A silly question I know but can anyone help in this area. After the hunt is over and you want to see some more of the country what is the story with the firearms.

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Originally posted by RUNAS:
A silly question I know but can anyone help in this area. After the hunt is over and you want to see some more of the country what is the story with the firearms.

I always store them in an Elephants Ass.

YES I agree. I was thinking that but yeah I just dunno, I may not feel "compelled" do it though, Im not that kinda guy Id at least offer to buy it a drink first or something

The trouble is finding it again when it's time to leave.

Yep that would be kinda hard too. May be we could ask David B!!

RUNAS,

Don't know what you're planning, but I spent four days driving through the central western part of Namibia in 2004. After the PH dropped me off in Windhoek I rented a car and drove to Swakopmund and stayed the night in Europa Hof. Spent the next day looking at the sand dunes and Walvis Bay and spent the night at Beach Lodge. Drove through Skeleton Coast Park, Damaraland Mts., then through Khoxias and Outjo to Otjiwarongo where I stayed at Out of Africa. Last day back to Windhoek and stayed at the Kalahari Sands. I kept my cased rifle in the car and took it into my room at night where ever I stayed, no problems what so ever. The guard at the entrance to SCP put a "seal" (cable tie) on the gun case before I entered, but it wasn't even checked at the exit. There were some military check points on the roads around Windhoek but only one guy bothered to check my ID, he seemed surprised to find out I was from the U.S., but was very pleasent and waved me right through. I went through three more check points and everyone else just waved me through. Nobody ever said anything about me having a rifle.

Most of the roads shown on the map, even the major ones, are no more than graded paths with no bridges over the many rivers. I was there in August and there was no water, the rainy season would severely limit the amount of rambling one could do.

So, After the hunt its quite legal to have the rifle with you (in Namibia)while your touring. I was under the understanding that you could only have the rifle with you on the hunt only, After that it had to be exported.We are planing to stay only in Namibia may be 14 days, but on our return to NZ we may have a stop over in Singapore.Does anyone know what the story is with that?

I have no idea about the legality, never checked into it, can tell you only what my experience was.

Runas,
it is not a silly question, every country has different rules, better take info than have troubles.
I spent 5 days touring in Namibia after the hunt. My first goal was to meet my friend Flip, a 9,3 x 62 fan, that was in Oshakati. I rent a car and I drove North for all the day.
The only suggestion and warning I had by the people of WCH, the company where I took the car, was to leave the car in the area where people with orange jacket watch it. However I had this warning also by other people.
Of course they suggested also to hide the rifle, or better to avoid to leave it in evidence.
Anyone told me anything else about travelling with rifle.taxi com
For sure you must take your Namibian rifle import permission with you, always, ready to be showed but not in your passport, to avoid to stimulate the curiosity of the police during a check . It happened to me to be checked by a kind police woman that stopped me because I did not clearly stopped at a cross road. No document in the passport, no questions.
For sure, you are not authorized in free hunting or shooting, or at least this my opinion.
If Flip, or any other Namibian, reads this topic maybe can help you better than I did, this is only my experience.
I can say also that many hotels in Windhoek as taxi or transfer company in Windhoek have safety rooms and also private safety guards, but I had the sensation that there were more thefts problems in Windhoek and in the towns than nthe country.

I'll check with my pal there. he's an inspecter in the police dept and is the firearms licensing officer for the district too. I'll get back to you when I hear from him.