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Originally posted by dwarf416:
This is going to be a very short report because I need to catch up with work and family. I will make a longer one ASAP.
Arrived to cameroon from Madrid on the 30 of may. All luggage made it without problems (13 bags). Then problems started. after going trough the pólice station to show rifles and ammo, they stopped us as we went out and told us they where going to count the ammo. Long story short; in cameroon you are only supposed to bring 50 bullets per rifle. If you bring shells for a shotgun that is in camp, problems. As we brought 2 rifles we where supposed to have only 100 total. we had brought 254 so where accused of ammunition smuggling. Not funny.
I knew they wanted a bribe but i follow a strict policy on bribes-NO.
After 14 hours on detention waiting for the chief officer (from 05,30 to 20,00)all was solved as soon as I called the Spanish embassy, a representant came and took us out in a breeze.
The chief officer suddenly was abailable and even excused himself.
Night in the Hilton (yaounde to recover) and on route again. 12 hours later and threetires of the Toyota we where in a Brand new camp made of palm leaves, everything biodegradable an organic(treehuggers would be proud).
we managede to get a bongo, bay 5 and miss two blue duickers plus collecting another two. If our team of dogs had been just able to do anything more tan lick their balls we would have shoot 5 bongo in total. Elephant tracks worth following 1 that was 18 hours old that we did not follow cows and calfs left tracks everynow and then. Poaching was rampant and we burned 3 poachers camps,captured 6 and found signs of them all over. I started to worry when we found a used Shell of a big caliber (10xsomething) then i realised there where elephant poachers arround wich is a complete different game.
mud was my constant companion, antlove me, the Baka are the best trackers i have ever seen and in general an experience of a life time I really enjoyed.
Thanks for all your support

quote:

Originally posted by dwarf416:

quote:

Originally posted by dwarf416:
This is going to be a very short report because I need to catch up with work and family. I will make a longer one ASAP.
Arrived to cameroon from Madrid on the 30 of may. All luggage made it without problems (13 bags). Then problems started. after going trough the pólice station to show rifles and ammo, they stopped us as we went out and told us they where going to count the ammo. Long story short; in cameroon you are only supposed to bring 50 bullets per rifle. If you bring shells for a shotgun that is in camp, problems. As we brought 2 rifles we where supposed to have only 100 total. we had brought 254 so where accused of ammunition smuggling. Not funny.
I knew they wanted a bribe but i follow a strict policy on bribes-NO.
After 14 hours on detention waiting for the chief officer (from 05,30 to 20,00)all was solved as soon as I called the Spanish embassy, a representant came and took us out in a breeze.
The chief officer suddenly was abailable and even excused himself.
Night in the Hilton (yaounde to recover) and on route again. 12 hours later and threetires of the Toyota we where in a Brand new camp made of palm leaves, everything biodegradable an organic(treehuggers would be proud).
we managede to get a bongo, bay 5 and miss two blue duickers plus collecting another two. If our team of dogs had been just able to do anything more tan lick their balls we would have shoot 5 bongo in total. Elephant tracks worth following 1 that was 18 hours old that we did not follow cows and calfs left tracks everynow and then. Poaching was rampant and we burned 3 poachers camps,captured 6 and found signs of them all over. I started to worry when we found a used Shell of a big caliber (10xsomething) then i realised there where elephant poachers arround wich is a complete different game.
mud was my constant companion, antlove me, the Baka are the best trackers i have ever seen and in general an experience of a life time I really enjoyed.
Thanks for all your support

will keep it coming in more detail.