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I look forward to the next year and have some time to reflect on some of the best of this passing season. As hunters maybe we could look back on this year and portrait a picture that illustrates what we are about and what we do. I will include an example and the image is of a chap simply named Eric along with his first African game. The composition reeks of Africa, the Luangwa of Zambia, but what is important is that our hunter is one with the world here. It is a dream that came true and only because of his brother who extended him this gift. A chance to experience the wilds of this continent that otherwise was beyond his reach. Eric absorbed it to the fullest and his brother gave him it all. These chaps were soul mates, united in blood and hunting. Good photo and hippo. Great people.  ROYAL KAFUE LTD Email - kafueroyal@gmail.com Tel/Whatsapp (00260) 975315144 Instagram - kafueroyal | ||
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Great photo _______________________________________________________ Hunt Report - South Africa 2022 Wade Abadie - Wild Shot Photography Website | Facebook | Instagram | |||
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My hunting highlight for 2011  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 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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This is my highlight for the year. June 2011 in Makuti with Charlton McCallum Safaris. PH is Rich Tabor. Had my youngest son along for the trip. Took this cat on day 13 of a 14 day hunt.  | |||
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New experiences is what it is all about for me! First visit to Zambia. First sight of Kafue Lechwe. Good companionship. Just a very enjoyed time spent with fairgame and the other AR members.  Photographer: fairgame. In good hunting. Andrew McLaren | |||
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Good hunting to you buddy.   ROYAL KAFUE LTD Email - kafueroyal@gmail.com Tel/Whatsapp (00260) 975315144 Instagram - kafueroyal | |||
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My highlight for the year ... crossing item number one off my bucket list. 1.  I'll say a big thanks again to my PH Grant Taylor and his crew for working their butts off to make this hunt memorable and succesful. Now to work on item number two on the bucket list - go back to Africa again and again! ____________________________ If you died tomorrow, what would you have done today ... 2018 Zimbabwe - Tuskless w/ Nengasha Safaris 2011 Mozambique - Buffalo w/ Mashambanzou Safaris | |||
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Having the chance to enjoy another safari with my dad:   NRA Lifer; DSC Lifer; SCI member; DRSS; AR member since November 9 2003 Don't Save the best for last, the smile for later or the "Thanks" for tomorow | |||
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The weight of ivory on my shoulders . . .  . . . with my sweet wife along to enjoy the adventure.  Will J. Parks, III | |||
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Some really nice photos of great experiences there guys but CCMDoc, that is a special trip to share a Safari with your Dad. Even more so, a great hunt for Leopard and trophy bull Elephant. My Dad is still with us, thank God, but at 88 and questionable health, he and I will never see Africa together. It's a shame because he IS the reason I am so totally consumed by hunting today. Good for you sir! Good for you! | |||
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My highlight of African hunting in five safaris, period. Made possible by Fairgame and Thor of Munyamadzi Safaris Zambia. Many thanks again for hosting a group hunt. Outstanding work Andrew "thats proper".  | |||
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My most heartfelt appreciation for your kind words. I hope that you and your father share wonderful memories of those hunts you have shared. I am sure he knows what he has inspired and instilled in his son and lives those experiences through you. Most sincerely, Paul NRA Lifer; DSC Lifer; SCI member; DRSS; AR member since November 9 2003 Don't Save the best for last, the smile for later or the "Thanks" for tomorow | |||
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My highlight-- my wife and her first trip to Africa.  By coachsells at 2011-07-06 good times!  By coachsells at 2011-07-06 Ed DRSS Member | |||
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Memories of the Selous. She beckons me back. Mike  | |||
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Good times, good friends and more wonderful memories.  Mike | |||
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My first elephant in Zim. Also, my second buffalo. If someone can help post photos, I will email some to you. thanks, Tom ...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men. -Edward, duke of York ". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand Cogito ergo venor- KPete “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” ― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations” | |||
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My second Buffalo  My first Hippo  Watching my Wife get her Zebra.  Agreat year for me in Africa. I am truly blessed. 2013 for Elephant!!!!!! . | |||
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Nicely composed photo of one of the best Kafue Lechwe to come out of Zambia. Taken by our 505 Gibbs.  ROYAL KAFUE LTD Email - kafueroyal@gmail.com Tel/Whatsapp (00260) 975315144 Instagram - kafueroyal | |||
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You should have turned the tracker the other way so he was facing the sun..Other than that its a five star photo!! Love your "thinking out of the box" trophy photos Andrew! | |||
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Anton, Then an artist would tell you that you need the shadow in order to contrast to the outline and the soft hues of the animal. What was your best of this year? ROYAL KAFUE LTD Email - kafueroyal@gmail.com Tel/Whatsapp (00260) 975315144 Instagram - kafueroyal | |||
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My sons' first safari:   ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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Well I just wanted some light in his face LOL we have to agree do disagree as usual. My best this year in Africa ? Cant brag about much spent a few weeks in West Africa but not much hunting there im sorry to say, hope to rectify that soon. Other than that spent some weeks in Asia and rest back home in Sweden        | |||
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... a reflection of my best hunting day of all time. A Blesbok, an Impala, and a Kudu in the salt and a celebration around the fire that evening...     -------------------------------------------- National Rifle Association - Life Member National Wild Turkey Federation - Diamond Life Sponsor Pope & Young Club - Associate Member | |||
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... or was it the Nyala killed with a bow ?  -------------------------------------------- National Rifle Association - Life Member National Wild Turkey Federation - Diamond Life Sponsor Pope & Young Club - Associate Member | |||
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Posted for Twoseventy:
  "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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This years No1 for me is this picture of my friend on his first trip ever to Africa. On his whish list to Johann Veldsman in Namibia, was a cat of some sort. A caracal, or perhaps a cheetah...? Then on the first evening in camp the farm manager offered him to go for a cattle killing lion (PAC). While the rest of us enjoyed our first dinner, he and Johann went looking for the lions. Think about it...his first night under the Southern Cross, his first try for an African animal, and the first truly big game to take with his new Ruger RSM in 375 H&H. And then then to kill a lion  What a start   Arild Iversen. | |||
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here we go...... ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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Probably the only big cat I will ever take. I took him with great friends and in area that I just can't wait to revisit.  | |||
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and the black powder award goes to ...  with his home made .900 something or other.  ROYAL KAFUE LTD Email - kafueroyal@gmail.com Tel/Whatsapp (00260) 975315144 Instagram - kafueroyal | |||
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Thank you SBT ...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men. -Edward, duke of York ". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand Cogito ergo venor- KPete “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” ― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations” | |||
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Being on safari, for my honeymoon, with my gorgeous new bride. No me  mory can ever top this.Phil Massaro President, Massaro Ballistic Laboratories, LLC NRA Life Member B&C Member www.mblammo.com Hunt Reports- Zambia 2011 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/1481089261 "Two kinds of people in this world, those of us with loaded guns, and those of us who dig. You dig." | |||
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My highlight? My lechwe of course.  "...Africa. I love it, and there is no reason for me to explore why. She affects some people that way, and those who feel as I do need no explanation." from The Last Safari | |||
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George, I agree.  | |||
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My highlight of African hunting in 2011.  Ahmed Sultan | |||
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Completion of my Tiny Ten with Mark DeWet in Mocambique. after many tries in RSA I finally went to Moc and got my Suni. for me the Tiny Ten are as follows: Common or Gray Duiker Blue Duiker Red Duiker Cape Grysbok Sharp Grysbok Oribi Steinbok Klipspringer Damara Dik-Dik Suni Now the quest for the smallest of them all - Royal Antelope in Ghana. The above was for the African Board, but the very best was taking my grandson Squirel hunting for the first time! | |||
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DOJ - That's awesome! I would love to see the pictures of em all? For me, its a tie in 2011 between the two trophies below. The Giant Eland was an awesome hunt/area/outfitter, and a big, old/mature bull was the result. The Elephant was too, but we had a whole lotta luck involved as well! Never in my wildest dreams, did I think I would ever shoot an 84lb elephant.   | |||
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fairgame, My many thanks for so many memories and for putting forth my baby brother. The composition of you photo's catches so much more than a recently expired critter. You definately have an artist's eye and a romantic's heart. No we will not be taking long showers into the wee hours. Just sayin... Thanks for everything and a reunioun in the Kafue will be in the making soon. Jeff | |||
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Top class Valie in the Outeniqua mountains by Peter from Sweden  Serval and Civet on one night by young Santiago from Mexico!   Charl van Rooyen Owner Infinito Travel Group www.infinito-safaris.com charl@infinito-safaris.com Cell: +27 78 444 7661 Tel: +27 13 262 4077 Fax:+27 13 262 3845 Hereford Street 28A Groblersdal 0470 Limpopo R.S.A. "For the Infinite adventure" Plains Game Dangerous Game Bucket List Specialists Wing-Shooting In House Taxidermy Studio In House Dip and Pack Facility In House Shipping Service Non-Hunting Tours and Safaris Flight bookings "I promise every hunter visiting us our personal attention from the moment we meet you, until your trophies hang on your wall. Our all inclusive service chain means you work with one person (me) taking responsibility during the whole process. Affordable and reputable Hunting Safaris is our game! With a our all inclusive door to door service, who else do you want to have fun with?" South Africa Tanzania Uganda | |||
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