I am new to the forum, but would like to invite all of you to join our unique "campfire-community" and share the most memorable / interesting / educational part of your African hunt with other hunters on the Web. You can do it by entering your story on a webpage on our website.

We decided to sponsor a hunt for the best story entered before June 30th, 2008.
This "Win-a-Hunt-in-Namibia"-part is our way of motivating people to take that moment to sit down and add their "campfire-story".
The result is the person's own, separate webpage containing his story. A hunting picture can also be added to go with it.

The author of the hunting story can refer friends to this webpage and it will be available for reading and enjoyment by fellow-hunters for years to come.

We have a passion for the outdoors and hunting and thought this a unique way of sharing.

Let all of your hunting-friends, who hunted over here before, know.
The person who wins the hunt, can also give it to a friend - if he/she cannot take it (for whatever reason).

Find the page to add a a story at:
African Hunting Stories

Greetings from Namibia

OK, I'm in.

OK Terry... you enter your story and then I'll place the link here for all the guys to enjoy.

Maybe more can overcome that "writer's block" and become part of the "campfire-community"!

Thanks.. I'm looking forward!

I have sent you two via e-mail so far.

Terry

The link to the website doesn't work for me.

Terry I am going to send you a PM.

Thanks.

martinbs, try again on this link:
African Hunting Stories

Guys... you can find the Elephant bowhunt-story of Jean (from this forum) at Bowhunting Elephant in Zimbabwe

Jean gave me permission to use his story and it is in a bit condensed form.

Rate it for him and give your comments on the same page!

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Originally posted by Terry Blauwkamp:
OK, I'm in.

Terry, I must strongly object to any "weenie wacker" stories that can come out.....I have a reputation as a respected member of my community my friend.....

I'm in too....

Who decides who wins?

Charl:

Now that you reminded me, I'll have Jo Ann write a story about her hunt with you.......

Well here's mine:Going For the "Big Stuff"
jorge

Thanks Terry for your story.
You all can read and enjoy it at Gemsbok will fight back!

jorge: You will have to submit your story on our site (if you wish) to take part in the contest.

infinito: We as members of our company (4 of us) will decide after June 30th this year...
I'm looking forward to your story!

KH - You will have excuse Jorge as he as been over the altitude limits without oxygen too many times. It takes him a try or two but he will get it right eventually. I'll try to work something up for your site.

Larry Sellers

I did, I linked it to a PDF file. Will that work? jorge

Jorge,

I have send you a PM. Have a look.

Well I killed a Zerba at 280yds One shot to the heart. But then My PH called for more men to carry it out. It took 10 men to get it out But they droped it Three times going out of the bush. My wart hog I killed with one shot the heart at 225 yds Two men put it on the truck. My Gensbok I Shot at 200 yds It took Four men to get it on the truck It weighted about 600 lbs
And my links Cat I shot st 10 yds with a 12ga
shot gun It had fangs about 1.5" long. It was alot of fun Shooting these animals.

jro45, I've send you a PM.

A few new stories have been added.

To read, you can click on

Crop Raiding Elephant

Hartebeest are "hard to bust"

Cape buffalo Hunting Up Close

A List of all the African Hunting Stories submitted

The entered stories will be rated by 10 people who loves the outdoors and hunting. The story with the highest points, will win our contest.

If any of you want to add your best hunting stories and adventures, click here to tell it!

We enjoy reading and placing these stories on our site very much.

After I typed in 900 words this is the message I got on your site:

S O R R Y
Sorry, we either have a temporary glitch, or are doing maintenance on the system. (Occasionally, we do end-of-month maintenance. If that's the case, please return in a few hours -- all will be OK.)

hell, a 900 word reply would take me 6 hours to type. i would be REALLY PISSED!!!!!!!

PSmith, this is the first time I know of that this happened. It happened to me once when I was working on the site, but that was due to our internet connection - the server was off.

You probably do not want to type it again, but it'll be better to type it in Word, save it to your computer and cut and paste onto the website. You can also send me the story per e-mail (see address under my profile). I'll add your story then on the site and let you know when it is live.

Your hard work will be worth it - just make sure to save it on your PC.

If I could prevent this problem you had, I definately would. But sorry in any case

jdollar - you should use a secretary for typing your story - then the problem wouldn't be yours

Great African Hunting Stories were sent to our site in recent weeks.

Read them at these links:

My Namib Desert Zebra

Why Africa?

My First (and last) Eland

These are quite exceptional stories!

I tried to post mine over there but your site wouldn't let me! It said posts are limited to 10,000 characters or less.

Can a story be posted in another site also or does it have to be posted exclusively in yours?

Namibiahunter

JTEX, I'm sorry for the restriction on the number of characters. If articles are longer than that, people often do not read to the end.

You'll see that 10 000 characters are quite long - long enough for a good story!
So if you can manage to shorten it a bit, it will be accepted.

namibiahunter, these stories are especially for the contest we have on hunting stories and it has to be entered on our site.
However, if anyone has a problem with submitting stories, you can send me a PM and I'll be glad to help.

We received another two exceptional stories:

You only go around once and

Third Times a Charm

Thanks to the authors of these great stories!

Our " African Hunting Story Contest" has ended and it is our privilege to announce the winner of this prize.

The prize is a hunt with us on Uitspan Ranch, Namibia and includes:

Five (5) days of FREE accommodation
for the hunter and his/her partner.
The following FREE Trophies to hunt:
1 Gemsbok, 1 Springbok, 1 Steenbok, 1 Duiker

The winning story is "You Only Go Around Once..." by Roger D. Libby.

You can read the story again at this link.

We received a lot of great and exceptional stories. Reading them is to experience some of their hunts yourself.
Click here to read more of the stories.

Congratulations to Roger D. Libby for his winning story.

I, too, had submitted stories and even though mine were not selected I welcomed the contest as a chance to hone my writing skills. Check out my entries:

Birds of Namibia
The Grey Ghost of the African Veld
Old Fool of the Veld
and another still to be approved
My Hart Is Tuis In Afrika

I enjoyed the stories and the contest, Kalahari Hunter. Thanks.

Namibiahunter

namibiahunter,

It is our privilege to have your excellent stories on our website. The last one you added "My Hart is Tuis in Afrika" (click here to see) is very inspirational and it speaks of someone who really got to know the country, the people and the animals of Namibia.

This is the one and only reason why we also think Namibia (and especially the Kalahari) is the best of places to live in and farm on: it's droughts keep you down to earth and it's good years make sure that you forget everything about the previous drought!

Some info on your stories entered for the contest: except for the winning story, your " Birds of Namibia " and " Old Fool of the Veld " are the only ones who also got the highest possible scores from some judges!

You have a great writing talent.

Till next time...

I would like to share with you all this special hunting story:

A First Impala Hunt (click here to read).

You might like to read this hunter's opinion on the five best rifle calibers to have for any international hunting. Click here to read "Five Calibers for International Hunting"

Share your African hunting story also on this African Hunting Stories-page!


MCD
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Uitspan Hunting Ranch
Kalahari region, Namibia

did you get my story?

Rich in Idaho

It wouldn't take mine. It said there was a 10,000 character limit and I'm long winded. I cut out 25% of it but it was still too long so I gave up.

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Originally posted by Fjold:
It wouldn't take mine. It said there was a 10,000 character limit and I'm long winded. I cut out 25% of it but it was still too long so I gave up.

Same with mine, I guess am too am long winded or maybe just full of hot air.

I guess I am in the same club. Still, it was fun to put my impressions on paper; even if I did not get to share it.

Rich
Buff Killer

Idaho, David, Frank,
I did not receive a story. If you submitted it, you will receive a confirmation that it was entered. If you have a problem, you are welcome to send it to me via e-mail (with a picture if you like) and it will be placed on the site.

I am going to send you all a PM with our personal mail address.

We've never had any such problems before - only when stories were longer than 10 000 characters.

Thanks...

MCD
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Uitspan Ranch, Namibia

quote:

Originally posted by Kalahari Hunter:
Idaho, David, Frank,
I did not receive a story. If you submitted it, you will receive a confirmation that it was entered. If you have a problem, you are welcome to send it to me via e-mail (with a picture if you like) and it will be placed on the site.

I am going to send you all a PM with our personal mail address.

We've never had any such problems before - only when stories were longer than 10 000 characters.

Thanks...

MCD
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Uitspan Ranch, Namibia

MCD, no big deal. My story was longer than 10,000 charaters so there is nothing wrong with your website. The fault is all mine, I took 48 pages of notes on my ten day hunt.

quote:

Originally posted by Fjold:

quote:

Originally posted by Kalahari Hunter:
Idaho, David, Frank,
I did not receive a story. If you submitted it, you will receive a confirmation that it was entered. If you have a problem, you are welcome to send it to me via e-mail (with a picture if you like) and it will be placed on the site.

I am going to send you all a PM with our personal mail address.

We've never had any such problems before - only when stories were longer than 10 000 characters.

Thanks...

MCD
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Uitspan Ranch, Namibia

MCD, no big deal. My story was longer than 10,000 charaters so there is nothing wrong with your website. The fault is all mine, I took 48 pages of notes on my ten day hunt.

Mine was too long also but I got your PM and sent you the story anyway, one with pictures in it. If you can post it great if not that is OK too.