Vintage Safari equipment list

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You just need to have enough money with you .

 

[PerH]

I wish it was my truck! A few years ago someone sent me the pictures. I love it!

That truck would been popular on Forrest School to have around .

 

[Rare Breed]

We do something quite similar and our list has been gleaned from photographs mostly, here it is. This is four a group of four, it could be six:
A tent each (originally pointed canvas type, see picture. We use walk in bell ones now.)
Mozzie net, shaped to half the tent. Out tents now have integral mozzie protection.
Cot with coir mattress.
Sheets, pillow and blankets, no sleeping bags allowed!
Bed side folding table.View attachment 493950View attachment 493944View attachment 493949
Folding canvas chair each.
Four small folding tables for around the fire.
Ten paraffin tilley lamps.
Two pressure paraffin hurricane lamps.
A field bar with crystal glasses
A roll of hessian to screen off the kitchen or bath area.
A half 200 litre drum on a stand to heat water over a fire for showering and washing up.
Two wooden pallets for the shower floor.
Four medium sized tables for the kitchen area.
Vertical charcoal cooler (ours takes a block of ice).
Vertical pantry.
Two braai grids, one for the sit around braai fire and one for the kitchen.
Potjie pot and bread pot.
Meat, eggs, veggies, dry rations.
Steel trunk for reserve food store.
Lots of ground coffee
Lots of condensed milk.
Tea bags
Pots, pans, knives, forks etc, twice as many as there are people in camp.
Four buckets
Spade, pick, badza, broom.
Tons of mutton cloth.
Four hanks of 6mm rope.
Four hanks of 10mm rope.
Four 350ml bottles of drinking water per person per day.
Folding rifle rack.

That isn't exhaustive, but it gives an idea.

Curious given you live in Africa how do you hunt? Do you and your friends book with an outfitter as we do in the US or do you hunt public areas if available

 

[Luvthunt]

Can you even imagine a safari that lasts a year or more. Dream!

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Curious given you live in Africa how do you hunt? Do you and your friends book with an outfitter as we do in the US or do you hunt public areas if available

Hi RB, there are a few public hunt areas like Tuli and you bid for different packages. We haven't done that yet, the problem is that you have to do every single thing yourself. We generally use the outfitters, same as you do, but we try for late season last minute deals.

 

[Rare Breed]

Hi RB, there are a few public hunt areas like Tuli and you bid for different packages. We haven't done that yet, the problem is that you have to do every single thing yourself. We generally use the outfitters, same as you do, but we try for late season last minute deals.

Very smart!

 

[CBH Australia]

Hi RB, there are a few public hunt areas like Tuli and you bid for different packages. We haven't done that yet, the problem is that you have to do every single thing yourself. We generally use the outfitters, same as you do, but we try for late season last minute deals.

Kevin, in Australia we all that camping. You do everything for yourself and spend a few days in the bush for enjoyment. Lol.

It's even better if you are hunting while you are camping.

I've only hunted Africa once. Knowing there were staff to do Everything for us we went with just a back pack of clothes.
Daily washing, cooking, cleaning and skinning all done by staff. Didn't need tents we stayed in a Lodge .