I am extremely pleased.

I am currently transcribing all of my notes from my first Safari which is contained in just a basic spiral bound steno pad. It's slow going but actually kind of fun in the evenings to think about the stories as I'm putting them into this book.
P.S. Mine is in Rustic Brown but they also have several other colors available.

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