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Article: Safari, Shikar and the guides: the quality of a guide can make or break a hunt in the world's most exotic game fields.
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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"Holy mother of gaw-wd!" Botswana professional hunter Willie Phillips hissed in his best Queen's English. "Will you look at the bloody lion!" He yanked the wheel and the Land Rover bucked off the track and burrowed into long grass, I'd known Willie thirty minutes. That long ago, Cheri and I had stumbled off the Piper Cherokee Six onto a dusty airstrip hacked out of deep Okavango bush. Two Vira Safaris PHs, proper in company-monogrammed khaki, saw their clients off as native Bayei and !Kung trackers offloaded our gear.
A dark, wiry man wearing frayed denim cutoffs, at gore-begrimed fishing vest, and a cast-off German Navy cap any ...