Angola

[emilio fracchia]

In 2007 I'll be going to Angola for a few months.
I'll be going with my wife to take care of some family(hers) business.

Does anybody have first hand experience with the hunting opportunities and regs?      

I've been "Googl-ing" around, but I cannot come up with any fresh and detailed info.    

As always, any info is truly appreciated,
Thanks,
Emilio

[flungonin]

Emilio- I would look into a travel agency and see if they can find you something and the other thing I would check is the public library's,  back issues of Outdoor Life, Field and Stream and Sports Afield. I know they have articles in them.

[emilio fracchia]

Thanks,
that's something I did not think of...
I read a bunch of books ( Capstick and others...) but the most recent is from the 80s and you know how thing go in West Africa...
Sincerely,
Emilio

[devildog66]

Emilio,
Have you called or e-mailed the Safari Club Int'l (SCI)?  I would think that they would have up to date information for you.

DD

[emilio fracchia]

Hi DD,
Following Hunt it suggestion I am looking into a membership with SCI...good call, since they truly are motherlode of info (I was able to get some second hand tip through a friend in NY State, who's a member already...)
Sincerely,
Emilio

[JIMMY ROGERS]

Emilio-I do not believe bowhunting is approved in  Angola, but they do offer some great fishing

[8th Dwarf]

I'm told that there are hundreds of thousands of land mines still buried there.  If my sources are correct, I would sure watch where you go, if I were you.

Too Short

[emilio fracchia]

Thanks for the concern, Dwarf...the property is a working farm and it should, I hope, be ok- those are nasty little things, and guess where they come from...Italy, where I am from- something else to be "proud" of.
Anyway, if there's no bowhunting, I guess I'll have to take the old 357H&H out from under the bed...    
Sincerely,
Emilio

[DPL]

I had lunch a couple weeks ago with one of the most famous Angola PHs, Jorge Alves Lima, the man who guided Bill Negley in several hunts in Angola and Mozambique. He is now 88 and is finishing wrighiting his memmories including a extraordinary chapter of his elephant and lion hunting in the late 40's and early 50's in Angola. Great stuff.

I have spoken with a couple of people from our (Brazilian) embassy in Angola and they say that more dangerous than the mines is that you can be killed in the interior bush country because of a US$30 wrist watch.

However, peace is arriving and the country is being rebuilt (from the coast in).

Elephants are being transplanted and we can only hope there are still a few giant sable left.

Dante

[8th Dwarf]

My watch cost $200.  Is that enough to make me safe, then?  I had a $30 watch, but it kept quitting.  I just can't imagine a stopped watch getting you killed...hmmm?

Too Short

[garsrene]

Man sale your watch and buy a 80 dollars AK 47!!!
Unless you are a mercenary you're not going to
found many interesting things

Angola is an old portuguese  roten by cicil war and all those tributaries, corruption, poor healthcare, no electricity, no drinkable water...
In my opinion there is not to mutch opportunities over there unless you know someone who own some lands, but if it is like in Boswana, they're hunting to death white farmers, to take back their land from the 'devil colonialist' then 3 month later ask for International help!!!
If you're looking for'safe'place,go to Gabon or Cameroun all of those are still pretty good places even if poaching is really popular


Africa is dramaticly failing appart...

But one more time it's only my opinion and story I heard fron a friend of mine who is a guide in Cmeroun

[emilio fracchia]

Garsrene,
I am going to Angola because "we" have land there...and now I am in the family....
If I could afford it, I would not think twice about going to Tanzania or Namibia instead.
Thanks for your input,
Emilio.

[DPL]

1) Too Short,there will be a long line of people with machetes to take a 200 dollar watch. Probably it is not your hand they are going to chop first...

2) Regardin the giant sable, last year a small herd was photographed by a infrared camera!! It is incredible how resilient life can be.

3) Angola was kept under war by white interests who wanted their oil and their diamonds. Keeping them at war was very profitable.

4) I am not excusing the incredibly corrupt Angolans, but lets not forget those who bribe them and financed the war. They too have a big responsability for those 30 years of attrocities.

   Dante