Oh yes, Africa! I'll try to condense this as short as possible. Like many other hunters growing up in the U.S., I only dreamed about an Africansafari each timethat I read astory that was printed in the hunting magazines I read over the years, but then it happened. A new friend that had been over there several times started inquiring who would like to go to aSouth African concession that he highly reccommended and that was affordable. He said that he would go along just to video the experience for us. My one old hunting buddy agreed right off the bat but I declined saying that it still was out of my price range, and besides I didn't even have a what I considered an African gun.All summer of 2004 the topic kept being brought up with them prodding me to go with them. Well come Christmas, my wife surprises me with one of my dream rifles, a Ruger #1 in .375H&H. She said there was my gun and being that I was planning on retireing in 2 years, that if I wanted to go, I should, being thatthen would be the only time that I would possibly be able to afford it. Did I mention that I really love my wife? So it happened. With this PH, you only pay a daily rate and whatever animals you decide to shoot. He feels this gives you more opportunity than being stuck to a package of certainanimals. Needless to say, with 16 different plains animals to choose from, and seeing many everyday, it was worth it! The scenery was a lot like south Texas brush country mixed with large open savannahswith magnificent sunrises and sunsets everyday, the temps in the 50s at night and 70s during the day, the accomodations were fantastic, and the food was incredible. The PH's wife is the cook andshecould be a professional chef!Nuff said, I could go on for pages, here are a few of the 350 plus pictures that we took besides over 1 1/2 hours of video.

1. Black Wildebeest, on video 200yd. brain shot.