Going to Africa in 2008 !

[Gordon]

I won , with a friend a Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation drawing for a hunt in So. Africa in 2008. We get 4 plains game critters each as standard. Eland and Buff extra, LOT extra (all others available too, but I am not interested).I will get the mounts over there as it is cheap! The package did NOT include airfare which is about $2500 per coach and $4500 business class. I told my friend I was taking my wife on coach since he want's to go business class .
I am taking my Brown Precision .375 H&H Stainless 700 Rem, as I shoot everything bigger than blacktail with it and am good with it.I don't want to scratch up or lose any high grade walnut guns. My friend is taking his .338 Dumolen Mauser.Any way happy dance!

 

[Grumulkin]

How about that, I'm going there as well. I haven't decided on what all I'll hunt yet though. A 300 Weatherby Magnum is going for sure and I haven't decided on what other gun yet; probably a 500 S&W Magnum.

 

[Geno]

Congratulations! You know, I needed to hear something good today! Doesn't matter good for whomever...just something good. I just heard something awesome! I am happy for you. Be safe, and enjoy the preparation for the safari...it's half of the trip.

Good bless and shoot straight!

Doc2005

 

[Gordon]

To win this my partner and I bought $700 worth of raffle tickets, as a corp. donation He spent another $300 on side tickets sold by buxom young women who were hired for the dinner. He won a 7mm Weatherby Vanguard worth $500.I didn't buy any of those tickets, being not a gambler- and sober!

 

[Bondo_Red]

I hope you are going with a guide possessing the skills of Crocodile dundee.Seriously though be really careful over there,theres so much crap to look out for. mosquitoes with malaria,dehydration,even with the best guns the game is really dangerous.If I were you I would have an awful lot of prep work to do.

 

[sumpnz]

You should be able to get plane tickets for less than $2500 for cattle class. I paid $1500 round trip LA-Christchurch NZ over the Christmas season, so you should be able to get your fares for something similar to that during the non-peak time that I'd imagine would coinside with the hunting seasons. You'll just have to shop around a little.

 

[DixieTexian]

I've been to Kenya and Senegal, but never got to hunt. It sure is some pretty country. Where are you going?

 

[Gordon]

South Africa.

 

[Gordon]

I just found out today I'm going in Aug 2007 !!!!! It is Eland Safari's of Limpopo SA.I'm going with my wife NOT my shooting partner!We will be going sight seeing too and are taking 2 weeks after the 10 day hunt.

I'm taking in August this year a .375 H&H in a Brown Precision Remington SS 700 , I shoot this gun extensively on anything bigger than blacktail deer and am not intimidated by it in the least . I plan on taking 80 Barnes 270 grain Triple shock loads , which the Leupold 2.5x8 VariX 3 is sighted in for. I will be hunting Impala, Gemsbuck,wildebeast and warthog. I will not be spending the $8000 extra for buff, being I took mine in 1976! My extra gun will probably be my 1969 Weatherby .300 which I took on my first Safari (1976) . It will have 180 grain Nosler Partition ammo that worked so well the first time. I have a Kalispell gun case to ship the rifles.

 

[Mike U.]

Congratulations! Truly, the trip and hunt of a lifetime!

 

[Roebuck]

I'm sure you will have a great time Gordon. I try to hunt in RSA once a year and hunted the Limpopo area in 1997/8/9. More recently, I have been hunting in the Eastern Cape. I'm off there with my regular two hunting partners on 5 June for three weeks. Enjoy your hunt.

Roebuck.

 

[BigG]

Congratulations! I hope you have a great time.

 

[joshk-k]

I flew round-trip from Atlanta to Johannesburg for about $1,200 in 2006. I'm sure prices are going up (since, despite this damn war, the cost of fuel, including jet fuel, keeps rising). And I think South African Air cancelled that direct flight from ATL-JHB.

I lived in SA for six months last year, and if you do have some time to travel, I recommend going along the south western coast. If you're there in our summer (their winter), the prices at tourist-type things like B&Bs is much more affordable. My pops and I rented a car for three or four days and drove from Cape Town, east along the coast to the Tsitsikama Forest and then back through the wine country. Totally lovely.

Lot's of nice game to be had. My best mate's dad had ENORMOUS trophies in their living room. Eland, wildebeest, etc. A warthog head that by far and away dwarfed the biggest cow head I've ever seen.

HAve a blast! If you have any questions about SA in general, ask away.
-Josh