My sister are moving to Senegal to live for the next five years, and my question are... Are there any good hunting in Senegal ??

AD

"Good" is a relative thing. There is good wing shooting, decent warthogs, and in some of the more remote places or on private ranches there is Western Roan, Harnessed bushbuck, maybe even Defassa Waterbuck or Buffalo. If you take an over and under in 12 gauge and a .375 H&H rifle you will have exactly what you need for everything. In fact, that would work the world over.

Follow the link to see one outfitter's offers, which include hippo, buffalo, crocodile and roan, some of them in the Gambia.

http://www.bouky.com/gibier-afrique.php

I would try to get your firearm import regulations and permits in order before you go. They may take some time for a semi-permanent import as a future resident.

Thanks Wink, will do some more research before I visit her. All the pages I looked at only showed that you could take 1 warthog/week..

Or you could take a drilling 12X12 over 9.3X74R.

I have a friend who was a missionary in Senegal for many years. He isn't a hunter, but is a keen fisherman. Plenty of good salt water fishing on the coast and fresh water river fishing, especially in Gambia, of course.

He told me about seeing mostly French hunters heading out towards the east with rifles, but didn't know any details about their quarry or success rate.

I think DOJ's idea of a heavy drilling is excellent advice, as it would be the ideal weapon to have, if you can only have one gun. In fact, a drilling would be an ideal second weapon to have on any safari.

The only problem with a drilling is its expense in the US, and the relative rareness of the 12x12 by 9.3x74R configuration on the used gun market.

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Originally posted by Alan Bunn:
The only problem with a drilling is its expense in the US

Alan,

Anton lives in the REALLY far Easterly US........also known as Sweden in some circles......

Brett

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Originally posted by Wink:
"Good" is a relative thing. There is good wing shooting, decent warthogs, and in some of the more remote places or on private ranches there is Western Roan, Harnessed bushbuck, maybe even Defassa Waterbuck or Buffalo. If you take an over and under in 12 gauge and a .375 H&H rifle you will have exactly what you need for everything. In fact, that would work the world over.

Follow the link to see one outfitter's offers, which include hippo, buffalo, crocodile and roan, some of them in the Gambia.

http://www.bouky.com/gibier-afrique.php

I would try to get your firearm import regulations and permits in order before you go. They may take some time for a semi-permanent import as a future resident.

Would like to get some infos too. I tried to contact this guy but he never got an answer. Maybe my frensh is too bad. I'm sure senegal holds some nice hunting.

This web site gives a lot of potentially responsive contacts:

http://www.senegal-online.com/.../conseils-chasse.htm

@Brett,

Sweden, I've heerd 'bout it. Ain't it out of the county, somewhere?

Probably can find plenty of used drillings there at good prices and the right configuration.

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Originally posted by Alan Bunn:
@Brett,

Sweden, I've heerd 'bout it. Ain't it out of the county, somewhere?

I'm reasonably sure Sweden is an island off of Maine????? Right?????

Brett

I bleeve hits on tuther side o' Denmark, South Caroliney, whiches a dam fur piece.

Them boys had a passle o' drillings, but when they dint get no oil, hit pissed 'um arf, by Gawd, and they all got gone to Texas.

Hell, I might too.

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Originally posted by A.Dahlgren:
My sister are moving to Senegal to live for the next five years, and my question are... Are there any good hunting in Senegal ??

AD

Only field hunting and sometimes warthogs in the fields ! Senegal is a very good country for fishing in salt water ! Kind people !

Sweden's where that chick with the big tattoo comes from...

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Originally posted by jetdrvr:
Sweden's where that chick with the big tattoo comes from...

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