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Hey guys, just got back in last night and it is good to be home in the good ol' USA. Had a great hunt in Benin... excellent buffalo, massive hartebeest, old roan bull, a super Nagor reedbuck... probably the new #1 SCI (if your into that), oribi and warthog. Damned bushbuck drove us crazy and I was never in the right place at the right time. Ditto for red-flanked duiker, if they were sitting in the open, posing, they were female! The males were always haulin a$$... but "c'est la chasse", eh? Will post some pics in a few days and a hunt report in a week or two, right now I have a ton of work staring me in the face... oh well, you play... Hope the Show season went well and Dallas and Reno were good to everyone! Cheers. Russell On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | ||
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Congratulations, I look forward to your full report and photos. The SCI show was good but there were less people and prices through the ceiling. Regards Aziz  | |||
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Welcome back! I look forward to the full report and pictures. It sounds like congratulations are in order.  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Russ welcome home and catch up on sleep... Mike  | |||
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Hi Bwanamrm Congratulations.Especially for Your trophy reedbuck. Were You hunting along the Pendjari National Park with Club Faune, PH Yann le Bouvier? or Atakora range.........with? Coatmelec ? According to ErikD, Nyamey is one of the "less attractive" towns in Africa. Your opinion? J B de Runz Be careful when blindly following the masses ... generally the "m" is silent | |||
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Jean-Bernard, I'm going to guess he went through Cotonou, not Niamey. Neither are destination resorts of course. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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Jean-Bernard, I did indeed hunt with Yann and Club Faune in the Porga concession of Pendjari National Park. Yann is a super PH, very intense and passionate about the sport and his areas. C-F has made great strides in developing the Porga concession into an excellent hunting concession with lion, buffalo and elephant seen regularly. Contonou and most of Benin is, how would one phrase it, less than attractive? But it was a very interesting adventure! On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Russell, Welcome back. Congrats on your trophies. I am VERY interested in your full report. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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Welcome home. ------------------------------- 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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It's great to have you back safe and sound Russell. We're all looking forward to your hunt report and pics. | |||
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Russell, Glad you made it home. I Look forward to the report and photos. | |||
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I'm glad you decided to venture to a part of Africa that is not the usual course. It's hard to believe, but Dakar (maybe even Benin)is closer to Moscow than Capetown (or somebody told me that?).... anyway, Africa is Africa, but parts are amazingly intriguing in wonderfully different ways. I can't wait to get a full report. I've been to Burkina Faso, but am looking at a Benin hunt as a possibility. BTW, I must have killed your bushbuck for you. When I shot mine in Burkina, we walked over and found two dead. The game scout just smiled, took fifty euros from me, gutted the smaller, cut the legs and head off, put the whole thing in a large duffle and we never mentioned it again.... I guess he had a good supper? Would you like to have me see if I could get someone to look for the head? It had good horns.....  JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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Congratulations Russell, looking forward to the full report. Good luck digging out from under the email at work. Mike | |||
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Okay Russell, take a day off then let's read some hunt stories!! Welcome back! John | |||
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welcome home .... "The greatest threat to our wildlife is the thought that someone else will save it” www.facebook.com/ivancartersafrica www.ivancarterwca.org www.ivancarter.com ivan@ivancarter.com | |||
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I can't wait for your photos and story. Get some sleep and then get busy! ______________________________ "Truth is the daughter of time." Francis Bacon | |||
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Russell Glad you're home. e If you own a gun and you are not a member of the NRA and other pro 2nd amendment organizations then YOU are part of the problem. | |||
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Glad your adventure was a good one and looking forward to the story. | |||
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thanks Wink and bwanamrm I made a slip of the tongue, of course Cotonnou seems to be not a very attractive place. Niamey is in Niger and in the past has got a real fame but...........concerning 2 legged not this wild game. I am glad You'd fun with Yann l B. I made a hop there to have a couple of beers and refueling and the area looked like a game paradise. Not so with elephants. The few we saw had me got the jitters. Really wicked. Congs again jb J B de Runz Be careful when blindly following the masses ... generally the "m" is silent | |||
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Welcome home Russell. Sounds like a very nice bag. Tell us about it when you've taken care of business. | |||
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contratulations. I'm very curious to see the report mario | |||
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Welcome back Russell. West Africa is not a hot destination for Americans. I know little about it and am very interested in your impressions. Just be sure to start at the beninning, okay? Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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i saw this and it made me laugh out loud... hope you enjoy the humor in it too!  "I swear guys, it wasn't me, I just lifted the wartie's tail and..." On a slightly more serious note, my Benin buffalo.  On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Russell, why are you and the warty the only ones smiling?? That is one heck of a buffalo---congratulations--I didn't know they got that big!! Steve "He wins the most, who honour saves. Success is not the test." Ryan "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Stalin Tanzania 06 Argentina08 Argentina Australia06 Argentina 07 Namibia Arnhemland10 Belize2011 Moz04 Moz 09 | |||
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The "pisteurs" aren't smiling perhaps because they are Muslims and dislike handle a pig? A nice bull buffalo indeed. Why don't You shoot a red one instead? I suppose You could have shoot either a red or black one? J B de Runz Be careful when blindly following the masses ... generally the "m" is silent | |||
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JB, I saw red buff on the trip, in fact I saw lots of buffalo of every hue, but none as big as the bull I shot. A red buff cow.  Thanks Steve... where are you hunting in '08? On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Wow! What a hunt. Can't wait to read the hunt report. Congratulations Russell. | |||
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Welcome back Russell, sounds like you had a great hunt and adventure. The non smiling staff was also the first thing I noticed. Was that the norm or just in that photo? "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Just that photo... that's why i found it so funny. Think everyone but me got caught unaware by the camera's click! On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Thanks for the pictures -- it looks like you did quite well. ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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