We just returned from a 6 week trip to SA, including a hunt with one of our members, Infinito Safaris.

I have a report that I can send anyone via e-mail if you will just write to me at tblauwkamp@superior-sales.com so I attach it and reply.

Post your report here. I'm sure lots of us would like to read it.

I agree, Terry ! Please post it here.

Come on Terry, such a trip sertanly deserves to be posted in full extent

Thanks for the requests, but I just don't have time to type it all in here.

Why is everyone afraid to send me an e-mail so I can just reply and attach it?

ok, mike@tradewindsair.com , If you like I can cut and paste it for you?

Mike

It's on the way.

Terry,

I never received the email.

mike@tradewindsair.com


Mike

Terry:

Me, too, please. Thanks.

sixtlghorn@aol.com

MIke:

I sent report, but it came back undeliverable.

Terry,
Great report. I want your job so I can hunt 6 weeks per year.

Way to go!!!!!

It's an interesting story how I got to do what I do, for as long as it do it.

Actually I work 24/7 from June 1 until Nov 1. then have teh rest of the year off to do as I please.

I get paid 52 weeks a year, + bennys etc.

Great deal.

I'd enjoy a copy of your report

Grenatthefortonthewills@yahoo.com

Thanks
Phil

quote:

Originally posted by Terry Blauwkamp:
MIke:

I sent report, but it came back undeliverable.

Try tradewindsair@hotmail.com

Thanks,

Just sent it.

Terry

Terry,

I'd like to have read. blaircalvin@unwireded.co.au

Thanks mate.!!

lair:

Sorry but it will not work, please check address.

Terry

Terry,

I'd like to read your report:
elkfitter@aol.com
Thanks

Terry,

I'd like to read your report:
andrewholz@swan-lake.com
Thanks

Terry,

I'd like a copy as well
thegrypps@acsalaska.net
Thanks

Terry's Hunt Report



As Good as it gets 2007

It is hard to imagine, it was but a year ago that we say and wrote our story of 2006. Time sure flies when one is having fun, and we must have had a lot of fun in 2006, as I’ve never seen the time so quickly between hunts.
As a PH in Africa told me, “Life is what you do between hunts, what you make of it, is up to youâ€. Life is great, and we are thankful for that.
The first change we had this year, was that we are going to fly thru Washington Dulles instead of our usual flight thru Atlanta. SAA now had dropped Atlanta, so we will try our luck in Dulles.
The day before we left, April 10th, west Michigan had a very freak late snow storm, and I plowed snow all day at work. On the 11th we were one of the few planes to get in and out of Grand Rapids at all, let alone on time.
We checked out guns and luggage all the way thru to Johannesburg South Africa via a Chicago connection, and low and behold, everything got there just fine.
The SAA flight was not full so we had extra seats to lie down. Actually this was one of the best SAA flight crews I’ve seen in recent years, and that non-stop flight is the way to go.
At Joberg, we were met by Anne from Air-2000 (www.hunterssupport.com) with our gun permits in hand. We were in and out of the SAP gun permit office before most people on that flight even had their guns off the cart.
Our first stop was with our old friends Marius and Lana Kruger from African Dawn Safaris (www.african-dawn.co.za ) We stayed overnight at their house in Joberg, and then went to the ranch the next day.
Jo Ann was the principal hunter here this year, and took a very good Impala, Blue Wildebeest, Bushbuck, and an old Tsessebe bull. I took a Wart Hog and Jackal.
So soon a week is gone already, and we are off to meet up with Ken & Jo Ball from Shi-awela Safaris, (www.shiawela.com), which is about a 3 hour drive from African Dawn.
Ken & Jo have a beautiful place to stay and hunt. We were there for the first time last year, and really wanted to come back again.

With Ken and his PH Nicol, we took management game namely Blesbok, Blue Wildebeest, Wart Hog, and a 31†Waterbuck to die for that had a broken leg.
The weather was great and only had one afternoon thundershower. Kens wife Jo Ann is a wonderful cook, so our diets were hard to live with. Yes diets, as a year ago our goal was to weigh less and be in better shape for the 2007 hunt. We achieved that, and now working to stay that way but these great cooks make it tough.
After our stay with Ken & Jo, we flew from Polokwane to Jo Berg connecting to Port Elizabeth. We stayed overnight in PE, had a great seafood dinner at the wharf, and were picked up the next day by Jenny Wormald from Cradock. This must be our 8th time with Roy & Jenny so far. (www.Wormaldhunting.com ) They did some extensive remodeling to their facilities since last year, and they are beautiful.
The weather was quite cold the first morning as it froze hard, and the warmed up for 6 more beautiful days.
Here I shot a great Blesbok after a long stalk clear to the top of mountain, and also took 4 Springbok there. A couple days later, I took an old Red Hartebeest after an all day stalk and 45 minutes sitting on a rock waiting for this Hartebeest to move just one more step into position for a good shot. When he finally moved, one shot with a 300 Mag and 180 gr Swift A-Frame settled it.
Also took an old Black Wildebeest with a severely deformed right horn. Jo Ann took a very nice Fallow Deer on the last day. We had her perched on a rock Kopie overlooking a big basin when the Deer suddenly walked by so close she could not see it below her. I could see it from my vantage point a little to her right and had to get her into position and wait for the Deer to come into view. Then one clean shot with her 7 Mag using a 160 Barnes TSX, and he was down.
As I said, “Time fliesâ€, and we are now halfway thru out trip already.
Next stop is Cape Town with Joe and his wife Nicol Da Silva from Cape Town Hunting Safaris. (www.capetownhuntingsafaris.co.za) This was our first trip with Joe and Nicol,and had only met them once before in Dallas.
What a treat these folks were. Joe runs Parrow Arms Gun Shop in Cape Town, and is avid about reloading and bullets. Nicol runs a full time Taxidermy studio and really tested us on our diet with her sumptuous meals.
From their farm north of town, we could see the famous Table Mountain to the south. We took a Sunday and toured the coast and had some great Seafood.
The girls went shopping another day while Joe and I hunted Guinea Fowl, Geese and even a Fallow Deer. These Deer are just like our Whitetails, as they live in the dense river bottoms, surrounded by big open wheat fields where the birds are.
The bird shooting was great, and the sunsets to die for, and did I mention Nicol was great cook?
Our only “surpriseâ€, was not booking an earlier flight out of Cape Town, as we hit the 8 am morning rush hour traffic. Little did I ever experience anything like that in Africa. I thought it was only Atlanta or Chicago that could tie up 4 lanes each way into a parking lot, but Cape Town does a good job too.
We however did make it on time, and were now on our way back to Jo Berg where we are meeting up with another new comer this trip named Charl Van Rooyen from Infinito Safaris. (www.infinito-safaris.com) I met Charl on www.Accuratereloading.com where we both hangout on the internet.
Charl has a camp about 2 hours northeast of Jo Berg. We had never hunted this area at all in South Africa, so it was another new place. He has a lovely camp on the water and it was well run. The next day was his birthday, so his wife and 18 month old son and parents came out for dinner and cake.
The weather was superb, and had an excellent time. Here we took an Impala, Wart Hog, Red Hartebeest, (again after a long and arduous stalk), a Blesbok, and of all things a Bush Pig in daylight. Bush Pigs are very much nocturnal, and seldom ever venture out until after dark, but we bumped into them one morning at 7:30 am and got a dandy big old boar. Charl said that in 24 years of hunting, he had never even seen one in daylight but always hunted them at night with lights over bait. However, I have been very lucky in that this is the 4 fourth one I have shot in daylight so far.
Five hunts down and one more to go. It seems impossible that one can have this much fun everyday and now get tired of it.
Charl took us to the town of Warmbaths (Bala Bala as it is known) to meet up with Hennie Badenhorst from Lyon Safaris.(www.lyonsafaris.com)
Jo Ann is to be the primary huntress here, and I’ll just take the pictures. After a great lunch with Hennie and Charl we did our goodbyes and were off to the town of Thabazimbi where Hennie is based about 2 hours away.
Here Jo Ann took an Impala, Warthog, and two Blue Wildebeest. Her 7 Mag just keeps on ticking.
After a couple days, we moved camp way up to the border of Botswana on the Limpopo River. Here she took a Red Hartebeest and Wart Hog while I took a Gemsbok and Red Hartebeest.
Here “winter†set in. Having been up here many times before, I can say I have never seen it this cold. It just reminds us to take an extra hat and jacket along to put on. The sun was out everyday, but it was 38deg F in the morning with a brisk wind most of the last day.
Speaking of last day, it as all too soon upon us again. We had to pack up everything and we heading back to Jo Berg where we going to overnight again at the Kruger’s house.
Eventually we really do have to bid them all farewell, and endure that long 17 hour ride home. The best thing about it is that “there is no place like homeâ€, and we really appreciate home when we get there.
Jo Ann used her 7 Mag with 160 Barnes TSX on everything, while I use a 300 Win Mag with various bullets to test.
The Hornady 180 gr SST was very good, and I was really impressed with the old 220 gr Nosler Partitions. I also tried a few 200 gr Partitions, but they did not work as well as the 220 gr did. The 180 gr Sierra BT were quite soft, and I can’t recommend them for anything bigger than an Impala, Fallow or Whitetail Deer.
I didn’t use any Barnes TSX this year, as last year I used them exclusively, and they are in a class of excellence by themselves. I just wanted to try some other bullet to compare them to.
My hat goes off to Leupold scopes, as despite all the dust, bumps and rocks, plus the Airline baggage handlers, they never had to be adjusted even one click
The SAA flight home was again not full, so we had extra seats to lie down. What a great difference that makes.
As I mentioned this was our first time thru Dulles, and as good as it was going out, I must say I am absolutely unimpressed with the International Arrival procedures there. It is just a pure “Mickey Mouse†operation not unlike how Jo Berg was 20 years ago. Jo Berg airport really puts Dulles to shame.
The real hiccup was that our gun case was mis-routed in Dulles and……………………………….. has not been seen since.
Feel free to write us at tblauwkamp@superior-sales.com anytime for more information.

Thanks Terry.
You must be a happy man who can pull such a trip. Some pics would also bee nice

If I can figure how to load thim into my system, I'll get some on line.

What velocity where the 220 Partitions? I am working up some loads for next year. I am shooting a 300RUM, I have 200 gr. Adcubonds @ 3150, 200 TSX @ 3000, 220 Partition at 2850.

I have never used the TSX on game. I loaded some for a friend in a 300 WBY and he shot 9 PG from Jackal to Zebra and the bullet performed great for him.

One of the outfitters in Namibia does not like the TSX for some reason.

I used a 200 Pt @ 3100 in 2002 and it performed great up to Eland.

Mike

I was using 69 gr of IMR 4881 with CCI 250 primers at 2,880 fps with the 220 gr Partitions.

Hard to understand why some folks just don't like the TSX, but I love them.

Sounds like you had a great time. A friend and I hunted with Roy in 2002 and very much enjoyed ourselves.

I notised no pic's and thought I'll throw this one on, as it is special.......

Posted 30 May 2007 22:00 Hide Post
Terry's Hunt Report



As Good as it gets 2007

It is hard to imagine, it was but a year ago that we say and wrote our story of 2006. Time sure flies when one is having fun, and we must have had a lot of fun in 2006, as I’ve never seen the time so quickly between hunts.
As a PH in Africa told me, “Life is what you do between hunts, what you make of it, is up to youâ€. Life is great, and we are thankful for that.
The first change we had this year, was that we are going to fly thru Washington Dulles instead of our usual flight thru Atlanta. SAA now had dropped Atlanta, so we will try our luck in Dulles.
The day before we left, April 10th, west Michigan had a very freak late snow storm, and I plowed snow all day at work. On the 11th we were one of the few planes to get in and out of Grand Rapids at all, let alone on time.
We checked out guns and luggage all the way thru to Johannesburg South Africa via a Chicago connection, and low and behold, everything got there just fine.
The SAA flight was not full so we had extra seats to lie down. Actually this was one of the best SAA flight crews I’ve seen in recent years, and that non-stop flight is the way to go.
At Joberg, we were met by Anne from Air-2000 (www.hunterssupport.com) with our gun permits in hand. We were in and out of the SAP gun permit office before most people on that flight even had their guns off the cart.
Our first stop was with our old friends Marius and Lana Kruger from African Dawn Safaris (www.african-dawn.co.za ) We stayed overnight at their house in Joberg, and then went to the ranch the next day.
Jo Ann was the principal hunter here this year, and took a very good Impala, Blue Wildebeest, Bushbuck, and an old Tsessebe bull. I took a Wart Hog and Jackal.
So soon a week is gone already, and we are off to meet up with Ken & Jo Ball from Shi-awela Safaris, (www.shiawela.com), which is about a 3 hour drive from African Dawn.
Ken & Jo have a beautiful place to stay and hunt. We were there for the first time last year, and really wanted to come back again.

With Ken and his PH Nicol, we took management game namely Blesbok, Blue Wildebeest, Wart Hog, and a 31†Waterbuck to die for that had a broken leg.
The weather was great and only had one afternoon thundershower. Kens wife Jo Ann is a wonderful cook, so our diets were hard to live with. Yes diets, as a year ago our goal was to weigh less and be in better shape for the 2007 hunt. We achieved that, and now working to stay that way but these great cooks make it tough.
After our stay with Ken & Jo, we flew from Polokwane to Jo Berg connecting to Port Elizabeth. We stayed overnight in PE, had a great seafood dinner at the wharf, and were picked up the next day by Jenny Wormald from Cradock. This must be our 8th time with Roy & Jenny so far. (www.Wormaldhunting.com ) They did some extensive remodeling to their facilities since last year, and they are beautiful.
The weather was quite cold the first morning as it froze hard, and the warmed up for 6 more beautiful days.
Here I shot a great Blesbok after a long stalk clear to the top of mountain, and also took 4 Springbok there. A couple days later, I took an old Red Hartebeest after an all day stalk and 45 minutes sitting on a rock waiting for this Hartebeest to move just one more step into position for a good shot. When he finally moved, one shot with a 300 Mag and 180 gr Swift A-Frame settled it.
Also took an old Black Wildebeest with a severely deformed right horn. Jo Ann took a very nice Fallow Deer on the last day. We had her perched on a rock Kopie overlooking a big basin when the Deer suddenly walked by so close she could not see it below her. I could see it from my vantage point a little to her right and had to get her into position and wait for the Deer to come into view. Then one clean shot with her 7 Mag using a 160 Barnes TSX, and he was down.
As I said, “Time fliesâ€, and we are now halfway thru out trip already.
Next stop is Cape Town with Joe and his wife Nicol Da Silva from Cape Town Hunting Safaris. (www.capetownhuntingsafaris.co.za) This was our first trip with Joe and Nicol,and had only met them once before in Dallas.
What a treat these folks were. Joe runs Parrow Arms Gun Shop in Cape Town, and is avid about reloading and bullets. Nicol runs a full time Taxidermy studio and really tested us on our diet with her sumptuous meals.
From their farm north of town, we could see the famous Table Mountain to the south. We took a Sunday and toured the coast and had some great Seafood.
The girls went shopping another day while Joe and I hunted Guinea Fowl, Geese and even a Fallow Deer. These Deer are just like our Whitetails, as they live in the dense river bottoms, surrounded by big open wheat fields where the birds are.
The bird shooting was great, and the sunsets to die for, and did I mention Nicol was great cook?
Our only “surpriseâ€, was not booking an earlier flight out of Cape Town, as we hit the 8 am morning rush hour traffic. Little did I ever experience anything like that in Africa. I thought it was only Atlanta or Chicago that could tie up 4 lanes each way into a parking lot, but Cape Town does a good job too.
We however did make it on time, and were now on our way back to Jo Berg where we are meeting up with another new comer this trip named Charl Van Rooyen from Infinito Safaris. (www.infinito-safaris.com) I met Charl on www.Accuratereloading.com where we both hangout on the internet.
Charl has a camp about 2 hours northeast of Jo Berg. We had never hunted this area at all in South Africa, so it was another new place. He has a lovely camp on the water and it was well run. The next day was his birthday, so his wife and 18 month old son and parents came out for dinner and cake.
The weather was superb, and had an excellent time. Here we took an Impala, Wart Hog, Red Hartebeest, (again after a long and arduous stalk), a Blesbok, and of all things a Bush Pig in daylight. Bush Pigs are very much nocturnal, and seldom ever venture out until after dark, but we bumped into them one morning at 7:30 am and got a dandy big old boar. Charl said that in 24 years of hunting, he had never even seen one in daylight but always hunted them at night with lights over bait. However, I have been very lucky in that this is the 4 fourth one I have shot in daylight so far.

Five hunts down and one more to go. It seems impossible that one can have this much fun everyday and now get tired of it.
Charl took us to the town of Warmbaths (Bala Bala as it is known) to meet up with Hennie Badenhorst from Lyon Safaris.(www.lyonsafaris.com)
Jo Ann is to be the primary huntress here, and I’ll just take the pictures. After a great lunch with Hennie and Charl we did our goodbyes and were off to the town of Thabazimbi where Hennie is based about 2 hours away.
Here Jo Ann took an Impala, Warthog, and two Blue Wildebeest. Her 7 Mag just keeps on ticking.
After a couple days, we moved camp way up to the border of Botswana on the Limpopo River. Here she took a Red Hartebeest and Wart Hog while I took a Gemsbok and Red Hartebeest.
Here “winter†set in. Having been up here many times before, I can say I have never seen it this cold. It just reminds us to take an extra hat and jacket along to put on. The sun was out everyday, but it was 38deg F in the morning with a brisk wind most of the last day.
Speaking of last day, it as all too soon upon us again. We had to pack up everything and we heading back to Jo Berg where we going to overnight again at the Kruger’s house.
Eventually we really do have to bid them all farewell, and endure that long 17 hour ride home. The best thing about it is that “there is no place like homeâ€, and we really appreciate home when we get there.
Jo Ann used her 7 Mag with 160 Barnes TSX on everything, while I use a 300 Win Mag with various bullets to test.
The Hornady 180 gr SST was very good, and I was really impressed with the old 220 gr Nosler Partitions. I also tried a few 200 gr Partitions, but they did not work as well as the 220 gr did. The 180 gr Sierra BT were quite soft, and I can’t recommend them for anything bigger than an Impala, Fallow or Whitetail Deer.
I didn’t use any Barnes TSX this year, as last year I used them exclusively, and they are in a class of excellence by themselves. I just wanted to try some other bullet to compare them to.
My hat goes off to Leupold scopes, as despite all the dust, bumps and rocks, plus the Airline baggage handlers, they never had to be adjusted even one click
The SAA flight home was again not full, so we had extra seats to lie down. What a great difference that makes.
As I mentioned this was our first time thru Dulles, and as good as it was going out, I must say I am absolutely unimpressed with the International Arrival procedures there. It is just a pure “Mickey Mouse†operation not unlike how Jo Berg was 20 years ago. Jo Berg airport really puts Dulles to shame.
The real hiccup was that our gun case was mis-routed in Dulles and……………………………….. has not been seen since.
Feel free to write us at tblauwkamp@superior-sales.com anytime for more information.


www.infinito-safaris.com

What a great trip. Thanks for sharing.

Dandy of a Bushpig Terry. I think it's color is outstanding! I hunted with Charl right after you did. Next time I've got to take my shotgun. His camp is crawling with birds and waterfowl. Congrats on a great hunt, David

Great bushpig Terry.
BTW, I hope you got your guns back?!!
Russ

Love that bushpig! Great pic and great report.