The Accurate Reloading Forums
How many have you fed?
09 July 2009, 09:11
bluefinHow many have you fed?
While in CAR I shot a 50" LDE. Big boy. I asked the outfitter how long would an animal this size feed his crew? He replied that he had 40 employees (all male) in camp and it would feed them for 3 days.
While in RSA, I shot a number of different (plains) animals and I saw all that meat being carried off to market.
I can't imagine how many people an elephant would feed and for how long.
So, with all your safaris and various hunts, how much meat do you think you've supplied to the people of Africa?
Note, these kinds of question/answers are the ones that absolutely destroy the greenies!!!
09 July 2009, 18:23
butchlocwith the exception of RSA i don't think i've ever been anywhere where the meat didn't go to #1 the staff, #2 the nearby people. In RSA the game ranches are replacing beef ranches, thus it is still going to the people, with the landowner getting paid for the meat, which is what he is farming for and providing a living for all the workers and their families
09 July 2009, 19:07
dogcatBluefin,
I have no idea about your original question other than what I read in the Lewis and Clark Journals. Lewis wrote that each man on his crew could and often consummed 9 lbs of meat per man per day. The hunter for the outfit was constantly hunting as they moved up the Missouri River.
He also commented once that they shot a mule deer that was totally eaten (guts, bones and all) by some starving Indians. He did not mention how many Indians other than to say they ate of it.
09 July 2009, 20:25
Bryan ChickWell, we fed how ever many people it takes to eat two elephants.
09 July 2009, 22:13
Scott KingI was a bit bothered by some info shared on a tv program regarding Kenyan lions the other day.
The program was promoting the economic value of live lions over dead ones taken by hunters. The program mentioned that in one case a photo safari lodge in Kenya charged as much as $250.00 per night per guest to stay and view live lions. Wow.
On my upcoming leopard buffalo hunt in two weeks I'll be paying better than $1100. per night to be there and ofcourse better than $3k to take a leopard if so lucky. All other trophy fees will apply if possible I have no doubt.
My point is I am providing quite a bit more "feed" to Mokore Safari and the 80 camp staff they employ than the photo safari in Kenya. I believe that in most of Africa the American dollars we hunters leave provide far more "feed" than the camera tote'ers.
Sure, on my first trip I ended up with quite a bit of dead red meat laying around and sure it fed more than 80 folks as I see it for a day or two.
09 July 2009, 23:00
JohnHuntMy bull giraffe was spread out among 5 villages
10 July 2009, 01:36
Equinsu OchaOn one hunt, my giraffe bull was dispersed to the nearby village..
Then on my latest hunt, I took 3 elephant bulls.. Half of one bull was taken (after it was cut up) on a flatbed truck to Harare and Bulawayo to the hospitals to feed the patients.. The hospitals were full of cholera patients and they were having food shortages to feed all the patients.. The other 2 were disributed amongst the Parks staff and the nearby villages.
11 July 2009, 05:33
LDHunterquote:
Originally posted by dogcat:
I read in the Lewis and Clark Journals. Lewis wrote that each man on his crew could and often consummed 9 lbs of meat per man per day.
I remember reading that too... That's a LOT of meat but it's what they had and I imagine they were performing some pretty difficult tasks.
$bob$
11 July 2009, 05:45
N E 450 No2I have fed several hundred people in Zimbabwe with the game I have shot.
I have been in the remote villages. The people there, the same ones that showed up to my elephant kills, were very nice, very friendly.
They began cooking right next to the dead elephant.
They shared what little they had with me.
We all ate elephant meat cooked directly on the fire.
For the next several days, when we passed a village, there was elephant meat hanging everywhere dryingout.
DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY
11 July 2009, 07:48
nopride2the PH estimated the the elephant I shot in Zim. fed 200 to 250 families. When the last of the elephant was carted off, there wasn't enough left for the vultures. I saw meat drying a surprising number of miles away from the kill. I ate some of it, good but tough (think tire tread, steel belted radial).
Dave
11 July 2009, 17:32
jetdrvrI don't know how many I've fed, but it's in the many thousands. I flew relief in the Sudan, Ethiopia and Angola for eight years. I've often wondered if it did any long term good.
12 July 2009, 01:43
OldHandgunHunterquote:
So, with all your safaris and various hunts, how much meat do you think you've supplied to the people of Africa?
A heck of a lot, but not nearly enough. Guess I'll have to just keep working on it.
When you get bored with life, start hunting dangerous game with a handgun.
14 July 2009, 02:53
L. David KeithOn like ants they came until the carcass was covered from sight. Within an hour it was reduced to bones; thirty minutes later nothing but stomach contents littered the ground. The working mass had done their work and disappeared into the darkness of the jungle. I stood alone in silence....content.
LDK
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/6881000262Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018
http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142Hunting 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#212108409Natal: 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#926103994110 days in the Stormberg Mountains
http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322Back 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."
