Tickets booked

[CO_mtnman]

My wife and I just booked our airline tickets for our safari in south africa and we are beyond excited! We booked through gracy travel and will be taking the delta flight from dfw to atl to Johannesburg and staying the night at the citi lodge and our outfitter will be picking us up the following morning. We are hunting 27 June to 3 July with kuche

 

[Hogpatrol]

Good for you and good call on using Gracy and Citi Lodge. Bruce will take good care of you.
Best of traveling and hunting luck.

 

[Andrew62]

Congratulations!! Sounds like you have a solid plan!

 

[CO_mtnman]

Thank you! Now if I could just make time go by a little faster.

 

[Pablo]

Awesome! My PH who I hunted with is now with Kuche. He sends me pics all the time.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Exciting time

 

[Philip Glass]

Good plan!

 

[Andrew62]

My wife and I just booked our airline tickets for our safari in south africa and we are beyond excited! We booked through gracy travel and will be taking the delta flight from dfw to atl to Johannesburg and staying the night at the citi lodge and our outfitter will be picking us up the following morning. We are hunting 27 June to 3 July with kuche

Any particular animal you really want to take on your upcoming hunt?

 

[CO_mtnman]

1.Gemsbok
2. Zebra or bushbuck (whatever the bush provides)
3. Blue wildebeest
4. Impala
5. Warthog
6. Management animal

 

[Andrew62]

1.Gemsbok
2. Zebra or bushbuck (whatever the bush provides)
3. Blue wildebeest
4. Impala
5. Warthog
6. Management animal

You’ve selected some very nice animals to hunt. Surprisingly, impalas can be a challenge sometimes, especially if there’s a herd of 20+ of them.

What caliber of gun have you decided to use?

 

[CO_mtnman]

Gemsbok and blue wildebeest are my top 2 animals i really want on this safari. I am still in the decision process doing lots of shooting and reloading for the rifles but I know for sure I am going to be bringing 2 rifles so that way we have a spare in case something happens. The spare will be my 7mm rem mag with 175 gr nosler partition going 2686 fps. The other rifle will either be my 30-378 wby which my kids really want me to take because it holds alot of sentimental value (it was the 1st rifle I bought myself and saved for years for it, and I have taken alot of different game with it) the wby is shooting 199 gr stone hammers at 3120 fps, or my 8mm rem mag shooting 200 gr tsx at 2900 fps. I know all of the options will work just fine so I am going to take whichever I am shooting the best off the sticks and feel the most confident with. To throw another wrench in the plan I also have a 375 h&h which i shooting really well along with a 300 wsm that shoots 165 gr ttsx like a dream

 

[Andrew62]

You definitely have a great array of rifles to choose from, all are great choices, all would take what you are after. Picking your favorite out of that list will be a 'good' challenge.

Enjoy the process of packing, repacking, overthinking everything, it's all part of it and sometimes my girlfriend thinks I enjoy that as much as the hunt itself! lol I should be ashamed to admit I've been packed for weeks for my next hunt, which is yet another 3 weeks away! lol

Good luck Sir on planning this next great adventure! I hope you make many wonderful memories!!

 

[CO_mtnman]

My wife has been a trooper so far but I am sure she will start to get annoyed with me when we get closer especially with all of the what do you think type of questions ive been throwing at her lol but we have been talking about our 1st safari together ever since we where teenagers