A survey
I may have some small business opportunity here. I’d be interested how you feel about the subject of hunting in Africa, and if you would be intetrested in small group hunting there on private land.
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Wednesday 21 Mar 2012
I don’t have much interest in Africa. They have bugs and snakes there. Also, I don’t have any interest in killing things just to do so.
Also, there is a guy in my neighborhood that already does this (takes a bunch of gringos to Africa to hunt big game).
Would depend on a lot of factors….Cost, timeframe, what the game is, how many girlzs will be along, etc.
Who is doing the cooking…..how much beer….
I would love to go. I don’t see myself in any position to do so for at least a decade.
“Also, I don’t have any interest in killing things just to do so.”
I don’t think I’ve ever been so insulted.
“Who is doing the cooking…..how much beer…. ”
No alcohol. If I have to stand in front of something that might want to kill me and shoot it, I want all the people at my shoulders to be razor sharp. And the people I’ll be with are mostly methodists, and dislike alcohol intensely.
Giraffe: I’m trying to figure a way to make this affordable.
I’d love to after a year or so to recouperate from putting my daughter thru college.
Need a gun-bearer, B’wana?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Seriously, how much $?, how long? When?
might could be that I would be interested.
Methodists, eh? Yeah, I was raised as one, but attend Anglican services now, as a grown-up. We use the Real Stuff for communion, with the alcohol, and all.
I remember, from reading “Born Free”, how fascinated Elsa was by the authoress’s rifle. A lioness would instinctively understand that being able to kill at a distance is A Good Thing, as Martha Stewart would say.
Sadly, I think there is no way to teach domestic housecats to shoot, because, as much as I love them, they have brains the size of a walnut.
Sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime. Perhaps I may one day be able to afford it.
Especially if tomorrow goes well… (keep fingers crossed for kick ass things very likely happening to me soon)
It would put a big dent into our savings, but then again we are geezers and I only have so many hunts left, so fuck it, lets go. I neeed a buff.
If I win a lottery, I’m so there! Just got the savings wiped out.
“Also, I don’t have any interest in killing things just to do so.â€
I don’t think I’ve ever been so insulted.
No insult intended. I just have a different tollerance level for what constitutes “must shoot”. If I have to go all the way to Africa, just to kill an animal in self defense, I could just stay home. Kind of like going into a bad part of town intentionally armed and dangerous and ten claiming self defense when i am forced into whacking a small group of color coordinated urban youths. And as long as the meat counter at COSTCO is fully stocked, I don’t “need” to kill my own food. I’m not sqeamish, just a capitalist.
Finally, camping out without alcohol just seems wrong.
I don’t have any trouble borrowing a gun though. I don’t think most North Americans have the right equipment for hunting in Africa. Nor would most of them want to buy a new elephant gun to use just once.
Hale: No person who has ever read this blog has ever missed the whole point by such a wide margin, ever. I cannot believe that anyone who reads here has ever been so obtuse nor so oblivious to the facts.
“No alcohol. If I have to stand in front of something that might want to kill me and shoot it, I want all the people at my shoulders to be razor sharp. And the people I’ll be with are mostly methodists, and dislike alcohol intensely.”
That sounds a lot like blue-water sailing, except for the mostly Methodist part.
I can take or leave the achohol. And to my mind the hunting would be incedental to the trip.
The trip would be fantasic, an getting to shoot something in the bargain would be the cats meow.
If Prof Hale does not want to leave the comfort of his local wal-mart, I can understand it. I just would rather be a little closer to the source from time to time.
Even the rabbits I shoot in my backyard would kill me if they could.
In this world you are predator or prey. There is precious little middle ground.
And I prefer (Myself) prey that isn’t already on styrofoam containers.
The part about going two weeks without a shower was something I had to do to get my degree in geology. Good times!
Protein is precious in Africa.