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I have surely consumed several liquid tons of coffee in Africa, French press, instant, whatever and have yet to get a good cup of Coffee until I debarked at New York, St. Paul or wherever!! but it gets me by and I'm not there to drink coffee....same with the food, it gets me by but there is something about fried roundsteak, frijoles, chili, gravy and biscuits that dear to this old cowboys soul! Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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I like my coffee...But my first safari they were drinking instant Nescafe, which my father drank when I was a young boy...Did not like it then and still don't...I started drinking Roiboss tea.. I liked the taste and I drank it while there and on my second safari that is what I requested for my hot drink..I alos drink it here whenever I wqant but I still love my real ground coffee.. Mike | |||
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Why waste a chance to get at least one sock washed by using a clean sock?  If you throw a couple of egg shells into the coffee before you pour it it will settle the grunds. Also a shot of cold water will do the same but then it's not as hot. | |||
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Hmm. A choice between "toughing it" without hot drinks in the morning on a great hunt, or the luxery of coffee on a mediocre hunt. I know what I'd choose, but then I don't usually drink coffee or tea, so I could care less about what they served me. Luke warm water is good enough for me as long as the hunting is good. | |||
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Same here, I don't really recall what the coffee tasted like on any of my hunts, I was too busy hunting. As I recall it was OK.  | |||
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I knew I would get some comment on that! Most campfire coffee I have had would kill any bacteria or fungus known to man anyway. I have also heard you can use pantyhose, but I rarely take my panythose along when camping. | |||
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We were hunting on the Gang Ranch one time when this fellow from Texas told us an old cowboy had stated that if you wear Nylons under your jeans you won't get blisters. He stated he had bought a pair of Nylons and wondered if the garter belt loked manly enough?  | |||
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A good saddle that fits will not give you blisters, but short of that give me the panty hose. It works!  ------------------------------- 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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Will, I have no idea what that means but it is funny. Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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What a bunch of wussies. On our last safari, we did without water, much less coffee. While stalking a pride of lions on empty bellies and with parched throats, we picked berries and sucked them for the moisture. Hell, we stayed out so long, we ran out of everything but sweat. I could tell you blood curdling stories, but my throat is so dry thinking about it, I can't . . . Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Don't be giving away all the secrets of life Will. LD  | |||
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I'm getting a picture I don't like here. Will, with his sleevelss shirt and pantyhose making coffee in his French Press for the 'Boys'.   | |||
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We went the coffee bag route after the first trip but its akin to push feed remingtons and Will in panty hose. You would think that for a thousand bucks a day you wouldnt have to bring the percolator too. Next trip its a percolator and fresh ground. Hope the TSA doesnt think were smuggling drugs in the coffee tin. | |||
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Ahh---to heck with the coffee, now if they don't have any cold beer, I may just pack it up and go home!  | |||
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This thread sure went to hell in a hurry! I was told a story once about a first time rider. I can't remember excactly why or what the reason for him being on the ranch but some of the hands there told him to get tuff-skin and spray it on the inside of his legs to keep from getting sores. Well tuff-skin is actually an arosol adhesive that athelets put under wraps and such. Anyway when the poor shmuck finally was able to get to the house that night he got the pleasure of pulling off the top four or five layers of skin along with his pants.  | |||
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You know gentlemen, when you want something badly enough, you'll find a way to get it. I have, on a couple occasions, simply put coffee grounds in a boiling pot of water and made coffee that way. I've always heard it called "cowboy coffee" and it will surely provide you with your morning hot caffeine fix if you can dodge the spent, floating grounds. While not very sophisticated, its quite effective; particularly when your girlfriend forgets she took the perculator out of the camping kit. Coffee is one of the few things in life I can't function properly without and I doubt I'm alone. I gotta have it to get going... Tex Jason "Chance favors the prepared mind." | |||
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Will, Most don't even know what your talking about but I will never become a bloody tea sipper nor do I require panty hose to ride my horse!! Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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BTW, a simple stick lying across the top of a pot will surfice for egg shells, many places I have packed into had powdered eggs, and they don't have powdered shells in the box!!  Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Powdered Eggs? I'd rather suck the boggers out of a calf's nose than eat powdered eggs. | |||
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Oh great! Now I can't get the image out of my mind of Ray wearing panty hose on a horse! John | |||
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I remember my Pa heading out to a horseback hunt in the Sikanni when I was a kid (mid '70s). He'd heard about the panty-hose trick for "greenhorns" and took a couple pair with him "just in case". The mental picture of my Ol' Man in pantyhose has left a lifetime scar! WRT coffee, you guys can sure make much ado about nothing!  Really though, who goes to Africa for the coffee?? I love my coffee (& whiskey, & wine, etc) as much as ANYBODY, but I don't take it all to Africa with me! I'd rather experience Africa for what it really is. I can last a few weeks without the stuff I love at home, and heck, it'll just taste that much better when I get back home to it. Cheers, Canuck | |||
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The first breakfast in Africa was Nescafe and Rusks. I will never eat another Rusk, and I hate instant coffee. I have a hard time getting started without caffein in the morning, but instant coffee don't cut it. JD | |||
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If you´re hooked on caffein anything will do -juice from chewing tobacco is eaven close enough. But not the lousy Scoal that you get in the US! | |||
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guuny Unfortunately most Africans use instant coffee ( Tastes like shit, but you can drink it if you're desperate enough ) I always have a good supply of Millstone Kona Blend and Columbian. If things get bad, have the outfitter you use contact me, and I'll ship some off to him. Brad Brad Rolston African Hunting P.O. Box 506 Stella 8650 Kalahari South Africa Tel : + 27 82 574 9928 Fax : + 27 86 672 6854 E-Mail : rolston585ae@iafrica.com | |||
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Saeed The other 70% was chicory ( grown mainly in the eastern cape ) Not unlike the water you find in many of the pans in the Chobe in Botswana. You copuld comare that 30 / 70 mix to mixing your favorite pipe tobacco with dried buffalo shit, and still trying to enjoy it . Brad. Brad Rolston African Hunting P.O. Box 506 Stella 8650 Kalahari South Africa Tel : + 27 82 574 9928 Fax : + 27 86 672 6854 E-Mail : rolston585ae@iafrica.com | |||
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I cannot verify this for sure, but word has it that Castle Beer supports the pathetic,liberal, anti-democratic disgrace of an organisation known as "Gun Free South Africa". Dont alow it in my camp. Brad Brad Rolston African Hunting P.O. Box 506 Stella 8650 Kalahari South Africa Tel : + 27 82 574 9928 Fax : + 27 86 672 6854 E-Mail : rolston585ae@iafrica.com | |||
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bwanajcj My sincerest sympathies to you. Brad Brad Rolston African Hunting P.O. Box 506 Stella 8650 Kalahari South Africa Tel : + 27 82 574 9928 Fax : + 27 86 672 6854 E-Mail : rolston585ae@iafrica.com | |||
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Amen No substitute for the real thing. Brad Brad Rolston African Hunting P.O. Box 506 Stella 8650 Kalahari South Africa Tel : + 27 82 574 9928 Fax : + 27 86 672 6854 E-Mail : rolston585ae@iafrica.com | |||
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Jeez! This thread points out again that most 'Merkins want to travel all over the world and have it be just like at home. I go to foreign places to experience "foreign" things. If I want it just like home, I stay home. Now, having said that, Malitta makes a handy little 1-cup plastic filter basket that fits atop yer coffee mug. You put a cone filter in, add yer coffee, pour boiling water thru, and Bob's yer uncle! Fresh coffee! Dave "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." -Thomas Paine, "American Crisis" | |||
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Instant coffee should be classified as a foreign object and therefore never allowed to enter ones body. | |||
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Why not black stockings and suspenders then. | |||
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Lets see since us Americans can't get a decent coke, our chocolate sucks, and our tobacco isn't up to "snuff" you would think we atleast deserve a decent cup of joe in the morning! | |||
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Agreed that we go to forign places to experience forign things but instant coffee and rusks was a real bad experience. Another vote for coffee singles. Second, third, and fourth safaris all started the day with a cup of coffee brewed with coffee singles and a pop tart also brought from home. A thermos is another good idea if you like to drink more coffee during the day. Just fill it up with hot water and drop in a couple of coffee singles and a spoon of shugar and you have some coffee waiting at the truck when you get back from the morning's first stalk. Elephant Hunter, Double Rifle Shooter Society, NRA Lifetime Member, Ten Safaris, in RSA, Namibia, Zimbabwe | |||
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I think a breakfast of rusks should attract a daily rate of $20 not $600 + | |||
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Morning coffee. Real men rip a packet of instant open and pour the contents into their mouths, lay down and stick their faces in a muddy buffalo print and slurp up a mouthful of fowl water to wash down the coffee. Then they chew a hunk of biltong, take a three finger dip of Copenhagen, check the double rifle chambers and push on for another 20 miles. Perry | |||
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The awful chicory based instant just adds one more morsel of color to the stories. I come from the cowcamp style of coffee makers, chunk a handful of grounds into the water & get to boiling it!! Since my warm weather hunting attire tends to run towards the cut off sleeve, I must ask... Is there an inside joke that I don't know (and am the inadvertant butt there of)or am I committing some kind of faux paus? Or is it a Starbuck kinda thing? Mike "Too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" | |||
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Yes, No, Yes. Do you wear nylons when riding? | |||
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Mickey 1, I was gonna make a smart alecky comment about an old timey cowboy butt that had enough callouses that it didn't need nylons, but after perceiving that there may be a link between nylons & sleeveless shirts, I have decided to just leave my butt out of this!!  Mike "Too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" | |||
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Perry! My Main Man! Que Hombre! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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