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Had the pleasure of meeting two African hunters Fred and Julia Pa. residents at the eastern chapter wild sheep foundation. I asked who he hunted with and he told me Wayne Grant and I said "Into the Thorns"? Yes, and he answered me I am in the first chapter "Ambush Alley" What a pleasure to talk to another hunter couple.

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Posts: 6768 | Location: Wyoming, Pa. USA | Registered: 17 April 2003Reply With Quote
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Very much enjoyed the book.


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Brilliant, great writer and very fine hunter. A classic.


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Posts: 9947 | Location: Zambia | Registered: 10 April 2009Reply With Quote
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My favorite hunting book! I've read the book three times, and am currently pinching pennies to try and book a hunt with Wayne.
 
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Great read on leopard hunting. Wayne really knows his stuff and its full of pics of massive cats.
 
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Totally agree - Few better writers, even fewer better cat men.


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In the middle of the book now; looking forward to my first leopard hunt in October.
 
Posts: 10307 | Location: Houston, Texas | Registered: 26 December 2005Reply With Quote
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Totally agree - Few better writers, even fewer better cat men.


Helluva nice guy too.


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Wayne is an old mate and colleague, and even so I was gobsmacked by the quality of the writing in his book. So much more than the usual annals of some PH...read it if you can, one of the best books out there by a contemporary hunter and it will stand the test of time.
 
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Agreed. I met Wayne for the first time in Vic Falls, after shooting my monster leopard over his own kill-a female leopard, and had a very pleasant conversation with Wayne about my experience. I also have his autographed book and consider it the definitive written word on hunting leopard, along with Lou Hallamore's "Chui". Big Grin
 
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Just ordered this book last evening after reading this post. I've been talking to Chifuti Safaris about a leopard hunt in June 2015, so I figured I needed to read this book. I'm hoping to take along my grandson - he will be 12 then - & let him shoot the bait animals.


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Met him in Zimbabwe in 2002--nice fellow.


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Posts: 1553 | Location: Native Texan Now In Jacksonville, Florida, USA | Registered: 10 July 2000Reply With Quote
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Does wayne have a web site we can visit? Thinking on another leopard in the future and this will be my guy.
 
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Great book!

Would love to hear from anyone having hunted with Wayne recently on what the area is like right now.
 
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Wayne signed my book.........

"To my friend Neil, who has outwitted the giant cats of the Matobo. We've had a special time in some of the last wild places, and those are memories we'll have forever. All the best my mate, Wayne"

The book brings back memories of some of our great hunting times over the years. Wayne is a fine man, a fine author, and above all, a fine friend.
 
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Hello Frank - If your Grandson can't make it will you take me instead? I'll even help you get a bigger Antelope in Wyoming this year!! Roll Eyes

Trying to pry this book away from a friend just for a read. Soooo far no luck. He always mentions something about me buying my own copy? Confused

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Just ordered this book last evening after reading this post. I've been talking to Chifuti Safaris about a leopard hunt in June 2015, so I figured I needed to read this book. I'm hoping to take along my grandson - he will be 12 then - & let him shoot the bait animals.
 
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My partner Tim said it was an excellent read and I plan to get a copy.


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That book has been out for a while now...suprised most of this group has not read it years ago.

I was in the Chenji Camp (Rosenfels old Camp) in Chewore South with Wayne for several nights in 2006 (Back in the day when the US economy was strong). I believe he was writing the book then or had just finished. We talked about leopard hunting in depth over the fire every night.


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A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House

No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991.
 
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Book was printed I believe in 2007.

Mike


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I finished reading the book a couple of months ago, after a leopard hunt in that general area last Spring. It is a great read. One of the ph's Wayne Grant mentions was Bruce Cronje, who worked with Wayne years ago. I met Bruce in 2010 when I was in the Omay. He's currently working with Martin Pieters & is a great cat man himself.
 
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ledvm:

I've got a stack of books 3 feet high in the "to read" stack. The "to buy" stack would be even taller. Hard to get to them all.
 
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Read a bit of it while visiting my friend Pepe Sodiro and local PH and Weatherby nominee ,Iwas an hour reading and ITS REALLY GOOD BOOK ,i have to find one soon .


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Posts: 6381 | Location: Cordoba argentina | Registered: 26 July 2004Reply With Quote
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I'm pretty sure I got mine a few years ago from trophy room books.
 
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Trophy room books had them in their booth at SCI I know.

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I'm pretty sure I got mine a few years ago from trophy room books.
 
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