Folks - due to the rain we have recently enjoyed the organizers have cancelled the Gamefair.

I'll guess this ruins a few folks plans for the weekend.

http://www.gamefair.co.uk/news_snippets.php

rgds Ian

Hi Ian

I was meant to be exhibiting at the Game Fair this year. I recieved a phone call on Sunday night at about 8:00pm from the organisers saying that they have had to cancel it due to the weather. I beleive that it is the first time they have had to cancel it.

My next show is the Midland Game Fair in September.

Have you ever been on safair in Africa?

Regards

Mike

Mike Welcome to the forum.

As for Ians safari exertise, all we can say is that his 375 is to the herds of Wildebeast what Moses walking stick was to the red sea...



Rgds,
FB

Hi FB

Thank you for welcoming me to the forum.

So Ian is a bit of a crack shot when it comes to African Game. Have any of you ever tried your hand at hunting big game in Africa eg. Elephant, Buffalo, Hippo, Lion or Leopard.

I only ask because i am an agent working over here offering Hunting, Fishing and Photographic safaris world wide but mainly Africa. I have outfitters in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. I have been all over Africa filming hunts also doing some shooting myself.

Regards

Mike

Mike,

Welcome to the forums...Hope the floods haven't hit you too hard..I am just to the north of Oswestry and we have missed the worst of it here...

Your not a business partner of Bob Goss by any chance?

As for the African hunting, you'll find most of the regulars here have hunted over there in one form or another and there is a wealth of experience on everything from plains game to dangerous game..

Regards,

Pete

Hi Pete

Thank you.

I live not far from Telford. The flooding was quite bad but not as bad as other places. To get to my house you have to cross a little bridge made from railway sleepers. The river took all the sleepers and sent them down stream. Luckly i have a backup route home. Im glad to hear that you were not hit with the floods. It must be terrible for the people who have had their homes flooded.

No not a business partner of Bob Goss i work on my own. I have been running for a year or so. I spent most of 2005 living in Zimbabwe filming hunts and running camps. That is how i got started.

Regards

Mike

Mike - welcome in to a great bunch of folks!

As usual, FB tends to exaggerate my experience & abilities - confusing dumb luck with the laws of random motion!

However, better lucky than rich - out with Artemis last night, on a glorious summer evening (the first day it had not rained in the last couple weeks).

Took an amble down into a valley and after spotting and stalking around a Doe (no rutting here!) spied a field of silage to find a set of unusual antlers poking over the buttercups. After being watched for a time, the Roe buck gained his feet and exited the field - butter fingers and the shape of the ground precluding a shot.

I took a gamble on his direction of travel, squozzed through a hedge and emerged to sneak along the face of a slope - somewhat below the skyline. As well I took the precaution of moving carefully - as the Buck emerged from tall grass directly below me. He was travelling purposefully along the base of a thick hedge at no more than about 120m when a single .308bullet dropped him cleanly.



Getting down to the carcass revealed the unusual mass of antler that first took my attention. It is something well worth looking at and I thought you folks may find it an interesting example of antler formation.



This morning - it's raining again! Ain't life grand?

Rgds Ian

Ian - Thank you. I look forward to reading some of your adventures.

Thats a great looking trophy. I am all for the strange looking ones. The 308 is a great rifle I have a 243 and a 308. I use them both in Scotland on red deer. There both great flat shooting rifles.

I have not been stalking for about a year now. I think i need to get something booked.

Its not raining here at the moment. The sun is trying to break through but its not looking like it will.

Regards

Mike

Ian,

I thought you had a 30-06 and Artemis used the 308???

Pleased to see you are doing the deed, and hope to be down your way as soon as I get my boat on the M25!!

In fact if you have a dry hill, any chance I can send a few pheasants down to you for a holiday as we are losing them wholesale here.

FB

FB

You have a good memory! Yes, the .308 belongs to Artemis - the deal that evening was I carried rifle - she carried the Roe sack!

Mind you - almost turned into a cat fight for the rifle when we got the antlers focussed in the binos!

Keep well - and get bailing the boat!

Rgds Ian

Congratulations Ian, a nice pair of antlers on that one .
Kind of recogniced the rifle...same one that I managed to miss three muntjacs with in February

Arild,

You need to get yourself out here for another crack at those pesky Munties!!

If you don't you will be beating yourself up over it for ever!!

Rgds,
K

quote:

Originally posted by IanF:

This morning - it's raining again! Ain't life grand?

Rgds Ian

Let it rain - with trophy like that there should be some sun somewhere huh ? Great trophy!

quote:

Originally posted by Fallow Buck:
Arild,

You need to get yourself out here for another crack at those pesky Munties!!

If you don't you will be beating yourself up over it for ever!!

Rgds,
K

You are so right Kiri.
Hopefully we will be able to have another "get together" at Baldoc i February and nail a couple of those critters.
It depends a bit about how good I am at saving funds... Limpopo in May coming up as well as you
know

Yes it looks like we have pencilled in the dates 2-10 May for our trip to Africa although I'm already toying with adding another 3-4 days to it, to go hunt some critters on my own.

It's great to be with a big party but I think that there is somethiing about the African bush that lends itself to solitude. So I'm gonna try and experience both for an enlightened opinion!!

I don;t think we'll be in Limpopo though as the PH I use has just taken on a ranch in Nelspruit near the Kruger which will suit the girls better for sightseeing etc.

Keep well and Baldock I'm sure will be in the future again. I might even bring the madness with me again so you can all laugh at me. (If the captain invites me again...)

Rgds,
FB

FB. Depends how badly you humiliate me at the next phessie bash! You never really believed my story about thinking it was 'catch and release'!

Cap'n Haddock

(Just been out in the tub and murdered a few mackerel out of spite!)

Nice buck Ian. You still treading water around there? - dan