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Mike, Congratulations on your fun safari. Your pictures and stories have been appreciated by all.  | |||
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Fantastic trophies Retreever! Wow, ele, leopard, croc, hippo, buff and more. I enjoyed the "thank you" t-shirts too. Way cool! 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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Mike, Congratulations to a great safari!! | |||
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Thats a big mamba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ray Matthews Matthews Outdoor Adventures 2808 Bainbridge Trail Mansfield, Texas 76063 | |||
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Congratulations Mike on your terrific safari!! | |||
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Mamba mia! Thatsa big mamba. SCI Life Member DSC Life Member | |||
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Mike & Cherie, Good to hear from you on Thursday! I am looking forward to all of the pictures and commentary about your experience's!!!!! We all hoped that you would have a "Hunt of a lifetime"! Glad to have you both home safe and sound!!!!!! Doc52 B. Searcy & Co .577 NE Double Rifle Shooters Society "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote!" Benjamin Franklin 1759 | |||
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Great start to a lot of future story telling. That snake looks deadly even dead. A first rate safari for a first rate family. Thank you, Frank | |||
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Congratulations Mike!! ____________________________________________ "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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What a great pair of tusks. Congratulations. ------------------------------- 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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Mike! That was a heck of a hunt. Thank you for sharing it with us. 465H&H | |||
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Love the photo of the staff with the AR tee shirts and the monster croc. The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense | |||
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Hello RETREEVER congratulations on your safari, your photos are great i will be hunting with pierre september 2007 i also have a love hate relationship with snakes did you see alot of snakes tracking buffalo and were there snakes in camp thanks for your time........ | |||
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Will be posting all stories as new posts on the African hunting forum... Mike | |||
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Come on Mike! I'm on the edge of my seat here! By the way, welcome home! And great going! Will I be seeing some photo's at the chapter meeting in September? "America's Meat - - - SPAM" As always, Good Hunting!!! Widowmaker416 | |||
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Welcome back Mike. It was fun reading the relayed posts. Will look forward to your personal accounts in the coming weeks. | |||
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Hi Mike! Sorry I missed you today, we'll chat soon. Congrat's on a terrific safari - well done my friend!  Bill | |||
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I just posted under the 'chop chop' post, but for friends and family following this post, want to give the link to a photo album I'm creating from an observer view point. It's not done yet, hopefully within the next day or two. And I will make sure that Mike gets a story or 2 out today!!! Cherie click on 'slide show' after you get into the site http://picasaweb.google.com/retreever/MamaChopChopSAdventure | |||
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Mike, thanks for sharing! Wonderful pictures of a fabulous hunt! Glad y'all had fun! 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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The slide show is the greatest! Thanks for sharing, loved the shots of the flora. Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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Great slideshow, I really enjoyed it. | |||
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Would you tell us what camera equipment was used? Beautiful slide show. Thank you. "In these days of mouth-foaming Disneyism......"--- Capstick Don't blame the hunters for what the poachers do!---me Benefactor Member NRA | |||
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This is just.........breathtaking  Arild Iversen. | |||
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The camera was a sony cyper shot with super steady function and a 12X optical zoom 5.1 megapixels..Bought it last summer for wife to practice with....She did a swell job with the photos.... Mike | |||
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Mike is this image stabilization technology? If so it might become a must have for me. Thank you. "In these days of mouth-foaming Disneyism......"--- Capstick Don't blame the hunters for what the poachers do!---me Benefactor Member NRA | |||
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Mike, I just watched the slide show, WOW what great pic and what a time you had! That croc is amazing! And to think they haven't changed in what, 100 million yrs or so! Congratulations again and thanks for the running updates, it was almost like we were there, but not quite. Steve(NOT Shakari)Robinson NRA Life Member SCI Life Member DRSS | |||
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Mike Glad you had a great Safari. Well Done. Hope to see you in Dallas at DSC. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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I am printing up a few of my stories for anybody to read that may haven't...I just finished reading " My last post before leaving for the airport and my safari of a lifetime." Smiling reading how my children kept all up to what was going on, and my friends comments... Let the stories continue in Dallas...  Mike | |||
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Was trying to print my mamba story and I erased the damn thing.... Mike | |||
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Maybe Don can pull it off the backup. | |||
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Dear Mike, Thank you (and your wonderful family) for sharing your adventure with us. Your pictures were wonderful as were your trophies. For reasons I can't explain, the post with "Asante Sana" suddenly brought tears to my eyes. My word, I miss Africa! Only three and a half months to go. Congratulations on a wonderful trip. Kudude | |||
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Dan, Thank you... Mike | |||
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I cannot believe this hunt was 10 years ago... What a wonderful time with my wife in the Selous. To my children keeping my AR friends in the loop... Saeed and all involved thank you's can never say it all... A blast from the past... Mike aka retreever | |||
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I do the same thing...I can't believe it has been "x" years since "y" hunt. | |||
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You guys are getting old.... Glad I am not...  | |||
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Mike, a hunt of a lifetime! | |||
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Always great to remember our favorite hunts; yours was a classic Mike! Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Depends how old you are now. I am 66, and if you are younger than me, you actually get older every year more than I do. Here is an example. If you are 50, each year you get older by 2%, while in a year I get older by only 1.5% | |||
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Being an engineer and someone who does not trust accounting... I am not sure, but this makes Walter aging at a very slow rate!!!! I am 61, so I am gaining on you! | |||
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