Mrs Rug and I just got home from a wonderful vacation in South Africa. I have had the great pleasure of hunting with SS Pro Safaris on 3 previous trips, this would be my wife's Africa. I really wanted her to enjoy it like I have, and I felt my good friends the Van Zyls could help her see Africa and all of its beauty.
We left our home in Georgia, flew from Atlanta to JoBerg nonstop, long but uneventful. The new terminal in Atlanta made checking my old rifle a breeze. When we landed I went very fast thru the police station with no wait and no problems.
Now to the fun stuff, I tried to keep the shooting to a minimum, and do a bit more sight seeing. One day we went to Mama Taus lion breeding operation for a nice tour to see lions up close. This was educational and fun. Another evening we went on a river boat ride at sunset saw some Crocs had a few Drinks and watched the sunset.
I did manage to shoot a wildebeast, a zebra and a warthog. But my favorite was a large baboon the biggest I have ever taken. My old Weatherby 270 wby mag is the only rifles I took on this trip. I shot 140 grain Nosler Ballistic tips only. I am not much of a typist (more talker) so here are the pics [/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG]

Dang I thought I had the pics loaded

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In the photo with you, your lovely wife & the baboon, is it you or the babbon wearing the cap?
Sorry, feeling a little cheeky today.

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Originally posted by bwana cecil:
In the photo with you, your lovely wife & the baboon, is it you or the babbon wearing the cap?
Sorry, feeling a little cheeky today.

If you want to succesful at cheeky, you have to rite an spel goode. I em suur thet ther is sumfing rong with bamboon.

Rug, good stuff and a big "Sitbok." The wartie is a beaut too.

Nice wildebeest. Now you need to work on getting Kristy to shoot something.

Looks like you had a lot of fun!

The baboon is the one with the rifle, He stole the cap.
Yes UEG lots of fun
David deer season is soon, hopefully she will shoot a Monster !
Scriptus my Afrikans is very limited (Sitbok?)

Rug, I have hunted twice with Scott from SS Pro Safaris, he has some great land, where you shot that wildebeest is where I shot one of my big Kudus.

Tony

Scriptus
It's my wifes fault. She wasn't here to do the spellcheck for me.
Heck, I got it right 1 out of 2 times.

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Originally posted by bwana cecil:
Scriptus
It's my wifes fault. She wasn't here to do the spellcheck for me.
Heck, I got it right 1 out of 2 times.

Wow! That lion looked real!
Great photo.

Capra, yes Scott has an awesome place ,and a fine fellow to hunt with.
Dogcat the lion is real, but inside a fence, I was told he is 14 years old. He is very large!

Rug;

That baboon is HUGE! Your other trophies well done.

Best regards, D. Nelson

awesome pics