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To all of you who have been very helpful in sharing informaion and living through my first Holland blowing up my sincere thanks. My second Holland Dominion is a younger girl and shoots and handles very well. I leave Monday morning for a month in Botswana with Chris Collins, hunting elephant, leopard and plains game plus bird shooting and fishing in the Delta. Ian Lewis will be going along to film it. This is truly a trip of a lifetime for me so I am slightly pupmed. Everyone have a great spring. CFA *If you are not hunting in Africa you are planning to hunt in Africa* | ||
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Have a great and safe trip. We'll be waiting for the report. | |||
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CFA Good luck on your hunt. Give Ian my regards. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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A month in Botswana, an H&H by your side, big elephant and leopard and lechwe on the menu...outstanding! Please take a lot of digital pictures too, including of the Delta, and if you need any help posting them when you get back, let me know. Have a great hunt, and don't come home early! | |||
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Your living a dream and living it large! "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Best of luck! Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Fred: Good luck, my friend! Stay safe and have a wonderful time! 577NitroExpress Double Rifle Shooters Society Francotte .470 Nitro Express  If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... | |||
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Come on CFA! Your only slightly pumped?  465H&H | |||
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CFA, The best of luck to you. Sounds like a real adventure. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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thought you guys might enjoy these pics taken in a photo concession that adjoined our hunting concession in the Okavango. the previous evening we photoed and videoed the pride females stalking a buff herd right at dark and came back the next morning to see what the killed. the females and cubs were feeding on the kil when we drove up. filmed them from a distance of 25 feet for 10-15 minutes when the old man showed up and chased them off. we continued filming for 30 minutes from the back of the Landcruiser as he ate his fill. it was an amazing experience to watch and hear rib bones snapping, muscles tearing from so close in an open truck!!! enjoy-   jerry Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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Wow! Have a great trip! JPK  Free 500grains | |||
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Fred, All the luck in the world to you, my friend. Hunt hard, shoot straight and enjoy the hunting the greatest game animal on earth! Cheers, Russell On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Fred, Have a GREAT trip. Take lots of picturess and notes. Can't wait to hear all about it! -Steve --------  www.zonedar.com If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning DRSS C&H 475 NE -------- | |||
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Shoot straight, you lucky bastard! Geoff OOORAH!!! | |||
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Best of luck to you -- I am sure that you will have a great time. ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Have a GREAT and safe hunt. It sounds Classic...  | |||
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Best of luck! I'm already looking forward to the hunting report. ____________________________________________ "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett. | |||
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CFA Have a great trip.Cant wait for your report. My email address for Chris Collins doesn't seem to work anymore. Do you have his email address? Don Alexander(starbuck) | |||
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CFA Get a big bull and have the time of your life... Make the shot... Mike | |||
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CFA, A full report with TONS of pics when you get back! Have a fantastic Safari!  Best of Luck! Dave | |||
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Thanks for all the good wishes, hopefully they will help us find that 80 pounder. The safari will be in the classic style with Chris going out to the area we will hunt and setting up a full tented camp just like his mentor Harry Selby used to do. Harry will join us for lunch one day as he is good friends with Chris. Don, Chris's e-mail address is gamesaf@info.bw as you may know he sometimes does not respond very quickly, true bush baby. CFA *If you are not hunting in Africa you are planning to hunt in Africa* | |||
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Have an excellent trip ! Good luck and hope you find what you ae dreaming off.  Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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You're probably on your way already but Good Luck. Sounds like the ultimate safari. ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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Fred, Have a great trip! I am envious, especally at the chance to talk with Harry Selby! I you run into Mark Selby, ask him how much he wants for the Jeffery!  Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Best of luck to you. That Okavango is one of the most beautiful places I have seen in Africa. | |||
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I doubt many people can top that experience on a full month safari... That's just AWESOME. 577NitroExpress Double Rifle Shooters Society Francotte .470 Nitro Express If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... | |||
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Best of luck. A month in the Okavango - sounds like heaven. | |||
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Well, now he's REALLY pumped. I heard from Fred (CFA) on his sat phone from Botswana a little over an hour ago. He got a 70+ pounder this morning with his Holland .465. From the sounds of it, I don't think his feet are going to touch the ground for the rest of his safari! Congratulations, Fred! ---------------------------------------------- "Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder." | |||
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Very cool! MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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WTG Fred! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Outstanding!  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Congratulations on your Ele Fred! That old H&H did the trick,and Mark will be crowing for months about that excellently loaded ammo your useing! Can't wait to hear all the particulars! Stay well! Jambo!....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Unlikely as he does not have "his" Jeffery any longer. Mark has .....retired from PH'ing and sold off the one rifle he has been using for the past decade, a .416 rigby by rigby "...Them, they were Giants!" J.A. Hunter describing the early explorers and settlers of East Africa hunting is not about the killing but about the chase of the hunt.... Ortega Y Gasset | |||
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