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I'll post a full report when I recover from the jet lag Back in November I posted asking if taking a 15 year old on a DG was a good idea. I received a resounding yes. You were all correct!! A couple of preliminaries. My wife, 15 year old son Jacob and I booked a 2x1 7 day hunt PVT. Our PH was Wikus. We talked about the increased fees but that is all we did---talk. It didn't affect our hunt at all. I wanted my son to do most of the shooting and he did. As a parent it was one of the best times I have ever spent with my family. Here's what we didn't do during this hunt: we didn't watch TV during dinner. We didn't have the internet or ipods or dvds or any of those other distractions We did sit around the dinner table each eveing and talk. We did go on some very long hikes and got into buffalo most every day. We did share all the new sights and sounds of the Selous. Wikus told my son after he shot his buffalo that he couldn't have drawn a better text book example of where to place a shot. You can imagine I was beaming with pride; he takes after the old man. I'm kidding , I can't shoot for sh#t. The hunt was as exciting as ones you read about; long grass, semi-charging buffalo, mambas, the whole nine yards. I'll post day by day report with pics. Those of you who have teenagers who hunt; don't put it off. Skip the 35k 4x4 mega truck and take your family hunting. I'll probably never again be able to spent this much quality time with my family again. This trip to the selous was almost an "awaking" and I wouldn't have traded the time I spent with my family for anything. | ||
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Congrats on a successful hunt, in all ways that count! LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Sidnye, How nice to see someone has learnt the basics of bringing a teenager into adulthood. Spend uninterrupted quality time together! Skip the 4X4, Quadbike, house renovation, saving for university - if you don't bring up a young MAN [or WOMAN] he/she is not going to do well at advanced study anyway - and take him/her hunting in Africa. In good hunting. Grandfather Andrew McLaren. | |||
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Conrtaulations on what sounds like a great safari and great adventure. ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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Sounds like the perfect hunt and you really have your priorities in order. I look forward to your report. _______________________________  | |||
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Well said Sidnye. | |||
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Welcome back and I wish I could have seen the smiles on Dad's face and your son's also after the shot.... Wickus is one fine young Ph... Regards, Mike | |||
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Posted the report on the hunt report forum | |||
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Nothing better than spending time in the field with a son or daughter hunting. My best of times have been with my son in the field (daughter is a greenie), we haven't made it to Africa and my never as he has said the flight to Scotland was as much flying he wants over water. I will keep working on him as taking his son and daughter to Africa would be the fulfilment of my greatest dream. | |||
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Best money I ever spent when I did it. And, am planning a follow up. | |||
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Yup. An "investment" in their future actually. And who knows...maybe one day they will return the favor!  Nice hunt Sidnye! | |||
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You not only have a memory for life, you've given your Son a memory for life. Congratulations. TerryR | |||
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Congrats! What a wonderful experience. | |||
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