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    South Africa

    Wel I just got in from 40 hours of travel to get home. What a great trip. I got 2 Warthog, 2 Blue Wildebeest, Impala, Bushbuck, Nyala, Kudu, Fallow deer and a Grey Duiker. I'll post some pictures and do a write up on the weekend.
    doesnt matter what kind of bullet it is, as long as it weighs 180 grains its DEADLY, even on ass shots....Todbartell-2009

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    Re: South Africa

    40 hours!
    cant wait for pics and a storie or two

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    Re: South Africa

    That was one brutal ride home.

    Five hours in the back of a little Nissan crew cab to the Joburg airport. Wait around till departure at the airport and then 11 hours on up to London with another days wait at the airport and then 9 hours across the Atlantic to Seattle.

    Half Slam got grilled for half an hour for importing a set of wart hog tusks
    like they were from some endangered species and he'd shot the last one!

    Then the drive back to BC so we were pretty much hollowed out by the time we got home. The nine hour difference can really paste you.

    I ended up with a couple serious spider bites and two doctors later, I'm
    still figuring out which antibiotic cream and pills to use.

    The hunting was great and there will be pics to come shortly.
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    Re: South Africa

    WOW!
    Sounds like an adventure to just get home.
    I'am so looking forward to the pictures.
    Don't much care for spiders myself,especially ones that bite.
    Last edited by Blainer; 05-10-2009 at 02:46 PM.

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    Re: South Africa

    COOL!!! I can't wait to see those pics and hear the stories. I dream of hunting in africa.
    " Many a child travels this high to be different, trying to get something from the mountain that nature couldn't give him down below"

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    Re: South Africa

    Quote Originally Posted by David Heitsman View Post
    That was one brutal ride home.

    Five hours in the back of a little Nissan crew cab to the Joburg airport. Wait around till departure at the airport and then 11 hours on up to London with another days wait at the airport and then 9 hours across the Atlantic to Seattle.

    Half Slam got grilled for half an hour for importing a set of wart hog tusks
    like they were from some endangered species and he'd shot the last one!

    Then the drive back to BC so we were pretty much hollowed out by the time we got home. The nine hour difference can really paste you.

    I ended up with a couple serious spider bites and two doctors later, I'm
    still figuring out which antibiotic cream and pills to use.

    The hunting was great and there will be pics to come shortly.
    The trip back is always a killer!

    Any idea what kind of spider got ya? Hopefully it wasn't one of those nasty violin spiders (kin to the brown recluse, fiddleback and hobos).
    "If you want to hunt beasts you don't see every day,
    You have to go places quite out-of-the-way.
    You have to go places no others can get to,
    You have to get cold and you have to get wet, too."
    - Dr. Seuss

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