Afrika

[roverX]

Wow! That about sums it up for me. You are living the life I would love to live. When my 3 boys get older, I hope to go on some hunts in Africa. In the mean time, I would love to take my boys to Africa for sightseeing and a little bit of hunting - smaller game. Is there anything you would recommend for the first trip with my boys? I hope to do it in about 5 years - they will be 9, 11, and 16 then. I want to create the memories that last a lifetime for them. Or do you recommend waiting until they are a lot older?
Thanks,
Steven

 

[KevinNY]

The Outfitter I hunt with would love to have you and the boys. His sons are around all the time, usually barefoot, and drive the land cruiser too. They are 8 and 10. Your sons could take an impala for sure as long as you give them some shooting lessons first. My wife used a borrowed 222 Rem rifle on her impala and dropped it cleanly with no fear of recoil. Contact Stef Swanepoel www.numzaan.com

Me and the boys bird hunting.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid114/p393cb502b2bc90dc1b84aa104154f30f/f8d779fd.jpg

 

[jimjet]

hey Kevin

again a very impressive game room.

very nice impalla and zebra mounts.

congratulations to your wife for the impalla and congratulations to you for having a wife that shares your spirit.

i would like to post my game room pics but my 18 yr old lives down there so i would have to tidy up a bit first.

jim

 

[jimjet]

The locals at the cave house bush camp.
at night you can shine a light along the clif face and see the baboons sleeping.
they sleep on the edges so the Leopards cant get them.
in the morning they are stareing you in the eye when you wake up.

jim

 

[jimjet]

again

 

[jimjet]

Zambia

after wounding a buffalo on our buff hunt we tracked it for days.
when we lost the blood trail we followed these guys (vultures) they would follow the wounded game untill they could eat it.
the buff was found after we left and is now a skull mount.

jim

 

[jimjet]

Zambia again
This is my buddy Dans Buffalo taken on the last day of our zambia hunt.
he was taken at 11am with a 416 rigby Merckel double rifle.
This was actualy his second as the first buff he shot at had the 416 soft point shatter on the buffs shoulder.our guide was against using federal ammo as his experience had seen this happen before and it happened again.
we climbed into the back of the toyota at 1pm for the long trek out of the deep bush back to Livingston Zambia.it was close as dan thought he would be leaving zambia without a buff.
the country was exactly like the movie Ghost in the darkness.

jim

 

[kennith]

Jimjet,

Those grits are called Ugali.

Elephants are very awsome creatures. The most scared I have ever been was facing off against a bull with tusks bigger than me at night with a bow a local gave me.

These animals are smart. They would fake an attack from one side and then come on full force from another. At night you could make out the sounds of the herd snapping trees. Sound travels far over there, and on a cool dead night it can be tricky as well. One minute you would swear they were a couple of miles off, and the next thing you knew a raging bull elephant was ripping the camp to shreds. They just seem naturally pissed off.

In contrast, the Lions are all around, even coming into camp, but I never had too much trouble with them. I did stumble across a bunch of them at night once when on foot patrol, and after a bit of posturing they let myself and Kasiki pass.

I love that land. To me it is relaxing.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[kennith]

Actually, that movie was set in one of the areas my boss had a mine (read: hole in the middle of the bush) in. The main gemstone he was mining there he discovered in the 60s and named after the area, the Tsavo region. The lions there have no qualms about waltzing right into camp and sitting down.

Hehe, it made for interesting dinners. I actually had one who was intent on sleeping behind my mudhut. I became quite intoxicated one evening after a particularly successful dig, and stepped into the bushes to take a leak, and, well, let's just say it was a good thing I was already prepared to relieve myself.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[jimjet]

hey kennith

great to hear your experiences

Afrika is such a wonderful place i hope to retire there someday.
i keep applying for work in the aviation business hopeing i might land a job there and not wait for retirement.
i had a few scares myself
leopard looking at me like fresh meat.
elephants crashing through our three little pigs campsite
alot of good memories.

cheers kennith

jim

 

[Golden Oliver]

Ted Nugent!!!

Nice pics. Jimjet....are you related to Ted Nugent?? Right on.

 

[kennith]

I feel you man.

I could live the rest of my life at that mine in the tsavo region. It was wonderful.

I'm all about the turkanas up north in the desert as well. They aren't as easy to get to know, you really have to impress them, but when you do they are wonderful. It seems people over there have much more humor than we do. Everything is funny, and it is damned contagious.

I don't know how many nights I spent laughing my ass off with those guys. Even serious situations were somehow funny. One of the guys fell asleep on guard one night, right after I had made it crystal clear in three different languages how bad that was. I decided it would be good to get the rest of the team together and teach him a lesson. So I gathered them together, took the tip off of an arrow (replacing it with a nice wad of hard clay), and shot him in the ass. I'm rolling now just typing it.

The dude yelped like a zebra and shot off into the bush with all of us paralyzed with laughter. He never fell asleep again on duty. We laughed about that everytime it was mentioned, which was just about every day. Incidently, he quickly became one of my best askaris, a true asset to the team in every way. He just developed this nasty habit of holding his posterior when he slept.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[jimjet]

In Zambia we travelled off road 14 hrs to get to camp in this toyota pick up.(in the back)
we crossed two pretty deep rivers.
we then used it in the bush while hunting Kafue Natl Park.
In this pic we failed a wheel bearing and limped back to camp.
no spare parts in the bush, he had a set of bearings turned out to be wrong p/n.

regardless of the bearing this was one tuffff truck.
oversized fuel tanks
100 gal water tank in chassis
totally no nonsense off roading.

we squeezed into anothe toyota pick up for the ride back
it was brutal, but No Frills hunts are what i live for.

 

[jimjet]

scanned a few more pics from Zambia
these pics were taken of dans Buff with the guys wearing the traditional Tanzania
appearance when celebrating a successful hunt.
NO shirts is the tradition
left to right Dean ,Strang , Dan.
Strang is his first name and he has a 300 yrs of family line in Zambia and many more in England.

bump back to top.

jim

 

[jimjet]

as usual the Buff was cut in half to get it in the truck.
about 10 minutes after this photo millions of butterflies were swarming all over the removed viscera (guts) you couldnt breath without getting butterflies in your mouth.
it was the extream end of the dry season and the butterflies came for the moisture.

any of the zambia buff pics are taken in dry season.
in winter wet season its all under water and croc infested.

jim

 

[kennith]

Damn I need to get back there.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[jimjet]

Kennith
im going in 2007
not sure of the month yet.
a call from RSA will give me the details in begining of 07.
im doing my Leopard Bow Hunt in RSA near the boarder with Botswana at the Cave House.
very reasonable hunt as far as daily rates go.
the leopard licence cost me 4000.00
your welcome to join us.
from what ive gathered about you , you would fit right in , not afraid of 10 inch centepeds (would actualy try eating them) would chase a 10 ft Momba with a bow and arrow (yes i actualy have. very very stupid thing to do without a backup shotgun)
and i bet you have already had the African tick fever (bootananny fever if i recall as the locals say)
you know enough to keep your hands off the local topless chics (i hope) (its worse than tick fever if you get my drift)

jim
you would be welcome.

 

[mikedemet]

This is one of the best threads I have seen anywhere. Most of us are stuck in our 9-5 lives, thanks for sharing!

 

[kennith]

Hmmmm...

Sounds like a blast! I've eaten lots of things, to include the local poisenous snakes. Got a Momba, and what are those things, bushwhips? Something like that, either way, they are back fanged and pretty quick. It took some convincing to get the locals to believe they were safe to eat.

Let's say I want to go, would you please PM me what I am looking at so far as cost? I don't really need to make an expensive kill, but I wouldn't want to be a bump on a log, either.

I've got to have another bow made there anyway, or get the one I left there back, I'll bet my guy is still using it. I need to get back to Mwtate in the Taita region in Kenya as well. There is an older guy there that made me a really nice bow to defend the camps with. He could cook up some sweet arrows as well, of the "one step" variety. Do you know anyone where you go that will make a traditional bow, out of the special wood? Sisal string as well? I promised my brother one, but I had to leave the mine in a bit of a hurry to go up north, and had to leave it there.

It will be good to don a pair of pirelli sandals again.

One more question, the most important of all.

Do they sell Tusker beer where you are going? A lot of my best moments over there, ones that earned me the title "crazy mizungo", involved that sweet nectar.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[jimjet]

Hmmmm...

Sounds like a blast! I've eaten lots of things, to include the local poisenous snakes. Got a Momba, and what are those things, bushwhips? Something like that, either way, they are back fanged and pretty quick. It took some convincing to get the locals to believe they were safe to eat.

Let's say I want to go, would you please PM me what I am looking at so far as cost? I don't really need to make an expensive kill, but I wouldn't want to be a bump on a log, either.

I've got to have another bow made there anyway, or get the one I left there back, I'll bet my guy is still using it. I need to get back to Mwtate in the Taita region in Kenya as well. There is an older guy there that made me a really nice bow to defend the camps with. He could cook up some sweet arrows as well, of the "one step" variety. Do you know anyone where you go that will make a traditional bow, out of the special wood? Sisal string as well? I promised my brother one, but I had to leave the mine in a bit of a hurry to go up north, and had to leave it there.

It will be good to don a pair of pirelli sandals again.

One more question, the most important of all.

Do they sell Tusker beer where you are going? A lot of my best moments over there, ones that earned me the title "crazy mizungo", involved that sweet nectar.

Cheers,

Kennith

hey kennith
most important first-
thirst-- of course they have Tusker beer ,i drank LION and no17 myself depending which way the can sat.

as far as getting back to Kenya, now your increasing your costs.
you can fly British Airways direct to Kenya and fly SAL or Comair ,or drive down to RSA. or fly into joberg with SAL and drive or fly up.either way you just doubled the cost of your trip.
www.karell.com are the people i use for full fare tickets at the best rates.
my friend is station manager for SAL here in new york so i fly FREE, when traveling alone.when i travel with friends i fly the cheap full fares and get them through Karell.

im staying and hunting at the cave house as seen above.im only after Leopard and of course shooting baits for the hunt ,fun in itself.
you can walk and stalk with rifle or bow or you can blind hunt.i dont recomend walking and stalking on your own as its big time cat country ,rocky mountain and bush terain.
i had a good scare while walking and stalking and hustled back to camp in a real hurry looking over my shoulder and avoiding rock outcropings.
you can hunt impala ,wharthog , bleesbok, snakes , hyena , honey badgers , and Jackels all you want for cheap.
im going for 12 to 15 days and many times there are others in camp for photo or hunting (not many but could be a few) rassie knows our personalities and will mix a few in now and then.
you would be welcome even if you wanted to drink and hike or hunt or do what ever it is that makes you tick.
you can rent a car and go to Kruger
you can bring a hot chic for us to dote over.
what ever makes you tick.
airfare about 12 to 1500
daily rates about 150 to 250

jim