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Originally posted by mufasa:
Is there insurance if I hit a rodeo clown? If so call me at BR-549.

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
unless you have had them in isolation for at least twenty years I'd settle for pictures.

Rich
Buff Killer

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They know what they did...

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And some folks wonder why PITA and the other misguided dumbasses hate hunting so much.

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Originally posted by MotorCity:
It is going to make one hell of a mount. Not sure if it will make for a great hunting story.

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Originally posted by DCS Member:
If you Google his name from the hunting report, you can find a lot of other animals he has "hunted" with this outfitter.

He also has SCI #4 lion, #1 roan, #5 civet, #9 & 10 Kirk Dik-dik, #1, 2 & 5 Blesbuck, a 35" blue wildebeest, 62" kudu....no telling what else.

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My first experience with Impala African Safaris was in 2006 at the Sportsman’s Exposition in Phoenix. I was collecting information on safari trying to formulate a plan. I met Arnold Payne at the Expo a second time in 2007. He is a native of Zim who now lives in the states and was marketing the services of a recognizable PH (a prior SCI PH of the Year). I have had very good experience with small outfitters and decided to give him a chance. Over the next year we had he and his family over for dinner several times and they reciprocated. Our kids played well together and I gave him my deposit to hunt buffalo in the Zambezi River Valley.

Early in 2008 things started to get slippery. The big name PH was having some trouble scheduling. I was pitched the idea of hunting areas in the south rather then the Zambezi due to the PH’s familiarity with the area and I reluctantly agreed. Long story short we never do get a date set with this PH and get redirected to a different PH they are marketing now. Sadly, I also later learn that the big name PH was dealing with a “repatriation” issue with local politicians and was trying to keep hold of his property in the south. Very sadly, he put a lion he was raising in a house they were trying to repatriate to keep the politicians at bay and the lion lunged and bit his daughter in the head. Many of you will know who I’m talking about.

So by this time I’m nervous and annoyed but still want to go. It is summer of 2008 now and still no date booked. My requirements when signing the contract were to be in the Zambezi and to hunt two buffalo. Well, now I learn from Arnold that they can’t or won’t be able to come up with a second tag if we head to the Zambezi. But if I’d consider the Gwayi River Valley they can produce two buffalo tags, great hunting, hidden treasure, yada, yada. He won’t refund my deposit at this point and I’m a fool and agree.

Then, one week before I am to leave, Arnold calls to tell me that Col. Tshipa has contracted malaria (which I later learn is a lie) and that he is working to put me in yet another area down around Bulawayo. No buffalo permit there so I’ll need to split a 10-day hunt between Bulawayo for plains game and the Matetsi in the north for buffalo with at least one day lost in travel. I say no way and request that he refund my money. He says no way. A cancellation at this date means 100% loss. I’m in for about $10,000 at this stage. Furious and fearful I go.

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9 of my 10 days hunting were spent without a PH. Col. Tshipa had overbooked and was off on an elephant hunt in a different area while I spent time hunting with his son. His son is a very nice person but not a licensed PH and not a very good buffalo hunter either! I later learned that he had learned his skills on an anti-poaching unit and his current role, when not filling in for his father, was primarily to drive the truck.

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We hunted primarily on a concession named Camp Selous in Gwayi. The camp director is a Member of Parliament and ran a good camp.

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I have a problem with my PH not completing the paperwork to ship from the taxidermist in Bulawayo to the US. Items have been at Taxidermy Enterprises for a year now. It isn't surprising really given all the other problems I've had with this guy.

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Impala African Safaris (Impala African Safaris) will be at Reno (booth #2333), Dallas (booth #1848), and Houston (booth #624).

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Originally posted by Lorenzo:
There is also another wild and nasty bull in those pictures....taken in Buenos Aires province.....

I am with larryshores but I will do it the other way round.

I would have spend that money in 21 russian girls and 2 hunting days !!!

L