Folks
Over the last year or so, Mrs Shakari (aka Susan) and I have been developing a new African hunting information website at www.shakariconnection.com.

The site comprises of over 250 pages, covers about 170 species in 12 African countries and the entire content is deliberately unbiased and completely factual. Subjects are many and varied and we’ve tried to cover every single aspect of African hunting safaris.

The idea of the site is to make it as easy as possible for anyone considering an African hunting safari to gather the correct information to ensure they choose a suitable safari for their own particular needs, tastes and finances. We also hope that the site will be useful to our colleagues in the industry.

You’ll find contributions from those we consider the leaders in their fields throughout the site. These articles will be increased as time progresses and if anyone thinks we’ve missed anything, please let us know. The site will be very regularly updated, so we recommend you visit regularly to keep up to date with any possible changes and additions.

For those interested, we will, in the fullness of time be accepting ads from appropriate companies such as ethical agents, hunting companies, PHs, outfitters and outdoor equipment dealers etc. Price will not be our primary consideration with ads, quality and reputation of the companies will.

We’d like to thank those people who have helped us with their knowledge, input, support and discretion in keeping the address quiet until we were ready to go public. I won’t embarrass them by naming them publicly, but they know who they are.

So please visit www.shakariconnection.com and let us know what you think.

Looks like a very nice webpage..

Looks like lots of great information. Thanks for taking the time to make it available to neophytes, like me.

I have a question on the following, taken from the PH section.

"A sound hunt indemnity will spell this out - a client will be required to pay the game fees on an animal, that may be incurred if the PH puts in a shot, that he deems necessary in defence of life and limb."

Does this mean only after the client has shot? Can a client be charged a trophy fee if he never shoots?

Very nice. Will be exploring in detail.

Awesome stuff!!!!

You guys did a splendid job....

Except....

There is no info about hunting Angola...

So I guess I will have to go an do some research for you????

Great stuff Steve.

Bloody well done mate!

Steve, thanks for the data-base. I hope to see it expand. After surfing it a little I am thinking that it will see a lot of use.

Thanks for the kind words guys....... that site represents a shit load of work by both of us over the last 12 months.

dla69

it depends on the circumstance and the indemniity, but the piece you quote refers to an animal that has been previously wounded by the client etc........

Very nice Steve, I've already saved it to my favorites, for easy access.

Mad Dog

Added it to my "favorites".

Congratulations Steve & Susan. A very difficult task very well done! I will do my bit in spreading the good news that it's now public!

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren

Well done a book that is alive and very objective

congrats

Yes, very well done to the Shakaris, a commendable and most worthy effort. Great service for hunters with relevant and accurate info.

Dave

Thank You !
awesome job!

US Custom Forms, CITES, SAPS etc. Excellent web site. Added it to my favorites.

Steve,

An excellent piece of work that obviously took an enormous effort. I plan on relying on it when we plan our next African hunt!

I assume that you welcome additions and corrections to the wealth of information presented on the website. In that spirit, I offer a small correction to the info on hunting in Zimbabwe. It is stated that all hunting is to be conducted during daylight only. I was under the impression that it was legal to hunt leopard at night in some, but not all, areas of Zim. Maybe just private property and concessions?

In any event, thanks for the enormous effort that you and your wife put into this valuable addition to my hunting resources.

Great site. I must c omment on one item re clothes. As is always the case the PH says no light or bright clothing, but then they wear light tan shirts and shorts and the best is in RSA on some of the ranch properties the staff (on the truck and tracking) in French Blue jump suits. Just got to love Africa.

Wow, you just put a lot of websites out of business. Every safari operator out there should link this to their website.

Well done.
THanks for making the effort.

Good work and well done Steve! I've sent you an e-mail ...

Bravo! That is a whole lot of info and very well done. Congradulations to you Steve and also to your better half.

Great looking site. I will be doing a lot of reading there.
Thank you

To Steve & Susan

Extremely informative website. It tells me that wildlife hunting and Africa travel is definately here for the long term future to be enjoyed by all.

Congratulations, your hard work has produced a gem

Cheers and Merry Christmas to all the esteemed guests

Peter

Good job....Nice touch with the Rigby 3rd Rising Bite DR in the rt. column (I'm such a gun queer)!

JW

nice job. It is added to my favorites and I will be exploring it fully.

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Originally posted by shakari:
Folks
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For those interested, we will, in the fullness of time be accepting ads from appropriate companies such as ethical agents....

Now you really have your work cut out for you

Great site, good luck

Aawesome!

Robert

Great website!!

Very impressive Steve, well done. Now can you add a temperature converter so I won't have to get out a pen and paper....ha. Email sent.
Good hunting and Merry Christmas,
David

Steve, done very well, your site has joined my favorites list for future access. Thanks, Dirk

Thanks to you all for your kind words and support.

Jakkals

You take the pictures and we'll do the research and add Angola to the site!

Andrew,

I reckon I owe Mama Susan a holiday after this marathon!

Rudi,

As you know, it started off as a book project but somehow evolved into a website....... thanks for listening to my drivel when I got frustrated with it!

Johan/Bahati

Thanks for the e-mail and good to talk to you - lok forward to hearing from you.

Jeff Wemmer,

I'd give my left nut for that double! - it was made for the old time PH Alan Black.

AzGuy,

Plenty of good ones out there but we owe it to the good ones to only accept ads from 110% ethical operators/agents/PHs etc. To say nothing of our own feelings on the subject of unethical hunting practices, which I'm sure are well known here.

Very informative and helpful site, Steve. One can certainly appreciate how much hard work went into putting it together.

I have pegged it as a "Favorite" too and thank you (and Susan) for your efforts.

Great website, Steve. I've bookmrked it for future reference.

Fred

Nice work! I'm looking foward to spending some time on there...

Represents thousands of hours of research there ...well done steve ...the downloadable docs all in one place make it worthwhile on its own ...

Added to favorites, lots of great info.
Jeff

Steve and Susan,

Holy Sh*t ... what a lovely site (and obviously a HUGE amount of work)! Congratulations on a job very, very well done.

Is going into the browser menu! Wish you'd delayed until after deer season ... am going to be terribly conflicted about not spending the time reading it all immediately!

Steve:

Congratulations and thanks for doing the website. I know that I can learn a lot from it just from the few minutes that I clicked into it.

BTW, your javascript source is showing on "choosing-safari-company".

Great job!

Namibiahunter

Excellent Site: I have been lucky enough to visit SA on hunting safaris for each of the last three years and have spent days on the internet searching for information regarding our planned trips.

I have gained more useful information in the last few hours of research on your site than I had gained from a number days I spent searching for accurate information the past three years. Great work and the quality shows. Thank you!!!

I just went through the website. An absolute must read for any one with an ambition to hunt Africa.Thoughtfully selected topics and knowledgeably written.Splendid job.Thank you.

Best-
Locksley,R

Wow! Great job. Thank you for all the hard work!!