It is the time of year when we are getting ready for another safari.

All old hands and a new hunter to Africa.

Nisse is a friend from Sweden, he has been hunting all his life at home, and it is his first hunt in Tanzania.

Anders is supposed to teach him the ropes, but knowing Anders, I think Nisse is in for a lot of jokes!

Exactly how a safari is supposed to be.

Here are a few items which we have made at home, including our special tse tse fly attractant, belt ammo holders, bolt case and safari hats.










VIDEOS

1. Arriving

2. Sighting in

3. The Vikings with a wildebeest

4. Caping an eland

5. A view of the Lake

6. Reedbucks

7. Elephant

8. Recovering Maktoum's hippo

9. Recovering hippo for croc bait

10. Lunch with trackers and loading buffalo

11. Camp

12. Buffalo bull

13. Buffalo bulls and Vikings at camp

14. Stuck

15. Elephants

16. Loading Croc

17. Roy shot two buffalo together

18. Zebra

19. Buffalo herd

20. Trophies

21. Departure

22. Bushbuck and baboons

23. Ali the skinner in his skinning shed

24. Zebra by the camp

25. Countryside

26. Loading buffalo

27. Maktoum buffalo and zebra

28. Maktoum duiker

29. Heaven's kitchen and camp

30. Arriving and first morning

31. Maktoum kongoni

32. Maktoum buffalo

33. Maktoum hippo with a bow

34. Maktoum bushpig

35. Dinner and snake

36. Roy zebra

37. Sable

38. Hippo

39. Eating gun powder

40. Buffalo

41. Buffalo

42. Eland

43. Roy kongoni and reedbuck

44. Roy two buffalo

45. Croc

46. Buffalo

47. Buffalo

48. Reedbuck

49. Eland

50. Buffalo

51. Buffalo

52. Roy zebra

53. Trail camera at water hole

54. Trail camera at waterhole

55. Trail camera at waterhole

56. Trail camera at waterhole

57. Anders wildebeest

58. Anders zebra

59. Nisse impala

60. Nisse kongoni

61. Anders and Nisse with a duiker each

62. BBQ and leaving camp

63. Anders impala

64. Nisse wildebeest

65. Anders buffalo

66. Nisse buffalo

67. Nisse warthog

68. Anders kongoni

Brilliant leather!
Love the hats. Custom magic marker camo?

I used to use Uncle Mike’s ammo holders.

They never lasted long, because they were made for 30-06 size ammo, and putting 404 ammo stretches them quite a lot.

And I could never put 10 rounds in.

We have a fantastic leather man working here and I designed this and he made it.

The inside of each round holder is elastic, and leather on the outside.

Grips the round, and the leather stops it expanding too much.

Our safari hats used to be colored by my daughter.

She is away at university so my wife did them.

The tse tse lotion works better than anything we could find commercially.

Basically 50/50 DEET and sunscreen.

Was the Bolt holster made for your gun case?

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Originally posted by Slider:
Was the Bolt holster made for your gun case?

Yes.

I used to wrap the bolts in cloth.

And as we have a very good leather man here I asked him to make me a couple for my rifles.

He also made the ammo carriers.

Very nice leather goods, I especially like the bolt holder. I made one out of ostrich leather but it is nowhere near as nice as yours.
Hope all preparations go well and your group has a great hunt.

Good stuff, Saeed. Best of luck to you and all the other hunters!

Have fun as usual. I like the elastic/leather combo cartridge holder idea.

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Saeed, How many rounds do you take per rifle on your trip ?

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We had problems with MTM ammo cases.

Either too small or too big for our 375/404.

So we made our own on our 3D printer.

We used a laser printer to print the labels on them.

As you can see, the results are great.

Wishing u all an enjoyable, successful and safe hunt………look forward to following the action on this thread….ENJOY

Have a great hunt. We all look forward to your updates and pictures.

When do you leave?

We leave by the weekend.

Roy and Rene are arriving today.

Anders and Nisse arriving tomorrow night.

Good luck Saeed, but somehow I don’t think you need it!

Wishing your group a successful trip.

waiting on the daily hunting reports.

Everyone has made it to Dubai.

Anders and Nisse arriving at 1:30 in the morning, and dragged to the desert at 5!

Hardly any sleep!

No matter, seems they are fully awake!

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Originally posted by Charlie64:
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Saeed, How many rounds do you take per rifle on your trip ?

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For all of us, I take 140 rounds.

We are 5 hunters.

We never use all the ammo.

We have a shooting contest for the camp staff at the end of the hunt, and everyone gets a prize.

Walter used to be the master of ceremonies, now he is no longer with us, Pete is in charge very ably supported by a whole bunch of eager helpers!

Bloody camels...

Hey Tony,
I think I see your old girlfriend from last year in there
She is still such a pretty thing !

Saeed,
One of my favourite times of year fast approaching. Looking forward to all the updates, fantastic photos, stories I will get with my daily doses of AR.
Good luck everybody and enjoy to the max.

Trying a few rifles in various calibers, as practice.

When you heading out?

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Originally posted by 30.06king:
Hey Tony,
I think I see your old girlfriend from last year in there
She is still such a pretty thing !

Those camels are nothing but harlots.

They fall all over themselves for any man with a carrot!

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
Those camels are nothing but harlots.

They fall all over themselves for any man with a carrot!

Don’t make fun of our desert Beuties!

I have a video of you running at 200 miles an hour from them up the dunes!

I remember your wife couldn’t stop laughing!

I remember that escape very well and so does Lindy!

It was all good until we ran out of carrots!

Then it was pretty much run for your life!

We are camp.

Great flight on Emirates as usual.

Two and half hour drive to camp.

We are all by the campfire enjoying drinks and snacks waiting for dinner.

Great camp dinner

Chicken curry.

Wonderful, looking forward to vicarious sharing of your adventures

Great! Looking forward to hunting action reports, hope your “no miss” bullets live up to their name.

Carrot bandoliers. Unique!

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Trying a few rifles in various calibers, as practice.

I see a Kahles Scope. This makes sense

Large caliber carrots!

Have fun!

Best of luck to all! Is Maktoum going to be bow hunting buffalo again this year?

It’ll be fun to see some posts on how the new and improved version of Rene does. I imagine the guys were surprised when she climbed down getting around like she did 20 years ago.

First day out after sighting in our rifles.

Followed a single buffalo bull for ages in a very short place in circles.

Very difficult to see the tracks on hard ground and grass.

Gave up and left him.

Saw a kudu bull and went after him.

Eventually found he was too young.

Then got into some real thickets.

Where visibility was about 2 yards.

Got chased by elephants and decided to clear out!

Had lunch.

In the afternoon found an old buffalo bull and shot him.

Got back to camp at 7.

Both the Vikings and Maktoum were back too.

They chased all sorts of animals but were not able to shoot anything.

Say G'Day to young Ryan for me mate. Good to see him back and I know there will be some competition on who gets the best drone footage!

Nice old, beat up bull
If you are using the Sig image stabilizing binos, please let us know how well they work.

I noticed the name on the Cruiser. Did Alan and Roy change the name of their company?