AFRICA!!!
 

Arrived in africa Tuesday , we've been in Cape Town for the past week and have seen so much . We seen both extremes ... Extreme wealth and extrem poverty . Here are a few pics of the natural beauty

We also had the opportunity tovisitthe poorest of the poor areas of Cape Town ...man what an eye opener! Kori n I were able to donate enough money to send every studen in the school for an additional month! I cannot even begin to explain the gratitude the children expressed !
These people live in corrugated tin shacks with shipping pallets as the roof and tar paper! No running water , electric is pirated off street lights .

Off to hunt for the next two weeks! Pics to come .....

Great pics.

Beautiful scenery! That's very generous of you and your wife to give afford those kids an opportunity they otherwise wouldn't have. Good luck with the hunt and stay safe!!

Better watchout for the midget crips throwing it up in that pic Mike. Bet they be ridin dirty on da trike's.

It's great to see you guys getting the full experience. I hope you have a great hunt.

While your in the bush watch out for this guy. He catches you hunting in his spots and he will do figure 8's all around you.:D

Cape Town hood throwin' the thugs at Pox!! Watch them gang signs Pox!!!! LOL

So far we ate : kudu, gemsbuck, impala, springbok ( grilled and raw carpaccio), langoustine ( Mozambique shrimp), tiger prawns, rock lobster, more calamari than I though a human could consume, ostrich , biltong ( South African jerky that cured meat not smoked. The food here is to die for

awesome
 

awesome all the way

Sounds great Pox, but you are on your honeymoon at a beautiful place with a beautiful woman...... What in the Hell are you doing on saltycajun man? We can survive a week without you. Go enjoy yourself!! ;)

Might be raw by now.

Nice pics POXY, have a good safe hunt and don't let that midget bushman figure 8 you.

I would of went through about 9 rolls of toilet paper

Opposite! I ain't c h I t in a week! Feel like I'm pregnant! This ain't gonna be pretty when the plug goes!

Btw ; did the tOhio St big 10 Championship and Bama Sugar Bowl champ shirts make it there yet?

Mike, kudos to you and Kori for donating some money to help those kids out.

That's a great thing to do.

No but funny you ask, there was one wearing an Ohio state basketball jersey, I took a pic with him but its on the camera not my phone . Ill post up once I get home . I saw that c h I t and was lmao

Steenbok
Ostrich
Bontebok
Springbok
Impala
Cape kudu

And my wifeshot her first animal ever!! A massive red lechwe ! Pics to come.

I've really struggled to get a gemsbok and zebra , I've prolly walk n stalked a crew of gemsbok for miles over the past 2 days , today I got within 39 yards but the close ones weren't throphy size then the spooked. And the only zebra I've gotten close enough to are mountain zebra which are illegal to import into the USA . Moving camps tomorrow morning in hopes to get a zebra then come back to this area to seal the deal with my gemsbok

No giraffe??

Just wait for it

That is freaking amazing. My dream is to take my son on a trip like this when he graduates high school. I only have 16 years to save up!!

Can u take any meat back to the states??

Damn that's a hell of a trip you have had already Mike!


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No, but we have eaten everything we've killed . By far tge best game meat I've ever eaten . Ostrich is awesome!!

What about the heads to mount??

Yeah you can get the taxidermy work done over here in africa or the skulls/capes sent back to USA once they have been salted/dipped ect. I'm having all my animal done over here at a place that is top notch. Lots of the taxidermists over here but this place is a huge outfit tat ate a more artistic approach.

Let me know if you want some contact info , next year the PH is coming to America and staying with us . We will have a party where he can show you what kind of hunting they do and costs/ ect. It's not that bad if you pick a few and stick to it. The problem is its hard to stick to the list , so every animal you shoot you can figure another 1000-3000 for taxidermy/shipping as well.

Here is the Red Lechwe my wife killed today! This one is a a big boy!! Perfect shot placement , laid his arse down.....btw this is the first animal she's ever killed and yes that a silencer on the rifle!

Beautiful animal

Looks like a good time. Nice animals!!!

What caliber are y'all shooting out there?

One day when I get rich, i will book a trip like that!!!

Awesome

I've killed everything with a 270wsm 130 gr solid copper bullet . If you look at that kudu there is a small hole behind its shoulder that where the bullet was almost through and through on the backside, I cut it out n recovered it. I shot clean through the bontebok @ 350-370 yards . The only thing I won't use it for is a Cape buffalo if I decide to kill one . My wife was shooting a .243 n took that animal @ 100-120 yards

Still need to kill a Gemsbok and a Zebra . Might try for a white springbok and a black springbok since I've killed a Common Springbok that way ill have all 3 .

Awesome dude.

Why the silencer?

Awesome stuff Mich!!!

It helps with recoil as well but mainly not to spook anything else that may be near by

No baboon yet?

Now that she has imbraced her inner predator there will be no turning back. Damn fine work by both of you. Good luck on the rest of yalls adventures together :)

Man I'd like/hate to see how those poor people do that out there! Scary.

Is every animal you killed going to be hanging on the wall at the new house? You have a kill room set up?

Maybe it's just me, but killing a zebra is like killing a horse. Not sure about that one. Maybe I'm just crazy like that.

If it is going to be eaten then what's wrong with it? I've had horses my whole life and I would try horse meat without hesitation if I had the opportunity. But like you say, "Maybe I'm just crazy like that." :D

Finally got my zebra !! Ill post up pics if I can get them uploaded . My wife also shot a beautiful mountain reedbuck @ 250 yards . I will at least try the zebra meat but it will get eaten

Well...you may have missed my point. Zebra/horse by modern civilization standards is considered a domestic animal. When I think of African safaris and hunting in Africa...I think of water buffalo, rhinos, lions, the "big 5" type species. But Zebra? lol

Not yet BUT I have been invited to do a impala and springbok cull conservation hunt FROM A HELICOPTER !! And they say I will have the chance to shoot tons of baboon .... And yes I'm I'm mounting a go pro to video the whole thing!

That's what's up....... blast away!

Do they eat baboon around them parts?

This should be interesting!!!

They say some of the black community will eat baboon but my PH refuses