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Age on First Safari? PG/DG? Country?
15 March 2013, 07:19
rodellAge on First Safari? PG/DG? Country?
52, Plains Game, Namibia.
15 March 2013, 08:22
ftg767Leaving May7th.SA. 65
PG
15 March 2013, 08:50
retreeverPG 52 DG 54
Mike
Michael Podwika... DRSS bigbores and hunting
www.pvt.co.za " MAKE THE SHOT " 450#2 Famars
15 March 2013, 09:24
1/2 slam48
PG
Kwazulu Natal Province of South Africa
Hunting is not a matter of life or death....It's much more important
15 March 2013, 09:33
Bud Meadows65
PG
Namibia with Sebra Hunting Safaris
Going back this May with Sebra
Jesus saves, but Moses invests
15 March 2013, 20:35
nopride262 pg RSA.
Dave
16 March 2013, 21:02
MacD37Age 45, 7 day DG and PG
First animal taken in Africa was a hippo with meat donated to feed a local village!
....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1
DRSS Charter member
"If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982
Hands of Old Elmer Keith
16 March 2013, 21:15
Flipper Dude46 Limpopo Province, RSA. Plains game. Wish I hadn't waited so long!
51 (mentally 12, according to my wife!), PG in Botswana, buff in Namibia (Caprivi).
16 March 2013, 21:37
AnotherAZWriterPG 35 Namibia DG 41 Tanzania
16 March 2013, 21:55
Mauser K98Does going count? Leaving for Namibia in May. I will be 73.
I saw my first "Tarzan" movie when I was about 8 years old. It's taken about 65 years, but I'm going.
Mauser K98
16 March 2013, 22:25
MARK H. YOUNGI started both PG and DG together at age 43. I wish I could have started a little earlier but the money just was not there.
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Michael AliulisTurned 39 on my DG safari in Zim with Mokore. Hilton Nichols helped me take a nice old bull, best birthday present ever!
Dakota Traveler .458 WM
17 March 2013, 04:47
Scott PowellPlains Game in RSA at 43, celebrated my son's 20th birthday in camp on the next trip in 2011, hunting DG this year for my 50th.. Gonna try for every other year!
"At least once every human being should have to run for his life - to teach him that milk does not come from the supermarket, that safety does not come from policemen, and that news is not something that happens to other people." - Robert Heinlein
17 March 2013, 06:35
Mike_Dettorre37 Buff and PG Zim
MikeLegistine actu quod scripsi?
Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.
What I have learned on AR, since 2001:
1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken.
2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps.
3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges.
4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down.
5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine.
6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle.
7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions.
8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA.
9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not.
10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact.
11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores.
12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence.
13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances.
18 March 2013, 03:56
Dan Miller21, plains game in the East Cape (2003). Back twice since, 2008 and 2011.
18 March 2013, 04:27
Heym 450/40031 PG Gras Ranch Namibia in 07
18 March 2013, 04:36
cal pappas38--buff--Zim
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18 March 2013, 05:07
415sbairdAge 52. -- buff. -- TZ
Jack Hood
DRSS
18 March 2013, 06:40
Cross L53--buff and elle - Zim
lion --RSA
18 March 2013, 07:06
John GaltMy wife and I were 31; plains game in the Eastern Cape Region; RSA
18 March 2013, 07:06
BNagel44 to 56 -- I'm poor so it has taken three trips so far for our "first safari", PG, all in RSA. [2001 thru 2007, and now six years since the last one].
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18 March 2013, 11:16
Hasher45
PG in the RSA Northwest Province. (18 animals)
Going back to the same place this year for more pg plus a short jaunt up to Limpopo for PG with Charl.
DRSS
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Valmet 412 30/06 & 9.3x74R
37 in the Selous for buffalo with my father along as an observer. I'd already booked a pg hunt in Namibia for the next year when Mark Young came along with an offer I couldn't say no to. Pure magic!
Dean
...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men.
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18 March 2013, 21:17
tim41634 Years old. Zimbabwe for buffalo plains game.
I have been running an average on the responses and the average age is 37.85 years old for a first safari. This is younger than I would have guessed.
20 March 2013, 04:02
Keith AtchesonWith my father when I was 17. Hunted with Jan Oelofse in Namibia for multiple plains game ( and shot 25 to 30 rabid Kudu) then over to Victoria Falls and into the Chobe and hunted with Hunters Africa for Cape Buffalo. My PH was Mark Selby, son of famous Harry Selby.
Jack Atcheson & Sons
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20 March 2013, 07:44
Dr balderAge 29 , PG , West Nicholson Zimbabwe.
Terje Kvestad
23 March 2013, 14:10
cameronaussieFor me it was 21
Wife 39
son 12
Daughter 9
All started on PG.
23 March 2013, 14:41
Don Edwards28 yrs old. Rhodesia. Plains game, Elephant,Buffalo and bad guys with AK47's.
Managed to put down some of each.
23 March 2013, 14:52
ozhunter29 and gratefully every year since.
23 March 2013, 16:54
Hollis Perkins45 for Buff and PG in Zambia.
24 March 2013, 07:31
OrvarWas 13, in Zimbabwe, PG + Buffalo (cow).
24 March 2013, 22:42
RickCapI already responded on my first safari. The next, most often asked question I get asked is when are you taking your kids? I have 5. No offense to those that take their young ones over and God bless. But my answer is when they earn it. It took me nearly 40 years to get to the Dark Continent. My kids need to prove to me that they want it and deserve it. Start with the small stuff and work your way up (both hunting and at a job). Maybe I am too much of a hard a@#.
24 March 2013, 22:42
Capt. PurvisI was 38 and hunted PG in RSA. Heading to Zim in a few months for Buffalo.
25 March 2013, 04:24
dakota45056Age 59 First DG hunt in Selous, 21 days.
Dak
25 March 2013, 22:23
MEXHUNTI was 33, DG in Zim.
16 September 2014, 05:57
ted thornI had to wait over a year to participate in this
PG....Komga South Africa
44.....me
45.....wife
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16 September 2014, 06:18
The Artistry of WildlifeI was 26, Plains Game. Lemco near West Nicholson. Now known as the Bubye. Client with me hunted Leopard. That was 1985.
Zimbabwe
29 years ago.
Glad to see you revive this Ted.
16 September 2014, 06:36
ted thornWhen I was 26 I was putting every extra penny into buying my first house
I definitely didn’t have Africa in my crosshairs
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16 September 2014, 07:49
PoyntmanI was 33 and hunted plains game in RSA - (Eastern Cape) after years of dreaming about it. Like most of us, all I could think about was how to go back to where and for what!
It's an addiction i hope will never end and i pray I can afford.