How nervous were you?

23 October 2010, 02:46

quote:
Originally posted by D. Nelson:
I was not nervous at all on my first safari. Not the shooting, not the buffalo hunting, not the travel. It was definitely "ignorance is bliss".

Now I'm a nervous wreck until I get to camp with my rifle and gear intact! After that, I worry about finding my main quarry.

Last year's safari with Muchinga, when I took my buffalo on the first day, I was the most relaxed I've been since that first safari! No pressure on myself. (This year, though, I was back to worrying about all the details until my buffalo was down on day 8.)

Regards, D. Nelson

Hi D,

Exactly how I felt after the Croc the first day. I figured if I could nail that and not loose it everything else would be a piece of cake......until the Bushbuck.

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23 October 2010, 02:56

D. Nelson

quote:
Originally posted by Frostbit:
....until the Bushbuck.

Yeh, but that bushbuck just kept growing!!!!!

Regards, D. Nelson

23 October 2010, 03:47

Frostbit

quote:
Originally posted by D. Nelson:
quote:
Originally posted by Frostbit:
....until the Bushbuck.

Yeh, but that bushbuck just kept growing!!!!!

Regards, D. Nelson

Also had JATO Rockets strapped to it's sides.

23 October 2010, 10:26

jetdrvr

quote:
Originally posted by shakari:
Andy,

Awfully good start old chap.

Our next step must be to get a few more of the buggers joining the team and then we'll also be able to start lessons in Cockney rhyming slang.

I love that. Had a Cockney driver in the UK who would run us up to Mildenhall from LHR and he always had Cockney tapes on the stereo. That's good stuff, even if I never really understood mor'n two words at a time...

24 October 2010, 00:51

adamhunter

I'm still working on my hunting report from my first safari, but here is an excerpt from it. I honestly think that was as nervous as I have ever been was having the PH watching me sight in my rifle the first day:

Karl had the trackers set up a target for us to check our rifles. I sight all my rifles in at 100 yards for the simple reason that I seldom have a shot over that far back home. It took a few more shots than it should have to get my 7mm RM zeroed in at 200 yards as Karl wanted, because I accidentally turned my windage knob instead of the elevation knob. I’m sure Karl was thinking I had never handled a rifle before and I felt like a COMPLETE idiot.