Back in August 2006 with our own AR member Brad Rolston for Rhino, Leopard, Sable, Hippo, Crocodile, bushpig and various and other sundry animals (i.e. huge kudu, warthog, impala, bushbuck etc, etc, if the animal and the moment presents itself) Oh, by the way, my wife will be going as well and doing some hunting. She now has the African bug too after going with me for the first time last June.

Mark, where in Scotland and who will you be hunting with?

Mrs. & I are going to Namibia for 14 days of PG hnting then Etosha for 3 nights & Swakomaund on the coast for two more nights with a desert and boat tour. All with Dirk & Rita Rohrmann.

Well, I'll probably be sitting here in my office in front of this damn computer, reading about where everyone else has gone, and what trophies they have taken!................AGAIN!

Damn this retirement crap! I guess I could sell a few double rifles...........NAHHHHH! Maybe I'll just book a good black Bear, and Moose hunt in Alaska, at the Dallas show.

I figure to do some real hunting before its too late ...SO am planning for Marco Polo in Tajikistan.16.000 f + ! 'sides I didnt get an invitation to come to Africa again, ... yet

sheephunter send me a PM I'll tell you REAL horror story about that booking agent you used. Cats

Fourteen days with Chifuti Safaris in the Sapi area of the Zambezi Valley for leopard, hippo, buff and croc in late June, early July, 2006.
Hope to finally put ol' spots in the salt!

Die Ou Jagter,

We'll be with Mike McCrave and he picks us up at Inverness. I'm not sure of the actual estate we will hunt on. I've been corresponding with Mike for about 6 years and was finally able to put together a booking for '06.

Mark

bwanamrm, make sure you hang a bait where the Chewore river passes Fumbi hill, it's a great spot.
I will hunt next year for a Buff at ether Okavango or Natron or non trophy Elephant in Zim. Not quite sure yet.
Adam C.

Headed to S.A. Eastern Cape for a little plainsgame in April, first time to Africa

We´ll be hunting for week in the Limpopo in March, after that some days in Cape Town and a tour of the Western Cape -wife and kids coming along.

September I might find myself hunting black bear in Mannitoba...still some details to work out but it´s looking good!

Mark, I am sure you will enoy your stalking. I have hunted north of Inverness a couple of times. The first was in 97 and we hunted the Tricity estate near Dornoch and again in 03. I only hunted Sika on the latter hunt on a property called Rose Hill. If you hunt the hill stag you will find it a very challenging hunt very open much like hunting pronghorn. The stalkers want to get you within 100 yds. which greatly adds to the hunt. The hill stags are not like the estate stags and the NZ stags. My hill stage scored 169 7/8 and is Bronze. He was old and scared and had started to regress ie 5X5. If you can get time try to visit some of the distilleries. My favorite single malt comes from the town of Tain, Glenmorangie 18 yr.. Have a great hunt.

Zambia, Luangwa Valley, lower lupande in Sept for buff and plains game with Kwalata. Seems so far away but I think the time will fly!

Shuma and I will be hitting the Zambezi, Chewore North with Mike Payne, and Ian Gibson, at the big Five camp.

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Originally posted by ozhunter:
bwanamrm, make sure you hang a bait where the Chewore river passes Fumbi hill, it's a great spot.
I will hunt next year for a Buff at ether Okavango or Natron or non trophy Elephant in Zim. Not quite sure yet.
Adam C.

Adam,
Making a note on the Chewore River and Fumbi Hill area! Any other advice??????????

Hello

I will hunt the East Cape for Blue Duiker, Natal Red Duiker, Cape Grysbok and Bushpig. I will then go to Namibia to hunt the Damara Dik Dik and a klipspringer. I will also try for a 55 plus Kudu, and do some bird hunting

Regards
Aziz

Mark,

Please do a hunt report on your trip to Scotland when you get back. I'm half Scottish and go back to visit family every few years. Maybe next time I could combine a hunting trip with a family visit.

RSA, close to the Botswana border, NW of Joburg.
8 days PG in May with Clive Perkins.

Tanzania blocks K4 and R1 the first week of Sept. 2006. Booked through Wendell Reich of Hunters Quest. Buffalo/plains game. My first African hunt and I can hardly wait.

No Africa for me this year. I'm headed to Russia in May for Kamchatka Brown Bear.

BOWHUNR

Hmmmmmmmm,

Surgery (again!) to back this Thursday, then hopefully chemo for the chronic fatigue in August for forty weeks. After that, walk and fly around the Namib desert and the Okavango delta for starters. Lot of living to catch up on.

LD

[QUOTE]Originally posted by lawndart:
Hmmmmmmmm,

Surgery (again!) to back this Thursday, then hopefully chemo for the chronic fatigue in August for forty weeks. After that, walk and fly around the Namib desert and the Okavango delta for starters. Lot of living to catch up on.

Lawndart

Nevr lose faith, and you will come out better at the end of your surgery and treatment.

Brad

Off to Zim in August with HHK at Lemco for buf and plainsgame. This will be my first so needless to say I'm excited.

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Nevr lose faith, and you will come out better at the end of your surgery and treatment.

Brad

Thanks Brad,
I never will.

Good luck, lawndart ! One thing about a sore back in Africa - someone else can carry the eland !!

N'gagi, what month will you be in the valley this year and what Game are you after?
Adam C .

am presently planning a hunt with budiceal safaris for nov 06 in stephens county texas. will be after whitetail deer, feral hog, bobcat, coyote, cottontail rabbit, jackrabbit, and if i get real lucky, maybe a shot at a mountain lion(possible but not likely). if the weather stays warm enough, i may try for a late season bullfrog or rattlesnake(we got a snake the night before opening day of the 2005 season). will probably use my custom 98/22 barreled to 6.5x57 for everything except hogs and then it will be my cz550 in 9.3x62.

oh hell...i just realized i was on the african forum

but seriously....i hope all you guys have great hunts and even better memories of them...bud

Already booked for driven wild boar in Romania by the end of this month, and mountain goat/canadian moose in BC next September.

And daydreaming about a leopard hunt somwhere, sometime...

A shame no one is coming to Spain...

Montero

Camino Real Hunting Consultants SL
Spain
Alvaro@CRhunting.com

Eastern Cape in March,
going after eastern cape kudu, cape bushbuck, cape grysbok, vaal rhebok, southern mt. reedbuck, blue duiker, bontebok, cape/black/white springbok, maybe more if I`ll be able to save up..

August through October-- Botswana for elephant and RSA (Mkuze) for rhino.

RSA for Darted Rhino, Lioness and some unfinished plainsgame -- All with
bow and arrow.

Later on will be headed to Coastal BC for Mountain Goat.

My signature line sums it up. Taking the wife and three kids to Tanzania for 10 days with Safari Trackers. 7 days hunting in Lolkisale (buff and PG), then on to Ngorogoro for three days of sightseeing.

Namibia in May for PG & if I am lucky a Leopard.

Ahmed

Tanzania/Selous with PVT for buff in late Sept for 10 days. Myself, the wife and an old hunting buddy, all on our first safari. This oughta be good!

Wow! from some of these posts--I gather few of you have some serious coin in the bank! Could you consider adopting me and take me along on a "father and son" hunt?

seriously,
working on hunt in 06 --buff (not finalized yet
also elk in Idaho, pronghorn in Wyoming
07 maybe leopard with dogs -otherwize scheduling buff hunt in (working out details in Reno)
09-- scheduling now for PG, Leopard -possibly adding a buff if quotas etc. work out.

We are hunting In south Africa with a family business owned and run by Johan & Nadien Bosch Doyle and I first met them at the Dallas Safari Club Show about five years ago. The fact that they knew Doyle III was one of the factors in choosing them. There currently Seven family members going. We will have the 20,000 Acre property exclusively for the term of our hunt. The ranch is not cross-fenced We are hunting in the Northern Province in the Waterberg Mountains, north of Johannesburg. We will hunt eight days in June 2006.
Doyle

Namibia in July with Okatjuru Safaris. Touring Etosha NP first, few days on the coast after.

Got most of my planning done.

Will hunt the later half of Sept in Zim with Roger Whittall Safaris, PH Richard Tabor. First half or so will be in Chewore South for two tuskless elephants and a buff - buff not yet confirmed - then on to Humani for two or three more tuskless, nyala - also not yet confirmed - southern bushbuck, warthog and leopard.

I'm trying to add a hunt for two or three tuskless tuskless before or after this as well.

JPK

To Zim in early March with HHK and PH George Hallamore for 2 PAC bulls and one cow ele. Possibly some PG but there aren't many there in the communal lands. Will be taking my Biesen 375 and my new Searcy double 470 if Butch gets it done in time.

465H&H

I am going to hang out for an end of season non-trophy elephant in Zimbabwe. If it doesn't happen it doesn't happen. Also would like a cape buffalo as well but we will see.

Plus hopefully a couple more Aussie water buff.