The aspirin is not working .... maybe try the [ straight jacket ] and dont forget to sit quitely in the corner with the DUNCE cap on till school is over, you can then leave class in disgrace after all the sane kids have gone home
Now on the bright side, when you are over the personality disorder then check back in again, provide us guests with your CV and maybe some Outfitter will employ you as their guide and we can then all learn how the X-perts do it.
Posts: 3331 | Location: New Zealand | Registered: 27 February 2001
Quote: Don't equate these flabby old windbags like atkinson or ganyana with Peter Capstick!
Peter Capstick was a real hunter. His only flaw was not knowing or understanding the superiority of the 45-70.
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I think we all can see how much knowledge Candy Ass has in regards to hunting in Africa. I doubt he has ever been out in the woods alone in his life let alone actually shot an animal.
I'm sure if he really had been hunting all over North America and other places in the world he would give us some stories about hus travels to validate his opinions.
Posts: 6277 | Location: Not Likely, but close. | Registered: 12 August 2002
Quote: I'm sure if he really had been hunting all over North America and other places in the world he would give us some stories about hus travels to validate his opinions.
Let's be honest. I could list every hunting trip or experience I ever had, do you really think the paranoid "Anti-4570" types here would give them any creedence? I don't think so. C
Posts: 451 | Location: no where | Registered: 19 February 2004
My experience has been that they are honest, hard working folks, performing a great service to and for hunters. I suggest you go with the attitude that you are a student, there to learn all you can. I am very experienced and have travelled the world, but I find that I learn a lot from the locals and the pros when I am in their backyard.
I think the profiteers are the hunting shows and orgs that require these guys to donate hunts to fund their organizations. Let the members pay for the organization, not the resource.
Posts: 10424 | Location: Texas... time to secede!! | Registered: 12 February 2004
I for one, would hunt any DG in the world with Ray Atkinson as my backup..I have always found him to be honest in his thoughts and inputs to this forum, and completely knowledgable in his comments on PHs, gun calibers and hunting areas...SB
Quote: I for one, would hunt any DG in the world with Ray Atkinson as my backup..I have always found him to be honest in his thoughts and inputs to this forum, and completely knowledgable in his comments on PHs, gun calibers and hunting areas...SB
No offense to Ray and I think he will agree but that is a pretty naive statement. You know nothing about Ray or anybody else on this forum. Having honest and knowledgable input on a forum is hardly a crediential for a backup when your life is in danger.
Posts: 6277 | Location: Not Likely, but close. | Registered: 12 August 2002
Mickey1------Please forgive me for having the naive and unmitigated gall to post an opinion on your personal forum. I do stand corrected, and was only trying to rebut the frontal attack on another member. Again, forgive me, and I will always seek you opinion before I post....SB
Hey does anyone know what percentage of the daily rate goes to the PH and what goes to the outfitter etc? I doubt they do it for the money, but Tanzanian PHs must make a nice payday on those 1200 per day hunts...especially since trackers/staff are dirt cheap in most African countries, and even cheaper off the beaten track.
Posts: 2360 | Location: London | Registered: 31 May 2003
From what I know, they vary between $120 - $500 depending on their experience, reputation and client following! The problem that no-one talks about is that a PH is not occupied full season. If a ph that hunts Tz alone gets between 90 - 110 days a season, he has had a good season! The Ph pay is rarely a percentage of the daily rate; per day pay for 10 day or 21 day hunt are the same....This is my experience.
A carpenter may remain a carpenter all his life if that is what he loves doing. He sure would like to be rich though! what I'm saying is that someone can and will stay in a profession his entire life for the love of it and not necessarily for the money he get's from it as some people are implying.
Posts: 3035 | Location: Tanzania - The Land of Plenty | Registered: 19 September 2003
