Sorry, I’m in a turkey coma. I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving with family. Well, I don’t want to derail this thread about our adventures in Mozambique 30 years ago but yes there where absolutely red flags although this was before the internet and I was a 31 year old first time African hunter. It was the cheapest buffalo, lion, and leopard hunt at the time. Suffice it to say, with the internet and great sites like AH, the hunt would have never happened but looking back I honestly enjoyed the adventure and will post a story about it someday.
I can appreciate applying leadership principles to the thought process, something I’ve done myself for more than half of my lifetime both in the marines then a career in law enforcement in command level positions, however a solo hunter new to this area is essentially only in charge of themselves but they can make a decision based on the information they have with boots on the ground, but only they can make that decision with vastly more information than which is being provided, not you or I, sitting in our home relaxing over a glass of good whiskey, stomach filled with turkey.
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Personally, if I’m there, have maybe 50% already paid, and have a viable opportunity to still hunt buffalo, I would stay and make the best of it like the OP but IMO that is a subjective decision only the hunter can make based on realtime information and I don’t think that means they are a poor leader whatever they decide.
