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Ladies and Gentlemen,

A well knowm member of AR is currently on a safari. He is on his last day, and told me he had to pay $700,000 for this priviledge!

I have some photos of his trip, and will post them later on.

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You are not serious-

Are you?

If true, he must have taken 3 of everything and had some great entertainment in camp at night....


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If it's someone who can pull this off as frequent as most people go on hunting trips or safaris and has earned his money then I congradulate him.If it's a crazy stunt then I feel sorry for him.
 
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Which country did he buy?


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A 2 day Scrub Hare Safari, $700,000 ZIM dollars?


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A $650 000.00 custom Holland and Holland double and the rest for the safari in Tanznia ???


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If it's someone who can pull this off as frequent as most people go on hunting trips or safaris and has earned his money then I congradulate him.If it's a crazy stunt then I feel sorry for him.


It is his first, and he said he is looking forward to many more?


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With the new trophy fees in Tanzania, I'm looking for a couple of extra grand for the animals on my 7 day license. Maybe I could check out the guy's pockets when he hangs up his britches at night. My ex-wife used to do pretty well that way.


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The most expensive safari I have ever known was a good friend's of mine.

He wanted to take wife on Safari. She told him she would go if she could get some knew tits. He granted her wish. She went with. He went crazy shooting about 3 times as many animals as he thought he would. She got mad. A jeweler just happened to visit the camp, friend of the outfitter. My friend buys a 3 karat diamond ring from him without even seeing the goods to get the Mrs. settled down. Jewler delivered the ring the next morning. All went well the rest of the trip. Two weeks after coming home, Wife tells my friend she is pregnant. He is still paying to this day and she left him with the kid last year.
 
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If it's someone who can pull this off as frequent as most people go on hunting trips or safaris and has earned his money then I congradulate him.If it's a crazy stunt then I feel sorry for him.


It is his first, and he said he is looking forward to many more?
So am I in my dreams. Also a big yacht.If he is making enough money to go on million dollar vacations then I would like to know what business he is in.so I can see where the money is.
 
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To tell the truth, I think this guy got suckered or he is being flown evey day back to the Sea Cliff suite and then back every morning..
But I also look at it this way, it is his money to spend...

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I think the honor of the world's most expensive safari is still the famous 1909 Safari of US President Teddy Roosevelt. IIRC that was a 1 year long safari costing a cool $1 million USD. Over 500 animals taken and several hundred collected for zoos.
 
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It's certainly possible and I know it has happened before, and I mean in recent years, not in 1909-10. It's just a matter of daily rates, trophy fees and duration.


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Originally from Retreever--"To tell the truth, I think this guy got suckered or he is bing flown evey day back to the Sea Cliff suite and then back every morning..
But I also look at it this way, it is his money to spend...

Mike"

Geez Mike, i'd think he'd be getting sucked and blown more than once a day for that price.

oops, my bad, you said suckered and flown. Sorry. Wink


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I think the honor of the world's most expensive safari is still the famous 1909 Safari of US President Teddy Roosevelt. IIRC that was a 1 year long safari costing a cool $1 million USD. Over 500 animals taken and several hundred collected for zoos.


This is truer than you think! $1,000,000 US in 1909 would be $15,000,000 US in today's dollars. However, Teddy's safari was likely paid for by the tax payers is the USA. I doubt even one dollar of the cost was beared by Teddy!
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I think the honor of the world's most expensive safari is still the famous 1909 Safari of US President Teddy Roosevelt. IIRC that was a 1 year long safari costing a cool $1 million USD. Over 500 animals taken and several hundred collected for zoos.


This is truer than you think! $1,000,000 US in 1909 would be $15,000,000 US in today's dollars. However, Teddy's safari was likely paid for by the tax payers is the USA. I doubt even one dollar of the cost was beared by Teddy!
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MacD37, that is incorrect. The Roosevelt safari was paid for entirely with private funds.

TR wrote a column for the Saturday Evening Post for which he was paid enough to cover all costs. He later used those columns and other materials for his book, African Game Trails. The cost of the Roosevelt safari came to approximately $50,000 1909-10 dollars, which as Buliwyf has said would be roughly equal in buying power to somewhat more than $1 million 2007 dollars.

But again, TR's safari lasted for an entire year and involved nearly a dozen hunters and observers. I wonder if anyone could do that for $1 million today?

Sorry for the hijack!


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$700,000 for this priviledge!


That better include all 3 of the girls that live with Hefner as "personal assistants". Big Grin
 
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I live in the poor section of Pa and I know plenty of people that would be flabergasted at what most posters here have spent on a single safari. I know my wife would. Eeker
 
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It sure is nice to dream....

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If he is chasing girls in las Vegas maybe....
Or he ended buying the hunting concession... bewildered

I prefer to think he is doing the one in las Vegas... Big Grin

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Did he rmember to bring adequate tip $$ for such a safari?? Roll Eyes....you surely wouldn't shortchange your PH and trackers...would you?

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Folks,

I don't know what Saeed has in mind but $700,000 would be an easy figure to come up with once you started booking a number of 21 day safaris to be allowed shoot multiples of limited quota species. Throw in a black rhino and a white rhino and $700,000 is an easy figure to come up with. People do this type of thing more often than you might think.

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I have to hear the reason for this out of site price! If you hunt with Robin Hurt in Tanzania it will cost you dearly but 700,000 seems unreal. Please let us know as soon as possible.
 
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It is easy to do this. Multiple hunters (family members) in multiple countries hunting high dollar species.
 
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Gentlemen,

There were only TWO individuals on this safari clap

They actually think they got a bargain too!?


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no problem - just use zim dollars
 
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Was the hunt in Angola?
 
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Was the hunt in Angola?


No, this country is a bit north than that.


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Perhaps he managed to buy a Walia Ibex?


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All I know is that somewhere out there, there is a PH in such a state of bliss that he is in no danger of rolling out of bed at night....


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As stated previously, $700,000 in what currency and where?
 
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That is certainly a lot of money in my book, but for two people looking to bag everything they can it certainly isn't unreasonable let alone impossible. One of my clients spent $70,000 for just one animal he wanted!
 
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Mike/retreever had it right the first time, he just typed too fast--

the two fellows are being sucked and blown each day! God I wish i was them.


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There has to be a catch. Unless you have Bill Gates money there is no way any sane person would spend that kind of money on one hunt. What did he do? Buy out the entire elephant quota of Botswana?
Next time does he need someone to carry his bags?

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There is a catch: it's all of us in Saeed's little net of intrigue. The clue appears to be a country north of Angola. Some of you world financiers and travelers need to figure it out for the rest of us.
 
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Was the hunt in Angola?

No, this country is a bit north than that.
Hummm..."a bit north"... a CAR/Cameroon grand slam perhaps? Or more north yet, say Egypt?
 
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He didn't say African safari.
 
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safari: 1890, from Swahili, lit. "journey, expedition," from Arabic, lit. "referring to a journey," from safar "journey."
 
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this thread was started by a known prankster and further extended by the same, somehow I have the feeling the the hook is on the line waiting for a large bite Smiler
 
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Ladies and Gentlemen,

A well knowm member of AR is currently on a safari. He is on his last day, and told me he had to pay $700,000 for this priviledge!


Was that in Lira?
 
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