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What do you do between hunts???
06 August 2007, 13:50
Gerhard.DelportWhat do you do between hunts???
To pay the bills and for the next hunt?
I am a free lance PH and Estate Agent.
So if I am not hunting animals I am hunting property.
Have to keep hunting.
Gerhard
Gerhard
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www.fffsafaris.co.za 06 August 2007, 14:46
Gerhard.DelportOne day.
Would love to hear a bugling Elk and calling a coyote.
Gerhard
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www.fffsafaris.co.za 06 August 2007, 16:17
Andrew McLarenDo in between hunts?
Plan more hunting!
Besides that? I'm a consultant water treatment and environmental management scientific adviser. Right now most of my time is spent on designing and planning the implementation of an integrated environmental monitoring program for the project team involved with the remediation of an ultra-nutrient enriched dam, the world famous Hartebeespoort Dam.
In good hunting.
Andrew McLaren
06 August 2007, 16:22
Andrew McLarenquote:
Originally posted by Jakkals:
One day.
Would love to hear a bugling Elk and calling a coyote.
Gerhard
My time for this, plus hopefully a wolf's howl also, is soon comming. I'm off to Alaska in 10 days' time. Would like to meet up with AR members in Anchorage on evening of 21 August, or alternatively 30 & 31 August, or day of 10 September 2007. My flight out is only at 22.00 on 10 September.
PM if interested.
In good hunting.
Andrew McLaren.
06 August 2007, 16:26
Aspen Hill AdventuresI am always planning a hunt but when not hunting I try to pay the bills in numerous ways. My 'paying' job is working for the State of Vermont as a criminalist. I also farm, I do organic eggs and this year obtained my first commercial account. And lastly, I run my own small booking agency. I don't think the last one has provided much income but it allows me to share good hunting venues with people from all over!
~Ann
06 August 2007, 16:40
Terry BlauwkampI'm in the vegetable and food distribution business. If you live in the Midwst, a lot of what you each in resturants comes from us.
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06 August 2007, 17:07
Gerhard.DelportGood hunting Andrew
Gerhard
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www.fffsafaris.co.za 06 August 2007, 17:10
JudgeGI enjoy having two great daughters, one, alas, I take to college on Friday.
This week, I'll go 30 minutes south and snoop around 1115's woods for a hog in preperation for my hunt in the Selous and pop some caps on my doubles.
Work... retired judge who still practices law to pay for college and safaris.
JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous.
06 August 2007, 17:40
MacD37Well gentlemen, once you reach the age of majority, some of the health problems I presently enjoy, and the fixed income becomes a concern, the serious hunting, comes very infrequently. SO! The short local hunts, for American game become the focus more, and more. Still, my heart is buried deep in the red soil of southern Africa!
like most, in their 70s, I have a large family of many generations, and spend a lot of time with my grand kids, and great grand kids. In fact, I just returned home last night from my Grand daughter's wedding, and visiting with about 50 of my relatives, some I hadn't seen in years.
....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1
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"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
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06 August 2007, 18:15
David HulmeI write about hunting and produce hunt journals for clients. I don't have much money and probably never will have, but I lead a fantastic life! I get to live each hunt twice, if you like. Problem is balancing time spent hunting and time spent writing - I tend to do a little too much hunting! Wonder why?
Dave
06 August 2007, 18:32
KenscoWe help people punch holes in the ground. If they find oil and gas maybe they punch more holes. Whether they find it or not, we get paid the same.
06 August 2007, 18:34
Steve MalinverniI work in Vodafone, a mobile telecommunications company, waiting the third week of September to begin to hunt wild boars, and dreaming a work in Africa because I thik that the rithm of the life can be different. And also because I want to be there near all around the year.
bye
Stefano
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06 August 2007, 19:04
DoglegI'm a directional driller, planning, calculating and drilling horizontal oil and gas wells.
Spend as much quality time as I can with a great family, especially my one and only grandson.
Support my wife's efforts in the local art community.
Shoot, reload, shoot some more; big bore rifles, sporting shotguns, and M1911 45 ACP tactial pistol.
Lots of golf.
Spend a lot of time in the mountains--I can walk to the National Forest from my door-- and log as much time in the gym as I can.
Read as much Africana and US Western history as I can find.
Retired from the Los Angeles police department as a commander. Consultant to US State Department and US DOJ on domestic law enforcement projects in two central European countries. Expert witness on police special operations, emergency management and internal investigations.
I have one hunting article published in The African Sporting Gazette, and have colaborated on several fictional works about law enforcement set in a variety of venues.
Currently in chapter development for a novel based on a series of personal experiences while with LAPD.
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06 August 2007, 19:36
L. David KeithI own a metal detecting business (hobby, professional and security equipment) and returned to the Hunting Consultant/Booking business last year. I retired from the Taxidermy/Hunting Consultant trade some years ago, but missed the hunting consultant side of the business so much I started my Gray Ghost Safaris company to mainly focus on Africa, although I do have friends in the States who run hunting operations. My past clients hunted with Dave Joubert and Geoff Broom in Zimbabwe back in the 70's and early 80's. I try to fit in saltwater fishing in our Gulf Coast a couple of times a year and a little Bass and Trout fishing here at home. My hobbies are collecting Civil War relics and prehistoric artifacts (arrowheads). Other than hunting big game, I hunt waterfowl anywhere I can find them, and I'm looking forward to meeting and hunting birds with our own Juan Pozzi down in Argentina in the near future. I would say hunting Africa is the apex of my hunting life style and can't wait to get back.
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06 August 2007, 19:37
prairiewolfI shoot reload shoot some more, talk about and read about Africa, when I'm not doing any of those I'm chasing White tail, Mulies, or Elk around with a stick and string and I work in the oilsands of Fort McMurray Alberta to pay for it all.
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06 August 2007, 19:47
CRUSHERsell real estate like the fate of the free world depends on it untill I get to hunting season then I am absent from all things work.
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06 August 2007, 19:49
CRUSHERgerhard make it to texas and you will get some hunting in we will even put you up for a while
VERITAS ODIUM PARIT
06 August 2007, 21:41
TerryRPlay golf, target shoot, do a little boating, play with my granddaughter, read, eat too much, don't get enough exercise - you know, the usual
I have a specialty door manufacturing company at which I try to make some money and keep out of the way of those who really know what they are doing.
TerryR
06 August 2007, 21:43
zimbabweNuthin. Retired, spend most of my time fiddling around with guns. At 73 the vengence of time catches up. Some bird hunting but afraid due to cost my African hunting is at an end.
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06 August 2007, 22:03
SGraves155Practice medicine in an ER.
06 August 2007, 22:22
Gerhard.Delportquote:
Originally posted by CRUSHER:
gerhard make it to texas and you will get some hunting in we will even put you up for a while
Thanks for the invite,
I will stay in contact, must just find a way to get over the pond.
Gerhard
Gerhard
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www.fffsafaris.co.za 06 August 2007, 22:51
FjoldI manage a workshop where we fix things:
Frank
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
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06 August 2007, 22:55
MJinesAre those aero-derivative turbines?
Mike
06 August 2007, 22:57
TemboI own a small Civil and Structural Engineering company with my father who is semi retired. We specialise in On-Site Sewage Disposal Systems.
Tom
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07 August 2007, 00:00
ledvmI am a veterinarian, more specifically an equine surgeon.
Just about all off time is spent hunting, reloading, shooting, and a little fishing once in a while.
Sincerely,
Lane
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07 August 2007, 00:06
cable68I wait like a vulture for bad things to happen to people in order to pay for future hunts. Gallbladders, appendices, various cancers, arteries clogging up.....General sugeon by trade
In the US I've mainly been hunting waterfowl the last few years.
Caleb
07 August 2007, 00:13
dogcatDrill oil and gas wells for an independent energy company.
I love $3 gasoline - funds my hunting.
07 August 2007, 00:49
JTEXI am an Electrical Contractor. I always wanted to do something honest, but Electrical work is all I know.
My wife says all I do between hunts is pout but I'm not sure she is right.
I fish and think about hunting. I handload and shoot alot and think about hunting. Sometimes I even work and think about hunting.
07 August 2007, 01:24
D MarshallI am a high school principal and absolutely enjoy all of the information on this site. I will be making my first safari in the summer of 2009.
To pay the bills I kill bugs,30 years at it and still haven't made a dent in what crawls around New Oreans. I train hunting dogs, target shoot,flyfish,Duckhunt,chase a few quail.
spend as much time with my daughter and granddaughter as I can. Dream of a second trip to Africia.
JD
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07 August 2007, 04:33
Cazador humilde'Sold Truck Equipment, Bucket Trucks, and Digger Derricks in a family business to power companies, electrical contractors, municipalities, states and gov't agencies in TX, NM, LA, and OK until we sold the whole kit and caboodle to our major vendor. Hard to do emotionally; slam-dunk decision finacially. Now trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up (before I die).
This is a great thread and it is very humbling to read the common "thread" that makes us "African Hunters" and stretches from ladies, grandfathers that have walked for years in the African bush to gentlemen and that are carefully planning their first trip. Good hunting, best wishes and God bless to all.
07 August 2007, 04:51
budicealei just work as much OT as i can get. never been to africa but still have next season here to pay for.
between one hunting season and the next i try to get in as much hunting as possible
air rifle safaris for the never ending plague of pigeons we have where i work
try to convince the local landowners that now is the time to get rid of some of those pesky wild pigs.
taking my daughter shooting
etc, etc...
blaming guns for crime is like blaming silverware for rosie o'donnell being fat
07 August 2007, 04:54
ben shelormade a few knives and engraved some guns now i deal in female problems and write a ransome note now an again. lately i smear jelly on a 50yd target and shoot bees. i never hunted in africa except in ya'lls stories,thanks ben.
07 August 2007, 04:57
budicealeben shelor
i'm going to have to try that jelly thing
blaming guns for crime is like blaming silverware for rosie o'donnell being fat
07 August 2007, 05:03
SteveI herd electrons.
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07 August 2007, 07:31
Fjoldquote:
Originally posted by MJines:
Are those aero-derivative turbines?
Yep,
GE LM5000 and LM2500. Know anyone in California who needs a job working on them?
For you airplane types the CF6-56 and CF6-6 variant engines
Frank
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
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07 August 2007, 08:00
MJinesWe own five power plants in California, in the LA basin. Our turbines are a bit bigger than those, but they certainly look familiar.
Mike
08 August 2007, 10:19
AtkinsonWhen I am not hunting, I am booking hunts or guiding hunts.
Mostly these days I rope, rope and rope...I rope steers (team rope) with my 15 year old grandson, my 12 year old granddaughter, my daughter, my son in law. That is what I love most about life today, being able to do about whatever I please, but it took a lot of years to get to that point...
Tonight I won $160.00 roping so I am on the road to success and fame, now to win another $60 or $70,000 and I will be almost even!
I also need to get to be real good friends with LEDVM who posts here, I see that he is an equine surgeon, maybe someday trade him a hunt for saving Mojo my good horse!!
Ray Atkinson
Atkinson Hunting Adventures
10 Ward Lane,
Filer, Idaho, 83328
208-731-4120
rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com
08 August 2007, 13:47
Africa Wild MediaWhen not filming hunts or in the "Off" season, I freelance fixing laptops, desktops and servers. Iam Dell, IBM(Lenovo) and HP certified which helps pay the bills in quiet times...
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