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Yo, last August my wife and I were on our way to our annual hunting trip to Namibia. We had just gotten home from a buffalo hunting trip to Northern Australia and I wasn't feeling all that good. Half way there, in Frankfurt, dehydrated and throwing up ... I made the decision to turn around (eat the airfares) and go back to Alberta and get better. Finally, after many tests, and much waiting ... I had major chest surgery on Monday in Calgary by a real high end surgeon who fixed me up ... how can you thank a man who has given you your 'life' back ???   Anyways, I'll be back in Namibia in late July ... it'll be the 30th anniversary of my first safari .. back when I was a younger - in '77. I hunted with John Coleman in the Transvaal .. he had recently left Rhodesia and on that ten day safari I shot my first leopard - and my life ain't been the same since .. It'll be good to be back under the Southern Cross .. sitting around the campfires again .. with good company - and maybe hearing, once again, the sound of a leopard sawing in the long grass ... | ||
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Great to hear you are doing better ! Enjoy Africa again soon Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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FOR THOSE THAT DO NOT KNOW-Scruffy and I had a bet last year when we were both going to Namibia about who would get the best Warthog.Since scruffy had to bail out he said that he had lost our bet and sent me a smoked salman.Know way I could accept victory on those terms so I paid off with a bottle of Louisiana Hot Sauce. Scruffy-You are a stand-up guy and I wish you a great hunt and much success.I would be honoured to share a campfire with you any time and I sincerely wish I could be sitting there with you under that Southern Cross , reminissing about our day in the bush while waiting for some gemsbok fillets to sear. We seldom get to choose But I've seen them go both ways And I would rather go out in a blaze of glory Than to slowly rot away! | |||
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We must never forget what we have. Great news.  Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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Scruffy, The best to you and many more... Mike | |||
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Good news! Good luck to you now that this is past. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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That's great to hear Scruff! We all missed ya at the big bore shoot and were rootin' for ya with your surgery.  Cheers, Canuck | |||
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Scruffy, What good news! Get up and get after them, and let us know how it turns out. Kudude | |||
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Glad you are feeling better. The smoked salmon you sent was great. Perception is reality regardless the truth! Stupid people should not breed DRSS NRA Life Member Owner of USOC Adventure TV | |||
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Here's wishing you a speedy recovery and good hunting LDKGray 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/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting 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#212108409 Natal: 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#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back 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." | |||
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Glad you are doing better and post some pics when you get back. | |||
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Here's to a speedy recovery and a great safari later this year! On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Hey Scruffy, Recover quickly and go get 'em!! Good Hunting, Bob There is room for all of God's creatures....right next to the mashed potatoes. http://texaspredatorposse.ipbhost.com/   | |||
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Hello Richard, My best wishes for a speedy recovery. I have found another herd of water buffs in a country that for now no one knows that they exist. That should get your blood flowing. Best regards, Ed | |||
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Glad to hear you are on the mend Scruffy. We enjoyed the salmon you sent! Thank you!! Todd ============== Todd J. Rathner The T. Jeffrey Safari Company www.tjsafari.com 520-404-8096 Please visit our BLOG: http://www.tjsafari.com/blog.cfm | |||
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Hi Scruffy, Now that you are up and running, maybe we can get the chef to cook up those pigeons for us. You missed the moose at the big bore shoot. Took a while for them to finally open you up though... is that called a "waiting list"? Frans | |||
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Yo, Frans, Yup, diagnosed in October ...operation on April 30th !! Good thing that I wasn't bleeding !!!  Anyways, just like my date with Slag .. it is all just history now ... I'll bet the moose was great and I'm sorry that I missed it. However I have eaten a lot of great moose - still waiting for great pigeon !!!  Ed ... you mention some more water buffalo ??? Ha! Let's have at it !!!! Would our beloved Uruguayan Poachers be interested ???   Good to hear from you, amigo !!!! | |||
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