Got the rifle
Got the camera
Air travel booked
Got the overnights in Joburg booked
Going to get some shots next week

Now all I have to do is wait..................

496 for me.

496 holy cow that was me last year after the Houston SCI show, seems like forever.

What seems like forever is when you don't have the next one booked yet!

Leawood, KS...I was just in Wichita last weekend.

71 days for me!! Off to Namibia.

Larry Sellers
SCI Life Member

110 days for me ..... I, too, am excited already.

It is 82 days, 21 hours, 4 minutes and 29 seconds

78 Days for me.....Namibia

Thanks to some very good luck, it's 127 days for me, also in Namibia. This will be my second hunt with Dirk Rohrmann and I’m looking for my first DG trophy, a Leopard.

20 days for me!

Namibiahunter

515 until my buff/ele in the Zambezi Valley!

835 days to Namibia for me. This waiting is killing me.

You should all be shooting every weekend. At least 20 with the small rifle and 5 or 10 with the big one. Make sure your not buying animals for the jackals and vultures to eat.

Only 158 days for me and then Namibia with Mike Kibble again!

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Originally posted by Phoenixdawg:
Got the rifle
Got the camera
Air travel booked
Got the overnights in Joburg booked
Going to get some shots next week

Now all I have to do is wait..................

I envy you, your first trip! Have a great time mate.

136......and counting.

Mad Dog

Lets see I'm in Africa already but in a couple of hours time I will be leaving for freezing Sweden even though CChunter says the weather is very mild anything below 15 degrees celcius is cold for me.

And 18 days later I set foot in Africa again

I suppose this doesnt count just want to make you guys jealous since I live here permanently.

And BTW I'm prepared to share my Africa with you just come and join us on a hunt.

Whish you a great safari PD
I´m down to 86 days today for my second trip to RSA, with Clive Perkins , by the Limpopo River

1/2 the fun is always the wait and getting there. Why don't you download a COUNTDOWN CLOCK and put it on your desktop and watch the time fly by. Or you can know that its only 8,640,000 seconds till lift-off.

Phoenixdawg -

Have a great trip & enjoy to the max. I am following you about two months later so take lots of great pictures and do the AR report for us when you return.

210 for me........to Namibia for the first time, and 573 until a am again following Nzhou through the jess in Zimbabwe....I hope, hold on Zim . I just ordered a new Ruger Magnum rifle in 375 should have it on wed. I have a 375 ackley I had made years back that has made 3 trips to zim but it is a synthetic stocked precision rifle. Call me rediculous but it just dosent look right in African pictures. I guess I am a bit of a romantic but I love you guys pictures with a traditionally styled wood stocked rifle.
A new rifle should help pass the time while I accurize, tweak and find a good handload for it, and get it all ready for its Namibian plainsgame photos....
Dont know what I am going to do until the Elephant and buffalo hunt in two years.....

193 for me.

It's too far away to start the countdown. (132 days if I were counting!)

I'm very jealous of you, namibiahunter - 20 days. And Frederik, I suppose this doesnt count just want to make you guys jealous since I live here permanently. , you're just plain cruel. I think we'll be driving by your neck of the woods when we go (my two daughters, a girlfriend from California and me.) We're renting a car and driving from Johannesburg to Mashatu and then to MalaMala and then back to Joburg.

Cindy

23 days-zim, with Gordon Duncan, until 8april

199 days-RSA, with Hannes Swanepoel.

Jeff

107 days to RSA with JJHack.

One day to go-C.A.R.In fact busy packing right now took a break to check my mails.

Congrats PhoenixDawg!

It may be your first, but it won't be your last... that's pretty much a guarantee!

I've got 165 more days until I'm in RSA and then maybe Namibia!

172 for me, doesn't seem possible but I can't wait ti get back to Namibia,,,drwes

146 till i am once again with my friends in nirvana. Northern Namibia for six weeks this year.

153 Days until departure for northern Namibia (with Jan Mariesje of Sebra) with my teenage son. It's already been a too-long-wait.

Every one of you guys make me sick!! I don't have one scheduled yet, but I'm making plans!!

Good luck on your upcoming hunts!!

560 until my return....damn that's a long time. At least it's booked!

96 days until buffalo in Botswana with Mark Kyriacou

79 days for my son and I. First safari (RSA)
Jeff

100 days for my 10 year old son, brother, nephew and me. Namibia with Dirk Rohrmann for leopard/plains game.

199 and a wakeup

Unfortunately it will be about 1.5 years before I get back. I'm not crying as it will be worth it as I'm spending 21-30 days.

What I get from this thread is that the main object is to get back to Africa period no matter the season, duration of hunt or animals pursued. It is an addiction but who cares and what a lovely addiction. Drugs might be cheaper but.........

People who have never been will never understand.

Mark

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Originally posted by yukon delta:
What seems like forever is when you don't have the next one booked yet!

That is the secret - always have one booked! 177 days until the next one.

123 days until my first buffalo and PG with Greg Butler Safaris in Botswana, PH Andy Kockott