Originally posted by DCS Member: I'm surprised by all the gin and tonic. Is there something I'm missing. I completely understand the beer, wine, and scotch.
you mean you don't like the taste of turpentine/pine tar??
21 March 2014, 09:00
Mike_Dettorre
Red Wine
Johnnie Walker Blue (I bring it)
Water
Coffee (I bring it and my own French Press)
Mike
Legistine actu quod scripsi?
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21 March 2014, 09:29
415sbaird
Evenings in TZ calls for a Kilimanjaro beer, but if I'm much farther south, a Zambezi beer is a treat.
Mornings are best started with a Tanganda tea!
Jack Hood
DRSS
21 March 2014, 09:48
Larry Sellers
+ 1 - pretty much the same for me. I think my PH and I split a cold beer on two occasions during my 30 day stay in Moz last year. Cigars are nasty to be around. I guess the folks that smoke them enjoy the things and more power to them. I can usually manage to stay upwind of the puffers, so no problem.
Will be back in Moz for 30 days again this year so my PH has been informed to have the two beers cold and ready .
Larry Sellers SCI(International)Life Member Sabatti 'trash' Double Shooter R8 Blaser DRSS
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Originally posted by Use Enough Gun: I don't drink booze, so for me, Diet Coke, Coke Light or Sparletta Green Creme Soda. And of course, good cold water. The PH saves a bundle on me relation to booze! And, I save on my safari by being able to get up and go every morning without a hangover or any other ill effects! LOL!
21 March 2014, 09:53
HGC Safaris
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Originally posted by ledvm:
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Originally posted by ledvm:
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Originally posted by d.unger: Black coffee in the morning beside the fire, plenty of water during the day, and cold Castle for the drive home. To finish the day, a single crown by the fire.
Thats a very good regimine.
But...I have NEVER seen any Crown Royal in Africa. Has anyone.
Crown Royal is all I drink, with pepsi mind you not coke. It's a Canadian thing. I did find a bottle there one time when I ran out in a little town outside Hoedspruit. If I remember correctly the dust was so thick on the box it was hard to make out what it was until it was cleaned off. Come to think of it I think that bottle cost me 1800 Rand, and it tasted fantastic
Jeff Up North in Canada
21 March 2014, 12:08
Jan Dumon
Crown Royal is not common in the smaller towns but it is obtainable in South Africa. With a few weeks notice your outfitter should be able to have your Crown for you in camp. The bags with their draw strings make good pouches for packing small equipment. I use the black ones to cover my night vision scope that's permanently fixed to my 30-06 for night hunting, one over the front and one over the back so they overlap.
Originally posted by Jan Dumon: Crown Royal is not common in the smaller towns but it is obtainable in South Africa. With a few weeks notice your outfitter should be able to have your Crown for you in camp. The bags with their draw strings make good pouches for packing small equipment. I use the black ones to cover my night vision scope that's permanently fixed to my 30-06 for night hunting, one over the front and one over the back so they overlap.
Crown may be hard to find but Im sure there is plenty of cheap rum for the fruity punch that you so love!!
Every outfitter I have hunted with (PHs too) knows the client sheet info I send in: 1 bottle of champagne per day and if anyone else wants any there better be more!
Best regards, D. Nelson
21 March 2014, 19:25
MJines
C'mon Darin, 'fess up, you ever enjoy a cigar in camp?
Mike
21 March 2014, 19:44
JTEX
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Originally posted by ledvm:
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Originally posted by ledvm:
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Originally posted by d.unger: Black coffee in the morning beside the fire, plenty of water during the day, and cold Castle for the drive home. To finish the day, a single crown by the fire.
Thats a very good regimine.
But...I have NEVER seen any Crown Royal in Africa. Has anyone.
Been able to get it in SA, but of course I always take a good supply
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21 March 2014, 20:44
Jan Dumon
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Originally posted by Matt Graham:
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Originally posted by Jan Dumon: Crown Royal is not common in the smaller towns but it is obtainable in South Africa. With a few weeks notice your outfitter should be able to have your Crown for you in camp. The bags with their draw strings make good pouches for packing small equipment. I use the black ones to cover my night vision scope that's permanently fixed to my 30-06 for night hunting, one over the front and one over the back so they overlap.
Crown may be hard to find but Im sure there is plenty of cheap rum for the fruity punch that you so love!!
I reserve that pleasure for our Bone fishing trips in Turks & Caicos. Bugaloos makes the best ones
Originally posted by MJines: C'mon Darin, 'fess up, you ever enjoy a cigar in camp?
Mike;
That is hysterical because when I was in Makuti the same time you were there, after I shot my leopard, I told my PH I wanted a puff or two of his cigar (there wasn't any whisky handy)! So, I actually did take a couple of puffs!!!!
I am surprised nobody has mentioned Mainstay Cane Liquor from South Africa. Every safari I have ever been on I request a few bottles of Cane ( for snakebites) and it magically shows up. I know it is cheap but it mixes with anything and tastes great by itself over a few cubes.
22 March 2014, 00:17
Torbjørn
Aquavit
Torbjorn
22 March 2014, 00:20
wesley timmerman
After the days hunt its Castle beer or klippy's and Coke. When I get home its Pappy Van Winkle in a tumbler 3" deep with 2 whiskey rocks. Nothing better.My .02
22 March 2014, 00:36
Tim Herald
Interesting thread...
No one hear drinks a nice sipping tequila in Africa? I usually bring two bottles of Herradura Anejo to have on the rocks with lime. These are especially good if it is warm in the evening.
Like many, I enjoy a beer on the ride home in the evening, as well as a couple glasses of red wine with dinner. I love the tequila upon arrival to camp when everyone is meeting around the bar before dinner (and if a cat is killed, maybe a few or more will be consumed). Then after dinner, another glass of cabernet or a nice KY bourbon on the rocks is nice (Woodford Reserve).
Like Mike, my favorite part of the evening is a good cigar. I have become very partial to Rocky Patel Vintage 2003's with a Cameroon wrapper. I also like Montecristo Platinum Series Vinatage 1999 Churchills.
Good Hunting,
Tim Herald Worldwide Trophy Adventures tim@trophyadventures.com
22 March 2014, 01:22
D. Nelson
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Originally posted by Frostbit: I never drink on Safari. Just ask Andrew.
Your credibility has just gone down the tubes! And, Andrew is being a gentleman!
22 March 2014, 01:31
Fjold
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Originally posted by Larry Sellers: ........... Cigars are nasty to be around. I guess the folks that smoke them enjoy the things and more power to them. I can usually manage to stay upwind of the puffers, so no problem.
Larry Sellers SCI(International)Life Member Sabatti 'trash' Double Shooter R8 Blaser DRSS
Heresy! Ban him!
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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22 March 2014, 03:07
Orvar
Savannah Cider ! (with Biltong)
22 March 2014, 04:00
Full Roar
Mike J would know cigars - I am not sure but I have been told that he was the guy that bought at Christie's auction the famous Lewinsky Cigar Stub... previously smoked by - well you all know the story If so Mike, did you enjoy it right away or keep it for a special occasion?
I like the petite flavored cigars like Bobalu Kahlua or Cognac Petite - the bigger cigars are a bit to much for me A flavored petite with a couple fingers of chilled Four Roses or Blantons Single Barrel is what I would call an end to a great day. funny, I like bourbon but I don't care for scotch as much unless its the really really good stuff
Someone else mentioned Pappy Van Winkle - its awful good stuff also - a bit pricey at $225 a bottle or I would be drinking a hell of a bunch more of it. Another really good bourbon is Angels Envy, danged hard to find tho
V-C GUY: Bordeaux wines, calvados/cognac, sauternes...all the classy good stuff...
Now that's pretty funny there, but a question? What does a Heym shooter drink?
My drink of choice on safari. I bought a rather large bottle in Frankfurt duty free first year, took wife and her sister with me also on the hunt, for the first half of it, both white wine drinkers. Massive quantities of pinot grigio they did drink. One evening, SIL says I never tried Scotch, may I? She loved it, and thereby ran me out of Scotch by the time we flew them back to Windhoek.
Our plan was to buy more there, but we left without remembering to buy any. Kobus, my host, has a wonderful bar, but he doesn't drink, and the bar has usually Jamesons on it. I thougt, "well, I'll make do". He said look around under the bar, some guys left a case of whiskey there a couple years ago. And I found, a whole case of Glenlivet 18, thanks very much guys, whoever you are!!!
Note to all - if traveling on from J-berg, to Windhoek, you can't buy booze or cigars at the duty free. Stock up before you get there. Learned that on this latest trip, was reduced to drinking Johnny Black. Couldn't have more than a couple, as I was sitting up all night, every night, hunting a problem lion.
We did "invent" a new and refreshing drink for those late season sweltering hunts, when you want something other than, "another beer". Kobus always has a case of "Sparberry" raspberry soda around, mixed it with a liberal does of Grey Goose. Haven't named it yet, but sure does go down in a hurry. Maybe... we'll call it a Stripper? Naw.... too easy. Someone added lime sherbet to their drink - a little TOO girly for me.
As far as cigars go, yes, do like those too.
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22 March 2014, 04:49
MJines
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Originally posted by Full Roar: I like the petite flavored cigars like Bobalu Kahlua or Cognac Petite - the bigger cigars are a bit to much for me.
How cute. Do you hold your pinky out when you are smoking them? I expected that you were going to say that your favorite safari drink was a Lemon Drop.
Mike
22 March 2014, 04:58
Tim Herald
Good Hunting,
Tim Herald Worldwide Trophy Adventures tim@trophyadventures.com
22 March 2014, 05:22
SBT
Bourbon and water if I can get it. Evan Williams is my preferred brand. Gin and tonic with a twist of lime is just as good if not better, with Tanqueray being my favorite. Red wine with dinner and when possible, a Grand Marnier with a smoke after dinner.
How I miss safari.
"There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark
22 March 2014, 05:42
Full Roar
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How cute. Do you hold your pinky out when you are smoking them? I expected that you were going to say that your favorite safari drink was a Lemon Drop. Mike
why of course I point my pinky out while I smoke them. And also my little finger. Just trying to be like Mike
22 March 2014, 05:54
MJines
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Originally posted by Full Roar:
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How cute. Do you hold your pinky out when you are smoking them? I expected that you were going to say that your favorite safari drink was a Lemon Drop. Mike
Just trying to be like Mike
Then flush those flavored girlee cigars down the toilet and get some real smokes. I thought purchase of those cigars was actually restricted at most tobacconists to girls and boys that have not started shaving.
Mike
22 March 2014, 06:00
gremcat
Laph, Glenlivet, and for Bourbon Booker though haven't been on a safari yet to many small kids running around. Maybe if I drank cheaper booze........
22 March 2014, 08:40
Full Roar
[/QUOTE] I thought purchase of those cigars was actually restricted at most tobacconists to girls and boys that have not started shaving. [/QUOTE]
Nope, they still sell them to full grown A-dalts' like you an me...........the bastards
When I was in Costa Rica once I got a full box of Mareva's from Goerge F Cigars in Quepos, Cuban leaf rolled by Cuban ladies---does that count good? Dip them in Kahlua or chocolate liquor they are not bad
22 March 2014, 09:03
Todd Williams
Mike, I like a good cigar as well. However, about 5 years ago, I took to smoking a pipe instead. Still enjoy the cigar on occasion, but the pipes are my favorites now. A good "English" style tobacco, full bodied, never perfumed with the girlie flavors ... reminiscent of the way saddle leather smells; ah that and a good single malt is the perfect end to a day on safari.
22 March 2014, 09:13
jdollar
i just finished packing tonight for my self guided hunt to Cameroon, leaving Sunday. i was doing pretty good on the airline weight limit- until i added a 1 1/2 liter Johnny Walker bottle. no problem, i just poured it into two 1 liter plastic backpacker bottles- and added another 1/2 liter to fill the 2 bottles properly.no sense in wasting space in the bottles and plastic is a LOT lighter than glass!
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22 March 2014, 09:18
BaxterB
My preference would by my own, "Old Dirty Old Fashioned," which is a twist on the original. I don't understand how anyone can smoke anything, much less a cigar. I've smoked a grand total of one, and it was one too many...but whatever floats your boat!
22 March 2014, 09:18
surestrike
While in camp drink hot buffalo blood and smoke dried elephant dung hand rolled in local news papers.
You guys all need to grow a pair!
22 March 2014, 09:23
fujotupu
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Originally posted by jdollar: i just finished packing tonight for my self guided hunt to Cameroon, leaving Sunday. i was doing pretty good on the airline weight limit- until i added a 1 1/2 liter Johnny Walker bottle. no problem, i just poured it into two 1 liter plastic backpacker bottles- and added another 1/2 liter to fill the 2 bottles properly.no sense in wasting space in the bottles and plastic is a LOT lighter than glass!
J$:
I just cannot fathom out why you go to all this trouble (might even be cheaper than the store) when you can buy as many bottles as you wish from the Duty Free shop and hand carry it in their "approved" plastic bags absolutely hassle free.
22 March 2014, 09:26
Saeed
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Originally posted by fujotupu:
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Originally posted by jdollar: i just finished packing tonight for my self guided hunt to Cameroon, leaving Sunday. i was doing pretty good on the airline weight limit- until i added a 1 1/2 liter Johnny Walker bottle. no problem, i just poured it into two 1 liter plastic backpacker bottles- and added another 1/2 liter to fill the 2 bottles properly.no sense in wasting space in the bottles and plastic is a LOT lighter than glass!
J$:
I just cannot fathom out why you go to all this trouble (might even be cheaper than the store) when you can buy as many bottles as you wish from the Duty Free shop and hand carry it in their "approved" plastic bags absolutely hassle free.
We were on a flight to Johannesburg. Sitting in First Class, one of the passengers asked the stewardess for an empty plastic water bottle.
He then proceeded to empty his bottle of whisky into the plastic bottle, and put it in his carry on bag.
Originally posted by jdollar: i just finished packing tonight for my self guided hunt to Cameroon, leaving Sunday. i was doing pretty good on the airline weight limit- until i added a 1 1/2 liter Johnny Walker bottle. no problem, i just poured it into two 1 liter plastic backpacker bottles- and added another 1/2 liter to fill the 2 bottles properly.no sense in wasting space in the bottles and plastic is a LOT lighter than glass!
J$:
I just cannot fathom out why you go to all this trouble (might even be cheaper than the store) when you can buy as many bottles as you wish from the Duty Free shop and hand carry it in their "approved" plastic bags absolutely hassle free.
several years ago when flying from LA to New Caledonia via Auckland, i bought a very expensive bottle of Scotch in the LAX duty free shop. when we changed planes in Auckland, we had to go back through security, even though we lever left the secured airpot departure area. they confiscated my whiskey, as we were not allowed to carry that much liquid on the plane( it was obviously more than 100ml). further more, the only place en route on this trip to buy booze would be the duty free shops at CDG and i am afraid i would have a similar problem. it is a real pisser to see a $100 bottle of Scotch take a hike and i don't trust the French not to screw me( apologies to Wink, JB, etc.)
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23 March 2014, 05:42
Jaglav
I enjoy a cold beer on the way back to camp after the rifles have been put up. At camp, some red wine and a single malt (preferably Lagavulin) to finish off the evening. Forgot to mention the Underberg after a good meal!
To jdollar: Best of luck on your Cameroun hunt, look forward to the hunt report.
23 March 2014, 06:34
MJines
This year I might have to forego the G&T's in favor of a couple Bunnahabhain 18's with a splash of water. Good stuff.
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