Hey buggers
Just heard my old friend Barry Burchell had a booth at DSC ?

I also see that he's advertising Heavily in SCI.

A simple google search will tell you this is not the guy to be hunting with. Illegal paperwork, trophies confiscated, arrested in the US with an illegal leopard skin?

Can anyone confirm ?

This guys name cropped up just yesterday morning within a small group of folks who have no hunting affiliation whatsoever.

Not one of them, and they were all people I met for the first time, had nothing good to say of Barry, or his father for that matter. Mentioned how he had packed up his home overnight and skipped to Namibia, prior to the sheriff of the court arriving to attach property the very next morning !!

I can't confirm or deny the facts in the matter, save to say we hunters are aware of his hunting ethics, or lack thereof.

SCI has a problem with letting in unethical hunt purveyors. It appears DSC has the same problem.

Dave: Could you give a bit more info, please, such as company or outfitter name? I have searched and am not finding this name as an exhibitor.

Karl

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Originally posted by leopards valley safaris:
Hey buggers
Just heard my old friend Barry Burchell had a booth at DSC ?

I also see that he's advertising Heavily in SCI.

A simple google search will tell you this is not



the guy to be hunting with. Illegal paperwork, trophies confiscated, arrested in the US with an illegal leopard skin?

Can anyone confirm ?

Karl,

Frontier safaris 962

I will watch Harrisburg to see if he turns up.

Mike

A recent court case against Barry, he was cleared.
Barry's father recently passed away, I think the result of a motor vehicle collision. It does no good to speak ill of the dead.

Hey there Mr.Davenport, mind who you are calling buggers. I will have you know that I am a straight up and down "hetro!!!"

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Originally posted by K Evans:
Dave: Could you give a bit more info, please, such as company or outfitter name? I have searched and am not finding this name as an exhibitor.

Karl

quote:

Originally posted by leopards valley safaris:
Hey buggers
Just heard my old friend Barry Burchell had a booth at DSC ?

I also see that he's advertising Heavily in SCI.

A simple google search will tell you this is not



the guy to be hunting with. Illegal paperwork, trophies confiscated, arrested in the US with an illegal leopard skin?

Can anyone confirm ?

One just cannot help to love what DSC!

Instant reaction to solve a problem that had cropped up!

Thank you Karl

Thanks Mike: If I had paid attention to the subject line I would have known that...my fault Dave. We will look into this.

Karl

Frontier had a booth at DSC. I didn't see Barry there when I walked by. I hunted with Frontier way back in 2000 on a Tony DaCosta Huntpak. Traveled all over South Africa on that trip and met a great PH who became a good friend and who I have hunted with a number of times since. It was a mill though with hunters constantly coming in and out of his main camp. Way back then I didn't know any better and actually had quite a good hunt...

He definitely had a booth at DSC, and I did see him sitting there visiting with people. Before I booked my first trip to Africa last year, I visited with him at DSC. It sounded too good to be true, and upon returning home and doing research on him and his outfit. Seeing the pages and pages of litigation he's been involved in, I dropped him off my list as fast as I could. No way would I hunt with this guy.

I hunted back in 2003 with these people in Namibia, had a few minor problems. It only took a few words with Mr. Burchell Sr to get things straight. Took nice heads including a Damar Dik-Dik. Don't know if I would have hunted with them again. At that time Cabela's was their main booking agent. It was my second hunt booked thru them and my last ever. Cabela's have great gear but not so good booking shop.

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Originally posted by K Evans:
Thanks Mike: If I had paid attention to the subject line I would have known that...my fault Dave. We will look into this.

Karl

No probs, thanks for the attention.

Scriptus, good to know

Barry had two 40,000 dollar hunt donations, each hunting with a celebrity, Mr. L Weishuhn and Craig Boddington...for both DSC and SCI. All of you that think that DSC is so much more "holy" than SCI make me laugh! Looks like they both enjoy the same donations!

My son and I went to Namibia and Hunted with Frontier Safaris back in 2005. It was my first African experience....and also nearly my last. We had booked the hunt for 17 animals for a 11 day hunt-booked with Don Crane of Safari Outfitters.
To say it was the worst hunting experience of my life would be accurate. I could list dozens of details of why Frontier Safaris and the Burchell's are crooks in my opinion but it would not do much other than support other reports. Don Crane and Safari Outfitters (at the time) in my opinion were not much better than money grabbing liars and thieves, and certainly would not step on their relationship with Frontier Safaris to support their client (me) and do the right thing.

In the end my son and I got 9 of the 17 animals we paid for, and most of these were shot out of the back of the farm truck at a different 10,000 acre ranch in one day. To this day I am embarrassed about shooting out of the back of the truck, but at the time did not know what else to do, being my first trip to Africa and having my 14 year old son with me.
Also, it took nearly three years to get the trophies back

My advise for what it is worth - stay away from Frontier Safaris or anything to do with the Burchells, far away

FYI - At the time after about 2 years Cabelas dropped them like a snake due to all the complaints
Not sure if Cabelas picked them back up or not, if they did shame on Cabelas. As for Safari Outfitters, I am sure they will still book them. However they will never see any of my money