Botswana bound

02 April 2007, 00:01

CFA

Botswana bound

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

02 April 2007, 00:08

Navaluk

Have a great and safe trip. We'll be waiting for the report.

02 April 2007, 00:49

N E 450 No2

CFA
Good luck on your hunt.

Give Ian my regards.

02 April 2007, 01:09

Bill C

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!

02 April 2007, 01:20

SBT

Your living a dream and living it large!

02 April 2007, 01:29

Michael Robinson

Best of luck!

02 April 2007, 01:37

577NitroExpress

Fred:

Good luck, my friend! Stay safe and have a wonderful time!

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If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming...

02 April 2007, 02:16

465H&H

Come on CFA! Your only slightly pumped?

465H&H

02 April 2007, 02:29

MARK H. YOUNG

CFA,

The best of luck to you. Sounds like a real adventure.

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02 April 2007, 02:47

jdollar

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

02 April 2007, 02:56

JPK

Wow! Have a great trip!

JPK

02 April 2007, 03:06

bwanamrm

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

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02 April 2007, 03:20

Steve

Fred,

Have a GREAT trip. Take lots of picturess and notes. Can't wait to hear all about it!

-Steve

02 April 2007, 04:00

Willy's .450

Shoot straight, you lucky bastard!

Geoff

OOORAH!!!

02 April 2007, 04:36

Charles_Helm

Best of luck to you -- I am sure that you will have a great time.

02 April 2007, 04:40

luv2safari

Have a GREAT and safe hunt. It sounds Classic...

02 April 2007, 05:31

Lhook7

Best of luck! I'm already looking forward to the hunting report.

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02 April 2007, 06:07

starbuck

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)

02 April 2007, 07:01

retreever

CFA Get a big bull and have the time of your life...

Make the shot...

Mike

02 April 2007, 07:06

DavidC

CFA,

A full report with TONS of pics when you get back!

Have a fantastic Safari!

Best of Luck!
Dave

02 April 2007, 07:37

CFA

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

02 April 2007, 10:39

Safari-Hunt

Have an excellent trip !
Good luck and hope you find what you ae dreaming off.

02 April 2007, 15:46

Will

You're probably on your way already but Good Luck. Sounds like the ultimate safari.

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02 April 2007, 17:34

Rusty

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
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02 April 2007, 17:39

Wendell Reich

Best of luck to you. That Okavango is one of the most beautiful places I have seen in Africa.

02 April 2007, 18:17

577NitroExpress

quote:
Harry will join us for lunch one day as he is good friends with Chris.

I doubt many people can top that experience on a full month safari... That's just AWESOME.

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Francotte .470 Nitro Express

If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming...

02 April 2007, 21:33

TerryR

Best of luck. A month in the Okavango - sounds like heaven.

19 April 2007, 23:46

400 Nitro Express

quote:
Originally posted by CFA:
This is truly a trip of a lifetime for me so I am slightly pumped.

CFA

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!
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19 April 2007, 23:49

MARK H. YOUNG

Very cool!

20 April 2007, 08:46

Rusty

WTG Fred!

20 April 2007, 19:23

Charles_Helm

Outstanding!

20 April 2007, 21:54

MacD37

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!

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23 April 2007, 12:22

Bwanamich

quote:
Originally posted by Rusty:
I you run into Mark Selby, ask him how much he wants for the Jeffery!

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

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