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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by Lhook7:

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Originally posted by nhoro:
I've lost interest in trying to post pictures or videos on this forum - too annoying. My youngest son took a 45" buff in Dande East with CMS with a double rifle at 20 yards (there's a hunt report somewhere with pics, along with another buff and ele in Dande North). We returned with CMS and he took leopard, croc, hippo and sable in Dande North. Just booked my 3rd trip with CMS for 2024 (ele and buff). I consider CMS the top outfitter in Zimbabwe. As for the blacked-out faces, I can't blame them. Too many people have fallen victim to the social media mafia, and if they wish to expose themselves to that, great - but I commend CMS for not exposing them - they need to do that themselves ....

Agreed, I’m glad to see them take the high road and not get sucked into this mean spirited childishness.

I agree with you.

Just see who started it!

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
I also notice when the Duckworth's posted their Christmas letter here:

http://forums.accuratereloadin...731010372#7731010372[/url

Showing a a client with a lion and another with a buffalo, both with faces blurred, Saeed's comment was this:

[url=https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6321043/m/7731010372?r=2941010372#2941010372]http://forums.accuratereloadin...941010372#2941010372

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Originally posted by eagle27:

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
I also notice when the Duckworth's posted their Christmas letter here:

http://forums.accuratereloadin...731010372#7731010372[/url

Showing a a client with a lion and another with a buffalo, both with faces blurred, Saeed's comment was this:

[url=https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6321043/m/7731010372?r=2941010372#2941010372]http://forums.accuratereloadin...941010372#2941010372

There was only the one hunters, the one with the lion, whose face was blacked out, the buff hunter looks like a light reflection issue in the photo.

I understand Saeeds comments were based on all the hunters faces in every photo blacked out in the CMS Xmas letter, and that's entirely different to just the one in the Duckworth letter which was likely respecting that one clients wishes.
Buzz admitted that CMS arbitrarily blacked out all hunter's faces and that is what Saeed took issue over. If I had been one of those hunters I would be highly pissed off for that to happen.
I have no shame or misgivings of being a hunter and killing animals and have no wish to hide behind blurred or blacked out images.

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Originally posted by eagle27:

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
I also notice when the Duckworth's posted their Christmas letter here:

http://forums.accuratereloadin...731010372#7731010372[/url

Showing a a client with a lion and another with a buffalo, both with faces blurred, Saeed's comment was this:

[url=https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6321043/m/7731010372?r=2941010372#2941010372]http://forums.accuratereloadin...941010372#2941010372

There was only the one hunters, the one with the lion, whose face was blacked out, the buff hunter looks like a light reflection issue in the photo.

I understand Saeeds comments were based on all the hunters faces in every photo blacked out in the CMS Xmas letter, and that's entirely different to just the one in the Duckworth letter which was likely respecting that one clients wishes.
Buzz admitted that CMS arbitrarily blacked out all hunter's faces and that is what Saeed took issue over. If I had been one of those hunters I would be highly pissed off for that to happen.
I have no shame or misgivings of being a hunter and killing animals and have no wish to hide behind blurred or blacked out images.

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Originally posted by MJines:
Good to hear all these folks booked to hunt with CMS for the next several years. Going to be a bunch of happy hunters experiencing some amazing hunts.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
And I wish them all the best of luck.

And CMS too.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

And I wish them all the best of luck.

And CMS too.

This sad episode would have died a natural death if Buzz came back and apologized!

But all he did was put the blame on AR and it’s members for his own unacceptable policies and ran away!

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:

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Originally posted by Saeed:

And I wish them all the best of luck.

And CMS too.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by MJines:
Good to hear all these folks booked to hunt with CMS for the next several years. Going to be a bunch of happy hunters experiencing some amazing hunts.

And I wish them all the best of luck.

And CMS too.

This sad episode would have died a natural death if Buzz came back and apologized!

But all he did was put the blame on AR and it’s members for his own unacceptable policies and ran away!

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
Here's more on the above-mentioned "accommodation" - which I refunded immediately when it became clear to me what was and had been going on.

I was not impressed by this snide response. Needless to say, I was not "acknowledged" in the newsletter in the manner promised.

No knock meant here on Charmain at all, BTW. I am sure she was just following orders.

We found Charmain to be a very charming person.

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On Sep 23, 2022, at 10:50 AM, CMS <admin1@cmsafaris.com> wrote:

Hi Mike

Just recevied a transfer from you for $928. Many thanks for the kind donation to DAPU. You will be acknowledged on the newsletter that goes out to all donors and past hunters at the end of the year.

Hope you and Lynn are well

All the best

Charmain

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From: Michael Robinson <xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2022 2:14 AM
To: CMS
Subject: RE: Final Invoice

Thank you, Charmain, for acknowledging receipt.

I would donate as much tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and the next day and the next, if I could know it would do any good.

I never saw a soul combatting poachers while I was hunting with CMS last June.

Only the tracks of harassed and in two instances, snare-maimed bulls, that we were tracking.

I know it is a hard job, and I do not mean to make light of it.

I hope these funds permit CMS to do it better.

Sincerely,

Mike
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Originally posted by bwanamrm:
Reading this is kind of like watching a slow motion train wreck with participants shoveling coal on the fire rather than hitting the brake... sad but the norm today unfortunately.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by bwanamrm:
Reading this is kind of like watching a slow motion train wreck with participants shoveling coal on the fire rather than hitting the brake... sad but the norm today unfortunately.

It is rather unfortunate that some want to take the high road and claim innocence for problems they create themselves.

And even worse when they try to put the blame on others.