I am getting remarks in that direction...from the wife and friends who do not comprehend...

The wife kinda understand....so she copes with me (luckily...)

I intend to hunt Africa 1-2 times every year as long as I can manage it, hopefully into my seventies..

How about you, how are you coping with your wives...and people about you..

why only 1-2 / yr?????
What obsession .....You ain't got no obsession.
You just got a small hobby.

not sure how old you are but if you can afford it, go and enjoy.

I may or may not ever get to go hunt Africa myself so I must dream through everyone else's hunt reports

I prefer to call it a passion. It's just those who don't understand who call it an obsession.

Bob

Obsession is going shopping to Target twice a week and we cope with it so to all the wives and girlfriends out there, DEAL WITH IT or find couch potato man
It drives me nuts when hear how good wife allows it and yadi yadi yada
If I make money, take care of family, roof over their head and food on the table I think I can do couple of hunting trips a year wherever they take me
So Pondoro, it is not an obsession , it is something we love to do that makes us happy

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Originally posted by Pondoro:
I am getting remarks in that direction...from the wife and friends who do not comprehend...

The wife kinda understand....so she copes with me (luckily...)

I intend to hunt Africa 1-2 times every year as long as I can manage it, hopefully into my seventies..

How about you, how are you coping with your wives...and people about you..

Indeed wild Africa is a magnet and there is an urgent need to fulfil that obsession. I have hunted a couple in their eighties mate and they were still able to put a buff and other critters on the ground.

Not an obsession at all. Africa is the place to go to get more bang for the buck. When an elk hunt here in the good elk states costs upward from $10,000.00 for one animal, maybe if you are lucky. The people in Africa are some of the best hunters in the world and also some of the nicest.

Lost the obsession after dealing with the aftermath; dip and pack etc....

However, I may go back. for now I am perfectly happy to hunt in the states!

As I explained to my wife "Hunting buffalo is one of my few remaining passions in life."

If you can afford it, do it is my thoughts (although I don't have a lot of respect for someone spending money on a safari instead of taking care of his wife and children. JMO).

It's very easy to explain to my wife....She goes with me!


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It's very easy to explain to my wife....She goes with me!

Good for ya...mine wount..

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Originally posted by BuffHunter63:
As I explained to my wife "Hunting buffalo is one of my few remaining passions in life."

If you can afford it, do it is my thoughts (although I don't have a lot of respect for someone spending money on a safari instead of taking care of his wife and children. JMO).

Hunting buff is better than sex!

Have you the balls to explain to your wife that buffalo hunting is better than sex?

I didn't discover Africa till I was 56 (I knew about it, I just didn't realize my priorities till then.) By then I had acquired the right wife and the right person to go with--my brother. Now I am 75 and a retired bureaucrat on a pension and little else. I save every cent I can--drive old vehicles and live frugally so I can fund my obsession. I walk a lot, go to the gym four times a week, eat right and go the range every chance I get so I can walk and shoot when I get there. Few folks besides you guys on AR can understand the draw it has on me. Going to Tholo (Botswana) in June.

That is the spirit Dick...we think alike, I intend to work as long as possible to fund this great hobby....and live in Africa during the winter season after retirement..

It would be an obsession, if I could afford it.

As it stands now, it's just in the secondary stage of becoming a full blown OCD*.

Rich

* Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Whatever it is I know that people around me wish they had it.It is nice to have something that keeps you going-whatever that might be.

Hunting buff is better than sex!

Have you the balls to explain to your wife that buffalo hunting is better than sex?[/QUOTE]

I told my wife that and she said I was doing it all wrong!

All joking aside, I read Dick's post and it resonated. How many guys in their 50's, 60's, and 70's have a passion that will keep them moving and wanting to be in good physical condition. Africa is expensive, but adds to the life expectancy!

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Originally posted by 10generation:
All joking aside, I read Dick's post and it resonated. How many guys in their 50's, 60's, and 70's have a passion that will keep them moving and wanting to be in good physical condition. Africa is expensive, but adds to the life expectancy!

I just turned 60. This year , I am :

1- Shooting ducks in Argentina
2- Sheep grizzly caribou in AK
3- Rhino in the RSA
4- Ibex, chamois & boar in Spain
5- Plus all sorts of local hunting.

I have not lost my passion for it. For now, I can handle it physically.