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Article: The Southern African experience: an honest look at hunting on southern Africa's game ranches versus the "wilder" experience of the rest of the continent.(Column)
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- Sports Afield
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- August 1, 2006
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My South African professional hunter, Larry McGillewie, established a grueling schedule. "First," he said, "we'll go over to Rex Amm's place and work on that pesky Cape grysbok you're after. Then, on Tuesday, we'll go collect your bontebok. Wednesday we'll go down to Adrian Ford's place and hunt blue duiker and oribi. His place is stiff with bushbuck, too. Then, if all that works, on Thursday I know a spot where there are some super black wildebeest." It sounded a bit ambitious, but we did all that and more.
A few months earlier, hunting in Namibia with my old friend Dirk de Bod and former Kenya professional hunter Pete Kibble, in a period of eight hunting days, ...