This might be a stupid question, is it possible to bring some meat home from a trip to Africa.

I have brought fish home from Mexico several time and taken venison to Mexico with out problem.

It would add a little more to the experience if it was possible.

Thanks
Will

No it's not possible. Just hide and horns

The Drug Interdiction dogs are also well versed in meat odors. Happens often where someone (mostly foreign types) attempts to bring in a 30 day food supply in their luggage.

No bueno.

You are not even allowed to bring home packaged biltomg you might buy in the Joberg airport. Just ain't gonna happen, at least legally.

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Originally posted by jdollar:
You are not even allowed to bring home packaged biltomg you might buy in the Joberg airport. Just ain't gonna happen, at east legally.

Oops. I guess I better get to eat'n that "Jerky" I bought.

On one of my early trips I had a customs agent ask if I had anything edible, especially biltong. When I admitted to it, he promptly confiscated it. Since then I have been asked at least half a dozen times about biltong but I had learned my lesson. At least if you get caught, you can plead ignorance and they let you slide.

I tell my hunting buddies here in the USA that if I could bring some of my Namibian Gemsbok meat home, I'd put the US beef industry out of business. In my opinion, Gemsbok filets are the most delicious meat in the world

I remember on the flight home when they said that you could not bring meat, including biltong, into the US over the intercom. Saw lots of folks chomping away their stash of biltong for the remainder of the flight.

You've got 16 hours. Might as well...

I was surprised my boat mates in panama loaded a cooler full of tuna and snapper and brought it back to the us.

Mike

I once brought home a smoked Zebra tenderloin. It was even better in the US than in Namibia. LOL

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Originally posted by jdollar:
On one of my early trips I had a customs agent ask if I had anything edible, especially biltong. When I admitted to it, he promptly confiscated it. Since then I have been asked at least half a dozen times about biltong but I had learned my lesson. At least if you get caught, you can plead ignorance and they let you slide.

on a similar note, several years ago I went to Norway on business. I brought with me a handful of domestic cigars. While there, I purchased a handful of Cuban cigars, switched the labels and brought them back, no problems at customs.

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Just because you got away with it, does not mean it was legal. Smuggling is smuggling IMO.

BH63

+1

I know someone who had some smoked sausage confiscated several years ago. Subsequently he would often get stopped and when he recently asked why, he was told - 'Do you remember that smoked sausage from some years ago?' Computers don't forget!

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Originally posted by BuffHunter63:
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Just because you got away with it, does not mean it was legal. Smuggling is smuggling IMO.

BH63

Cigar smuggling one day, weapons of war the next trip. Where does it end? Geez, guys, give it a rest!

At least he was only a smuggler. Thank God he did not shoot a Impala that he did not have a License for, making him a Poacher! Death penalty on that one here on AR.
As a smuggler he can make it back to the states where he can take that extra deduction on his taxes, take the smog control off his pickup, drive it +10 over speed limit on the way to drink moonshine with his old high school buddy in Alabama, who makes a little money on the side with his Hobby, and haul back 250 pounds of H-4350 cause it is hard to get you know and store it in his footlocker in the upstairs despite the local and federal ordinances it violates etc.
Just so you know; I am not throwing stones in a glass house either. I would reckon that about the only one I have not done is the Impala and the extra deduction. I never take anything other than the standard so pretty hard to violate that one and I've never been to Africa. I just find self righteousness hard to take. All have fallen short. None are guiltless; no not one.
Hope your day is great and you find yourself forgiven.

Im not sure of the process but it can be done. Michael Jackson has 12 Springbuck or Impala killed and sent his plane to pick it up..I know the PH that arranged it..and all was legal and through an importer, but it was costly as hell. but little Michel could afford..It was for someones wedding..That was a number of years ago, I think around 1990 or so Im told.

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Im not sure of the process but it can be done. Michael Jackson has 12 Springbuck or Impala killed and sent his plane to pick it up..I know the PH that arranged it..and all was legal and through an importer, but it was costly as hell. but little Michel could afford..It was for someones wedding..That was a number of years ago, I think around 1990 or so Im told.

And I thought he was an animal lover!

He was an animal lover, but all liberals, most democrats, some malineals let someone else do the killing for them..

Thats a better story than Mugabe eating baby hippo, or was it elephant?

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Im not sure of the process but it can be done. Michael Jackson has 12 Springbuck or Impala killed and sent his plane to pick it up..I know the PH that arranged it..and all was legal and through an importer, but it was costly as hell. but little Michel could afford..It was for someones wedding..That was a number of years ago, I think around 1990 or so Im told.

I think of this story every time the "can I bring any meat home" discussion pops-up. I believe Michael Jackson wanted to provide springbuck for one of Liz Taylor's weddings.

A lot of meat is(or was) exported from Africa to the EU. I really believe that with proper inspections and permits it would be possible to bring some of the meat home. And yes, I do realize that it would be expensive. But some people pay $600 to shoot a jackal so it's all relative.....

I know that I would be willing to pay a thousand or two to bring back 40 or 50 pounds of meat.

I wonder: if some of us started bringing some of our meat home would take some of the negative spotlight off African hunting????

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Originally posted by BEGNO:
I once brought home a smoked Zebra tenderloin. It was even better in the US than in Namibia. LOL

Zebra is a fine meat, like horse meat. I find both to taste like elk cocked the same way!

I didn't know you could bring meat back from Africa legally. If I get back I will bring back as much Zebra as I can.

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