My worst would be running out of gas while sitting in a plane up in the air!

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Originally posted by A.Dahlgren:
My worst would be running out of gas while sitting in a plane up in the air!

You win!!

I guess the shooting sticks repeatedly falling apart in Namibia don't really count.

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Originally posted by Frostbit:

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Originally posted by A.Dahlgren:
My worst would be running out of gas while sitting in a plane up in the air!

You win!!

I guess the shooting sticks repeatedly falling apart in Namibia don't really count.

hahaha or when the generator is of during the day and you cant blow dry your hair after your midday shower

PH abandoned me to go 500 miles away to take care of higher paying clients...

The client arrived



Drunk



With 20 rounds of ammo & 36 bottles of whisky for a 21 day safari



and the first words out of his mouth were:



I only want animals that are in the top 10 of Rowland Ward



Then at the range he wasn't able to hit the target from 50 yards away



Nor could he hit the large cardboard box to which the target was fixed



Nor the 5 metre wide and 3 metre high anthill the box was standing on!



Oh happy days!

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Originally posted by Tim Herald:
PH abandoned me to go 500 miles away to take care of higher paying clients...

Must not have been televised for Nosler TV eh?

I have had a few episodes.

My brother got deathly ill in TZ in 1996. I actually thought he was going to die.

Personally, probably in 1996 as well, I drank water in Zim that was supposed to be purified. Well, it wasn't. There were 3 dead monkeys in the reservoir. I was SICK as well as everyone else in the camp. That stayed with me about 3 months.

I was bitten by a spider in 05 and became extremely ill.

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Originally posted by Frostbit:

I guess the shooting sticks repeatedly falling apart in Namibia don't really count.

Those Namibian termites can't be that quick?

Sick in CAR. Got home, 25 blood tests, and 26 pounds later I got well. Bad as I ever felt.

We ran out of bourbon and I had to drink scotch.

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Originally posted by SBT:
We ran out of bourbon and I had to drink scotch.

Surely that's a blessing?

I thought bourbon was something you used to clean paintbrushes?

I got powerful sick in Zimbabwe last time I was feeling next to dead for three or four days and then recovered to semi Zombie status for the about two weeks after. It was a crappy hunt in general and then I got screwed around on the final bill after I got home. There always seems to be that special final frosting on a crap cake.

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Originally posted by Scriptus:

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Originally posted by Frostbit:

I guess the shooting sticks repeatedly falling apart in Namibia don't really count.

Those Namibian termites can't be that quick?

Ratty innertube rubber.

I reached into my pack and grabbed a scorpion. Ouch!!!!!

Got the wrong cape for my eland, but my plane didn't run outta gas!

Absolutely nothing!! Thirteen African Safaris to date and everything has always been perfect.

Larry Sellers
SCI Life Member

Stumbled and broke my leg on the 1st day of a 21 day safari in Tanzania!!!!!

Kidney stone in bush w/o any pain mess.

Tore mcl on stone sheep hunt, on day 2. Tried to tough it out for a few days sitting on a lake prior to moose rut. Tried one more climb up hill. Snow on back side over my knee deep. Had to use rifle for waking stick. Guide got tired of waiting and left me. Several hours later I made it back to camp. Guide off drunk. Left early, outfitter gave me a new hunt completely free. Good man. Would love to catch the guide out somewhere.

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Originally posted by D. Nelson:
Stumbled and broke my leg on the 1st day of a 21 day safari in Tanzania!!!!!

DING, DING, DING.....We have a winner!!!

Drank some "bottled" water in Zim and later understood what drives some people to suicide just to stop the pain.

First night in camp got bit by some kind of bug, spent the next 10 days with flu like systems.

Outfitter only wanted to hunt between 0900 and 1700, but wanted to stay up drinking til midnight.

No breakfast.

Other client in camp was a Spanish guy who was on his 12th safari and didn't speak English. I kind of spoke Spanish and fell into the middle of both of them fighting everyday. In the end the Spanish guy flew home and I spent 5 very lonly days getting treated like the help.

In the end I saw a lot of Namibia, shot 14 big game animals and 10 small game animals (all of which never got delivered) as I got screwed by the expediter.

So got sick, ate poorly, didn't really hunt, and had the time of my life.

All my hunts in Africa were without incident. My worst thing gone wrong while hunting happened within 250 miles of home.

It began when, after 39 consecutive years of applying, I finally drew a desert sheep tag in my home state of Arizona.

First, my new 4x4 pickup truck was stolen and taken to Mexico, along with my sheep tag, 10x50 Swarovski binoculars, a pistol, about $5,000 worth of camera bodies and lenses, and a few hand tools.

This was three weeks before my hunt was scheduled to open. Farmers insurance came through, though, and I replaced the truck and obtained a duplicate tag before the hunt.

The first day of the season was a wipeout when a rare heavy fog moved in, making glassing impossible.

The next day, we were about five miles from camp when a sharp rock ruined a tire. While I was changing that tire, the high-lift jack slipped off the truck's bumper and my left arm suffered a compound fracture of both bones when it was caught between the truck's fender and the top of the tire.

My friends got me to a hospital in Phoenix and, after surgery to install two steel plates, I was back in camp the next day. Nine days later, I shot my ram while resting my rifle's forearm over a backpack.

Bill Quimby

I got bit by a tsetse fly once.

I left a wounded buffalo in the long grass when we ran out of light at the end of the day.

Go Bill!

Taking Walter on safari!

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Originally posted by MJines:
I got bit by a tsetse fly once.

I gave lots of blood in Zambia, and have the scars and bumper sticker to prove it!

The first day of my very first safari in Africa - my friend asked me to shoot 5 gemsbok for his church for free; we could only find four!

Arriving in Chete in late October, and hoping to shoot 2 or 3 buffalo.

Roy meets us at the air strip, with a big smile on his face.

He said "You ready to hunt buffalo?"
"I cannot wait tell tomorrow morning. How many have you got left?"

"Twelve, two elephants, one lion, one leopard, several kudu, sable, zebra and all other plains game you have time to shoot"

I was speechless.

We ended shooting 12 buffalo, one leopard, 2 elephants and all imaginable plains game as well.

We sometimes we left camp before the sun was up, and and came back to camp by 11 at night!

The best part was this got repeated for all the 5 years we hunted Chete

The worst thing for me was losing the generator in camp, and not having ice for drinks/warm beer.

They got one going after a few days, but it was not sufficient to really power the camp. The first couple of days with no power were interesting, but not bad at all. Using lanterns and the fire pit for light... After a while, warm beer and no ice in the gin and tonic was a bit of a camp joke... I still loved it though. This was in the Luangwa Valley of Zambia during late October/early November.

I did get heat exhaustion from following another hunter's wounded buffalo. One of the most intense experiences I have ever had. Loved it, but don't ever want to repeat that...

Its Africa, you roll with it and sometimes things that are "bad" end up being the best memories.

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Originally posted by SBT:
We ran out of bourbon and I had to drink scotch.

That would be a good thing.

I always seem to run out of time and money.

Dean

I had to drink an almost warm beer ones!! it was rough but i forced it down.

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Cops just can't quite catch the bugger!

Engine died in a light aircraft circling at low level. Silence is often a scary thing.

Not an aviation expert but I understand the pilot had selected gravity feed from a tank in the very wing that spent most of the time pointing at the ground.

Shortly before piling in he sorted it out. A very calm fellow.

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Originally posted by A.Dahlgren:
My worst would be running out of gas while sitting in a plane up in the air!

I remember that, you guys nearly killed my brother!

i broke a fingernail and got a splinter once all in the same day while building a leopard blind !!

1st trip to Africa. Booked with Usangu Safaris.

10 days in Sangwa Camp on Lake Kariba when the frig could not make ice fast enough for the G&T sundowners. It was bad with the temp 100/120F.

Worse thing was leaving Johnny Sickerling's to go back to Texas. The best is going back in October for three months. I will miss my dogs and horse though.