Thanks and yzguy selling the rifle only to further the addiction, I love the rifle but have to give it up to fund the next dangerous game hunt. I rebooked with one foot still in Africa, don't have the means to keep the double and do the next hunt. Would rather hunt than own nice guns, so easy decision.
Martin, as H&H points out the hunts in the national parks, anywhere in the world, are a rare and extremely obscure event for management reasons. 90% of African hunting occurs on private land today, now don't let this muddle your opinions on it and assume that means canned hunts, as that is absolutely not the case. Many of the hunting concessions and areas are bigger than what many hunters in the states have available for public land to hunt by an enormous factor. One piece of private hunting concession I drove across in Zimbabwe was exactly the size of Rhode Island, 750,000acres- and that's just one blip on the hunting map there. I've hunted Zimbabwe, as well as some different areas of South African private concessions, and the experience if you choose your outfit right is close to the same. I do prefer Zim, but it can get extremely expensive. You can hunt Lion in the Kalahari full wild for about $40,000 guided by the bushmen in Namibia. This said, choose to hunt Lion on a good and enormous South African concession, and you'll experience an equally wild Lion not happy to see you. To hunt plains game, there would not be a point in my opinion of spending on overly exotic locations. I've done both and the actual moments of the hunts are the same whether you're deep in Zambia (now closed) or on a large, well operated private concession in South Africa. I'm headed back to South Africa next for the third time there, and will take a break from there to explore Namibia's wilder parts next. Hope that helps!
