As some of you may know, I have been trying to get into Guinea (in western Africa) for a couple of years for a hunt.

I have been a party to one attempt (with other hunters) that fell apart due to the government there not giving us the entry permits we need (more on that in a moment).

A good friend of mine's father just returned from a year in Guinea, on an engineering project.
This project should have taken about 3 months; the other 9 months or so were getting the permits.

At this point I MAY have an "in" to get the necessary permits to hunt in Guinea: Entry permit, firearms import permit, and hunting license/permit (none from the same department). The CITIES situation is a bit up in the air right now.

Guinea has been trying to promote hunting, but the problem as been getting all of the permits at one time (Guinea will not allow non-citizens to enter the country with permission), and the diffent governmental departments don't seem to play well with one another.
Also, there has been some problem with rebel forces from Liberia retreating into Guinea.

So...here is my point: Anyone here interested in going with me to hunt there in 2005?
I would like to take about 3 other hunters.
All of this is still in the planning stage at this point.

The game would be bongo, forest buffalo, and antelope species.
The area would be north-central Guinea. It would also be unscouted. There is no concession (i.e. we are hunting govt. preserve).
Most likely we will be required to take (at our expense) some soldiers with us.

I am not asking for any funds for this. If we can pull this off, we would each be responsible for paying for our permits, license, etc. ourselves, although we would probably want to send in the applications in one packet (to the Embassy in D.C.).

It might turn out to be great hunting, or it may be colossal waste of time.
I figure 3 weeks, or it isn't worth it.

Anyone interested?

Garrett

Hi,
Sounds like a real adventure! Too bad I can't do such a thing myself...by the way, how does one become the 'exploratory safari goer' for a country?

Sounds like you're doing a modern-day Dr. Livingstone thing...guess I'm not that adventurous. Good luck and stay safe!

What Guinea are you talking about?
I've been working in Equatorial Guinea (between Cameroon and Gabon) for a couple of months. Plenty of forest elephants, buff, gorilas,bongos,duikers,etc,etc.....

I went there when I was around 24 to work in a cacao plantation but the truth was that I went there dreaming to shoot ele in the jungle in the spare time....

The only thing I killed was a lizard

I don't know how tough you are but the tropical floresta it's not for everyone if you don't have a well organized outfitter waiting for you.....

To do it by your own you must be: 60% crazy, 30% testicles and 10% brain

The amazon floresta is a piece of cake compared with the african jungles.

Now I'm 37 and still no eles..

Good luck
LG

Erik,

The government has not given me a printed list of license fees, but I am told (by the same person who originally tried to set this up in 2001) that the fee for Bongo is around $500 U.S. and buffalo $350 US.
Apparently no provision is made as yet for hunting Elephant here.

I should add that if/when this comes together I plan on including a PH from Western Africa (French speaking) who might be interested in getting a concession going there.
(In other words having a PH join in with the idea being that he may have new territories to book for IF it works out).
I don't have any one particular PH in mind, but I know of several who have voiced interest. Again, that is the sort of thing the group would decide on collectively.

I am estimating we could pull the whole thing off for somewhere between $10k and $15k US each (counting airfare).

Garrett